The Sun. — London, England, 1857-09-05 00:00:00

"T FIE REASON WHY."—In reference to the notice issued by the Solicitors of Mcs,rs. Jarrold, dated the 4th instant, stating that the now edition of this work is published in breach of the interlocutory injun:tion, MeSsrs. Hot;LsTom and WRIGHT beg to inform the trade that the above assertion, as well as the others contained in the said notice, aro totally without foundation. They are satisfl A. that the Author of "THE REASON WHY" in compi this edition has strictly obeyed his Honour the Vice. Chancellor's judgment; and feel quite confident of a favourable verdict by the jury in the action ordered by his Honour to be brought by Messrs. Jarrold. The trade, there fore, need be under no apprehension as to the threatened proceedings for selling the new edition. Orders will be executed for the work as usual 1857. * 65, Paternoster - row, London , Sept 5, HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Two Extra Performances only, at Reduced Prices, on Friday, September 18, and Saturday, September 19. with. Piccolomini, Spezia, Ortolani, Giuglini, Violetti, Rossi, Benoventano, and Belletti, when will be presented LA TRAVIATA and IL DON GIOVANNI. PRICES : Foxes to accommodate four persons, Grind Tier, Pit Tier, and Oue Pair £2 2 0 Two Pair 1 1 0 Three Pair 0 15 0 Pit Stalls 0 10 6 Pit Gallery Stalls Gallery THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET , Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. rfIIF I S EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with the new and greatly successful original Comedy, entitled VICTI NIS, in which Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. William Farrell, Miss Reynolds, Miss Emma King, dre., will appear. After which, Douglas Jerrold's drama of BLACK-EYED SUS ‘N. William, Mr. T. P. Cooke. To conclude with THE SWISS COTTAGE. Orchestra. Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d.' Second price. s. d Doss Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 Pit . , . Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, ITALIAN OPERAS, at the usua PRINCESS THEATRE PRICES. LAST NIGHT. THIS EVENING, Saturday, positively the last night of Grisi, Alboni, Mario, Dragoue, and all the eminent artistes, in IL TROYATORE. Prices :-Is., 25., 45., ss. 1 ;1'5 OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. - „-`4 Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. TINS EVENING, IL TROVATORE. -Leonora, Madame Crisi ; Azucena, Madame Alboni ; lnez, Mdlle. Baillou ; Il Conte di Luna, Sig. Dragon° ; Fernando, Sig. Kinni ; Ruiz, Blillou ; Zingare, Sig. Pierini ; Messo, Sig. Annoni; and Manri.:o, Sig. Mario. THEATRE ROYAL, AD EL PHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, will be performed THE GREEN BiS:;LIF.S. Mr. B. Webster, Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford, and "lidame Celeste. Pol'owed by MY PRECIOUS BETSEY. Mr. Wright, P. Bedford, Mary Keeley, &c. To conclude with SLASHER AND CRASHER. 1.) OY AL OLYMPIC THEATRE. _2 t Lessees, Messrs. F. Rob3on and Emden. TIT'S EVENING, will be performed the new drama of TOE LIGHTHOUSE. After which, the comodietta, entitled A SUBTERFUGE Mrs. Stirling, Mr. G. Vining, and Mr. G. Murray. To conclude with the original Extravaganza, by RThert r. Brough, Esq., called MASA.NIELLO. Messrs. Rob son, Cooke, Danvers, &e. ; Misses Swanborongh, Thirlwall, Hughes, Bromley, and Mrs. Melfont. Commence at half-past Seven. 17,1 OYAL SURREY THEATRE, Z. - Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. T;IIS EVENING, CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS will appear. After which, will be performed THE SURPRISE, in wYcli Messrs. W. Smith, T. Robertson, Butler, and Miss E. ster, will appear. with other attractive novelties. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMP lIITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. Under the patronage of Her Majesty and His Royal Highness . Prince Albert. Complete and unexampled Success of the Grand Oiental Spectacle of EL HYDER. Mr. Wm, Cooke announces with great satisfaction another Triumph. The intensely interest in; and thrilling Equestrian awl Dramatic situations with which this splendid Hippodrama abounds have been nightly received with increased delight and enthusiasm. THIS EVENING, and during the week, the entertainments St ill commence with the Grand Equestrian and Oriental Spec tacle, in 2 Acts, entitled EL HYDER; or, THE CHIEF OF THE GHAUT MOUNTAINS. El Hyder, Mr. James Hol loway. Introducing Mr. W. Cooke's magnificently Trained Horses, After which an unapproachably brilliant series of Mr. Vv'iliiarn Cooke's inimitable SCENES IN TIIE ARENA, sup. ported by the popular and talented. Artistes of the establish tient, including Mathle. Mililos, To conclude with Shakspear's 'KATHARINE AND PET .1.1.1C1T10, with Equestrian Illustrations. Commence at seven o'clock. Dress Buss, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from 215., no charge for booking; Pit, 'Zs. ; Gallery, ls. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. HAlf-price at half-past Eight. Rix-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, LV. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. riANTERBI7RY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow 'n; company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of ions from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES !10 UETS, &c., viz.: Mrs. Palmyre, Miss E. Scott, %fin Brunel% Mrs. Le Jeune, Miss Leslie, and Madame Marietta ; Herr F. Jonghmans, R. Grover, T. Far rant, S. Jon e s, J. B ar k er, W . Melling,P. Corti, Senor An tonio, E. L. Himo, and Mr. St. Albyn ; Master Corti ; Messrs Sam. Collins, and E. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr Cecil lficks; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jouglimans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Sup pers, die., until twelve o'clock.—Signor PICCO will perform, at ha , f-pait Eight and half-past Ten, every Evening after Taezday next. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tars DAY—Morn., 32 min. aft. 2—Even., 50 min. aft. 2 To-Mon-now --Morn., 7 min. aft. 3—Even., 26 min aft. 3 THE WEATHER-SUN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 5. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 67—highest since noon yesterday. GO—lowest this morning and during the night 72 —this day at noon. BABOUETER, 29.80. WIND, W. ; light, with fine sunshiny weather. I .; 1 '5111%, LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 5, 1857. Some weeks since, on Thursday the 13th ult., it was our pleasing duty for ourselves and on the part of the community, to tender our best thanks to the Earl of CLARRNDON for the prompt and efficient means adopted to meet the national wishes, by supplying immediate information on the interesting and all-important events in India. The despatch containing the telegraphic intelli gence was only received at 5.26 p.m., and within a few minutes copies were transmit`ed to our own and other offices. There was perfect impartiality. Every journal that could render the news available received it, without a moment's unnecessary delay. In consequence of its rez.eipt at that time we were enabled not only to circulate it throughout the Metropolis before seven o'clock the same evening, but to forward it by post to our country sub scribers in every district throughout the length "d breadth o f th e l an d . Th e very na t ura l anxiety was thus allayed in the best possible manner, and the Foreign-office earned for itself gol len opinion% from all classes. Bat such deference to public opinion was al to gether opposed to the dictates of red-tapism. The " Peter Dicks" of the nat i onal " ateliers" could not be expected to display such unwonted energy on many occasions. i t was so Very remarkable that thanks should ba ten dered for extraordinary promptitude, SO Wholly established mtrary to every precedent, that it was essential to make a total alteration i n t )10 practice. Accordingly, we have just been favoured with a communication from the Foreign office, intimating the new regulations that have been a d op t e d. I t i s couc h e d in very COM , t 30113 terms, but the purport of it is teat Vie 76 rtes" will henceforward be the favoured CI % gap, and that every other journal must wait until it suits the convenience of the Leviathan to communicate the anxiously looked for tidings. The letter of the Chief Clerk is as follows : " Mr. Hammond presents his compliments t the edit or of The Sun, and is directed by the Earl of Claren dr.n to acquaint him that an arrangement has been made Nvitt: the Times newspaper, according to which copies of telegrams containing intelligence from India, which may be received at the Foreign-office will, as soon as possible, be forwarded to the office of the Times, from which office copies will be supplied to The Sun. " This arrangement had been made in consequence o f THE SUN, 71 - n i % , , SATURDAY E the uncertainty as to the time at which such telegrams reach the Foreign-office, and the impossibility, when they arrive either in the night or out of office hours, of immediately making so many copies of them as would be required for supplying the information separately to the papers and telegraph offices ; and the consequent probability that the papers and the public might be dis appointed in obtaining early communication of intelli gence from India received by her Majesty's Govern ment. " But, simultaneously with sending the manuscript to the Times Office , notice of the arrival of the telegram will be sent to The Sun. "Foreign-office, Sept. 4, 1857." A similar arrangement was formerly adopted for a brief period, and it elicited such an all but unanimous expression of disapprobation from jou'rnals of all shades and varieties of poli tical opinions, that it was forthwith abandoned by the Government. As might easily be expected, the Times did not by any means hurry itself. The despatch remained until a new edition was ready for publication, and the pro mised copies were not transmitted to other journals until the Sunday newsvendors' boys were howling at the top of their respective voices—" third edition of the Times—new and important despatches from the Crimea." The Jupiter Tonans of Printing-house Square was, of course, contented. It would under take the Government on a pinch, and be prepared to assume functions as multifarious as even Lord JOHN RUSSELL himself, according to the estimate of the late SYDNEY SMITH. But the question is, whether the community at large - will be contented with such a monopoly? Whether it will not earnestly protest against a system which, without any adequate cause, may delay the publication of the most vitally important accounts in many districts for some 12 or even 24 hours. It is quite obvious that if the system announced by the foregoing letter had been in operation on the 12th August, there would have been very great and unneces sary delay. The Times never publishes an edition at so late an hour as 5.30 p.m. ; and even if it did it would not be heard of in the country. Our subscribers know that they may rely on obtaining the latest news up to the post hour, and they seek nothing else. The Sun was received by the morning de livery in almost every part of England, and at ' many railway stations, the same evening, where the Times, or any other morning journal, could not be seen for many hours subsequently. It is the new rule, then, that may "occasion public dis appointment in obtaining early communication of intelligence from India received by her MAJESTY'S Government." The pretexts resorted to are so palpably unten able that it scarcely requires argument to ex pose their absurdity. The impossibility of making so many copies as would be required for supplying the information separately to the papers and telegraphic offices is hinted at. Why, what can be the meaning of this twaddle. Has Lord OLARZNDON, or any of his subordinates, ever heard of " the Copying Machine ?" Can he or they have any con • ception of the time required to multiply the copies? Is "flimsy" utterly unknown in Downing-street ? If sn, they must be even behind the Admiralty itself, for we have received many communications in that mode from the naval department. The attendance of many " Peter Dicks," would not, therefore, be re quired. All that could be required would, with proper material, be prepared in less than one minute from the time that the original document for Printing-house Square was completed. Now, we may remind our readers that in going to the Times office, the messenger who is " to give notice of the arrival of the telegram," must pass the offices of The Sun, the Globe, the Morning Post, the Morning Herald, the Morning Chronicle, the Daily News, the Morning Advertiser, the etand ard, and several others. It would occasion a considerable loss of time for each of these journals to send special messengers to Printing house-square, and to wait until , the delivery of the promised copy ; and if they do not do so they will have to wait long enough, particularly at the critical hour when the mail is making up. Besides a very important class of our contemporaries, the Sunday journals, will be altogether excluded. If the news should arrive at a late hour on Saturday, their readers will hear nothing of it until the following week. Now it is but justice to say that that they are entitled to more courteous treatment - , not only on account of the overwhelming• number of their readers, and the magnitude of their cir culation, but from the excellence of their manage ment, and the soundness of the principles which, generally speaking, they advocate. We respect our weekly contemporaries, and would not calmly witness so great a slight on them, and the millions for whom they are so peculiarly adapted. We trust, then, that they in common with the daily press will take up the case and con demn the new rule, nominally adopted for the purpose of saving trouble to the clerks of the Foreign-office, but really for the purpose of afford ing a monopoly to thelTimes, We unhesitatingly repeat that the public despatches are the pro perty of the nation, and that they should be given to all who can make them available without fear, favour, or affection. The only interest that should be looked to is that of the people, and the Minister that acts differently is unworthy of his high position. The promised Reform Bill of 1858 has a pros pect, we fear, of being shelved by our Asiatic difficulties. There is a possibility, if not a pro bability, of this kind, that ought to be looked at boldly, and talked of pltinly, and examined into scrutinisingly. And all this—betimes. Other wise we shall most certainly run a very great risk of finding another session of the new Reform Parliament frittered away without yielding us any material advantages in the way of internal im provement. Recollect what is actually the case in regard to the session just completed—that the one "precious boon" of that session is the Divorce Bill ! An enactment that may be described as constituting, to all intents and purposes, the be ginning, the middle, and the end (for this 20th 21st of Vioroma) of our grand legislative achieve ments. After which we are naturally enough fain to ask, What next, and next ? according to the phrase of the poor snuffed-out and extinguished ex-member for Huddersfield. Another matrimo nial cautery cannot possibly, during t wo years hi succession, absorb the attention of the multitude —and satisfy it—somewhat upon the old prin ciple, literally driven to death, by ST. JOHN LONG, that of counter-irritation. Once in a way the system may prove successful, as it has done very recently in both Houses of Parliament. But "Hansard" a more wh o l esome requires more variety in its th em cw, administration of Doings with Sayings, than ca n b e anywhere found in the re cord of the last quarter's discussions within the walls of the Legislature. However much, therefore, Lord io Al , llElol'o l %l' may calculate upon the distra c ti ng i n f lu ' enc ' t , of the Wars in Asia as affording hi m the chance of another delightful opportunity a fresh Put Off for that obnoxious Necessity (sooner or later) called a Reform Bill—we do not think so meanly of the present House of Com mors_aa to imagine for an instant that the majo rity of it will consent without a murmur, or rather at the very least without some show of restiveness, to the prospect of a second tricky evasion ! Even a new divorce measure won't do in the way of compensation. If we can't hope this time to get " The Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill"--at any rate we must try and get a bit of it. We must make a dash for it, at last, even at the hazard of finding we have snatched at the shadow rather than at the substance. Warlike difficulties have been too long accepted as constituting sufficient excuse for our adminis trators refraining from even an attempt at inter nal legislative improvement. We must waken at last from this frivolous subjection to a sophis try so manifestly illogical. It is simply prepos terous to argue that because we are at war, there fore we must forego for a while (as long, indeed, as that war may chance to continue), even the hope of our social, political, or commercial ad vancement. This is really tantamount to saying that the war department embraces within it all the other departments of our administration ; and that because the energies of our military authori ties at the Horse Guards and at the Ordnance were, in a manner, absorbed a year or two ago in the events then transpiring in the Crimea, a tem porary paralysis necessarily fell at the same time upon the Home Secretary and the Colonial Secre tary, and all the other members of our motley system, not immediately or directly implicated in the struggle then going on before the walls of Sebastopol. It is the simplest mockery ima ginable this evasion of duty upon the plea of preoccupation. The preoccupation being all the while departmental I The duty being at the same moment at once imperative and in alienable. There is no doubt whatever, of course, that we have a tolerably clear prospect of having a great deal to do in 1858 at the opposite extremity of the eastern hemisphere—in consequence of all our Asiatic complications. Not a doubt of it. We take the truth of this to be universally ad mitted. There is Persia scarcely brought under submission. There is India requiring to be dealt with rigorously and energetically. There is China, which will have to be reasoned with by the logic of bayonet and cannon-ball immediately after. wards. Enough and to spare, certainly, for one year in the way of warlike collisions—even sup posing the lapse of time in the int3rim brings about no supplementary complications elsewhere. Yet—while acknowledging all this at once, and as a matter of course—we do assuredly conceive, at the same time, that the manifestation of military and maritime energy need not be regarded as incompatible with the evidence of a no less deter mined resolution in other departments of the Go vernment. For example, Sir B. HALL has accus tomed us to look for such a continuous dis play of vigour in his department that we count upon the office of Public Works yielding us in 1858 no appreciable disappointment—the In dian and Chinese wars to the contrary not with standing ! As with that department, so with the others. As with Public Works, so with Reform. The country has the right to look, even at these crises, for no such wholesale disappointments. Reformers, therefore, we maintain, should be on the alert—lest, again, upon a most irrelevant and inadequate plea, they should be deprived of an ther entire session. It behoves them to be pre pared by anticipation, otherwise they will inevi• tably, when too late, find slipping from their grasp—eel-like or sand-like—another golden opportunity. "Nothing venture, nothing have" —it is a trite proverb, of course, but the truest proverbs are often the tritast ; and remember, Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S admirable definition of what a proverb is—" The wisdom of many and the wit of one !" To enjoy the ,hope of even a modicum of reform, let us, at least, try to obtain it. Rather than content ourselves with sitting down quietly for anothor t.;Loa-ltvgged and with arms folded, let us, at any rate, be up and doing ! While our gallant fellows are fighting the good fight in Asia, let us at home here be fighting the good fight too, for them and for our selves. DELHI AND TITO EAST INDIA HOUSE. LATEST NEWS. PARIS, SEPT. 5. The King of Wurtemberg has quitted Biarritz to return to his capital. It now appears certain that the Emperor and Empress of the French have resolved to return the King's visit, and that their Imperial Majes ties are expected at Stuttgardt on the 25th of this month. From that place the Emperor of Russia will have gone to Baden to rejoin the Empress Maria. Both will remain at Baden from the 20th to the 24th, and arrive at Stuttgardt on the latter day, where they will stay till the 28th. It may, therefore, be looked upon as positive that the interview between the two Emperors will take place at Stuttgardt. The most perfect understanding exists between the French and English Governments on the sub ject of China. If the Court of Pekin does not give immediate satisfaction to Lord Elgin, war against the Celestial Empire will be declared simultaneously by the two Governments. Intelligence has been receive I from:Constanti nople to the 29th ult. The Sultan was about to send an envoy to Spain to consolidate his relations with that power. Nothing new had taken place concerning the principalities. From Palestine the intelligence was not satisfactory, as disorder was increasing. At Jerusalem, the Latin Patriarch was so menaced that he bad tendered his resigna tion. The consul of France had interfered. Throughout Syria nothing was hearth but threat s against the Christians." AMERICA. (By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING. The European and American Company's steam ship Argo, Captain Benson, has arrived at Cowes, and proceeded on to London. She left New York on the 19th ult. at 3.30 p.m., and her news has been anticipated. She has had strong easterly winds. The Argo brings 104 passengers for South ampton, London, and Havre, and 83 for Bremen. Her cargo consists of 1,000 tons of general mer chandise for London and Bremen, and 20,000 doll. in specie. Spoke August 25th, in lat. 43 N., long. 53 W., the Achilles, of Philadelphia, for London September 2J, in lat. 47 N., long. 16 W., Nor- Wester, of Baltimore, steaming east ; September 3d, in lat. 48 40 N., long. 10 W., Louise Bri gandon, [from Valparaiso, for Liverpool, and Seraphina, bound east. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sift,--I notice that yourself and the Times are advocating the utter annihilation of the city of Delhi, that it may be as Sodom and like unto Gomorrah. By all means, Mr. Editor, let there not be left one stone upon another. But on this work intent, forget not that another " time honoured" place should be levelled at the same time. Let the India House, with its Court of Directors, its Vernon Smiths, its Charley Woods, Hobhouses, and all its and their incapacities, mis managements, infamies, partialities, ignorance, and routine be as utterly annihilated. Let them all go down alive into the same pit, and let not our chil dren be able to point out where either Delhi or the India House once existed.—Your obedient servant, GRAVES. Hull, Sept. 4. ATTENDAYCg OF THE METROPOLITAN MEMBERS DURING SESSION 2, 1857. (From a Register kept by the Reform Association, 15 Cannon-street West, London.) Total Divisions during 2d Session, 162. Present. Absent. Opposition.Votin Finsbury R o tl x imm . ba 15 1 74 5 times. Duke Russell 33 ... 124 9 „ London ......... Crawford 62 100 Rothschild (Hall 7l 91i Marylebone • Ebringtou 133 . 48 t 21 Tower Hamlets { Butler 77 Ayrton .. 85 f Westminster..,{ Shelley Evans 25 ... 136 f " f Roupell 70 ... 92 t l5 Lambeth I Williams 103 ... 57 " CI odriugton 83 ... 74 t „ Gree n w i c h Townsend 76 ... 86 j His Excellency Count Reventlow has left the Bruns wick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for the Continent. The Marquis Dalgos and the Count Radzivill have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Paris. The Count and Countess de i'Avigoar and suite have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, on a tour. The mortal remains of Viscount Hinton were re moval yesterday, from the family residence in Dover. street, to Hinton St. George, Somersetshire. Lord Hotbarn and Col. P. Somerset attended. Lady Alvanley has arrived in town from Yorkshire ' en route to Goodricke Castle, on a visit ti Col , and Lady Laura :Myrick, in Herefordshire. Major-General Lord West has returned to his com mand at Shorocliffe camp, near Folkestone, from Buckhurst Park, Sugeex. Lady Elizabeth Hope Vere and Miss Hope Vere are staying at the Pavilion Hotel, at Folkestone. General and Lady Emily Hankey and family have left their house in Hyde-park-gaidene, for Folkestone. According to the Lisbon newspapers the Count de Villa Real has hal a severe attack of paralysis at Caldas, where he was taking the baths. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. —DAP.TAIOUTEI, Sept 4.--The mail steamer W. S. Lindsay, from the Cape, July 10,h, and S. Helena, July 21st, landed mails and pa , .sengees, and proceeded. her news is unimportant. Off, the Imogene, from Algoa Bay. OUTWARD INDIA MAIL. —The Peninsular and Orien tal Company's steam-ship India., Captain Evans, left Southampton yesterday with the East India and China mails, 110 passengers, a full cargo, and 2,507 boxes of specie, of the value of 697,2251. Among the passengers were the following officers for India :—Cul mei Walpole Scott, Major Brett, Captain Whitetail', Captain Wheat croft, Captain Dawker, Captain Sale, Lieutenant Cavanagh, Surgeon M earthy, Captain Phillip, Captain Shakespeat, Captain Viec.nt, and Dr. Small. Among the passengers al,o were some of the suite of the Nawab of Surat. The Nawab j 'ins the I .dus at Malta, by way of Marseilles, and will proceed to Bombay. His highness purposes visiting England again in a twelve , mluodnita Company,h'atime which has co time. He had &te's': a g lawsuit sum Uitw of mousy.iththeEast visit tttoo thiscarr country, which was the obj e ct of th e Nawab'e FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. The Moniteur publishes the order of the day of the Emperor addressed to the troops on his arrival at the camp, and which we have already given ; it adds a letter dated the 3d, from the camp, which says : " The Emperor personally superintends and ex amines in'o all the details for the quartering of the troops, and everything that can tend to secure the comf , rt -and health of his soldiers, so that the camp, which is unexampled both as regards its extent and its conditions of salubrity, cannot fail to be attendel with tae best results. The different arrangements are sa far advanced that in a few days the grand manoeuvres, commanded by the Emperor in person, will commence. Yesterday began the manoeuvres by regiment. The Emperor is constantly riding about the camp, express orders having been given not to take any notice of his presence. He is generally accompanied by two or three officers in undress, and h 3 sometimes stops half-an-hour before a regiment to observe its operations. The Debdts depicts the situation of the Englißh at Hong Kong, and after dwelling on the tniacherou3 character of the Chinese in general, proceeds t.) consider what effect the present state of hostilities ought to have eventually on therelations of France with the Chine3e empire. It says:— - . " The present relaxation in the English operations in China must necessari' have some influence on those which France appearri to have proposed to her:elf to carry on in these pari;?, Will the i ncons id era bl e f orces which we have sent thole), and which were intended to support our jost demand, wait for the termination of this forced inaction on the part of the English, or if they act alone, are they strong enough to dispense with a co-operation which appeared to be secured to them t Since we have done so much as to go to China, it woul I be perhaps desirable that we should by ourselves, and independently of any foreign action, there acquire an influence advantageous to our commerce and to the ulterior views whidi we might entertain with respect to that part of the Eastern world. It is the only one which Europeans have not yet seriously entered into, and which in its present state of internal disorgan isation is open to the action of a great maritime power. The English, who bad perceived that such was the case and had hastened to profit by it, have for some time past been turned away from their projects by the events in India. But this is not a reason why we should slacken our particular action, and is perhaps rather a reason for hastening it." The money market article of the Pays contains the following flAtering tribute to the capitalists of England : "The firmue , s of Consols at a moment when England is engaged in a gigantic struggle with India cannot be viewed without a dmiration. It proves on the part of English speculators a patriotic and unlimited confidence in the strength and extent of the resources of their coun try. We are forced to acknowledge that they offer us an example which we ought to have followed in far less serious circumstances." quota BOURSE, 4.—The following were the last • Cash. ft. e• End of arontb: 44 per Cents 3 per Cents 63 85 67 5 Bank Shares 2,775 Credit Foncier 550 Credit Mobilier 865 Roman Do. Account 865 Austrian - Belgian 4i 99i Spanish Threes...... -- - - Fiedmonteso:(s) 9O --- Home Debt — RAILWAYS - FOR CASH. It. 0. f r c. Orleans 1,4211— Western - Northern Lyons and Med 875 New Ditto - New Ditto 865 Grand Central - Geneva - Sardinian Midi BELGIUM. It may be remembered that serious riots took place at the end of May in Belgium on the subje :t of the bill concerning public instruction, which was so long under discussion in the Scond Chamber. The t ,wn of Ghent remained undis turbed by anypopular movement on that occasion, owing to the energetic measures adopted by General Capiaumf nt, who was in command of tho garrison. The communal council of the town, however, far from b-iug grateful for the assistance afforded by the general, considered it its duty to examine whether the cceopgration of the army in the days of the 30th and 31st May was not ille gal, and resolved the qnestien in the affiunative, declaring that, as the intervention of the army had not been called for by the civil authorities, the conduct of the troops was contrary to law. On a report against that decision being presented to the King by the Minister of the In•erior, a royal ordi nance Ins just bean published in the Belgian Itioni teur, annulling the deliberation of the communal council of Ghent as having been founded on error, and on a total misapprehension of the sta' o of the law on the subject. PIEDMONT. The King of Sardinia. returned fo Chimbery on the Ist MA., from 001nz, and thence he pi cc(,e30.1 to Aix, where, on the 2d,i he hid the first stone of a new thermal establiAhment. His Majesty was rec;,ived wi h wain acclamafons by the inhabitants of Aix, and by a number of strangers assembLd there for the occasion. The / ational guard was di awn up in gr.-at force within the town, and per formed a sham tight with the tr - ops orn bery. One of th e corner s t ones the building has been hewn from a f ragmen t exp l o d e d the day before at the Mount Canis tunnel. On the morning of the 2d inst., the English present at Aix presented a congratulatory address to his Majesty. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 31st ult. have ar rived. At Seville, ou the 27th, the Captain- General had caused a placard thus worded to be posted up :—" At three o'clock in the afternoon of this day, the soi-disant Colonel Joaquin Jema, and Cajetano Morales will be shot for having instigated the late rebellion, and acted as chiefs in it." Three SErrEIVIBER 5, 1857 hours after, the two men were executed as an notinced. A letter from a Ministerial source denies that there was any truth in reports that were cur remit of modifications in the Ministry. Marshal Bandon has arrived at Marseilles from Algiers. He was saluted here by the artillery of the fort. A letter from St. Petersburg of the 25th ult., in the Hamburg News, states-that the commission en trusted with the administration of that part of Bes sarabia which has been ceded to Moldavia - has just been dissolved. The Emperor has irohibited Jews from inhabiting Sebastopol. They are not even al lowed to go thither in order to embark in a steamer for foreign parts ; for that purpose they must go to Eupatoria. The Nord states that the Emperor of Russia, after passing some. days at Berlin, Wilbad, and Darmstadt, is to go to Stuttgart on the 24th, and to remain there to the 28th ; and that the Emperor of the French is to arrive in the same city on the 25th on a visit to the King of Wurtemburg. Ac cording to a letter from Stuttgart, in the Zeit of Berlin, the Empress of the French is to accompany his Majesty. • A letter from Berlin says :—" The King, as head of the hottsw - of Hohenzillern, has authorised the marriage-of the-PrineessStephanie de Hohenzollern with the King Don Pedro." ARRTVAL OF THE RIPON WITH PASSENGERS FROM INDI 4. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ripon, Capt. Dundas, (Admiralty agent, Lieut. Sea ward, R.N.) arrived at Southampton yesterday, with the heavy portion of the India, China, and Australian mails. Her dates were'Alexandria, Aug. 21; Malta, 25, and Gibraltar the 39th. She brought 157 passengers. Amongt her cargo were 2,308 bales of silk. She spoke the troop ship Syria, Sept. 2, all well on boatel. She passed the Colombo on the 27th ult., and the Tagus on the 31st ult. Lord Lyons' squadron left Gibraltar for Tunis on the 29th ult. The Ripon's mails were contained in about 600 boxes and bags, and' were de by special train of eight vans and carriages to Lon don at noon yesterday. Among the passengers in the Ripon was a young lady, named Stallard, who escaped the massacre at Meerut. In escaping she had to swim over a river. At one time she was in a oarriage in which there were six persons, of whom only she and twa of her companions saved their lives; the rest were murdered. The Rev. Mr. Hay, an American missionary, and his wife and family, were passengers in the Ripon, and they also narrowly escaped with their lives from Meerut. They lost all their property and clothes. One of the passengers of the Ripon was a civilian, who' left Delhi just before the mutiny broke out there. In travelling down to Calcutta he saw unmistakeable signs of the mutiny. He met a lady travelling by dak to Delhi, and he and his party persuaded her to turn badr, as the country appeared to be dangerous. She turned back with them to Cawnpore, but there she was persuaded by others to resume her journey. An Indian colond, who came home in the Ripon, had a wh o le company o f European soldiers, consisting of nearly a hundred persons, cut fo pieces by mutineers. The Calcutta passengers on board the Ripon believe that Delhi must soon fall ; the mutine9r3 ate in want of ammunition, cholera is raging amongst them, and when they make sallies they are slaughtered in great numbers by the be siegers. It is believed that when Delhi has fallen the mutiny will sprea 1' still further over the country, by great numbers of the mutineers escap ing to various,parts of India. The Ripon's passengers confirm all the reports about the atrocities committed. Infants and chil dren were literally, for sport, thrown into the air and caught on the swords and, bayonets of the Sepoys. Whole European families—husband, wife, and children—have been exterminated in India by the native soldiers. The Ripon spoke the following vessels during the voyage :—The English screw steamer Brenda, off and for Malta ; the Peninsular and Orient it Company's steam-ship o,loinbo, 110 miles west of Galita, for Malta; the Dutch screw steamer Trieste, off Algiers, steering east ; the English brig Gem of the Sea, off Cape de Gatte, bound west ; the English screw steamer Vasco do Gama, off Cape de Gate, steering to the eastward ;, the English screw steamer Orontes, off St. Vincent, steering south ; the PeninsWar and Oriental Company's steamer Tagus, off and for Lisbln ; the troopship Hersilil, 100 miles north-east of Cape Finisterre, six days out, bound to Madras, all well on board ; schooner Conquest, 170 miles north-east of Cape Finisterre, steering to the south-west ; the screw steamer Saxon, on the 3d inst., off Ushant, steer ing up Channel. THE AFFAIR OF LERIW ROLLIN AND MAZZINI. . At the Sittiug of the Court of Assizea on Thurs ' day, the public prosecutor . c died on the court to ' • pass sentenc e on Le Iru Rollin, Mazzini, Massarenti, and Campanella, who are accused of having, in com plicity with Tibaldi, Grilli, and Bartollotti, already condemiied, fOrrned a plot to assassinate the Em peror of the French, but who have not surrendered to take their trial. The indictment and other do cuments having been read, the court, after deli beration, gave a judgment to this effect :—lt ap peared from the examination before a magistrate, from documents produced, especially from letters of Mazzini, Massarenti, and Tibaldi, and from the disclosures of Bartolotti and Grilli, that in the course of the year 1857 Bartolotti and Grilli having been recruited at Lendon and York by Massarenti, an agent of Mazzini, were taken to the latter, " who sent them to Paris to make an attempt on the life of the Emperor," addressing them to Ti baldi, his agent in Paris, who was charged to di rect them and to remit to them the necessary instru ments from those which had been deposited with him, and which consisted of sixteen pistols, loaded and primed, and of 'seven poignards. It appear d that Leiria-Rollin; 'who in 1833 had cause .1 509 f. to be given to a man named Kearsch, who admitted having formed at that time the project of at tempting to kill the Emperor, was present at Mazzini's when Bartolotti for the first time was taken there ; be took part in the discussion which ensued as to the time at which the Emperor was accustomed to go out ; his presence at a conference essentially secret revealed the motive which took him there, and his participation in the plot ; and lastly, ho supplied Bartolotti and Grilli with funds for their journey from London to Paris. It ap peared that Bartolotti and Grilli left for Paris with passports in false names, and on their arrival went to Tibaldi, to whom they made themselves known by a password agreed on ; acd that that person took them to places at which th e y could approach the Emperor, and gave to Grilli two of the poignards deposited with him. Massarenti bad brought Bartolotti up from York. and had menaced him with the anger of Mazzini for having left his post. Tibaldi, in a letter to Mazzini, had given an account of the measures taken by him with respect to Bartolotti and Grilli, terminating his letter with these significant wo: ds:—" Our sick man (meaning the Emperor) is no batter; he eames from time to - Free. I believe that, from this, it will be difficult to cure him, but we shall neglect nothing to atta;illll6 desired object." In orier the better to secure the execution °fins homiciA a I project, Mazzini adhered to the proposition madetoh , in by Massarenti to send two other individuals to Paris with the same object as Bartolotti and Grilli • on that occasion he wrote from Genoa, on the 10th January, lei Oampa nella, at London, to come to an understanding -with Massarenti on the affair at Paris, which was more than ever urgent and desirable, and for which two persons bad already bean sent to Paris—anneuneing to him - that two .otilers proposed themselves, and in gist Mg that the fourmeu should act two by two, inde pendently of each other ; adding that that was the best plan to follow, and recommtndince, that the two new men should be sent to Tibal,ii, who was in pos session of the materiel ; at the same epoch he gave . similar instructionste Ma& , arelvi,.addirig that if the friend had left (the Raperor, who at t hat time was at Fontainebleau, was so designated), "nothing could be done," and that his return from the coun try must be waited for ; and, lastly, Mazzini joined to the letter a few words of recommenda tion to Tibaldi, to the effect that he should receive the two new men as he had received the two others, and should treat them also without re serve, again t.srmina'ing by the recommendation that they " should act inclependently_of each other . , as that was the best for all." From all these cir cenistancea, the Conrt declared that "a resolution lied been agreed on and concerted between Mazzini, Ledru-Rollin, Campanella, Massarenti, Bartolotti, and Grilli, to attempt to kill the Em peror—which iesolittion had been followed by an act calculated to prepare its exesm ion—whert by the cilia's of forming to plot (crime de complot), punished by Art. 89 of the Penal Code, had been committed." It therefore condemned Mazzini, Ledru-Rollin, Campanella, and Massarenti, all four abient, to depot tation. DEPARTURE OF NOTED CONVICTS.-Sir John Dean Paul, Strachan, Bates, Robson, Agar, Tester, Saward (alias Jim the Penman), together with the notorious swindler Redpath, are (m. board. the Nile, convict ship, which vessel, about.noon yesterday, got under weigh from the Little Ncre, made sail, and proceeded towards the Downs with a strong south-west wind. Naval and Military lutelligonue. The following memorandum has been issued from the Recruitingbepartment, Horse Guards : " The standard of recruits (men and lads) for all regi ments of infantry is reduced to 5 feet 5 inches, the age remaining as notified in the last schedule. " By command of his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in• Chief, " G, A. WETHERALL, Adyutant-General. The C nine-pounder field battery of the Royal Artillery, under the command of Major the Hon. D. M. Fraser, accompanied by Captain H. Renny, and Lieuts. C. J. Tyler, W. R. _Llewellyn, and F. J. G. Hill, arrived on Tuesday at Col k from Bal lincollig, in order. to embark at Queenstown for India. The 185 non-commissioned officers and men appeared in excellent condition and spirits. Major-General Eden, in command of the district, and Lieutenant. Colonel Reynell Pack the Assistaut-Quartermaster-General, received the corps. The battery were then taken on board the Athletae, and sailed on Wednesday evening for Kurrachee. The Scotia steam transport embarked yesterday at Portsmouth the head-quarters of the 72d High landers for India, consisting of Lieut.-Col. Parke, Brevet-Major Rocke, Captains Rice and Buchanan, Lieutenants Vesey, Bassett, Brownlow, Stewart, and Campion ; Ensign Sherlock, Surgeon Seaman, Assistant-Surgeon Carolan, Adjutant (Lieutenant) the Hon. S. R. H. Ward, Payuaster Munro, and 326 non-commissioned officers and men. A further detachment will join them this morning, and the Scotia will sail this evening for India. The James Baines Liverpool clipper, with the 97th Regiment on board, was passed on the 17th ult. with 37 sails set—skysails, studdingsails alow and aloft, and moonsail ! Her progress was won derful, considering the winds. The Champ . on of the Seas, with the 20th Regiment on board, was spoken at the same time not far ast-rn of the James Baines. The other clipper of the Black Ball line, the Lightning, was passed this day week 140 miles S.W. of Scilly, or about 600 miles from the Fore land, in 46 hours. The Prometheus and Rifleman steam vessels left Spithead on Thursday night for the eastward to be paid off. When the 90-gun screw ships Caesar and Hanni bal were paid eff at Portsmouth some months ago they were paid off " all standing," and their ships' companies (between 800 and 900 each) were for 14 or 16 days doing little or nothing. Now an order has been issued to dismantle them, to examine their spars and rigging, and to rig them afresh. Most of the other advanced line-of battle ships and a flotilla of gunboats are to be got ready, so far as the pre paration of the rigging and gear of each is concerned, for service on short notice, if required. The Cura coa, 31, Capt. Forbes, did not receive her orders to dismantle until Wednesday morning, and she is now stripped for paying off. It is reported, how ever, that she will be speedily re-commissioned, to gether with the first-class screw frigate Imperieuse. The garrison orders of Thursday evening, issued at Woolwich, contain the names of Lieut.-Col. B. W. Montresor, Lieut.-Col. G. Gambier, C. 8., and Lieut.-Col. R Maberly, as under order, to proceed to India in command of the reinforcements of Royal Artillery about to embark for that country. The annual inspection of the Royal Artillery, sta tioned at Woolwich was resumed yesterday morn ing by Sir Wm. Williams. At 10 o'clock 13 batta lions were drawn out on the parade-ground facing the barracks-14 being the total number. Having been formed into companies and detachmen s, the General rode' down the ranks and made the usual demand if any one had cause for complaint, and re ceiving no reply, they marched off the ground on account of the stormy weather. At the termination of the inspection the General and staff repaired to the orderly barrack-room of each battalion, where he inspected the contents of the knapsacks and examined the arms, &e. The inspection of the 10th battalion was ordered to take place on Tuesday. The freight ship John Bull, having embarked 8,000 barrels of powder from Woolwich Arsenal, sailed yesterday (Friday) for Montreal and Quebec. The screw transport Ba. alaklav arrived at Wool- wich yesterday, laden with military stores, from Devonport to PortsmOuth. The first division of the 3d Dragoon Guards have sailed in the Forerunner, and two troops in the Warrior Queen, while the head-quarters of the same regiment have sailed in the Genghis Kban, not for CalCutta, but Bombay. The Trincomalee, 24 guns, Capt. Wallace Hous toun, arrived at the Little Nore, yesterday, at 2.10 p.m., from the Pacific. She saluted the flag of the Commander-in Chief, which was returned by the flagship Waterloo. The Trincomalee proceeds to Chatham, where her officers and crew are to be paid off. The Chesapeake, 51 guns, new screw steam fri gate, Capt. Watson, is completing her coaling at the coal depot at Saltpan Reach. She is under pre sent orders to leave Sheerness on Tuesday next. She is fairly but not fully manned. Orders have been received to complete her complement of 'able seamen in preference to a , ,y other ship fitting for active service here. The Ganges, 84, Capt. Fulford, is under orders to leave Sheermss to-day. There are at the present time no able seamrn in the station ships at Sheerness available for being draughted into ships fitting for active service. The Formidable, guard ship of ordinary, Captain-Super intendent J. J. Tucker, i 3 nearly 100 short of her complement for - harbour duty. The Edinburgh, screw steam guardship, Capt. E. R. Halsted, is 80 short of her complement for duties required in the steam reserve. The following appointments were made at the Admi ralty yesterday : Master's Assistants—G. C. Larken, to the Diadem ; A. D. Shortt, to the Conflict ; R. M. Coombe, to the Styx; V. H. Lys, to the Valorous; F. W. Webster, to the Vulcan. Midshipman—John Hayden, to the Pelorus. MILITIA. The Cardiganshire Militia will assemble for train ing in the course of this month. The Royal Carmarthen Rifles have been called out for 21 days' training. They have assembled at the barracks at Carmarthen, under the command *f Colonel Lord Dynevor. This force nambers about 200 men. Warrant., bearing date the 2d of September, have been issued by the Lord Lieutenant of Ire land, directing that the following regiments of Militia be forthwith emb)died—viz., the Queen's Royal Antrim Rifles, the Nor h Cork Rifles, Royal North Down Rifles, Royal South Down Regiment, Queen's Own City of Dublin Regiment, County of Limerick Regiment , and county of Ros common Regiment. - LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(Thi , Day.), LONDON, Sept. s.—Wind this day at noon, W.; light breeze and fine. PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 4.—Wind W.S. H.M.S. Prometheus, for Woolwich; her Majesty's steamer Rifleman, ditto. GLOUDZSTER, Sept. 4.—Arrived—Joseph Howe, from Quebec. _ . . _ SWANSEA, Sept. 4.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Tralee, from New York. FALMOUTH, Sept. 4.—Wind E.—Arrived—Caroline, From Taganrog. SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 4.--Wind S.E.—Sailed -Indus (e.), foliAlexaudria. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGEA.PII.) LIVERPOOL, Saturday Morning. Wind S. Arrived—Joven Lucia, from Bilboa ; Amor, Fremen ; Burlington, Quebec; Glob., Santa Cruz; Cannata, Bor• deaux ; L'Orient, aatend. Saile , l—Reni, for Rouen; Banian, Calcutta ; ohee, Bombay. QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 3. Arrived—Countess of Winton, from RangoOn, Ku- Ant werp; Amaranth. Queba,, Corfu; I na, Taganrog; Sussex maid, Ann, and John, Filey • Eliza Jenkins, and Venus, Galatz ; Padra, and Natalia, Odessa ; Ida ) Venice ; Rosins, Alexandria. WATERFORD, Sept. 2. Wind N.E. Arrived— Rodaston and Research, from Galatz ; Crimea, Odessa. DUBLIN, Sept. 4. Wind N.N. E. Arrived—Walker, from Miramishi ; Liffey, Barbados. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH ) GRAVESEND, Saturday, 9.30 a.m. Wind W.; tide two hour's flood ; weather fine. S:pt. 4.—St. Michael, from St. Kilt's; Wellington, Matanz ; Cogtieldale, Alexandria ; Ocean Wave, Tobago ; Lavinia, Odessa ; White Angel, Malaga ; Lagos, Bahia; Bittern, Penang ; Belle Vue, Archangel ; Queen, Montreal; Mercury, Valentia. Arrived, Sept. s—John Temperley. from Hamburg ; Christiana Sophia, and Lady Peel, Quebec ; Himalaya, Odessa ; Corsair, and Concordia, Guernsey ; Juan de Baptiste, Buer.os Ayres. DEAL, Saturday, 9 A.M. Wiod . S.W., moderate and fine. Passed—Paris and London, screw steamer, from Paris, for London ; Unanimity, from London, for Marseillas ; Japan, from London, for Mauritius. Anchored—Parrock Hall, from London, for St. Kitts ; Florence, London, St. Helen's ; Atalanta, London, Demerara ; Irene, London, Cape Good Hope. Sailed—Georgina, Asa Sawyer, Sacramento, and Gren ville, with others, westward. PREACHERS AT ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.—The Bishop of Loudon has appointed the following gentlemen to be the special preachers at Sr. Paul's Cathedral for the cur rent :nonth :—Sunday, Sept. G, the Rev. T. Henderson, MA., vicar of Messing, Essex ; Sunday, Sept. 13, the Rev. Charles Mackenzie, M.A , rector of St. Beast's, Gracecburch-street, and Principal of Westbourne Col lege ; Sunday, Sept. 20, the Rev. Chas. Marshall, M.A , vicar of St. Bride's, Fleet - street ; Sunday, Sept. 27, the Rev. Morgan Cowie, 8.D., rector of St. Lawrence, Jewry, London. N LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Pane.) THE OLD HASTINGS BANK. To-day was appointed for the choice of an inspector under the separate estate of Mr. F. Smith, and several proofs were admitted under the privateestate for that pur pose, but the meeting had not terminated. The material discussion as to the power of the Curt to appoint an in• spector was reported in The Sun a few days since, when his Honour decided that he had power to do so—the applicants, however, paying all the costs of the investi gation. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. —(Thus Day.) MANSION-HOUSE. A POLICEMAN AT FAULT.—PoIice-constable 101 M, Metropolitan Force, was summoned by Henry Ivy, a cabman, fur refusing to pay him his lawful fare. Complainant deposed that on Monday week defendant called him off the rank in Adelaide-place, King William street, to take up two ladies and two children from the steps nearly opposite. Complainant accordingly drove to the steps. when defendant asked him his fare, and he told him is. 6d —ls. for distance, and 61. for the two children whereupon the defendant insisted that be bad no right to charge for children in arms, and told one of the ladies who bad entered the cab to get out again and be would get her another. The lady did so, and complainant then demanded 61. for being taken off the rank, which defendant refused to pay, at the same time threatening to summon complainant for refusing to take a fare. Defendant averred that complainant agreed to carry for is. before leaving the rank, but upon arriving at the steps demanded is. 6d., which defendant refused to give, conceiving it to be an iniposition, as both the children were babies in arms. The cabman steadily maintained that no bargain was made before he left the rank ; and, as neither party had witnesses, The Lord Mayor decided in favour of the cabman, and ordered defendant to pay the expense for calling com plainant off the rank, and 3s. costs. The pol.ceman paid the money with an air of chagrin, and cabby quitted the court triumphant. GITILD HAL L. The presiding Aldermen, Messrs. Hale and Rose, were occupied a considerable time this morning in disposing of in petty sessions several minor charges of felony that had been partially investigated during the week. A CANDID THIEF.—A wretched-looking youth named Smith was placed at the bar charged with picking the pocket of a gentleman in the City of a pocket handker chief. The facts of the case were plain and of the usual character, but the defence was rather a novel one. The prisoner said he had lately been following a honest life, but on this occasion the gentleman's handkerchief hung so temptingly from his pocket that he couldnot withstand the temptation, and he accordingly appropriated it. (Laughter.) He pleaded guilty that the alderman might deal summarily with him, Mr. Alderman Rose—How many times have you been convicted ? Prisoner—Only twice. Mr. Alderman Rose.aWhat was your last sentence '1 Prisoner—Two mouths. Mr. Alderman Hale then sentenced him to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. CHARGE! OF ASSAULT.—EIIen M 'Canine, john Wynn, Michael Leonard, Dennis Healy, Wm. Hunt, and John Kent, were brought bAore Mr. Beadon, charged with violently assaulting Mary Ann Dieks, and John Abra hams, an attorney's clerk. Mr. Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, prosecuted ; and Mr. Lewis, of Ely-place, defended the pi isoners. Mr. Lewis, in opening the case, stated that his client, Mrs. Dicks, occupied the premises N 0.22, Panton-street, where she carried on the business of a tobacconist. The prisoner M.Tartine was the landlady of that house, and Mrs. Dicks paid her Si. a week rent, which was regularly pail, and up to the present time not a single farthing was due. On Friday night, about eight o'clock, the woman M'Cartine, accompanied by the prisoner Wynn, entered her house and demanded a fortnight e rent. His client told them there was no rent due, when the two above-named prisone rs ca ll e d i n the other pri soners, and they then comnenced a series of atrocities which were only excelled by those recently committed in India. Mrs. Dicks, to escape th eir v i o l ence, ran up stair>, followed by the whole of the prisoners, who seized hold of her, and attempted to throw her over the balustrade, and no doubt they would have suc ceeded, had not the police made their appearance, and took them into custody. He (Mr. Lewis) would now call Mrs. Dicks to corroborate his statement, and then request that the case might be sent to the sessions. Mrs. Dicks, on being sworn, deposed that she had occupied the house No. 22, Panton-street, for some months, under an agreement to pay SI. a week. The prisoner McCartine was her landlady. On the previous evening about B'oclock, the prisoner neCartine, accom panied by the man Wynn, entered her house, and, lean ing over the counter, demanded a fortnight's rent. She told them there was no rent due, They then called in the four other prisoners, and two men not in custody, and proceeded to turn her out, and take foicible pos session. Mr. Abrahams was there on business, and they took hold of him and tried to thraw him into the street. She then rushed upstairs, and all the prisoners followed her, and threatened to throw her over the balustrade. She begged of them not to do so, when Wynn said to them—" You are paid to do your duty, and you mupt do it." She was then seized by the hair of her head, and they pulled her down stairs; she screamed out, and the police broke open the door and rescued her from the clutches of the prisoners. She had no notice to quit, and had paid her rent in advance. Sergeant Oliver, 2g4 A, stated that about half-past eight last night the prisoner Wynn came to him and said he should want his assistance as he was going to distrain for rent, and having engaged several roughs he was fearful of a row. Witness told him he could not interfere, and went away. Shortly after he heard cries of " Murder" and went back, and saw Mr. Abrahams thrown cut. He also saw the affair . just as described by the prosecutrix. Al this stage of the procceedings Mr. Lewis, for the prisoners, requested to have the further hearing o f the case postponed, as he had an important engagement to attend to in the 9,ty. After some discussion Mr. Beadon remanded the cage for a week, and consented to take bail for the appear' ance of the whole of the prisoners on that day. THAMES. SINGULAR CBARGN OF ROBBERY.—Fanny Evan', huge black woman, with large features and well known in the port of London as a laundress for American cap tains, mates, and seamen, was brought before Mr. Sells, charged with stealing a 10 dollar gold piece, two 5 dol lar gold pieces, an English sovereign, and some silver, from the person of Henry Wilson, a seaman.. The prosecutor said he belonged to the American ship Im'ogene, in the Commercial Dock. Last night he wag drinking in the Red Lion public-house, Whitechapel, and fell in with the black woman, who beg an ta l k i n g about the United States. He was rather the worse for liquor, and he accepted an invitation which the prisoner bad offered him, , who said, she had good accommodation for him to go to her house and have a bed there. On reaching her dwel ling he sent out for more liquor, and soon fell asleep. When he awoke he missed a leather purse, which contained a gold ten dollar piece, two gold five dollar pieces, an English sovereign and a few shillings in silver. He went in search of a policeman, and gave the prisoner into custody. The prisoner, in defence, said that she met the sailor in the Red Lion, Rateliff Highway, not in Whitecbapels and he changed a ten-dollar piece there. The landlady asked him t 3 leave his money in her care, which be refused to do. Several girls got about him, and would have st )len all his money if she had not protected him. She took him home, and as a great many bad girls were about him, she took his money for the purpose of taking sire of it, and nut with the intention of robbing him. She offered the money, which consisted of 1 gold piece, 1 sovereign, and a few shillings to the landlady of a puqic house, but she refused to have any thing to do with it. Moseley, a police constable, No. 51 H, said that when he took the prisoner into custody she dropped an Ame rican gold piece from her mouth, and he persuaded her to give up an English sovereign, which was also in her mouth. He took wale Eoglish bilver coins in her hand. It appearing that the prisoner had actual y rifered the imoney taken from her to Mrs. Fisher, the landlady of a public house, and that she was never in custody before for any act of dishonesty, Mr. Solie said he could not accept the evidence of a drunken man unconfirmed, and there was no doubt the sailor had made a mi.take about the amount of hi* money. He should have liked the case better it the pri soner had not denied possession of the mor ey when first spoken to by the constable. Ho ordered the money to be restored to the sailor, and discharged the prisoner. Fanny. Ei,ans here made an appeal to the sailor to give her a shilling to start with. Mr. Selfe—Yes, do the handsome thing ; giv e her a shilling. She has taken care of your money. I don't believe she ever intended to steal it. ACCIDENT AT EUSTON -SQUARE STATlON.—Yesterday morning a very serious accident occurred at the Easton square terminus of the London and North-Western R a il wa y. Several of Pickford's vans were unloading et, the station, when one 'of them containing four tons weight, under the care of John Chapman, the driver, suddenly got off the road, and going backwards down the inclined baulk, jammed Chapman between the tail of the van and the wall in so shocking a manner that at first it was considered he was killed. The unfortunate man was conveyed to tho University College Hospital/ when it was discovered that several of his ribs were broken, and in other respects he was severely injured. THE SHIPBUILDING TRADE AT CUMBERLAND. —During the greater portion of the present year the ship-building trade of West Cumberland' has been greatly depressed. About three months ago the masters, in consequence , gave their bands notice of a contemplated reduction of wages cf from 53. to 4q. per day. A strike was the consequence, nearly 400 hands voluntarily ceasing work at Wnitchaven, Harrington, Workington, and Mary' port. After a brief period the men resumed work at all places except Whitehaven, where the strike bas coo tinned up to the, present time. ' Here about 120 men have remained willing idlers for a period of 12 weeks , As the masters are not in want of men, there is no prospect of an early termination of the di.pute isre —StoP Berland Herald. ifi Letter toil Ntark rates We, mated at t t , ll e spec kzha, I Eullion Rest ~ Public I 1 Other 1) I ~~.Seven•D '2'.;iqovernit LlOthe r S, kiSTOtes Ita The p °laL i ton , Aogue . geha : 141 the c ~.4 4e xed nited S c , i lver, s s. ;otith Au r4il e Pico the Port a laBt Gold 1 , 4" 41'3 ee t 1 11, 4 N o . e E teh e '2 z tit I c tt, Vitt ° 4 Nteh coz Sil i v e