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NODDER, _JLI/• pool Griu for Inspec STYLES for the Season ar, the HATTER, 81, CHURCH.STREET, inn the Nobility and Gentry of Liver- NOW READY ortinu MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1856 TEIE the C 2 Russians have not abandoned Kars, and seized upon the Isle of Serpents. %R has These alts of the treaty of peace —the first fruits of our surrender of victory. Paris is convulsed, an d all France is amazed at the perfidy of those whose deliverance from the chas tisement due to the disturbers of the world's repose, by a hurried juggle and a diplomatic plot. Great Britain has not words to express her ind olemn pledges of good gnation at so base a violation of s faith, nor do her people utter one word of surprise at their being made the laughing stock of Chris- tiand lations of diplomacy develop yes, the depth of the design pro. in such cases, must find Enormities some startle us and for a momen r, York- ling place silence the expression of our contempt, and national abhorrence of foul and treacherous dealing. It remains for our diplomatic chiefs, therefore, to take advantage of this pause, and give some explanation with regard to the acts and intentions of those Powers for whose faithful observance of the material condi tions of the treaty of Paris their words and character have been more than freely staked. The war was terminated too suddenly—with too much the appearance of indecent haste, for the repose we enjoy to last long The change from war to the knife to peace on any terms, was not the work. of mature thought, or the offering of a forgiv ing or contri The conduct of Russia from first to last—up to the present h3ur—proves that ALEXANDER consented, and CONSTANTINE yielded, to the magical powers of intrigue, and forsook one plan merely to take up another. We hope the explanations of the several parties to the treaty of peace will convince the public that we are wrong, and that the future conduct of Russia, in the East, will justify all they may The British nation have no lesire to witness another season of bloodshed such as the last ; but they must be more than ay in tleir defence to know how fey are to escape the f that scourge, and in what direction we are to look for our foes. The war excitement gave place to the agitation of the Italian question. The 'former was scarcely suffered to subside before the latter had reached its height. Did Russia cause this diversion, and taking advantage of the dreaded mid lead to in Western Europe, turnioil it resolved to violat and England ? Was ier eng agements with France t understood that despotism or Russian influence to be placed in the ascendant in Spain, and, while Eng 1 lost a titutional ally, that imperial France was to arnest sympathiser, and forge the first link of the favourite chain of despotic and bigotted Powers, which, it is fondly hoped, will ere long I Europe, and leave England powerless? 3A and O'DONNELL, tho Czar ALEXAN- Emperor FRANCIS JOSEPH, the POPE )N M., would constitute rather a ;ague when combined for any par ticular object. They all stand more or less in need of close combinati' , n and moral support. And the recent and i m p o liti c ag it a tion of the Italian ques tion, has shown this necessity, and hastened for ward its consummation. The CZAR saw clearly the DER and and NA formidable omplexities which were hanging over the West, consented to the famous peace pr breaches of faith are sufficient evi• tct, that he finds, by the direction the Bence o F European intrigue has taken the realisation of his calculations is closer at hand than the people of France or England are aware of, or could readily believe. Russia THE dare not disregard her obligations of April in the month of July, if she thought the maintenance of the alliance between the Western Powers possible. Her statesmen would run no further hazards in war against such a union. Her retention of Kars, and her occupation of the Isle of Serpents, must then be viewed as the precursor of some new and mystic light which is to break forth on a sudden, and at no very distant hour. Spain is already Russian—it would be mockery to call Austria and Prussia anything but despotic —terror reigns throughout Italy, and it is unneces sary to anticipate history by one hour in order to swell the list of the anti-constitutional phalanx of the Continent. We have enough before us in all conscience, to show us that our victories over the CZAR were not the most popular of events in Court circles. But what need we care about all the twaddling compacts of diplomacy? Our success in a great struggle will always depend on the popularity of our cause. We may not be able to drive the world before us, but we can always lead Europe. The masters of intrigue knowing this, Ipse no opportunity of placing Great Britain in a false position, and take extraordinary pains to belie her sentiments and misrepresent her objects. This portion of the work was never more actively carried on than it is at the present moment by the agents of those countries who hope to rob us of our faithful friends. Hence the danger of inter meddling in the affairs of other States. We silence the busy tongue of diplomatic slander when we hold our peace, and leave them to guess rather than distort, and use what we say or do for their own purposes. Our strong bold is in the liberalism which is to be found through out the civilised world. We have always the majority of enlightened nations of the earth to fly to, to save us from an unholy effusion of blood, or to aid us in the last struggle for Constitutional freedom. Our Allies are the millions of oppressed and down-trodden men, who, not knowing the nature of our institutions, and passive character of our policy, cannot understand why we do not rush to their rescue without waiting for unpardonable provocation. Should Russia again give us this provocation—should Spain continue to outrage humanity by her butcheries, and endanger the peace of Europe by her excesses—should the great chain of despotic combination be drawn too tight around our " sea-girt isle," our enemies may find that our civil and religious liberty have the millions of Europe for their supporters, and that, when we boast least, we have the most reason to be joyful. The people of Great Britain are alive to the dan gers impending over their heads, and while they are horrified at the perfidy of foreign courts, and the sufferings of their fellowmen, they treat with manly scorn the childish threats of dreaming diplomates. It is curious to notice the workings of the current to which we allude, and should it prove equal to the purpose for which it is designed, the ultimate issue will show that we have been duly forewarned, and must gain vastly in a contest in which civil and religious toleration are to be the watchwords of the world. IN a country where we are exposed to very con- fluctuations in the commercial rates of dis_ ount, it is necessary that we should lay down some fixed mean level or average rate to which all parties may look for the reimbursement of their losses, by great and sudden transitions in the value of money. When money is only worth two per cent., the Capitalist is the loser, and when it advances above four per cent, the legitimate employers of money are placed at a disadvantage. Five per cent has always been considered high, and six per cent. usurious. For the seven, eight, and ten per cent. regime, commercial indignation has yet to supply a name. Its relation to civilisa tion is as slight as the connection of Whiggery with every other species of modern enlightenment. When using these remarks politically, we may be told that the Whig GALBAS of the present time are no way related to the ancient CiESARS of their order, and that we need not concern ourselves much about the originators of usury, as the era of exor. bitant banking rates of interest will probably end with the present possessors of office. Meanwhile, we may take four per cent. as a just commercial rate of discount. It represents fairly the value of money to both lender and borrower ; and without waiting to calculate what either side of the Money Market have won or lost by the last forty fluctua tions which have taken place above and below four per cent., we will simply ask why the Bank of England should demand more than four per cent, under existing circumstances ? The increase in the production of gold is going on steadily, and the importations are greater than the growing demand for shipment. The bullion reserve of the Bank of England alone has risen to 12,430,8701., notwithstanding the heavy drain we have experienced for the last three months. An abundant harvest, such as we are now likely to be blessed with, is always equal to 20,000,0001. of gold in the nation's till. The entire kingdom is tranquil, and with the promised sufficiency of food and employment, there is no prospect of any change for the worse taking place, Our stocks of the leading articles of consumption are quite equal to an average supply, and the orders for our manufactures and mineral products are ample enough already to set the great springs of industry in motion Merchants and employers are only held back by the uncertainty the country feels with respect to the course the Bank of England will pursue. Some gentlemen, learned in such matters, were of opinion that the money rulers of Threadneedle-street intended to raise the rate of discount at their last weekly meeting, and they certainly would have done so, if we had not been favoured with a few days of sunshine. All danger has now, however, passed over on this head. The warm days we have bad, have left the cornfields ready for the reaper, and a cloudy sky will.enable the cutting to be carried on with greater activity. Why, then, should a high rate of interest be maintained ? Are we to suppose that the popular joint-stock and private banks, which do not publish returns, have not participated as largely as the Bank of England in the rapid accumulation of gold ? The aggregate of the bullion reserves of all the banks of the three kingdoms cannot be less than 40,000,0001. And is it because the Bank of Eng land cannot command over 12,430,870/. of gold, that the mercantile business of the country is to be held back, and the employment of labour curtailed ? We have repeatedly shown that the bank returns now published give us no idea whatever of the amount of bullion held in reserve by our banks. vaults,There whilemay b the B e5O, Ooaonk of ,000/. oEfnggolladnd nia y locked tip in their ° 1 one-fourth or one-fifth o f that coffers ; and yet we are made amourltllYin have its to pay th e f for weekly com mercial accommodation, according t statement put forth from Threadneedle-street! Such is the gullibility of the age, and the moral rectitude of those who express so much earnest solicitude for the well-being of this mighty empire. We, however, question the loyalty and patriotism, NORTHERN to say nothing of the intelligence and general administrative capacity of any set of men who would be privy to the working of such a system. If the quantity of bullion iu the country, on any given day, is to regulate our trade, commerce, and industry—to increase or diminish the value of the entire substance of the nation—we should be suffered to know the amount of gold held on that day, by every licensed banker in the three kingdoms. If this measure of common justice was given to us in the Gazette every Friday, it would remove many of the aggravated evils of our trade and labour crushing bullion system, and it is more than probable, that the money market would be thence forth ruled with firmness and uniformity, from the Ist of January to the 31st December —a con summation fervently to be desired by every class of the community. TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, MON I MONETARY AND COMMEIICIA.I LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVENING The Liverpool Cotton Alarket continues without change, and, with a fair enquiry, prices to-day have been sustained. The sales amount to 7,000 bales, an d include 2,000 taken for speculation and export. The Liverpool Share Market again opened heavily, but improved a little during the day, and eloSed steady for most descriptions of stock. Great Western of Canada Shares were heavy all day. The closing quotations were as follows :—Aberdeen, 141, 141. Chester and Birkenhead, 16a 161. Caledonian, 291 30. Chester and Holyhead, 17 17k. Eastern Counties, 9 1516 10 1-16. East Lancashire, 218 211, Great Northern, 243 241. Ditto A, 10 1 10a. Great Western, 63i 64. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 971 971. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 183 181. London and North Western, 107 1071. Manchester, • Sheffield, and Lincoln, 311 xd Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref., 11-16 13-16 p. Ditto Pref, 121123. Midland Stock, 8$ 83 1 North British, 93xn 01. North Staffordshire, 4341 d. South Eastern and Dover, 228 22 3-16 York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 21Z 24 York and North Midland, 301 303. Leeds Capital Stock, 181 18Z-. Buffalo and Lake Huron, Z- ap. Dutch Rhenish, 2 7.16 23p. Great Western of Canada, 258 251. Ditto New Shares, 23 2 9-16 p. Great Luxembourg, 9 91d. The arrivals of specie this week have been small. There have been no imports from Australia. The total value of the receipts is about 300,000/., of which only about 21,0001. have been retained in this country. The official return of the exports of bullion from the port of London, for the week ending Thursday last, is as follows :—Gold coin— Belgium, 4,070 ozs ; Boulogne, 160 ozs ; Ham burg, 30 ozs. Gold bars—Tonning, 272 ozs ; Belgium, 3,400 ozs. Silver coin—Belgium, 1,060 ozs ; Boulogne, 1,400 ozs ; and Hamburg, 800 ozs. The Emi g ration Commissioners will receive ten ders on thel4th inst. for the line of ships to convey emigrants respectively to Belfast, Port Fairy, Adelaide, and Melbourne, It was confidently stated, and generally believed in London to-day that the difficulty with Russia as to the occupation of the Isle of Serpents, at the entrance to the Danube is at an end ; and that the orders for the British fleet to concentrate in the Black Sea have been countermanded from London as well as from Constantinople. The business done in the London Stock Market to-day was small, either in public securities or railways. It will be that the change in the weather, combined with the absence of business, caused a slight decline upon yesterday's prices, but, on the whole, the prevailing feature of the market was steadiness. The closing prices for Consols were 95 5-16 to 95 7-16, and for Railway Shares as follow— Caldonian, 59159;,. Eastern Counties, 91 10 East , L anc ashire, 85 87. Great Northern, 97 1 98 3 Ditto A., 82 84. Great Western, 631 631. Lan cashire and Yorkshire, 974- 98k. London and North Western, 107 1071. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 341 341. Midland Stock, 831 84. North British, 37 38. South Eastern and Dover, 73.1. 731. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 86 87. York and North Midland, 61 62. The demand for money in Lombard-street to day was only moderate, but there was no change in the rates of discount. Of the condition of the market for the past week, we quote the following from the circular of Mr. William Avens : Notwithstanding the lower price of corn, and the prospect of a great harvest, the money market, hitherto, has not felt the benefit of these favourable circumstances. The market, indeed, has gone worse and worse, as our expectations of cheap bread and extended trade have received more and more confirmation. There must be something abnormal in this state of things; and many theories are afloat to recount for it. That corn should have declined 10s, and money have advanced lOs per cent. simultaneously, implies some deep seated cause. It is not to be explained by anything upon the surface. We are inclined to ascribe a good deal of it to moral as well as financial causes. Undoubtedly, distrust of the position of the bank of France is strong, if not general in the city, while there is great apprehension of the ultimate results of the undertakings in France, and other parts of Europe, cimmenced by speculative associated bodies. The gold bought in this market, and at New York, at prices above the natural market value, is assumed now to be purchased for the purpose of maintaining the position of the bank, and of those speculative undertakings. At present we pronounce no decided opinion upon this part of the case. We are rather disposed to regard it as exaggerated. Still it is held in the city by financiers of great practical knowledge ; and it has undoubtedly much effect in producing that moral condition in the monied world to which at the present moment, the tighteness of the market is more especially owing. In this state of things a number of new schemes upon the joint Stock principle are announced, which give rise to well meant cautions ; and the feeling thus created, obviously affects the operations of those who deal in capital. To such causes, rather than to any thing unsound in our own trade, or to any rash speculative tendencies, we are inclined to attribute the otherwise inexplicable circumstance of the money market, usually so sensitive, failing to respond to the improved condition of the other great interests which, at all previous periods, have been regarded as tests of the national prosperity. Happily, however, though confidence is a plant of slow growth, it does, sometimes when we least expect it, arrive at maturity. All the causes which have been suggested for the present unsatisfactory state of things, are in their nature temporary ; and the conjunction of good harvests, large gold arrivals, and extended trade, all of which are now in full view, will undoubtedly dissipate in no long time the evil anticipatior.s of those who view matters from the darkest side. Money in Lombard-street is worth 4/ per cent; and on the Stock Exchange it has never been lower, during the week, than 5 per cent, owing to the settlement of the Consol account. In the Mincing-lane markets this week there has been a steady but quiet demand for most descrip tions of foreign and colonial produce, and previous prices have generally been supported. Sugar has been purchased to a fair extent for home con sumption, and there has also been a good export enquiry at the current quotations. Coffee has ruled firm, and a portion of the quantity offered at public sale was taken in above the market rates. There has not been much enquiry for rum. Rice is threepence to ninepence per cwt cheaper, and saltpetre has been firm. Spices have generally been dearer, and a moderate amount of business has been done. An active demand for cotton has prevailed, and Madras, as well as Surat qualities have improved. Tea has been quiet, and at the public sales previous quotations were generally realised, At the wool auctions rather firmer rates have been obtained for the finer sorts, but the inferior kinds are still at low quotations. Advices from Galatz, and other grain markets on the Danube, have been received to the 25th July. Up to that date the export trade was active, and the sudden reduction of prices in Western Europe had had no effect, consequently there were still latge shipments of grain to Marseilles, and other ports in the Mediterranean. The stocks of wheat on hand had been considerably reduced, and speculators were sending off maize and barley in large, quantities. A contract for 35,000 quarters of barley, for delivery in September, was closed at the rate of 12s. 6d. to 13s. per quarter. Rye, after being in demand for shipment to Mar seilles, was heavy at 255. per quarter. Accounts from the agricultural districts report less damage to the wheat crops by the recent heavy rains than was at first supposed ; and it was stated that the quality of the grain would not suffer in any degree. The following are the ruling prices of grain—Galatz, Ist quality wheat, 44s lld to 47s 10d per quarter, and 2nd ditto " from 30s 2d to 39s fld per ditto. Braila wheat, Ist quality, 44s 11d to 48s 2d, and 2nd ditto from 31s 6d to 40s 5d per quarter. Freights were firm at lls to lls 6d per quarter for England, and the rate of exchange on London at 94k. In consequence of the recent tempestuous weather in the Black Sea, the bar at the Sulina mouth had only 93 feet water upon it, but it was soon cleared by the dredging machine to 103 and 12 feet, and would shortly reach 111 and 12 feet. The inauguration festival of the Birmingham Music Hall will be held on the 3rd and 4th September. Mr. Alfred Mellon and Mr. Simms are the conductors, and Madame Novello and Mr. Reeves the principal vocalists. THE WEATHER which, for nearly three weeks, continued so fine and excessively laot, changed on Saturday morning. There had been indications of a change since Thursday evening, yet Friday was as bright and warm as any of the preceding days. Saturday morning, about ten o'clock, the atmosphere being previously dark and lowering, rain began to fall very heavily, and continued uninteruptedly up to a late hour in the evening. The heat was not, however, abated, nor was the atmosphere so dark as might be expected. We do not think the rain, after the fine weather of such continuance, calculated to do much injury, as the crops have progressed during the past fortnight to maturity ; and, moreover, we understand that the rain was more local than general. THE COURT OSBORNE, August B.—The Queen and Prince drove out yesterday afternoon. The royal children also took their usual exercise. Her Majesty, instead of proceeding by the coast route from Newcastle to Edinburgh, this year will, it is said, cause the Royal train to turn off at Ber wick on the 28th, and proceed along the Kelso branch up the valley of the Tweed, and thence by the Hawick branch to Edinburgh. Dryburgh, Melrose, and Abbotsford are comprehended in this route. It is the intention of her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert to pay an early visit to Jersey and Guernsey. Should the weather permit, the Royal party will embark to-day from Osborne, on board the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain the Hon. Joseph Denman, and proceed on a cruise down Channel, calling at the islands en route. The Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Secretary of State for the Colonies, will attend her Majesty, together with Sir James Clark, her Majesty's physician. His Royal High ness the Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent on Thursday. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left town yesterday for Abergeldie House, Braemar. Her Royal Highness was accompanied by the Princess Amelia of Hohenlohe.Schillingsfurst, and attended by Lady Augusta Bruce and Lord James Murray. Her Royal Highness travelled via the Great Northern Railway, and will sleep to.night at Newcastle on-Tyne, and to-morrow at Edinburgh, and proceed on to Banchory on Monday. Mr. Elwyn, of the manager's department of the Great Northern Railway, will attend her Royal Highness as far as Banchory, whence the Duchess will travel post to Abergeldie. DEATH OF MADAME VESTRIS (COMMUNICATED).—We regret to have to announce the death of Madame Vestris, which took place at her residence at five o'clock yester day morning. For some months past this talented lady had been suffering from severe illness, but many of her friends who had the pleasure of her private acquaintance, and a still larger circle who had been charmed and delighted by her acting, entertained the hope that she would be restored to health, and once more give pleasure to delighted audiences. Few artistes have enjoyed so long and so continued a share of well deserved popularity as Madame Vestris, and her removal from theatrical circles will cause a vacancy not easily to be filled up. With the death of Madame Vestris another link which binds the present age of the drama to past and brighter periods of its history has been severed, and a star which once glittered brightly has become darkened and has disap peared from our gaze. Private sympathies and public regrets will seek expression on the announcement of the death of this talented lady.— Observer of yesterday. RUSSIAN TREACHERY.—AdmiraI Houston Stewart, second in command in the Mediterranean, has been ordered from Marseilles to join Lord Lyons, the Com mander-in-chief at Malta. The British fleet in the Mediterranean has received reinforcements, and we believe it is quite true that these movements are pre paratory to a concentration of the British and French navies, in order to enforce certain portions of the Treaty of Paris, which some of the Russian authorities have shown too great a disposition to postpone, or to neglect altogether. In the Paris Conferences Baron Brunow actually proposed that the fortresses of Reni and of Ismail should be dismantled and razed before they should be given up to the Moldavians in the " rectifica tion of that part of the Bessarabian territory"' that is to be added to the Principalities under the suzerainty of the Sultan. This proposition of the Russians was at once resisted by Count Walewski and the other pleni potentiaries, and was immediately withdrawn. And now it appears that the Russians have, notwithstanding this direct refusal of the other powers, proceeded, since the peace, and after this very discussion, not only to dismantle the fortresses of Reni, Kilia, and Ismail, but to raze them to the ground. This they have done, although the Allies had utterly ceased to proced with any further demolition of Sebastopol, from the moment that the armistice was agreed to by the commanders of the several armies in the field. It would have been only preparing for carrying out the positive stipulation of the treaty, that Sebastopol and every other port in the Black Sea should be no longer employed as naval arsenals— that every portion of the docks and naval stores should be destroyed. The Allies behaved, however, with good faith, and committed not one act of destruction against the public property of Russia from the moment the peace was agreed upon. Not so the Russians. They have, in time of peace, utterly demolished the Danubian fortresses, which they stipulated to restore to their rightful owners, in " rectification of the Besserabian territory," and in the stipulated freedom of the trade of the Great European River. In like manner they have dismantled Kars, and although Sebastopol is given up to the Russians, and not a single soldier of the Allied conquerors remains in the Crimea, Kars and its neigh bourhood are still occupied by Russian troops. And this, notwithstanding that the restitution of Kars, as well as all the Turkish territory, was expressly insisted upon by Lord Clarendon in the conferences, and made a separate article of the treaty. The Russians have also taken possession of a small and barren island in the Black Sea—the Isle of Serpents — which was first heard of as the rendezvous of the fleets for the invasion of the Crimea. It is needless to observe that at that time there was not a Russian subject or soldier in the place. It lies in the Delta of the Danube, and is utterly barren. It can be no use to Russia—not even to revive her annihilated " preponderance in the Black Sea." It must not be lost sight of that one of the lead ing objects of the Peace of Paris was to secure the free navigation of the Danube, and of all its several mouths, and to remove all Russian authority and interfeience to a safe distance. Russia will not possess the 'slightest control or influence over a single acre of land upon either side of the Danube, or of its numerous mouths and deboucles into the Black Sea: Nay, more, she has stipu lated to surrender a portion of the territory, north of the most northern mouth. of the Danube, and comprising a considerable shore of the Black Sea itself. It is, there fore, absurd to suppose that she should now be allowed to take possession of this little island—barren as it is —and to retain a possession—ever so small in the midst of the river and territories which she has agreed to surrender, and entirely dependent upon them. These tricks must not be allowed—and we are glad to hear that they have engaged the watchful attention of the Allied governments, who are completely in accord upon the subject, and whose fleets are sufficient to see the treaty carried out—even although the armies have totally evacuated the seat of war "in the promptest manner," and with all that honourable sincerity and disinterestedness for which we have always given them credit. The dignity of Russia was respected—as far as such dignity could be—by the representatives of the Allies. If the Russian authorities anywhere exhibit a disposition to evade their engagements, or to diminish their force, they must be taught that the other powers are still watchful and allied to carry out the true objects of the war—and they must be made to respect that justice, which has been honourably and amply dealt out to them.—Observer. His Excellency the Russian Minister and the Countess Chreptowich arrived at the embassy in Chesham-place, London, on Friday afternoon, accompanied by M. de Berg and the personnel of the legation. AY LATEST INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY EVEN4NCI. His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French has arrived at St. Cloud from Plomhieres The Minister of Foreign Affairs has received a despatch from the French Ambassador at Con stantinople, of which the following is a copy : " THERAPIA., AUGUST 9 " The Russian commander of Kars has notified to the Government of Erzereum that he is ready to deliver over the place into the hands of the Ottoman authorities. " Anapa is occupied by the Russians, and the inhabitants have taken refuge in the mountains." BRAZILIAN MAIL. SOTJTHAMPTON, SUNDAY The West India Royal Mail Steamship Com pany's steamer Avon arrived here to-day with the usual monthly mail from the River Plate and the Brazils. She has brought home 125 passengers, 6,0001. in specie, and 56,8001. worth of diamonds. Her dates are from Buenos Ayres to the 2nd ; Monte Video, the sth ; Rio Janeiro, the 15th ; Bahia, the 10th ; Pernambuco, the 21st ; and St. Vincent, the 28th ultimo. She left Lisbon on the 6th inst. She reports the wreck of the ship Western Bride, and the Pacific Steamship Company's steamer Panama in the Straits of Magellan. The crews of both were saved. The ad vices from Buenos Ayres report that quiet ness prevailed there, and at Monte Video there was a brisk business doing. The accounts from Brazil generally partake of the same character as those last received. At Madeira and Lisbon cholera was prevailing to a considerable extent. FRANCE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING I have reason to believe that, up to this moment, no news has reached the French government of the settlement of the difficulty raised by the Russians with respect to the Isle of Serpents, in the Black Sea. The assertion of the Berlin tele graph yesterday . that the affair was settled, must, therefore, be considered erroneous; and so also, necessarily, must a statement of the Dresden Journal, transmitted by telegraph this morning, that - the Russians have already given up the island. If private telegraphic despatches received to-day from Constantinople are to be believed, Admiral Houston Stewart, with some French and English vessels, had on the Ist inst returned to the Black Sea, with orders to remain there until Russia should give up Kars and the Isle of Serpents. A telegraphic despatch announces the arrival of Count de Morny at St. Petersburg. The Turkish Government, I am told, has con templated the intention of giving a medal to all the French, English,and Sardinian soldiers who served in the Crimea, but the French Government, for its part, is unwilling to accept it, thinking the English medal amply sufficient. It has accordingly opened a correspondence with the Turkish Government on the subject, and has proposed, by way of arrange ment, that instead of being given to all who served in the Crimea, it shall only be awarded to those who were wounded. Marshal Pelissier arrived in Paris last evening from Plombieres. He was received at the railway station by the Minister of War, and a number of generals in full uniform, and was conveyed to the hotel of the Minister, escorted by a detachment of cavalry. The people saluted him as he passed along the streets, but the excitement his presence created was more curiosity than enthusiasm. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, whose return to Paris I mentioned the day before yesterday, has resumed the administration of his department, which was held ad interim by M. Baroche, Presi dent of the Council of State. The Emperor is to arrive in Paris tomorrow evening, about eight o'clock. The accounts from Spain announce the accep tance of the resignations of M. Olozagar and Gonzalez as ambassadors at Paris and London, and say that they will probably be succeeded by General Serrano and M. Pacheco. Espartero had taken leave of the Queen and King, and had been kindly received by them. The papers publish the proclamation of which General Falcon in the name of the Junta of Saragossa announced the surrender of the city. The reason of the surren der was, he says, that the rest of the nation did not second the junta, and that O'Donnell gave assurances that he would respect liberty. THE STEAMER ITALIAN.—LISBON, JULY 31—After the fire on board the above steamer had been subdued, a survey was made of the vessel, attended by Lloyd's agent, and it appEared that no part of the vessel has sustained any injury, except a small portion of the deck, which has been rather severely scorched. All the cargo in the fore-hold is saturated with water, and several packages, which lay together, are much burnt. The chi e f p ar t of t h e i njured cargo is destined for Gibraltar. It has been determined to send on the cargo in its present condition. NEW PRINCESS ROYAL. —The Glasgow and Liverpool Royal Steam-packet Company have concluded a contract with Messrs. Tod and Macgregor for a new steamer, to take the place of their late steamer, the Princ ess Royal, lost about a couple of months ago. She is to be similar to the Princess, but considerably larger and more powerful, with, of course, extended cabin accommodation in proportion to her greater size. She will bear the same name as her pre decessor, namely, that of the Princess Royal.—Glasgow Advertiser. ST. ANNE'S DISPENSARY AND EYE AND EAR INSTI TUTION, 9, ROSE HILL.—For the week ending August 9nd. —New patients entered on the books last week, viz—Re lieved at the institution, 214 ; relieved at their own dwellings, 71 ; cases of prevailing epidemic, 0.. Total, 285. Visitors—Mr. E. Watts, Mr. T. Kirk. Hon. secretary and treasurer, Joseph Kitchen, Esq. CORONER'S INQUESTS.—On Saturday the Borough Cor oner held the following inquests : —On the body of Daniel Garrett, a shipwright, who died in consequence of having his skull fractured. It appeared that he, with some other men, were at work on board a ship called the Devon, in the Queen's Dock, when the poor fellow went aahore to get a drink of water. On reaching the top step of the dock he slipped and fell backward, and falling into the graving dock the base of his skull was fractured, and he died from the injuries. Verdict accidental death.—On the body of a child named William Peterson, aged ten weeks. This case was remarkably curious for the following reasons : From a statement made by the grandmother of the child, who it seems is in very miserable circumstances, and resides in a cellar, at 23, Blackstone Street, it appeared that her daughter, the mother of the child, is quite an idiot, and that,a ruffianly sailor, who some time since lodged in the house, took advantage of the poor girl's infirmity, but she (the mother of the girl) did not know anything of the affair, until a short time before the child was born. She stated, also, that she has a son twenty years of age, and a daughter eleven, both of whom are deaf and dumb, and another daughter who is deaf only. Her husband is at sea at present. The child, it would seem, died of natural causes, and as the poor woman had not the means of paying for its interment, she took the body to Saint Martin's-in the-Fields, and entered it as a still-born child, the fee in such case being one shilling and sixpence, whereas other wise, the te would have been eight shillings and sixpence, a sum which she could not by any means procure. The coroner's beadle (Mr. Blake) was apprised of the matter, and found that the child was ten week's old. However, as death was the result of natural causes, the jury found accordingly. [The case of the grandmother of the child, is one perhaps, that will attract th e a tt ent i on of the benevolent, and from what transpired in the Coroner's Colin, her case seems one well worthy the attention of charitably disposed persons.] POST OFFICE ROBBERY AT STAFFORD For some time past several letters containing money have been stolen in the course of their transit through the post office at Stafford, and suspicions of a grave nature rested on one of the clerks employed in the ' , tiles, and also on °He of the messengers. Nothing, however, conclusive of the guilt of any person could be elicited by the parties in charge of the office, and, as the depreda tions were continued, a communication was made respecting the matter to Mr. Ramsay, the Post Office Inspector-General. That gentleman, on receiving infor mation, put himself in communication with tie proper authorities, and on the 11th of July he wrote a le ter, in which he enclosed half a sovereign, a sixpence of the reign of George 11., dated 1758, and three pos , age envelopes. He then put the whole in envelope, and it was directed by his assistant, Mr. Robert Burt, to "Miss Schneyder, Mrs. Toby's, Heywood, Rugeley," a nd afterwards posted at the Lichfield post office. On the Ist of August, he wrote another letter, in which he enclosed 11 and three postage stamps, which he addressed to Mr. Thomas Monk, to be left at the P lea Gate, Pontisferry, near Shrewsbury." In each instinct; he marked all the coins, and the stamps and envelopes. The second letter was posted at Rugeley. On rootivint;* information that neither of the letters had reached their destination, he proceeded on the 4th inst. to the post office, Stafford, where he saw Thomas Buckley, the suspected clerk, a young man of kind anti aff,ihle .demeanour. On being questioned, Buckley emptied his rckets, and amongst some silver was the sixpence of George 11., which had been enclosed in the le.ter to Miss Schneyder, and in a small pocket hook three. postage stamps bearing similar marks to those enclosed in the letter fo Thomas Monk. On Thursday, Buckb y was brought before the magistrates at Stafford, whert evidence was given in support of the charge, and the prisoner was committed for trial at the next assizes— X 1,500 being required for bail. EXECUTION AT DORCHESTER On Saturday morning, the woman Elizabeth Martha Brown, who was convicted at the last assizes of the wilful murder of her husband, John Anthony Brown, underwent the extreme sentence of the law. The facts of the case were these :—Tlie husband, who was only twenty years of age, and his wife, who was forty, had lived together as servants in a family. The husband became a carrier, and left home on the 6th of last July, for the purpose of going to Bedminster. He returned home late at night, and soon after the wife called in a neighbour, who found that the unfortunate man was dead, with several cuts about the body. The wife repre sented that he had been kicked by a horse, and this she afterwards denied. It afterwards transpired that she was jealous of her husband ; and a hatchet, which was known to be in the house, could not be found. Attempts were made to obtain a reprieve of the sentence, but Sir G. Grey refused. The arrangements for the execution' were made under the direction of Calcraft. In a few ino ments after the fatal bolt was drawn the convict ceased to exist. The concourse was not very large. THUNDER STORMS The thunder-storm which passed over Manthester ori Thursday afternoon, was succeeded by another on Friday afternoon. The second, however, although scarcely so severe as the first, was of much longer duration, commenc ing at two o'clock, and not finally ceasing until about sir. The fall of rain at five o'clock was very heavy, choking up many of the sewer grids, and was with difficulty kept out of the cellars of many dwellings. We have not heard of any material damage done in the neighbourhood by the lightning. We learn that the heavy rain which fell during Thursday's storm in the neighbourhood of Stalybri, , get flooded the mill of Mr. A. Harrison. In a weaving ePnar a large number of looms were completely submerged, and the warps and bobbings spoiled, as well as the machinery damaged. After some hours intimation of its approach the stolen burst over the town of Huddersfield with terrific violence about three o'clock on Thursday, and continued for at least three hours. The lightning was of a most vivid charactery and the thunder a l arn .i ng l y l oud. For ten minutes, hell-' stones, some of which were an inch in circumfere7icer threatened destruction to the growing crops. Some sitght, damage was d one b y li g h tn i ng to the houses of the chid, constable, Mr. J. Kaye, and Mrs. Gee, and it also entcreN the house of A. Cottam, steward, residing at B ra oil l spliting a b e d stea d , under which was a barrel of blasting powder, which miraculously escaped ignition. On Friday, and Thursday evening, Bury and the ne'gb' bourhood were visited by violent thunder storms, eccem panied with heavy rain, but no damage of any consid rale amount was done. 1 he electric fluid descended the chimney of the house occupied by John Walker, shoemaker, Pigs Lee, Walmersley-cum-Shuttleworth. There were nine per sons in the house at the time, but none of then sustained any injury, with the exception of two children who were knocked down by the electric fluid, but sustained no further injury. A little plaster was knocked off the wall of the adjoining house. The electric fluid struck a tree in the township of Eton, but did no further damage. It also entered the house of Mr. S. Grundy, of Lark Hil!, and ,Its placed some of the furniture, but Ihe damage was trifiTr It also descended the chimney of Mr. Daniel San , Haymarket-street, Bury, but did no further damage t` causing the soot to descend. Between half-past four and five o'clock on Thu afternoon, the inhabitants of Middleton and To visited by very heavy flashes of lightning, thundt The electric fluid descended the chimney in th Mr. Wm. Thornley, top of Barrowfields, Middlett it did considerable damage. In the bedchamber several pieces off an oak chest, and four pieces from a large writing desk ; it also drove many bricks out of the chilling —some were driven against the wall opposite. It also entered the room where Mr. Thornley and several memberg of the family were seated, but they were not injured. The chimney ornaments in the house were broken to pieces, and two of his sons, aged eleven and fourteen years, were stand ing at the door, when they were lifted into the middle of the street, but were not injured. The chamber and house presented a ruinous appearance. The electric fluid also entered two houses in a similar manner at Little Parks Manchester-road, belonging to Mr. James Simpson, machine maker, and Mr. Abraham Mee, draper. In the house of the latter, the window frame in the chamber was split to pieces, and two large squares of glass broken ; it also went through the chamber floor, tearing the paper from the wall in the shop; it also damaged the chimney in Mr. Simpson's house;' and split a spout to pi eces at the back part of the premiie9. The rain came down in torrents for upwards of half an hours. and the cellars belonging to several houses at the bottom , end of Middleton, where the road is being raised, were; flooded. On Thursday afternon the tower of Holy Trinity church, in Stetford New-road, Hulme, was struck by lightning. The fluid fractured one of the pinnacles on the top of the steeple, large pieces of which fell through the roof of the tower in two places, and through the church ceiling into the church below. The whole of the pinnacle was s h a ken down to the roof of the tower, and several pieces of stone were hurled into the road. Some scores of panes of glass were broken in the roof of the Midland Railway station. A poplar tree, standing in a garden near the Midland Railway station, was struck by the lightning and carried into Carlisle-street, a distance of nearly 100 yards. er, and it br,ke CAUTION TO CARTERS.- On Saturday a carter, named' Edward Bethel, was fined lOs by the magistrates for attempt ing to conceal some staves under a load of cotton, which nu' was taking from th e S tan l ey dock. He intended, it wall' believed, to steal the staves. " MEXICAN FIBRE" FOR BRUSHES.--A very interesting trade suit to be tried at the present Liverpool assizes will be that of Mr. George Connor against Mr. William Shortis. i i i Liverpool, to test th e va lidi ty of the former'sto 3 patent right in the " Mexican fibre" as atric.ied to thP a brush manufact ures . Th e Li verpool brut manuticturerore determined t o res i st t h e claim to the utmost. This description of fibre is not only very much cheaper, but much more durable than hair. EASTERN Conwrm.—We fear the expenses of repoirs on the permanent way have been so great that the forthcoming There i d a taf this compally will be a ser i ous disappointment. s alk of submitting to the shareholders to put a large portion of the expenses to an account to be liquidated by annual instalments, spread over a period of perhaos tea or twelve years.—Herapath. THE 110P -PLANTERS' COMPANY. ---The Hop-planters' Joint Stock Company held their ninth annual meeting at the Mitre Hotel, Maidstone. The report referred t 3 the steady annual increase of the business of the company, and its present prosperous condition, and recommended that a dividend of 7 2 per cent. and a bonus of £2 per share should be declared payable, and that an addition should be' made to the reserved fu n d of a sum of £1,000; which recommendations were unanimously adopted. RAILWAY LIBRARY AND READING ROOMS.—A nansF Ninoterrthestwrinegsteexrcnurßsiaoilnwaoyf c th , e mp e a ni n p7ves of the Lond on alto; their families an d f r i ends, to the nl ,: m a t b C er a m of de a n b s ou a t tio ti r. o , o w p i e t l l . l :;: sons, took place, on Tuesday, to Windsor, the proc ee ds of which are to be devoted to the library in the Grange road, Haverstock hill, and the railway library of the North London line at Boxy, The train left the Camden station, under the management of Mr. D. Stevenson, the general superintendant of Camden station, at 940 a.m., and pro ceeded, via the North and South Junction Railway, into the loop line of the South Western Railway, and thence to Windsor, in which interesting and picturesque neighbour' hood the excursionists passed a deli g htf u l day, forgnttingo for the non ce , the noise of engi nes an d railway tracks, the creak, of. the Statec a ra p n a e r s tra a e n n d the ts,au b d us t t h l e e r o i f v b er us a i ff ne o s r s d . V afferded tion to the visitors. At ten minutes to e i g ht p.m. t 11:: train left Windsor, arriving at Ca m d en T own at a fe am irg p i le ni g a r N a Paters' r; minutes after nine o'clock. Th e tr i p and its two-fold object is highly creditable to the railway companies and theiC agents and managers, as also to Mr. Bayley, the actor( treasurer of the Literary Institution and Library.