The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-13 00:00:00

ilS t un t Lb& ~::~ , e \ir r at it t 50, opt ct 01 B ern re strl .: ' oP t I the , tD 3 c F O 4 iscAY- do ,Lre ci,,i beci . 10 ) gl .111 3 0 , - ,o eory a dof ;5- I) '' to Jett' P l 3 te° s oy ) de !1111. , 54 e 0 h a' fee -4 oo ard or , so it the t re eel-. Aden aOr , or" je 0 de 0 3 ele oo d is, ritg' 1 ' 1. ber d or° fis 41 .0 Dv 11 35 ti? rs t . c ttl et A lo l ui o e t °le re sP .ctie in i l t e le te a ct WY 1- A oulle t t i e " t oo; 1,5 Oen, fro ri ff O f Spi ° rit lirudence and of moderation which measures to which such van interests are attached must necessarily demand. have concluded a Convention of Commerce and ot ' Ismigation with his Majesty the King of Gre ece . Nego tiations have commenced with other States to place the • BtiPulations of treaties in harmony with the principles of oar new maritime system. d verify with satisfaction the - augmentation of the pro -11,;t8 in many branches of the public revenue. 11 - Project of law to make some modifications in our ,egislation relative to patent right . ..will be submitted to Your deliberations. bane e numerous changes which time and circumstances a . occasioned in the revenue relative to real property I t. an obstacle to the just assessment of the local imposts 1 toe provinces, the communes, and in particular places Pdew land valuations are indispensable, in order to re tablish a proportional equality in the application of this :P2st. To effect thi s o bj ec t a pro j ect o f l aw w il l b e pre 'n,sted to you by my government. -e rcpositions will be made to you to ameliorate i n a ,e,r t he inferior degree, and in a p ermanen t manner , th e condition inferior employes of the State. Co T he gradual revision of the Criminal Las; w ill t a k e i ts C Some articles of the second b'z,ok of the penal Wil be submitt e d f or your appr:.wal. maintenance of the inite in the dts of t end to to increase the ae na bts s of the :comm depots of men 4City tend to increase the abt of the communes. My ov±rnreent is engaged i n th e cons id erat i on of measures diminish those that object. charges. Measures will be proposed to with - , pr ' T Y Government attaches a special importance to the ,oet of law regarding the establishment de bienfaisance. n,.?Pe that it will be shortly discussed. 8 ,...u0r citizen militia have shown an eagerness on all occa ,ts to manifest the excellent spirit that animates them. e u_o the other side, the army has not ceased to merit all the tr,;!Patilies of the country. ;WalP waist searching investigations been ordered, m Eut ,, t h view of furnishing to my Government the ele to th e neec:ssary to be submitted to your consideration, as inv o i; e P- Tails best calculated to reconcile the great inte res t s aaati on in. the defence of the country with those of our vec to commerce' and our maritime metropolis. I teri , o "id the solution of these questions to y our c h arac - Stat e , P r atriot ism. g. eat work (of' public utility und er t a k en b y th e ivill be followed up with activity. h ave seen this y ear new roa d s o f commun i cation „rued. Many lines of railway, sections o f rou t es , an d - arials, have been opened for general traffic—thus .' ,`"'ending and completing (with ou t i n t errup ti on ) the corn ) . "Inication between the different:parts of Belgium. ~Gentlemen, the projects;rof law, the presentation of flr i nich is announced, and those which the Chamber has Z;f e ady in hand, give to the labours of the session now C e .ned a great importance. It is for you to render them ir‘:ouitful for the future of the country in giving to my rernment your loyal and active support._ t h ; ' - a" ; • • AUSTRIA. . t 4 VIENNA, Nov. 8. th e , telegraphic despatch, containing a summ ar y o f \. article in the M on it eur o f t h e 7t h i nst ; in l ' e , ll it is the que s ti on o f th e re l at i ons b etween of - Tared and F rance , h as part i ally calmed the fears 4,1 e Vienna moneyed world. tt t might reasonably be expected that Prussia, as e Ge rman Power, would be d es i ro u s to see t h e h ool plete freedom o f th e D anu b e secured, b ut her erital subse rv i enc y t o R uss i a makes her neglect duties to that fatherl an d w h ose i nterests she >G reases to have so m uc h a t h eart. T he 'e,t b • , al the D usse ld or f Z e i tung , an d all those pro eel/lei papers which are in more or l ess di rect hi l ltection with the Berlin " P ress B ureau ,' , I t tlY approve of the idea of a Russo-French of A tl i !! C f , "?, and the Leipzig Zeitung, Whiela is an organ th..' Non Beust, the Saxon Minister, follows on A r : .sanae side. The Kolnisehe Zeitung and the it id i . z "a/ Zeitung, on the contra/7, express their aqgoation at the ser- i ' l lity b e d declare that, of their cotemporaries, if. an alliance should be concluded tou n e ,pßus:::ia and Franc e , P russ i a wou ld b e teu e - c ,"' .", only in self-defence, t o ma k e common. to - "'fah England and Austria. "It is impossible el,:olleeive," says- the National Zeitung, " that ‘l l ',tts i .ia could side with Russia and France against l i ,h e " German' Austria, and against England, to 44 , 11 1 she is united by family and religious ties, p„..`i that in order to extend the power of the ;044Derers Alexander and Napoleon.' It excites l h.e little astonishment here that the present %%vocal conduct of Prussia has not yet et tra the ctecl the attention of the British press. For eri t ,• ll letbent the position o f A us t r i a i s extreme l y she Her Her allian ce w ith F rance i s greatly s h aken, 4" t i lardly knows how she stands with England, fri e „e new Concordat has deprived her of every tir, - ", she had in Germany. The Pope has itt l , l:l 'sed Austria the special protection of Heaven, 4 ~the faith in the efficacy of the prayers of His vo i , (3llll ess is ereat, but still the inhabitants of this . oir„ - , llt rY would have no objection to hear that an • eq h -g ,ive and defensive alliance was likely to be $ l , - , e ,'llcied between Austria. Prussia, the German v e ;,"`i , and England. The Bavarian Cabinet is , eil 'Y wrath with this Government for having made D a el l enormous concessions to Rome, because the Riv Pal chair now insists on " guarantees being th e e b h '' for the exact fulfilment of the conditions of be t ,,,.'avarian Concordat. Soon after the convention 11 0 " en Rome and Bavaria had been signed, a 031:ttl.rescript was published in " explanation of the 'of titltution," which completely neutralised . some lii Ett; e stipulations of the Concordat. If the info.r oe„;°,4 given be correct, the Papal Government is t,' Intriguing against M. von der Pfordten, the ce, , ,„„ : , . . bore""ari Minister-President, and endeavouring to tr n ' ll ade the King to repeal the obnoxious rescript • tit; r dinance above alluded to. It is related in 4111,0 ) ontane circles that a ve r y g enera l amnesty th e "e granted at Rome on the Bth of December, th e I ll oiversary of the day on which the doctrine of of th 111Inaculate Conception was declared to be one dogmas of th e R oman C at h ol i c church. I vard A ll-I ,e months si nce a d e t a il e d account was for ltetiohs'l r elative to the formation a n d th e s ph ere of sod ' ll , °f t ) :18 central and p r o v i nc i a l congrega ti ons , tfo t ,;te=o is now little more to be done than to tl) ' - , ' You that the Wiener Zeit ung o f thi s morn i ng tr4llnees that the central congregations for Lom. Th e Y Venice ha ve b een d e fi n iti ve l y const it ute d. ' lii ti :, Emperor has nominated 29 D e p u ti es fo r the V e h' ' Provinces" of Lombardy, and 4Z.5 for the eight he eti an provinces. The consultative functions of hdev ce ntral congregations extend-1. To the (.4 1 ' l istratio ns of the funds of the crown land ;1/ 11 ,; le ifoad.) 2. T o th e means o f ma ki ng th e °. 'l, - ' ll s of the crown la n d cover th e ex p en dit ure . iz e 9 th e d rawing up of the budget, and the fir,Ploation of the accounts relative to the revenue 'to the "of the crown land fund." 4. bie,i`.lte question as to whether the expenses of the til e e a dminstration are to be defrayed entirely by l 'lle e et elyn land fund. 5. To give an opinion re tiel,!, ~., , . I ll" an extraordinary outlay which may not be ;O.e, l ded for in the budget. 6. The central con , goirtion is entitled to give its opinion to the Stadt lt,llemyher on matters connected with the property of itiolit, -U nicipalities, and of those charitable institu- N t ' which are under the superintendence of the il l' e * 7 . The opinion of the central congregation is 5 to ts t o : be taken when the budget of the R o y a l c iti es "qo - tog drawn up. 8. It will be the duty of ZPe c entral congregation to see that the taxes 'N,? l ` ) divided that they shall not fall more 1 li,„.`Y On the one " province" than on the other. ,tNat ",long since the official Gazzetta di Foligno 11 1:11i„`I that Monsignore Giordini had made the i ,,lliN' r oads perfectly secure, and not more than 24 l 'at, hater two carriages containing an English i'llkr,ere stopped near Velletri. The travellers e "ti e .(l obed of everything they possessed, but not I:,'Pke; t d. The Gazzetta di Ferrara also recently 4, e ßat i l' e d on the improved state of things in that 1 1% ''n, but its triumph was premature, for a few k e lin . I .l n " e some travellers, who were escorted by ,I,,l 3 , 3 ulittles, were attacked by a powerful band of '''', ' 1 4 ,, ° te%',., A sharp skirmish ensued and the free ', 0 4 d 4 ` 1 ere obliged to retire, big. not until one ! e eee., / , l 'tile had been killed. The Gazzetta di . 1 \ 1 4 %2 E ,',; l earns from Rome that the Grand Duke ot I ) 4 llle has undertaken to mediate between I. A (1 Fle ." k tld the Western Powers, but it remains to I, ep„ ea Whether tt - zDt ti, the British Government will 1.1. 0 ' e Mediation of a Sovereign who has such The''r-,' bi a • %11, 3-__ .8 In favour of the King of Naples. ti i gieli r"nits lay claim to a great deal of property : t h:1 1 . 41 :1 1 ;T: i rl Y belonged tot a h s em the i i n r t i h n is flu c e it n y c , e an in d p they're .Y to recover it, Drop voLtr i. circles is unbounded. ' fli t etri,„t b le news from Paris led to a slight im 'rotti;eionni, 'Change to-day, but confidence is ~ t, restored. TURKEY. T i, li e _ hf , s „,,_ , . CONSTANTINOPLE, O t cr n . gl 3 a l. n . d c -4 th,, -11akatlon between France and _ t , t - revi di, i (4,1 3 , r , val. of their rival policy in Turkey, has 1, 1 , Pllte apoilt the chance of a settlement of the of t it ;,11.1,°1-1t Bolgrad and the Serpents' Island,. : „'. l le p !k(ewise daily complicated by the question tt-ttihfere nricipalities. On Tuesday last the first h oe, 4 f ee w as held for the discussion of the - Y ou ° I . the convocation of the Divans ad will remember the stroke of polieS THE L which the Turkish Government attempted, by communicating the draft first confidentially to the English and Austrian Ambassadors in order to gain their consent for the note explicative which was to have accompanied it. As you know, the representations of the French Am bassador were so strong in Consequence that the Ministry gave up the note explicative. But this was not enough. As might be expected, the French were by no means disposed to look favourably on a project which was brought forward under such circumstances, and at the first conference the French Ambassador came forward with a counter project, which was adopted by the majority of the Conference, but which, as is natural, will in its details find as much opposition as the former. While this skirmishing is going on in the private relations of the Western Powers at Constantinople, there is one great proof of a separation visible in broad daylight, and this is the presence of a con siderable English squadron, and the absence of the tricolor, except on the stern of the Ajaccio,.attached to the French Embassy, and the. Roland, which has retired deep into Beicos Bay awaiting the departure of Feruk Khan, the Persian Anibassador, to France. On the 28th inst., the term of six months fixed for the evacuation of Turkey had expired, and we were awakened by the sounds of a royal salute, with which the magnificent two-deckerCressy saluted the Golden Horn ; with her came in three other : steamers, the Desperate, Harpy, and the Supply, so that at the present moment the fleet consists of three line-of-battle ships, the Royal Albert, the Majestic, and the Cressy, the steam frigate Curacoa, the steam Corvette Vulture, three gunboats, and several . smaller steamers. The .Riissians have tried -to take advantage or this separation between the movements of France and England to ask the Turkish .Government to protest against the pre-' sence of the Ei'glish fleet, as contrary to the convention, but they failed in their attempt This attempt shows, however, that they think their time has come. The subject of difference between the policy of France and England in Turkey is a delicate one, but it would be useless to disguise any longer what everybody sees and oomments upon. On the con trary, publicity can only do good in this as in most cases. The differences are mostly of a trifling character in themselves, although the mischief which they do is immense. They could be removed at the present stage with the greatest ease, while if they are allowed to go on they will undermine the position of both the Western Powers in Turkey. I said it often, and I repeat it again, neither of the two separately will succeed in preventing Russia from encroaching, for they cannot be separated without being opposed to each other and wasting their strength iu defeating each other, while Russia has, besides this, always her geographical position in her favour, which ought not to be forgotten. The Russians have made another attempt to land at the Serpent's Island. They sent a steamer there to land provisions, water, and clothing for the seven men,. as well as different materials for the lighthouse. Captain Vansittart, of her Majesty's ship Magicienne, the superior officer in command of the station, went on board, and informed the Russian commander that he could not allow him to land, but that he was ready to take off in his boat the provisions and clothing, but -not the materials for the lighthouse, as the latter has been in a perfect state since the lath of the present month, displaying a splendid revolving light after the -best model, and with the latest improvements. He offered likewise to take the commanding officer with him on shore, and allow him to-communicate with his countrymen. While the conversation was carried on a boat pushed off from the Russian steamer towards the island, but was prevented from landing, and the Russian steamer departed re infecta, after having given over the provisions and clothing. NGVEMBER 3. It is a long established custom with foreign mi nisters to take advantage of some formal pretext to bring before the Sultan the suggestions which they have to make about political affairs. At the au diences in which Lord Redcliffe had to arrange the details of the ceremony of the investitur e o f the Sultan with the Order of the Garter, the conver sation naturally turned on the state of things in general, especially as the Sultan seemed more than usually inclined to approach that subject. He ex pressed his anxiety at seeing Redschid Pasha in power, and his disappointment at not being able to succeed. The consequence of this was a mediation of Lord Redcliffe, which led to several more inter views, but ended in the positive refusal of Redschid Pasha, unless his conditions were accepted. These negotiations naturally did not remain secret, and the oars of the ambassadorial caiques now played merrier on the waters of the Bosphorus, crossing and re-crossing each other. But it did not stop there,—the Austrian Enternuncio went to the French Ambassador, and expressed his indignation at the attempt of the British Ambassador to inter fere thus directly in the internal affairs of the country, and endeavoured to induce M..Thouvenel to join in a protest against it. The latter declined, and the Austrian Internuncio went alone to the Porte to assure the Ministers of his sup port, and thence to the Palace. He saw the Sultan, and after having expressed it as his conviction that no foreign influence should ever meddle with the internal affairs of Turkey, he ended, (not very logically, it appears) by saying he should think it his duty to protest if the ministry were changed. The assurances of the Sultan must have been very tranquilising, for the Austrian Embassy took a good deal of trouble to make it known that the crisis was over, and everything settled. And so it seemed, for the resignation of the ministers was not accepted. But the result proved that this interference was the very thing which at last decided the Sultan to kill two birds with one stone, and not only to obtain his long cherished wish to have Redschid Pasha in power, but likewise to show that he is still Sovereign and to punish the Austrian Internuneio for his bad logic. Three days passed without anybody having an idea of what was impending, when, suddenly, the very day of the investiture of the garter, Redschid Pasha, whose name is so connected with England, received peremptory orders to assume office. It was meant and taken as a demonstration. • As yet no changes have taken place in the Ministry itself, and it bill probably be some time before a Cabinet can be formed. The only mem ber whose dismissal Iledschid Pasha made an immediate conditiOn of his entering into power is the Shiek-ul Islam, who, acting as Minister of Justice, has succeeded in three years in corrupt.: ing the judicial. body of the whole Empire, thus lowering the administration of justice in the eyes of the people. The investiture went off very satisfactorily. The Sultan sent two masters of ceremony and several Court carriages, in which the insignia, exhibited on red velvet cushions, and carried by the different members of the Embassy and the heralds, were placed, the Ambassador and Garter King•at-Arms having taken up the principal carriage. Lord Lyons, Sir Henry Bulwer, and several others who had been invited, followed in the remaining car riages as far as there was room, the rest (mainly officers) rode on horseback. The Ambassador held an allocution, which was translated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and then the statutes of the order were read. The insignia were after this handed over, a com promise was made between the etiquette which forbids to touch the person of the Sultan and the customs of the investiture, according to which the new member must be literally invested, so all the insignia were handed. to the Sultan with the exception of the riband with the St. George, which the Ambassador placed over the Sultan's shoulder, and the garter with which he touched the Sultan's knee. The Sultan seemed to take great interest in the heralds, or rather in their costumes, which he examined with great interest after the ceremony. PRUSSIA AND NEUFCHAIEL. The 'resolutions adopted by the Germanic Diet in reference to the Neufchatel affair were couched in the follo w i ng t erms : 1. To adh ere to t h e principles expressed in the Protocol of L on d on o f t h e 2 4t h o f M a y, 1852, regu lating the position of the Principality of Neufcha tel. "2. To request the German Governments having diplomatic agents acredited to the Helvetic Con federation, to support, in the name of the entire Germanic Confederation, in setting at liberty, as demanded by the Prussian Government, of the Neufohatelese arrested. in September, and urging XORTHERN TIMES.---T,IVERPOOL, THURSDAY. the considerations enounced in the report of the Committee; and upholding to the Swiss Govern ment, with all possible emphasis, the steps that may be taken for that purpose by the government of Prussia." These resnlutions are to be immediately com municated officially to the Swiss Feeeral Govern inent by the German representatives accredited to Berne. THE AUSTRIANS IN THE PRINCIPALITIES. The Moniteur deT Armed has the following :—" A letter from Bucharest of the 25tli states that the Austrian Government has just confirmed Lieut. General de Mittziani in the command of the Imperial troops for the time they have to remain in the Principalities. He will have, as before, under his orders, General de Gablentz, who has his head quarters at Jassy. The points where the Austrians have garrisons are--in Wallachia: Bucharest, Ter govist,lbrail, Giurgevo, Kraiova, and Kalafat—and in Moldavia : Jassy, Husch. Galatz, and Dhorogola. In the early part of October, detachments were sent from other points to Ismail, Reni, and Kilia. Since the departure of General Coronini in July last, the effective strength of the corps of occupa tion has not been increased, but frequent move ments of troops have taken place in consequence Of ifs being necessary to lighten the burden on the people, whose resources are very restricted. It was these movements which gave rise to the reports of the army having been reinforced by fresh arrivals of troops. FEARFUL STATE OF AFFAIRS AT NATAL The papers to the 29th August, which have come to hand, dwell on the uneasiness felt at the rapid increase of. the Kaffir population in the colony, and speak of public indignation as kept alive by the repeated Kaffir outrages on young children and women. The Natal Mercury, •of August 29, contains a report of no less than three such cases, and laments the dangers to which European society is exposed by its position in contact with a mass of polluting and brutish bkr; barisrn. The Mercury is goaded to exclaim that " The nonsense of equal laws and equal justice for blacks and whites must be discarded, if either class is to live peaceably in Natal; ". . and then adds :—'‘ We learn that another outrage has been committed on an infant daughter of a respectable inhabitant of this town. This diabolical species of crime (we beg the devil's pardon, he never. sunk so low) has suddenly grown to so fright ful an extent, that unless something is done at once, and - resolUtely, to stop' it, there will . be a rising en masse, a war of extermination, on the part of the whites against the blacks. Our human blood will boil over if this lower deep than hell' of crime is not purged with a torrent of its own brutal blood. Yet we hear a question of law being raised as to the admissibility of the evidencethe artless confessions—of the little ones, the victims and only witnesses of the outrages.., PerisW we say, the law and its administrators, if such a miserable quibbling, inhuman doubt prevail. In • that case, Judge Lynch shall be quickly installed in the prostituted seat of .Justice, and the people will be •' a law unto themselves.' But we are per suaded better things of our law and its adminis tration, though we thus write!" A number of hon ourable men organised themselves on the 19th of August as the Natal Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Hodgkin, the honorary secretary of the Aborigines Protection Society, has replied to the above statements of the Natal press. He says :—" Whatever may be the vices of the Kaffirs, there has been in the relations between them and the whites, as regards the treatment of the females of the one race by the men of the other, an overwhelmning balance of evil on the side of the whites." Mr. Hodgkin, in support ,of the above, cites the opinion of several gentlemen, long resident in the colony, and concludes his •defence of the Kaffir tribes thus :—" I have no doubt of there being a large number of unoffending and virtuous colonists in Natal, as elsewhere, whose protection in person and property is, with goof reason, called for; but this protection may be much better, and more effectually given by good laws, fairly applied to persons of all colours, than by subjecting the natives to Lynch law and corn mand." THE OVERLAND MAIL. TRIESTE, Nov. 11.—The steamer Calcutta arrived here early this morning from Alexandria, hiving left that port on the sth inst. The India mail was to leave Alexandria on the 6th, with advices of the following dates, viz. Calcutta, Oct. 9 ; Bombay, 17th; Madras, 16th; Ceylon, 16th. The prepara. tions for the expedition to the Persian Gulf were continued on a large scale. A detachment from the army before Herat. bad seized the Afghan city of Furrath, and sent the governor a prisoner to Teheran.. Advices had been received from Cabul to the Ist of October. They represent Herat as still holdinvout. The Directors of the Great In dian Peninsular Railway have issued an advertise meat for tenders for a line from Wassma to Nagpore, a distance of 487 miles. The native troops at Peshawur were suffering much from fever. 1- xehange at Bombay, 2s ld 11-16ths, with an easy money market. The new governmentloan was making very little progress. Prices in the import market were steady. The Calcutta market has been subject to very little change. Exchange, is Hid to 2s O'd. The statements of Indian revenues and charges, with the cash balances in the Treasuries, will henceforth be published quarterly and annually. CAUTION TO HOUSEKEEPERS.—.The Rev. William Francis Taylor was summoned before Mr. Mansfield, yesterday, on a charge preferred by officer 269, who said he saw the servant of the defendant out on the sill of the window, cleaning the glass; it was contrary to the bye-law, as well as dangerous. The rev. gentleman, of course, was not cognizant of the act of his servant, but he was fined 55., as the law is imperative. SOUTHERN AND TOXTRTH HOSPITAL.—WEEICLY REPORT, Nov. 11th, 186.—1 n Patients: Discharged—Cured, 15; relieved, 2; at own request, 0; irregular, 0; dead, 1; entered, 16; under treatment, b 5. Out patients: cured, 52 ; entered, 39 ; under treatment, 43. Treasurer, James Houghton, Esq. Visitors, T. Houghton, Esq., and B. Platt, Esq. Honorary chaplain, Rev. D. T. Barry, B.A. Physicians and surgeons for the week, Dr. Cameron, and Dr. Petrie. House surgeons, Mr. Edward C. Garland, and Mr. William Townsend. SUDDEN AND ACCIDENTAL DEATHS.--Eliza Kelly, the daughter of a soldier who was killed before Sebastopol, died in the Northern Hospital yesterday. The girl was eight years old, and lived at 27, Blenheim street; and on the 3rd instant, her clothes caught fire and burned her so severely th it she died in consequence. The child's mother had just received a medal with three clasps, sent to her as a reward for the services of her husband. Mrs. Roberts,. of 8 George's street, was found dead in bed yesterday. IMPJIITANT QUESTION.—Mr. Dawson, described as a surgeon, was summoned for driving his vehicle by George's Church, on Sunday, between three and four, o'clock, during divine service, contrary to orders issued by the Mayor. Mr. Mansfield said he had no evidence that the Mayor had issued such orders, and he dismissed the complaint. There were two other charges of a similar description, but of course they were dismissed. [Has the Mayor any such right, as to give orders to stop up a thoroughfare??] A scientific expedition, including several eminent Ame ricans, is now on the way from the United States to South America, its object being to make a thorough exploration of the fauna, flora, and geographical peculiarities of, New Granada, the Magdalena, and the country round the head waters of the Amazon then following the course of that river to the Atlantic. This country has not been traversed by any scientific investigator since the exploration of Humbolt, fifiy years ago. The undertaking originated with some gentlemen of lowa, and is independent of government support.—The Lancet. THURSDAY EVENING LECTURES IN ITOPE gives us pleasure to call attention to the fifth of these inte resting lectures, Which takes place this evening. The lecturer is the Rev. James Julius Wood, D.D., of Dumfries. The subject of his dissertation is The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The Edict of Nantes marks an important epoch in the history of France. It was an act of Henry IV., i o t f t t h h e a y t w k i e n r g e d p o u m t n favourin pnss ess i o n f n h i ofs Protesta ntfull r e ligi n a n u s b j t e n c l e t s. toleration, t o B n y , and of several important civil privileges. This just edict, after proving most auspicious to the trade of the kingdom, was finally repealed by Louis XIV. Disastrous were the consequences which ensued from the revocation ;—persecu tion, even to death, befell the staunch Protestant; the trade of the country was,ruined, and thousands of the most loyal, intelligent, and industrious subjects—leaving their fatherland—sought safety, religious toleration, and civil liberty in other countries. Great was the advantage which those nations derived from the persecuted refugees, to whom they afforded an asylum. Their eminent knowledge, skill, and industry in the useful arts, proved a rich reward to Britain and the other countries who welcomed them to a peaceful settlement within their confines. THE RELATIONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.-THEIR COMMON DESTINY AND DUTY. Last night, the first of a series of leeture2, in connection with the Tuckerman Institute, was delivered in the Chapel of the Demi',lie Mission, Bedford-street, by the Rer. 'VT. H. Chauning. The subject of his discourse was " The Itelatiuns of Great Britain and the United States of America—their common destiny and duty." In opening the lecture, The Rev, gentleman said :—As an American born and bred, and as an Englishman by courtesy, kindness, and the duties of an office, I feel special obligation to the Chief Minister of Great Britain, when, during his late visit to Liverpool, he used this phrase—" You have connected, by safe and speedy modes of intercourse, I will not say two nations, but two branches of one great nation, living on both sides of the Atlantic." It is in that spirit that I would speak to you to night. I feel it deeply that the tie between Great Britain and the United States is one of common international life. I feel that Providence designed this island to be related affectionately to the colonies which she has sent abroad from her fertile bosom, and that it is a breach in the natural and divine laws whenever anything occurs to break that life ; and I believe that I am the representative of a vast majority of my countrymen, when I say that the most earnest desire that we have politically beyond the borders of our land, where our special duties are assigned us, is for this close affiliation, this perfect fraternity , this identity of interests, this recognition of a common destiny and duty with Great Britain. I shall take it for granted that those who listen to me to-night have something of a reciprocal spirit—(hear, hear)—that you feel as the Prime Minister of England declared, that there is an intercommunion of national life on both sides of the Atlantic. And now, to justify, in some respects, this view, I have, in the first place, to recall to your memories what we all so well know, that in blood,' in organisation, those people on each side of the Atlantic are one. The same wonderful interblending of many races, to produce a race which, I believe, has more marked and varied characteristics thatt any other race on the face of the earth, belongs to us as to you. Next, there is the unity of language and literature. I weigh my words carefully, when I say I believe there is no language on the face of the earth as rich as is the English tongue. (Applause.) There may be others which, to the ear, sound more musical, but I believe that, for eisergy of meaning and expression, for richness and fertility of allusion, for adaptation to all varied uses—practical, ideal, spiritual, philosophic, poetic—there is no language so well adapted as the English tongue. We do not acknowledge that the English literature is any more yours than ours. All the early literature of this nation flowed into the minds of our ancestors to enrich them. • They were heirs of that inex plassably rich deposit of the Elizabethan age. The great poets, the great philosophers, the great politicians of that time are ours as they are yours. Shalrespere—is he not a household guest in the humblest cottage in the far western land ? Milton —is he not read by every one who seeks to cultivate a high toned morality ? I 'assert, also, that by sympathy and close intercommunion, all that is best in the literature of Great Britain in modern times is also ours, and I trust that you are reciprocal in that respect, and that what is best in our literature is also yours. I wish, too, to unfold before you the thought that we are one with you in laws acid the forms which guide and govern the b .dy politic. The rev. leCturer then argued that, like England, one of the characteristics of America was a love of freedom and order— of -liberty and law, and that it was a great mistake to suppose that the United States were a democracy after the ancient types of democracy. Democracy, as representing a Government springing from the .presant will of the people, never was the thought of the United States—is not the thought of the United States—and be dared put it, never would be the thought of the United States. The thought of the United States had always been, was now, and always would be, that of a republic. 'What was the distinction ? Precisely this—loyalty to the constitutionally embodied will and thoughts of the people. From first to last, the peculiarity of the United States had been loyalty to constitutions—the same peculiarity which had distinguished England in all its struggles for its great charters. In a word, there was no people on the nee of the earth, he asserted, who showed more reverence to constitutional law than the people of the United States, and in that respect they were truly one with the nation from which they, had sprung; for the characteristic of this people every where was loyalty to constitutions. He then replied to recent criticisms as to the deterioration of politics in the United States, and denied that such was th e case . Th e best men of America, it was true, were not in its House of Representatives, though prepared to come forward at any crisis; but, then, were the best men of this country in the House of Commons ? He answered no ; but admitted that its deliberations were influenced and prompted by the thoughts of men outside its wails. He then referred to the identity of the two peoples, in industry, commerce, the mechanical arts, railroads, telegraphic communication, &c. Turtling from these, he called their attention to a higher class of facts—those concerning the education of the people. The education of the people, he declared, was an English idea. It was brought by their pilgrim fathers, and the very first work to which they devoted themselves was laying out ground for the schools and universities, for they foresaw, that only a people who were thoroughly trained, could be fit to conduct the Government which there was to be organised. It was absolute necessity, but it was also an honourable purpose that they should be fitted for that trust. The rev. lecturer here quoted from the census of 18511, to show the extent of education throughout the United States, and the care which the Government there took to provide the people with schools, lyceums, public ' libraries, and all the other means of enlightenment. He dwelt on the number and circulation of newspapers through out the States, and declaring that in America a free Press was regarded as the very soul of a healthy body politic, expressed his jay at the offer's and 'progress that were being made to free the press from all shackles: . He urgel that the spirit of religion in America was the same as that which prevailed in England, and, having shown that the two nations were one in all the great principles of life, asked if it was not evidently the design of God that they should be so? Would it not be a violation against the deepest laws of life, and against the purpose of Providence everywhere, if nations like these should be arrayed against one another ? Looking forward to the future, and foreseeing what might come to pass in Europe, and the New World, how should not every one who loved his race, pray that they should be one in their inmost anti utmost life ? God grant it. (Applause) He could not believe that they had yet begun to see what was the destiny that they were - to accomplish together: ([Lear, hear, and applause.) Let them look at it. Was itby accident that they had scattered their colonies the world round'? Was it by accident that their combined fleets now whitened every sea ? Was it by accident that they were at this - very moment combining plans whereby this earth would be girded by telegraphic communication ? There was no accident in that. It was the plain appointment of Provi dence, and shame to both if they yielded to any hindrance, to any check which could interfere between the accomplish ment of that sublime and glorious destiny which awaited them. (Applause.) He would allude to the only true dangers that he knew of in the United States, that could prevent them fulfilling. that destiny—they were the influence of a vast foreign immigrati in, and the influence of domestic servitude. And first, in regard to the danger arising from foreign immigration, was the Anglo Saxon race in America strong enough to assimilate to it the various elements that were placed by it ? He answered yes, they were strong enough. Here was the proof of it. It was a remarkable fact how all races became transformed and amalgamated with the States as they entered there. Hero people spoke with great fear, oftentimes with disparagement of their immediate neighbours of the Celtic race across the channel. Ho would tell them what their experience in America of their Irish brethren was. They found that their Irish brethren, in America, became, in a period of time very short, considering the transformation, not industrious and energetic, for that they always were, bat they became thrifty—they became desirous of elevating their condition—they became earnest for the education and improvement of their children, and they became devoted to the land of which they had been admitted members. They became capable of self-government, and. in a word, were invaluable elements of the .nation. So, also, with the Germans, the Swedes, the Italians, and all the other races which entered the Union. • With regard to the second danger—slavery—the reverend gentleman repeated the views to which ,he gave utterance last year on this subject. The problem was not to be solved, he declared, by dividing the Union into a servile band of republics, end a free band of republics. That would be to avoid the solution of the problem, and would be falsehood to duty on all sides. Neither would it be solved by one conquering the other, but it would be solved by both co operating for the removal of that great evil which prevented them from being what God designed theta to be, and what humanity summoned them to be—a republic of united free men. It would be done by the common action of north and south, by a common sacrifice, and by common consent ; and, he dared to predict; that would be the method that would be followed. In conclusion, the reverend lecturer earnestly and most eloquently bespught the people of this country to look with sym pathy on their race in America working out . these hard problems, and nobly exhorted them, in the event of America failing in the solution, not to lose faith in the principle of reaublicanism. He begged of them to cease the spirit of negative criticism which was recently indulged in towards America and her institutions, declaring that, in the Central American dispute, the United States were right, and that the difference would uever have arisen had E cr n h g e l a nd a rev, g e greater a gentleman re s u m m o e r d e h d i e s s e s r e v a i t n g amid trus e t applause.) uithnustihaestmic. THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES.—A blue book of 140 pages has been published, containing further papers relative to the alterations in the constitution of the Australian colonies in continuation of papers presented in April and May, 1855. The dates of the papers extend from February, 1855, to the 20th July, 1855. . -....r-----<~... THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. Yesterday Mr. Cyrus W. Feld, Vice-President of the New York, Newfoundland, and London Telegraph Com pany; Mr. John W. Brett, one of the projectors of the Submarine Communication; Mr. Bright, of the Magnetic Telegraph Company, and other gentlefeen, attended at the Underwriters' Rooms, for the purpose of explaining the arrangements of the projected line of Submarine Telegraph between Newfoundland and Ireland, under the auspices of the company already mentioned. A very large assemblage gathered around, for the purpose of hearing the explana tion. Mr, Field said that, before th e commerc i a l men o f the great commercial eentee of areat Britain, he did not think it was necessary to expend one montent in attempting to con vince them of the vast importance of connecting the eastern and western worlds by an electric telegraph. All they wanted to know, he felt sure, was whether it could be dont If it could be done—if it was in the power of human beings to accomplish the object—he was sure it would receive their supnort. The telegraph had been now completed from St. John's, Newfoundland, to the telegraph station of British North America, extending all over the latter regions and the United States—more than 242,000 miles of wire. in fturope the telegraphic communication was fully completed to the west coast of Ireland. There was now only wanting the single line of 1,640 nautical miles, or 1,900 statute miles, to bring into instant communication with each wher every prin cipal commercial town of Europe and of A merica. Now, was it possible to connect these two lines ? In the first place, they would probably ask would a cable lie at the bettor!' of the Atlantic ocean ? He bad there a profile of the Atlantic ocean from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Valencia, on the west coast of Ireland, made by tlee order of the United States Government. At his instarcs, that government ordered toe United States steamer Arctic to be fitted out to make the soundings. This was d ate in the most perfect manner, and he had there the chart given him by the com mander of that vessel. (Mr. Field hero produced and explained the chart.) The deepest point between the two coasts was 2,070 fathoms, and that point was within thir teen miles of the centre. Now, it w,,s proposed to have two vessels to lay the cable. These vessels should precee I together, each having half of the cable o n ho a rd, t o some point mi:fway across the Atlantic, and then, having carefully connected the ends of the wire together, and having tele graphed from one to the other, then the vessels, haviag each an :end on board, should sail—the one for Newfound land, and the other for Ireland. They expected to have all the cable submerged between Monday morning and Saturday night—they would not violate the Sabbath for it. Now, be would show them the simple cable, and if any one could find fault with it, he should be happy to hear what could be said. (Mr. Field here produced two specimens of cable sheathed in wire, twistel with the most perfect and minute workmanship. The thicker cable, which is only to be used in shallower water, where vessels anchor, was about an inch and a quarter in diameter ; the smaller, to be laid in the deep ocean, was about three quarters of an inch.) Perhaps some of the gentlemen- present might fear that such a cable, at the bottom of the ocean, would get worn away by rocks, or something else. Between New foundland and the West Coast of Ireland, they would Pee that, in taking soundings for the chart, not a single rock was found. The bottom was brought up at every single sounding, and it could be shown to them that there were no rocks at the bottom sufficient to chafe even that slight cable. The bottom, all the way across, was composed of shells, brought by the Gulf Stream from the south. When that stream met the current of the Arctic Ocean, the shells were sunk to the bottom, and rested, An examination, by the aid of a powerful microscope, proved that they were nothing but shells. A gentleman asked if the wire was a galvanised one ? Mr. Field said it was not galvanised. They would have a preparation round it, but they did not care if it came off one minute after it was lai I down. The cable had been submitted to the best engineers of England and of America, and he had never yet found any person to express a doubt that it was perfectly practicable to lay a wire down between Newfoundland and Ireland. He never yet found a captain of a vessel who was not confident that be could do it in any steamer large enough to carry the cable. Now, the question was, when they had accomplished that, would it bring the shareholders a revenue ? The cable was capa ble of transmitting, in twenty-four hours, 14,700 words. He left it to them to say what would be a reasonable price for words for a message between Americt and England, and what would he the amount of business to be done by the cable when laid. They shou'd remember that, at present, if they wished to communicate with New Orleans, and write a letter that day, they could not have an anwer back under forty days. When the cable wont l be laid down, a communication from here to New Orleans would arrive there about six hours sooner than they sent it. (Laugh ter.) That was owing, of course, to the difference of time. All the 'lnsie ess transactions of Liverpool, up to the time when the Liverpool merchants went home in the afternoon, the merchants of New York would receive on art iving at their places of business—the difference of time between London and New York being four hours and forty-eight minutes. The New York merchants could then transact their business after they knew what had been done in Liverpool, and Liverpool merchants would have their replies back in the morning. The cable could be manufactured and laid down for an expense of £350,000. They hoped there would be I even a saving in that. The persons who took an interest in I the enterprise, would not be charged one farthing for pres I liminary expenses up to the rresent moment, although I years had been spent upon it. It was at one time expected that the New York, Newfoundland, and London Company would have extendedtheirVires from New Yorkto the coast of I Ireland, They had completed 1,710 miles, of which almost 1 1,100 miles were in a straight line to Europe. But it was pro- 1 posed, by Persons who had spent much time and thought upon the subject, that, as it was an enternrise to cross the Atlantic, it should be composed of Englishmen and Americans. It was an enterprise in which the whole world felt an interest. The company to which he belonged readily realised that view, and agreed that a company should be formed, to' be called the Atlantic Telegraph Company, to connect the west coast of Ireland with the eastern shores of Newfoundland. The expense of maintaining the cable, after it was laid down, would be, as they could judge for themselves, comparatively nothing. If they kept the cable employed every moment of the twenty-four hours, the additional expense would be nothing more than the keeping a_proper staff and offices at the two ends; and he honed that, before long, so many messages would he seat that the price could be reduced. He hoped the cable would be kept employed every moment, and that in another year a demand would be made upon the directors to lay down another Cable. There were present other gentlemen also interested I in the enterprise. Mr. Brett was there, who had laid down the first submarine telegraph, and it' they wished to hear him no doubt he would be ready to make some remark.. 1 Mr. Brett said he was sure his friend Mr. Field had so 1 ably explained the objects and the purport of the enterprise, that it was not necessary for him to add one word to con vince the meeting of its great' value. Mr. Field had spoken to them of the nalure of the cable, and it might be interest ing to some gentleman to hear something upon that point, looking at the slender thing which was ,to tie together America and England. In that very town, during the early part of the submarine telegraph enterprise, some eight or nine years ago, he had a very re markable confirmation of the advantage of the oxydis ing of the cable, and of its forming rather a protec tion than otherwise. It was in the shop of Mr. Mayer, a man very much respected in this town, and whose great antiquarian and other valuable knowledge, gave him a world-wide reputation, that he saw an anchor which had been found somewhere in the neighbourhood. The oxide of the iron had attracted a mass of concrete, almost solid brachia, around it. lie recollected, also, seeing a cable, by the oxide passing from it, literally covered with a miss of stone. Now, supposing this cord to be indestructible from salt water, and supposing it to lie safely at the bottom, where they were assured the bed was soft and level, he believed, after it had rusted for a considerable time, it would attract all the lime and shells of the bottom, and form one solid mass of concrete, which would be a protection to it for, one might say very safely, a hundred years. He had heard one of their most clever sub marine scientific men asked, when he had last tested the cable between Dover and Calais, whether it was likely to last, and the answer given, seriously and solemnly, was that he had tested it a week before, and he saw no reason to doubt that it would last 100 years. There was, then, every pro bability that the rust of the outer covering would enable that little cord to lie for 100 years. The cables between Dover and Calais, and Dover and Ostend, were as good that day as when first they were laid down ; and the two in the Mediterranean never required one single sixpence outlay. The expense of making the cable was not considerable when they recollected that, for each mile, about 120 miles of wire had to be worked up for the outer covering, and that the central cord was composed of seven copper wires twisted into one. Everything had been thought of to render it a perfect thing for the' purpose. He believed he might venture to say that nothing so perfect had hitherto been introduced. It had been ;hewn upon all sides, to ascer tain if any objection could be brought against it ; and he believed that even those who had the greatest objections to the scheme at first, could see none to it, They had, therefore, everything to hope. By th% energy of Mr. Field and others, on Monday, before they left London, ;they had assured themselves, by the con tractors, that the work would be done ; and he had great I confidence that next summer they would have a communi cation between Europe and America. It would be, undoubtedly, the greatest workeever accomplished in so short a time. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Charles Bright, at the request of Mr. Field, reed an article from the Times, of yesterday, strongly advocating the project. Mr. Bright added, that recent experiments had been carried on, in which they spoke distinctly through a length of 2,000 miles. He said that he would stake his whole reputation upon the electric working of the Atlantic line being perfect in every respect. Mr. Field stated, in answer to a question, that there was no difficulty in splicing the ends of the cables—that they had done so frequently, and could even make the m stro ng er at the juncti on than anywhere else. lie mentioned that the English Government, as well as the American, took the greatest interest in the scheme. The English Government, at his request, at once ordered a vessel to be fitted out to _ make further soundings, to ascertain the best possible point for laying the cable. The American Government sent out the Artie, without any cost to the company. The English Government were going to do the same, and were going to de still further —but they should not count their chickens before they were hatched. (Laughter.) • Mr. Charles B. Wright observed that it should also he borne in mind that, at dangerous parts, or where vessels anchored, the cable laid would be of the larger size. Mr. Titterington asked, how it was intended to over corns the currents on the coast of Newfoundland ? Mr. Field replied, that the current, which had its rise in the Gulf of Mexico, and flowed northward as far as the Banks of Newfoundland, washed the eastern shores of the United States willa great force; and that the precipitous hollows existing in its course, would render a route to the south of the banks impracticable for telegraphic purposes. They had, however, carried a cable across the Gulf of St. Lawrence, despite of equally strong currents. • Mr. E. Heath did not doubt but that there were means by which that difficulty could be met, but there was another danger with which he would wish to know how they meant to deal. In the spring of the year numerous icebergs were washed down.on the banks, and, not unfrequently, many Of these took the ground and swept the banks. Mr. Field replied, that they avoided that danger by keeping to the north of the banks of Newfoundland. The current swept to the south, and carried the icebergs along the edge of the banks. They, however, avoided any danger from that circumstance, by going tb the north of the banks, and by layieg the cable in a depth of never less than 200 fathoms, until it was sheltered by the bay. He intended fully to deal with the point in a pamphlet, which he had in the press, and which would be published in London in a few days, showing all the. accidents that had arisen from ice bergs since 1785. Mr. Field then continued to say, that the Gavernmante of England and America had given the coma pany all the protection they could. The Colonid Legisla tere of Newfmndlancl conferred upon the company, in a d lai n to important privileges of grants of land and subsidy, the sole a , ,;1 exclusive right of landing a telmraphic line on the shoredtheir jurisdiction, comp r i s i n g, hi addition to tbo3e of Newi e undland, the whole Atlantiti coast of Labrador, from the entraace of Hudson's Straits td the Straits of Belle Tale, for fifty venni.... the only seaboird eligible for the terminus of a European and American cable. That grant the English Government confirmed, go that, in every respect, the company was fully protected. Mr. Brett observed that the probability of the btealring of the cable bad been referred to, and that he tnizhti thdea fore, be expected. to say a few words on tad subjepi: (Hear, hear.) It was said that the cable in the 131a6: Sea had broken.; but it should be understood, that it was off? which should never have been laid down. He .had bad nothing to do with it, nor did he think that the parties who had were to blame. It bad been laid down to serve the purposes of the war, and with the foreknowledge that it could not last for any time. It was nothing more than a gutta percha covered wire, very little larger thin a quarter of an inch in diameter, and his surprise was, not that it had broken, b u t that it had lasted so lon g . I t lasted nearly twelve months, but he would not have expected it to have lasted more than three months. In the laying of the Mediterranean cable, a difficulty was occasioned by the French commander mistak ing his latitude for two successive days, and running west ward to get south. They found the bottom like the Alps— now they got as it were, on the top of a mountain, and then at once descended to its base ; the depth changing almost immediately from one mile to two miles. The reverse was the case with the Atlantic. The bottom piedented an almost even surface, and the diffic u lti es were not greater than those of even the shortcut A gentleman asked—lf the Calais cable broke, why shctl4 not the Atlantic cable break ? Mr. Brett replied that the Calais cable never broke. There was a line laid down, he might say very much in opposition to his wishes, by the engineer, simply of gutta percha. It was an experimental line—the feeling at the time being that they could not sink a telegraphic cable. The wire, however, was run across, and he (Hr. Brett,) printed the first message that was telegraphed from this country to the continent. It lasted during a week, and would have continued to last, had not a fisherman on the English coast fished it up, and cut it to clear his hooks, An - iron covered cable was then taken across, and had never failed from that day to the present. The average depth in which it is sunk, was only thirty fathoms ; and though he had seen upwards of forty vessels anchored over it in shallow water, and had trembled for its safety, yet not one had ever yet interferred with ir. (Hear, hear ) Mr. E. Heath, in moving the thanks of the meeting to' the gentlemen who attended ou behalf of the company, said; that they could not allow those :4entlernen to depart without, thanking them for the kindness with which they bad' explained this great enterprise. (Hear, hear.) An enter prise which was pregnant with the largest results—nation ally, morally, and commercially, He would not go into the commercial aspect of the enterprise, bee iuse, on that, each gentleman present would form his own judgment; but be should say, that it deserved their admiration, when they looked on it as the means of connecting the two continents of Europe and America. (Hear, hear.) The results which had been arrived at, in regard to the soundings of the Atlantic, astonished him. As one who had often crossed the Atlantic, he had believed the thing to be altogether im possible, and that the depths were far greater than they turned out to be. They should approve, as well as admire, the manliness and candour with which the gentlemen, who attended on behalf of the promoters of the company, had explained all the circumstances connected with it, and answered the questions put to them touching the matter. (Hear, hear.) Mader these circumstances, be begged to move that the thanks of the meeting be given to them—a motion which, he was sure, would be unanimously as sented to. (Hear, hear.) The motion was carried by acclamati on; a ft er w hi c h t b 3 assembly broke up. - THE GAZETTE. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED . —Spence Brothers, Liverpool' produca brokers—Hindle, Moore and Co. Old Accrington. engravers, as far as regards S. Satcliffe—Ridge and Moss, Bolton-le-Moors, clothiers—J. Livesev and J. Carruthers, Wigan, grocers—P. Spence and H. Dixon, Pendleton and e lsewhere, alum manufacturers. BANKRUPTCY ANNIILLED.—Joseph Barnsley, Regis, Staffordshire, publican, and Newtown, Worcestershire, tube maker. BANBRUPTCY.—James Barlow, Bolton-le-Moors, Lanca shire, painter.—Abraham Lazarus, Whitechapel, London, tailor.—James and Bartholomew Dellagana, Clerkenwell, London, stereotype founders._Thomas Prebble, Ramsgate, plumber—Benjamin Collins, Tipton, Staffordshire, boat builder—William Robert Lewis, Birmingbam, baby-linen dealer—Robert and George Marston, Leicester, manufac turers of hosiery—John Rerun Mason, Blaydou, Durham glass bottle maker. DIVIDENDS.—Dec. 2. C. Harrison, Liverpool, wine merchant.—Dec. 2. J. Crippin and W. R. Forster, Rock Ferry and Liverpool, ferry proprietors.—Dec. 3. J. Mar land,jun., Todmorton, roller.maker. MONEY REMITTANCES BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.--To afford facility to the public for the rapid remittance of sums of money, the Electric and International Telegraph Company have organised a branch of their establishment for that purpose. Money deposited with the company will be advised by telegraph order, and be paid to the parties printed in the order, in accordance with the conditions named in the company's forms. The towns between which remittances can now be made are :—" From London to Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle upon Tyne; from . Birmingham, Bristol, Dublin ' Edinburgh, Exeter, Glas gow, Hull, Leeds, Lverpool, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Plymouth, PJrtsmouth, Sunderland, and York, to London. By order, J. S. Fourdrinier, Secretary." Thus, by a sort of natural necessity, the new " Murcury," the switt " Messenger," while he holds in one hand the magical transporting wand, in the other he grasps the purse. These money remittances by telegraph are, doubt less, the beginnings of a great system which is likely to to supersede post office remittances—we trust with safety equal to its swiftness.—Builder. SINGULAR DUEL—LADIES PRESENT.—We learn by a letter from Memphis, of the 16th inst., that a duel was fought in the vicinity of that city on the day previous. It seems that on the late trip of theNorthStarc4fir.o Orleans to this place, two of the passengers, Burgthae, from Philadelphia, C m h l e e w s and Major Rie g l er , o f Boston, who bad been so Ith on an electioneering tour, a nd were old friends, havi ng b oth se r ved in the European ' armies, got into a very warm discussion, the one defending Democra c y and the othr Republicanism, which resulted in offensive language of a personal character against Burgthae. In the presence of so many passengers the colonel felt it incumbent on him to demand a retraction of the insulti ng matter, which b ein g denied a chall enge and acceptance to fight were soon Two settled upon , Hungaria n officers, named S. SzalaY. and T. Shultez, lately in the service of Wal ker at Nicara gua, who wer e passengers on the boat, volunteered as seconds. Pistols and fifteen paces were the terms pro posed ; but strange to say, the seconds, the master of the boat, and all the passe ngers, including many ladies, opposed the proposition, and contended that the fight should be had with swords. The Hungarians offered their sabres, an d the next day, on reachin g M emp hi s, the parties landed, and procuring the attendance of a Dr. Hill, also a passenger on the boat, proceeded to some ground adjOirliDg oth city,,.. accomp an i e d by many of the l a dy and gentlemen passengers. The duel was then] fought with great fierceness, and resulted in the defeat of Major Riegler, who by the superior skill of his adversary, received two terrible cuts, the one on his cheek and.the other on the chin, causing. him to drop on the field. Returning to the boat the wounds of the Major were dressed, and a reconciliation of the course, and was and effected. Colonel Burgthae shortly afterwards made a speech to the pa ssenger s, justifying his defending duelling on general principles, which was warmly received by those present. It is supposed that the wounded gentleman would .have replied .but for the I disabled condition or his chin. Both gentlemen displayed great gallantry in the field, and were triumphantly escorted back to the boat by the spectators.—St. Louis Democrat, Oct. 23.