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THE CRIMEAN BANQUET is fixed for the 22nd inst.
The Government tobacco store, capable of contain-
ing with ease 6,000 persons, has been selected as
the building. Upwards of 4,000 soldiers will be
invited. The Lord Lieutenant, the mayor and cor-
poration, and the committee, will dine with the men.
The officers will not be invited to the present ban-
quet. Liberal offers have been made by Mr. Dargau
to supply the temporary fittings, and by Mr. Bren-
nan to give 2001. worth of wine for the occasion.
Mr. M. C. ORMSBY, the statician of the Encum-
bered Estates Court, has just issued his seventh
annual report of the proceedings of the land tribu-
nal, from the filing of the first petition in 1849 to
the concluding day of the seventh session on the
31st of August in the present year. The gross sum
obtained by the various sales amounted to 18,299,3501.
14s. 9d., of which English, Scotch, and foreign pur-
chasers paid 2,510,3061., or little more than one-
ninth of the whole.

MARSHAL PELISSIER was daily expected on a visit
to Lord Gough.
THE PARISH PRIEST OF BALLINGAVY has resisted
the Income tax Commissioner upon the ground that
his revenues, whatever they may be, were the free
and voluntary offerings of the people. The follow-
ing conversation is reported in the local papers :

COMMISSIONER: It is not we who seek to tax you, but
the Queen.
Rev. Mr. FITZGERALD: To me it is all the same as
between you. I get nothing from either of you and owe
you nothing. Yours is the only Government in Europe
that gives nothing, with one trivial exception, to the
Catholic Church. You took away what belonged to her
and threw the Catholic clergy for their support on the
bounty of the people, and now you are not satisfied with.
out imposing on us this tax, the collection or which will
cost you more than it will be worth, and render has odious
as tithes were some time ago.
COMMISSIONER : We must rule against you for 1501.

Rev. Mr. FITZGERALD : You may rule as you like, and
any amount that it pleases you, but I will appeal to another
court, and take advantage of every resource the law affords
me ; and, if this will not avail, you may then distrain and
sell the means of support given by the liberality of a
faithful and devoted people to a hard-working clergy, but
one penny of a tax on their voluntary offerings you will
never receive willingly from me.
London, England, 1856-10-11

TNDIA SHAWLS. Immense Purchases.
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latest designs in Cashmere, Gold Delhi, Benares, Decca, and
Lahore Shawls and Scarfs, the most economical and the most
costly.—The GREAT SHAWL and CLOAK EMPORIUM, 171,
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London, England, 1856-10-11

FORD'S EUREKA SHIRTS.—" 'The Eureka'
is the most unique and the only perfect fitting shirt made."
Observer. " Ford's • Eurekas ' are the acme of perfection."—
Court Josernal. In half-dozen boxes, ready for use, or made
to order. Beat quality, 415.; second quality, 335. CAUTION :
Ford's Eureka Shirts are stamped," 34, Poultry, London," with-
out which none are genuine. Catalogues, with particulars, post
free.—RlCE AhD FORD, 38, PO lILTRY, London.
London, England, 1856-10-11

Stotlanb.

THE WINTER SESSION OF THE EDINBURGH PHILO-
SOPHICAL INSTITUTION will be opened on Thursday
evening, the 30th instant, by an address from the
Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, K.T., LL.D. The first
course of lectures will be delivered by Mr. W. M.
Thackeray, who will repeat his American course
"On the Four Georges." The distinguished Arctic
discoverer, Dr. Scoresby; the celebrated Dr. Gott-
freid Kinkell, from Bonn ; Principal Scott, of Man-
chester ; Professors Masson, Brewer, and Hunt, of
London ; Allman, of Edinburgh, and Nichol, of
Glasgow, will also deliver lectures on literature and
science during the winter; and the session will be
London, England, 1856-10-11

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London, England, 1856-10-11

TENDER AND TRUE.

A STORY OF MARRIED LIFE.
By the Author of " Clara Morison." 3 vols.

YOUNG SINGLETON.
By TALBOT GWYNNE, Author of " The School for

Fathers." 2 vols.

London : SMITH, ELDE

THE NEW NOVELS.

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ERLESMERE;

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4.
PERVERSION;
OR, THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF INFIDELITY.
A Tale for the Times. Second Edition. In 3 vols.
London, England, 1856-10-11

DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM,
4, Coventry.street, Leicester-a:ware.
1110 pen (for gentlemen only) hom Ten till Ten, containing
upwards of one thousand models and preparations, illustrating
every part of tho human frame in health and disease, the race of
men, Jtc. Lectures are delivered at Twelve, Two, and
Half-past Seven, by Dr. G. SEXTON, F.R.G.S ; and a New and
Higb.y Interesting Series of Lectures is now in course of
delivery by Dr. KAHN, at Four p.m. precisely.—Admission, One
Shilling.
London, England, 1856-10-11

THE FRENCH IN ALGERIA.

THE French in Algeria are thus noticed by the occa-
sional correspondent of the Times :

The absolute success of the conquerors with the indi-
Ones leaves nothing to desire. The Turks, who, when
their supremacy was upset, must have been as uncom-
fortable in Algiers as blind dogfish in the sea, are either
going into exile or are Spahis in the service of France.
The Arabs are as tame as a half drowned mouse. There
is no religious fanaticism. The French have judiciously
left the Mahommedans their mosques, and have forbidden
the Jesuits to preach to them. The missionaries are only
allowed to force Christianity upon the attention of the
Mahommedans by dint of deeds of charity and love. The
Turks were bat a small number, and it is an advantage
to all sects and classes in Algiers that the French have
taken their place. They are certainly not more tyrannical,
and, moreover, they have named and lit all the streets,
numbered all the houses, and established the most perfect
security for life and property. The Jews, who used to be
worse treated in Algiers than any other State, hold up
their heads, and the Jewesses continue to wear their
black garments, but no longer as a disgrace and a coin.
pulsion. The Moorish maidens, although they still veil
their faces, do so rather to hide the marks of the smallpox
wherewith too many of them are scarred than in deference
to any commands of the other sex. Perhaps the French
officers who sigh at their feet (and if Dr. Duchesne tells
true, seldom sigh in vain) think their khol-strained eye-
brows and huge black eyes their most fascinating points.
So far as liberty within the city is concerned everybody is
& gainer; but the Presence of a concourse of adventurers

THE PRESS;

and of a large army had done its work. Public decency is,
however, protected with a most successful rigour.

Speaking of the labour question, the vital one of
an infant colony, the writer observes that native
labour is scarcely to be obtained, and if ever ob-
tained might prove dangerous in the end. At
present French law only permits European labour to
be employed :

The press of Algeria is now discussing the propriety of
abrogating this condition ; but I doubt whether such a re
lazation would be either wise or effectual. At present
when a colonist can get Arab labour for work upon which
an Arab can be profitably employed he makes light of the
condition, and the authorities shut their eyes to the infrac-
tion. I have already mentioned seeing herdsmen and
shepherds and a few farm servants with swarthy limbs and
white bournouses. The instances, however, are not nume-
rous. There is still a strong antipathy among the Arabs
to serve a French master. The Arab who does so incurs
the displeasure of his chief, and loses caste among his
tribe.
London, England, 1856-10-11

GREECE.

The Greek Government has received a joint com-
munication from Mr. Wyse and M. Mercier, respect-
ing the conduct of Admiral Bouet de Willaumez on
the recent events at the Pineus and the Commandant
de Place there. Both Governments have expressed,
through their Ministers, their entire approbation ot
the manner in which Admiral Bouet has acted.

Mr. Wyse and M. Mercier have also presented a
joint protest against the distribution of the national
property which the Government was about to bestow
on its own partisans. Mr. Wyse, has, moreover,
protested, in the name of the English subjects who
in 1424 and 1825 lent money to the Provisional Go-
vernment of Greece (namely, 2,800,000/.) on the
security of the national property, and which money
was applied to the cause of national independence.
This gives liberty to England to act alone without
the co-operation of the other two powers. King
Otho has adjourned the period of his return to
Greece.

AMERICA.

Intelligence from New York to the 27th brings
news of an engagement between Governor Geary in
Kansas and the free•soilers. The result was not
clearly known. The election of Fremont was con
sidered more certain every day. The result of the
October election in Pennsylvania was eagerly anti-
cipated.
An immense and influential political meeting was
held at New York on the 27th ult. Upwards of
25,000 persons were present. The Speaker of the
House of Representatives addressed the audience on
the topics of the day with the view of showing that
the Republican party is the Conservative party, and
entitled to the confidence of merchants. We give
the main points of his speech elsewhere.
The report of Mr. Corwine upon the affair of the
15th of April at the Isthmus of Panama suggests the
occupation of the entire isthmus from ocean to ocean
of the United States, " as the best practicable mode
to insure safety and tranquillity to the transit,"
unless, adds Mr. Corwine,

New Granada, after the proper representations shall
have been made, and the necessary demand made upon.
her in pursuance of treaty stipulations, can satiafy us as to
her ability and inclination to afford the proper protection
and make speedy and ample atonement for the wows in-
flicted upon our countrymen by the people and official*
of the State of Panama.

The burning of a steamer on Lake Michigan had
been attended with the loss of some sixty lives.
London, England, 1856-10-11

MR. FREDERICK PEEL.

A set of feathers brodis on tar d tabolitioniste aux Etats Unlit.
General Beatson would suggest in addition a high conical cap of finest
blue-wove paper, with the letters D.U.N.C.E. embroidered on the
front. Tassells of red tape would complete this coiffure.

SIR C. LEWIS.
This eminent scholar and brilliant wit might with great propriety
appear in the old Roman toga with a paladamentum, a lotus clams, and
a calceus incisus. To this costume might be superadded, after dinner,
a coronal of flowers or a wreath of myrtle, as betokening the light
and joyous character of this airiest of financiers and pleasantest of
reviewers.
London, England, 1856-10-11

THE PRESS.

With respect to the Neapolitan question, Le Nord
announces as a rumour from Berlin that Russia hatl
demanded the immediate convocation of the second
congress at Paris, and that France had agreed to the
proposal.
A letter from Berlin of the 2nd, in the German
Journal of Frankfort, says :
There is a talk in diplomatic circles of a second and
more recent Russian note on the Neapolitan question. It
will be addressed to the French Government, and is said
to have been written under the impression of the accounts
from Paris which announced the departure of the ultimatum
and the demonstration of the squadrons. It is said that this
note sums itself up in a positive protest against a pro-
ceeding which, if once admitted, may in its consequences
overthrow all the political and international law of
Europe. _ . _
London, England, 1856-10-11

NAPLES.

The King and the Duke of Calabria arrived at
Naples on the oth from Gaeta. The King granted
an audience to General Martini, and [immediately
afterwards called a Council of Ministers.

The Ministerial Austrian Gazette states that the
King of Naples has forwarded autographic letters to the
Emperor Napoleon and Queen Victoria, announcing
that he is willing to send a representative to the
Paris Conference, and to communicate his intentions
respecting organic reforms and an amnesty.
Meantime every preparation is making in Naples
for any evil results from the anticipated visit of the
allied fleets. The town was to be placed in a state of
siege. The lazzaroni were to be enrolled, to be em-
ployed at the discretion of M. Mazza, while the King
and Royal family would retire to Gaeta surrounded
by 20,000 chosen troops.
The English squadron under the command of
Admiral Dundas lay at Ajaccio. The French
squadron has not yet left Toulon.
Prince Petrulla, Neapolitan Ambassador at Vienna,
had for a third time tendered his resignation, which
the King, his master, had at length accepted. Prince
Petrulla, with the Princes Satriano, Ischetella, and
others, have for some time endeavoured ineffectually
to extract from the King honourable and voluntary con-
cessions.

The Nuremberg Gazette, speaking of tho great
question in dispute, does not anticipate any naval

Although the utmost silence continues to prevail with
respect to the affairs of Naples, we can state positively that
diplomatic negotiations are being quietly pursued, which
will probably have the effect of causing the Western
powers to abandon the projected expedition. We learn
from a good source that Russia has not confined herself to
the protest expressed in the circular despatch, but that
Baron de Mohrenheim lately brought to Vienna a pressing
note, in which the necessity of preventing .the Western
powers from carrying out their intentions is unequivocally
expressed. The manner in which that will be done it is
not difficult to divine. It will not be a Russian squadron
that will come and intoreept the entrance to the Hay of
Naples of the vessels of France and England, but Russia
will prevent the Western powers from sending their ulti-
matum by proposing to submit the whole question to a
diplomatic congress, and certainly Austria will do all she
can to place the question on that footing.
London, England, 1856-10-11

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THE PRESS.

THE LONDON and WESTMINSTER BANK
issues OISC ULAR NOTES of lul. each, payable at every
!important place in Europe. These Notes are issued without
charge, and they are cashed abroosi free of commission. The
Bank also issues, free of charge, LETTERS of CREDIT on all
the principal Cities and Towns in Europe. The Letters of Credit
are issued only at the Head Office in Lothbury. The Circular
Notes may be obtained at the Head Office, Lothbury, or at any
of the Branches :
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Bloomsbury ditto 214, High Holborn
Southwark ditto 3 Wellington st., Borough
Eastern ditto m 7, High-street, Whitechapel
Marylebone ditto 4 Stratford-place, Oxford-street
Temple-bar ditto 217, Strand.

The rate of Interest allowed on Deposita of 5001. and upwards
at the Bank or any of its branches, is now 6 per Cent.
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London, England, 1856-10-11

tout ant fastlion.

Her Majesty will leave Balmoral on the 15th in-
stant, and arrive at Windsor Castle on the 17th.

The Duchess of Kent passed through Aberdeen on
Wednesday, on her way south.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, in the
course of his tour through the West of England, has
explored North Devon, visiting Lynton, Ilfracombe,
the Valley of Rocks, Barnstaple, and other places.
The Prince arrived in Exeter on Tuesday, leaving for
London the same evening.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Maty are expected to arrive in
town, to day from Germany.

The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland remove
to Stanwick-park, Yorkshire, from Alnwick Castle,
Northumberland, at the close of the month.
The Duke of Devonshire is expected to leave
Lismore Castle, Ireland, at the end of the ensuing
week.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury are
entertaining a select circle at Hatfield•house, Herts.
Marriages between Captain the Hon. Frederick
Fitzclarence and the Hon. Miss Sidney, sister of Lord
De Lisle and Dudley ; between Lady Charlotte Scott,
eldest daughter of the late Earl of Eldon, and her
cousin, Mr. R. Surtees Batikes ; between the Hon.
William Hobart, son of the Earl of Buckingham•
shire, and Miss Ramsay, daughter of the late Sir W.
Ramsay, Bart., and niece to Lord Panmure ;
between Colonel Caulfield, M.P., and Miss Somer-
ville; and the Hon. H. M.Monckton and Miss White,
daughter of Sir J. W. White, Bart., are announced
as probable to take place before the end of the present
month.
London, England, 1856-10-11

LATEST ACCOUNT OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.

Just published, in Bro., with Fifteen Illustrations and Map, price 145., cloth,
A RESIDENCE IN TASMANIA.
By Captain H. BUTLER STONEY, 99th Regiment.
London : SMITH, ELDER, and CO., 05, Cornbill.
London, England, 1856-10-11

Et dress.

LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 185(1.

IN all the varied concerns of life, Privileges
suppose Duties. The instincts of mankind
affirm this principle ; and it is more true of
political privileges, which are in the nature of
a trust to be used for the benefit of the public,
than of privileges of a more private character.
If the duty be• forgotten, the privilege itself is
commonly lost. It may rot by some slow
process of decay, or it may be extinguished by
some sudden outburst of violence ; but in
either case its vital strength must have been
undermined through want of that activity
essential to the maintenance of vigour. Ex-
ercise is a law of healthy life. The limb that
reposes on a cushion wastes away ; the water
that is unstirred becomes stagnant ; the air
too long unvisited by gales becomes loaded
with noximis vapouro, and hots its health-
giving properties changed to agencies of pesti-
lence and death.

There can be no security for good govern-
ment in a free nation, save in the interest
which the people take in their politics. If they
neglect their duties, their privileges are not
only valueless to themselves, but positively
pernicious to the State. In Governments of
another form, where power is lodged in few
hands, special individuals or classes are in-
structed in the business of administration,
and have a particular interest in seeing
that it is efficiently conducted. No
such security exists in a free country,
where the people themselves—the prime de-
positaries of power—are indifferent to the
conduct of affairs. The complicated machinery
of freedom becomes then an instrument for
the diffusion of corruption, and that very
latitude of speech and action which is
allowed, only serves to legitimatise the pur-
chase of restless spirits and unscrupulous
tongues. It was thought a bold thing for the
Roman tyrant to make his horse a consul.
Had the act been referred to a more remote
period of antiquity, we should have supposed
it a myth to indicate how a people may be de-
graded by an imitation of the forms of free-
dom when the substance has been lost. Of
all Governments, those are the least to be
desired where " management " is the first con-
dition of success, and where the interest in
politics is kept alive only by the efforts of
individuals to turn them to commercial ad
vantage. Ireland before the Union showed
how essential was noisy patriotism to the full
development of Government corruption. Is
England in our day to he inoculated with the
virus of the old Irish policy?
It is to Party, and Party alone, that we must
look for the correction of those tendencies
which, in highly civilised and commercial
communities, make men indifferent to politics,
and degrade them into a sordid pursuit. By
the generous rivalry of great parties, politics
are raised to the honourable position they
should fill in a free country, and the most
eminent minds of the community are engaged
to take part in their discussion. Large social
questions, if sometimes treated with party
London, England, 1856-10-11

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SIR. B. HALL

Might produce a favorable impression in the elegant raise of a
maitre d'orchestre a la 3fons. Jullien, with curled and oily tresses, a
silky moustache, a turndown shirt-collar, and richly embroidered
satin doublure to his dress coat. A broken baton, inserted in his
button-hole, symbolical of the silence imposed upon his Sunday
Bands, might, while conveying a bitter taunt to the fainthearted Pre-
mier, touch a sympathetic chord in the heart of St. Marylebone.
A Baron's Coronet would be at present premature, if not imperti•
neut.
London, England, 1856-10-11

BIBLICAL RESEARCHES IN PALESTINE

AND THE ADJACENT REGIONS :

Being a JOURNAL of TRAVELS in the Years 1838, and of LATER RESEAR CHES in 1852, now first published
BY REV. PROFESSOR ROBINSON, D.D.
Also, Separately, for the Purchasers of the First Edition, with Two Maps, Bvo.,
DR. ROBINSON'S LATER BIBLICAL RESEARCHES IN THE HOLY LAND.
BEING A JOURNAL. OF TRAVELS IN THE YEAR 1852.

" With this volume closes, of course, the record of my personal observations in the Holy Land. The principles
according to which it has been prepared are the same with those which lie at the basis of my former work. If it shall
be deemed a worthy supplement to that work I shall be satisfied. To these my Biblical Researches in the Holy Land,
the fruit of thirty years' preparation, and of personal travels in 1838 and 18.52, I can hope to add nothing more. The
work is now published as a whole, and in a permanent form. It will be seen by the Map that the Routes of the different
years rarely coincide."—Aulhor'a Preface.

JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle Street.
London, England, 1856-10-11

THE PRESS.'

permanently that advantage conferred upon it by Sir R.
Peel in 184,5.
Now, be thought that this policy of blinking princi-
ples and making concessions, with a view of concili-
ating the Irish party in the House of Commons, bad
not succeeded, and a great many of the Administra-
tions which tried it had had very short lives, and, he
was afraid, not very merry ones :

Blinking principles with a view to conciliate Irish
members is very much like trying to catch old birds with
chaff; and although I am not on very intimate terms with
my countrymen in the House of Commons, yet I know them
sufficiently well to say that they are very shrewd fellows.
Those Irish Pspists have more principle than they give
them credit for, and heartily despise those that think to
purchase them by its sacrifice.
There was another subject upon which he wished
to say a few words in connection with Maynooth :
We have lately heard it stated that our party is getting
low—some even gn the length of saying that the Conser-
vative party is defunct—and that we have no definite fixed
principles upon which a party can be kept together. lam
not going at the present time to enter into any discussion
upon that point, but I know that as far as I am myself
concerned I am as true a Conservative now as I ever was
in my life. But I must say it is not extraordinary that
such an opinion should gain ground when you see the
leaders of our party repudiating so vital a question as the
repeal of the endowment of Maynooth. But they may
depend upon this that the feeling of all truehearted Eng•
lish Protestants are as strong upon this question as they
ever were or ever will be. They object to giving their
money in support of that of which they do not approve,
and they are determined, at all events, that the whole
question shall be dispassionately inquired into and placed
upon a proper and satisfactory footing.
He would not be sorry if this inquiry resulted in
the total repeal of the measure. He would not go
" short of that." However the gallant major con
eluded his speech with a satisfactory admission :

But at the same time I don'tpretend to say that the
repeal of the Maynooth endowment can of itself be made
the basis of a political party cry.
Lord HADLEIGH next proposed " Agriculture and
Commerce," to which Mr. HAMILTON replied, and
defended Mr. Stafford for the opinion he expressed
last week at Northampton in favour of the peasantry.
Reverting to the state of the Conservative party, he
thought it was a pity that that body, otherwise so
compact, should be split into sects by religious dif-
ferences, for he did not believe that if they could be
led to concentrate their action, the present Govern-
ment of the Whigs could stand a day before them.
Various other toasts followed, and the company
did not separate until a late hour.
London, England, 1856-10-11

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London, England, 1856-10-11

OCTOBER 11, 1856.

THE EXPERIMENTAL IRON PAVEMENT laid down in
Leadenhall-street, opposite the Church of St. Kathe-
rine Cree, does not, it is reported, exhibit that "fixed-
ness and stability " so essential to be regarded in
the pavement of the permanent carriage-ways of the
metropolis. The various compartments already ex-
hibit indications of wear and the vibrations to which
they are perpetually subjected have induced a certain
looseness and prove a want of tenacity and en-
durance, the reverse of which is the characteristic of
granite paving.
THE DEPOSITORS OF THE BRITISH BANK held a
rnee'.ing on Monday night at St. Martin's.hall, to
hear the report of their committee appointed on the
sth September last. Mr. Wyld presided and read
the report, which detailed the various steps taken,
and the following result. The manager, Mr. Harding,
stated:—
That with all despatch he could not declare a dividend
before the end of the year; that, with the information at
that time before him, he could not declare a dividend of
more than Os. in the pound at the end of the year 1856 ;
and that his impression was that the whole affairs of the
bank, under the ordinary course, could not be wound up
under two years, but that he was prepared to obtain ad-
vances on the securities of the bank, and that if the
depositors would accept a composition of 15s. in the pound
he would pay a dividend of Os. in the pound in the month
of December, 1856, and issue promissory notes under the
authority of the Court of Chancery for the payment of Os.
in the pound at the end of six months, and ss. in the
pound at the end of twelve months.
A resolution was then passed empowering the com-
mittee to accept a reasonable compromise.

THE DESIGNS for the Wellington Monument and
new Public Offices are to be sent in to the Public
Works-office between the Ist and 20th March next.
Those of the public offices will be exhibited at West-
minster-hall immediately afterwards, until the Ist
of July, when the exhibition of the Wellington Monu-
ment design will follow.
THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S QUARTERLY RETURN
ending Sept. 27 shows a mortality of about 1,000
above the average : 1.L,066 persons died in the time.
The increase lay principally in consumption cases
and diarrhea. The deaths from drowning, 138,
were considerably above the average. The usual
weekly return gives 1,071 deaths, and 1,598 births.
London, England, 1856-10-11

BANK OF FRANCE.

Tio Monthly Debtor and Creditor Account of the Bank
of France, made up to Thursday, the 9th inst., was pub-
lished yesterday. Mr. Avens, stockbroker, of Tokenhouse•
yard, in his circular of yesterday, states that it is much
less favorable than that for the preceding month. The de.
crease in the stock of bullion is very large, notwithstanding
an increase in the amount of premiums paid to secure
supplies of more than '25,0001. The return, however,
contains evidence that the Bank is discouraging specula
Lion on the Bourse, though it has been obliged largely to
increase its commercial discounts, but the restrictive mea•
sures adopted in the last and present week have not yet
come into full operation. Compared with the previous
return, the following will show the changes made in the
position of the establishment during the month expressed
in English currency, at an exchange of twenty-five francs
to the pound sterling :
Decrease in Circulation
Decrease in Public Deposits
Increase in Private Deposits
Increase in Discounts 2,897,6i/8
Decrease in Bullion 2,773,28l
Increase in Commercial Discounts 2,897,608
Increase in Advances on Bullion
Decrease in Advances on Public

--
Securities 94,142
Decrease in Advances on Railway
Securities

Increase in Premiums on Purchase
of Gold and Silver
Increase in Aggregate Liabilities.. 3,711,731
Circulation
Stock of Bullion (October 10)
The premiums paid on gold and silver purchases now
amount to 85,144/. Last month they were 59,8.521. A
sum, therefore, of 25,2921. has been expended in these
irregular transactions, as we deem them, during the last
four weeks. The following table shows, comparatively,
the advances made by the Bank in the two months just
closed :

OCT. SEPT.
.. X 20,463,421 X 17,565,513
298,915 162,915
3,517,716 3,611,853
2,210,844 2,218,160

Commercial Discounts
Advances on Bullion
„ Public Securities
„ Railway Shares ..

£26,490,596 £23,558,446
Deduct .. 23,558,446

Increase in October £2,932,150

BANK OF ENGLAND.

Aa Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Stb Victoria, cap. 92,
for the week ending on Saturday, the 4th day of Oct., 1856.
ISSUE DEPIATIMENT.
Notes leaned .... £24,701,745 Government Debt £11,015,100
Other Securities .. 3,459,601
Gold Coln et Bullion 10,226.745
Silver Bullion ....

524,701,745

024,701,743

BANKING DI
Proprletors'CapitalSl4,s63,ooo
Rest
Public Deposits* 7,769,493
Other Deposits
Seven Day & other
Bill,

pARTICENT.
Government Secu-
rities (including
DeadWeightAn.) 411,164.278
Other Securities 21,582,454
Notes
Gold & Silver Coln 557,012

437,379,844

£37,379,844
of National Debt,
London, England, 1856-05-31

(Oda aM lasOon.

Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by Prince
Frederick William of Prussia, Prince Albert, end
the Royal Family and Court, arrived at Bucking-
ham Palace on Monday at six p.m. Previous to
leaving Gosport her Majesty inspected the 4th and
13th Light Dragoons recently returned from the
Crimea.
His Royal Hignness the Prince Regent of Baden
arrived on Tuesday morning, on a visit to the Queen.
Her Nlalesty held a Court that afternoon, at thn e
o'clock, and gave audience to Count d'Appony, who
presented his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary from the Emperor of Austria.
Her Majesty in the evening attended in state the
ball given by the Turkish Ambassador. The Queen
was accompanied by Prince Albert, Prince Frederick
William of Prussia, and the Regent of Baden.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied
by Prince Frederick of Prussia and Prince Frederick
L iuis of Baden, inspected the household troops on
Thursday morning on the parade at Whitehall.
Her Majesty held a drawing-room on Thursday
afternoon. The Court was very fully attended.

Tha Turkish Ambassador gave a brilliant ball on
Tuesday evening, at the residence of the embassy in
Bryanston-square. Her Majesty the Queen and the
leading nobility honoured M. Musurus with then
company.
Count Alexander Mendsdorff has arrived at Buck
ingham Palace on a visit to the Queen.
His Highness the Grand Vizier of Turkey con.
templates taking his departure from England on
Monday next.
The funeral of the late Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence
took place on Saturday. His lordship was butied in
the family vault of the Wombwells in Yorkshire. The
Duke of Cambridge and several relatives of the de-
ceased attended the obsequies.
Accounts have been received from Vienna of the
death of the daughter of Prince Nicholas Esterhazy,
grand-daughter of the Countess of Jersey.
London, England, 1856-05-31

TURKEY.

Fresh disturbances in Roumelia have taken place
between the Christiana and Mussulinans, and at
Jerusalem an attempt at revolt had been suppressed
with severity.
The Prase d'Orient announces that four Christians
and an Israelite have been appointed members of the
Council of the Empire.

Letters from Constantinople of the 15th say that
M. Thouvenel, the French Ambassador, and Lord
Statford de Redcliffe, the representative of England,
had, in conjunction with Fuad Pacha, the Turkish
Minister of Foreign Affairs, signed a convention for
prolonging the departure of the Anglo-French forces
for six months, dating back from the 30th of March,
as it was found impossible for the evacuation to be
completed so early as was originally stipulated by
treaty.
From Moldavia we learn that of 17,000 more Tar-
tars about to emigrate to the Dobrudscha 9,000 were
to be employed on the lateral canal of the Danube,
and many were expected to enter the Turkish army.
The Circassian deputation is about to return, the
Divan having refused to recognise their nationality
in consequence of the treaty or Paris.

The General Divan of Moldavia closed its session
on the 24th inst. It offered its congratulations to
Prince Ghika, upon his having demanded of the Con-
gress of Paris the union of the principalities of Wal•
lachia and Moldavia. This man►festation of opinion
had occasioned great satisfaction at Jassy.
London, England, 1856-05-31

Price le. lid. and 'is. (Id. per box.

FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH.—TiIe
manifold advantages to the Heads of Families from the
no of a Medicine of known efficacy, that may be resorted
to with confidence, and used with success in cases of temporary
•ickness, occurring in families more or less every day, are so
obvious to all, that no questi3n can be raised of Its importsnea
• o every housekeeper in the kingdom. These Pills are a mild are
rient. and if taken after an indulgence at table they ate speedy

For FEMALES, they are truly excellent, ren oving
all obstructions, the distressing Headachy so very preys.
lent with the Sex; Depression of Spirits, Dulness of Sight
Nervous Attentions, Blotches, Pimples, and Sallowness of the
skin. and produce a healthy complexion. Sold by Prout and
Harsant, 229, Strand, London: and by all Medicine Vendors.

The Best Food for Children,lnvalida, and Others.
POBINSON'S PATENT BARLEY,
AIL for making superior Barley. Water in Fifteen Minutes, has
not only obtained the Patronage of her Majesty and the iliznal
Family, but tas become of general use to every class of the
community, and is acknowledged to stand unrivalled as an emi-
nently pure, nutritious, and light food for infants, children, and
,nvalids. Much approved for making a delicious custard-pudding
and excellent for thickening broths or soups.
pOBINSON'S PATENT GROATS
1.1, for more than thirty years have been held in constant and
crea4ing public estimation as the purest farime of the oat,
and as the best and most valuable preparation for making a pore
and delicate gruel. which forms • light and nutritious supper
for the aged, is a popular cure for colds and influenza, is of
general use in the sick-chamber, and, alternately with the Patent
Barley, is an excellent food for infants and children.
Prepared only by the Patentees, ROBINSON, BELLVILLE,
and CO., Purveyors to the Queen, fel, Red Lion-street, Holton),
London. Sold by all respectable grocers, druggists, and others,
12 town and country, in packets of Ed. and Is., and in family
canisters at :Is.. for.. and Ills. each.
London, England, 1856-05-31

V

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Parasitic is adsaset.

Subscribers are requested to send their Orders tbroughtbeir
News Agent; if direct to the °Moe. accompanied by a remit•
MAO& Advertisements also must have a reference or remittance
Watley Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALFRID Iva, 110
Stra•,4 London.
London, England, 1856-05-31

.2
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a,t ac sionary paid in case
mg a, .4 P. Paid.
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'4l on.
6 e. d. S s. d. 6 a d.
1 WOO 36 7 203 0 C 7el 12 0 1078 12 0
19 300 40 7 113 6 3 39 16 0 529 16 0
266 1000 32 6 159 1U 0 65 4 0 1085 4 0
426 4100 41 6 61 16 0 21 6 0 321 8 0
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I. F. DOBSON. Managing Director.
h',/IARD HAY ROBERTSON, Sec.i

DROFESSIONAL LIFE ASSURANGE
COMPANY, admitting on equal terms Persona of every
Class and Degree to all its Privileges and Advantages.
Offices, 76, CHEAPSIDE. London. (II iorporsted.)

DIRECTORS
Chairman—JAMES ANDREW DURHAM, Esq.
Wm. Wellington Cooper, Esq. Jacob Monterlore, Esq.
Andre* Durham, Eeq.,of Bath Captain E. Nash Morcott, R.N.
and Belfast Thus. George Williams, Esq.
Rev. J. (Meadsll, M.A. E. Gartland Winthrop, Esq.
AUD Totts.
George Bain, Esq., 18, Patna- I Thomas Wilson, Esq., Cheap.
moot-street side
E. W. G. Evans, F.sq., 15, Basinghall•street.
Manager—Ben. Massey, Esq.
Physicians—Thomas Alfred Barker, M.D., 71. Lower Grosvenor-
sweet; Wm. W. Gull, M.D., Guy's Hospital.
Surgeon—W. White Cooper. Esq., F.R.C.S., 19, Berkeley.square.
Bankers—The Commercial Bank of London.
Solicitor—Edward M. Elderton, Esq., 3, Lothbury.
With• a numerous and influential Proprietary and Shareholders.
No extra charge for going to or residing at (in time of peace)
Australasia, Bermuda, Madeira, Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius
and the British North American Colonies.

Medical meu in all cases remunerated for their report.
Assurances granted against paralysis, blindness. accidents.
insanity, and every otherattliction, bodily and mental, at mode.
i a's rates.
A liberal commission allowed to Agents.

Annual Premium for assuring £lOO, namely:
Age. £ ii. d. Age. £ s.
20 llB 0 40 2lB 8
30 2 2 0 30 1 2 1
Prospectuses, with tables and fullest information, may be bad
at the Oltices of the Company, or of any of their Agents.
Applications for Agencies requested.
London, England, 1856-05-31

BEN. MASSEY, Manager.
°Moos, 76, C Iteapside, London.

1410 RD'S EUREKA SHIRTS.—'"The Eureka'
is the most unique ana the only per'ect fitting shirt made."
thserver.-11e,t quality, wit for 10s.; second quality, six for 31s.
If washed ready fur 1.146, is. extra. CAuT!o :—Ford's Eureka
shirts are stamped, " 34, Poultry, London "without which none
are genuine. Catalogues, with partioulars,postfree.—}l.loHahl)
FORD, ari, POULTRY, Loudon.
London, England, 1856-05-31

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
nalish ....1610 .. 720 .. 730 .. 20 .. 700
Irish .. —27 nu ..
Foreign .. 3.60 .. 6:.30 .. 4070 his
1840.1..
LONDON AVERAGES DECLARED ON FRIDAY—Wheat,
4.415 q :amen, 71s $4: barley 645 quarters. 37a 6d : oats. 2,401
quarters, 92s tii ; rye, 94 quarters, stie Id ; beans, £23 quarters,
119 s Id; peas. 30 quarters. e3B 44.
IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES—Wheat, 69s 24; bar-
ley, 39s ed ; oats, 23a 104 ; rye, Cs ed ; beans, 41. ;
38s ;M.
rip: six WEEKS' AVERAGES—Wheat:CPI
391 Ild; oats, 22s 6d ; rye, 42s 8d; beans, 41$ 64; peal.
U • 94.
FNGI 'SF' GRAIN SOLD LAST WEER—Wheat, 112.211:
barley. 112.179; oats. 10,04; rye, 23; beans, 4.763; peas, 286
quarters
BREAD—The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis
are from 9d to 94c1; of household ditto, 74d to 844 per Alba
:oaf
TEA—Oar market *endow.e to be well supplied. Generally
speakieg tbeismand is inactive, as follows :—Congou, bid to u sd
Nisi Yong and Ooleug, led to Is 10d; nonchong, 94d to 2s 6d ;
Flowery Pekoe, Is 1.1 to 118104; Caper,— to— ; Scented Caper,
Is 3d to Is Ild; Orange Pekoe, to : Scented Orange
Pekoe, Is 4d to te 6d ; Teenkay, tii to Is 24 ; Hyson Skin. 84 to
Is 94: Hylton, ls 2d to 41 : Young Hyson, 84.1 to 2. 6d;
Imperial, 114 to 2. id; Gunpowder, if 4 to is 6d; Assam, Is 64
to 41 44 per lb.
SUGAR—AII raw sugars have commanded rather more
attemiou, and a steady busiuess is doing, at tull prices, to 6d
per cwt advance. B .rbadoee LAS realised VI to 465; Bengal,
39s 8d t 0 419 6d; Mauritius, 37s to %Zia ; and Madras, 33. to 44.
per cwt. Reaped goods move o6' slowly, at s;a Gd to she
per ewt for grocery lumps. The total clearane. sto the 24th
inst. were 2.245.716 cwts, against :1,9;6,038 cwts in 1853.
MOLASSES—The supply continues very moderate, and the
demand is steely, at from lits to 221 per OWL
COCOA—Our market is firm. at %ery lull priccs. Importers
are not free sealers at preent rates. West India, etre to Its.;
Guayaquil. Abs to eis ; Brazil, Us to 41. per cwt.
COFFEE—Our market continues very dull, and Pate rates
are with di/Acuity supported. Present rates are as follows
London, England, 1856-05-31

THE PRESS.

COMMERCIAL PUBLICATIONS.
A Voxmax has been forwarded to us on the advantages of
the proposed Scinde Railway,• extending from the port of
Kurrachee to Hyderabad on the Indus, by which all the
inconveniences attending the navigation of the mouths of
that river will be avoided. The line is to be 110 miles in
length, and by terminating at a magnificent navigable
stream, will tend to facilitate commerce through Central
Asia. Mr. Andrew, the author of the volume, is chairman
of the company. He has been indefatigable in his advo-
cacy of railways for India, and has fixed on a line emi-
nently calculated to be useful to trading enterprise and to
prove remunerative to the shaieholders. The terms con-
ceded to the company by the East India Court are liberal,
and we shall be glad to hear that the works are actually in
progress. Direct telegraphic communication with Calcutta,
and ultimately with Australia, is likely to make rapid pro-
gress, as the French line by the bed of the Mediterranean to
Corsica and Sardinia is now in operation, and found to
answer perfectly. The Mediterranean cable is the strongest
yet laid down, consisting of six electric wires, and weighing
eight tons to the mile.

* The Scinde Railway. By W. P. Andrew, Esq. London
Allen.
London, England, 1856-05-31

THE PRESS

The object of the loan is principally for the con-
struction of railroads in the interior of Russia, and
partly for the indemnification to be paid to Denmark
for giving up the Sound dues; although it is whis-
pered that a considerable part of it will be placed at
the disposal of Admiral the Grand Duke Constan-
tine, for the purpose of converting the whole
Russian navy into screw-steamers, as befitting
the requirements of the present day. The receipts
from the customs are, it is affirmed, to be given as
security to the contractors, and the interest and sink-
ing fund of the new loan to be charged on this branch
of the revenue of Russia.

Baron Steighlitz, charged to negotiate this loan,
has failed at Paris, and has summoned the leading
German bankers to a conference at Berlin. Herr
Oppenheim has already started for St Petersburg to
confer personally with the Ministers there.
London, England, 1856-05-31


522

Without exactly going over ground occupied
by Scott, the " Crown Ward " follows the vein
which he worked so successfully. The scene
is laid in Scotland, shortly before James was
summoned, by the death of Elizabeth, to wear
the English crown. James and his Consort
Anne are two of the principal personages in
the story, and, without compromising historic
fact, they play an effective part in the fiction.
The " Crown Ward " is Mistress Mary Kerr ;
sho has been assigned by James to the
English ambassador, Bowes, and the action of
the tale turns principally on the means which
a mysterious Italian visitant to the Court of
James employs to free the young lady from
her hateful engagement, and give her to the
arms of her true lover, the young Bueeleuch.
The real hero of the story, however, is Kin-
mont Willie, or Willie Armstrong, a stout,
young Moss•trooper of the Border, as bold a
rider as William of Deloraine himself. His
capture of the Warden's horses, and night
ride for his life, excite breathless expectation.
Equally effective, though in a different style,
is the scene in which the Italian centrols both
James and his Consort ; the revel in which the
gay Queen favours Buceleuch's escape ; and
the surprise of Carlisle, by the Scot Border-
ban d s.

The characters, without being vigorously
delineated, are well marked and distinct.
That of the Italian is the least successful, as
there is a doubt nearly to the last whether he
acts from love, or revenge, or policy, and this
uncertainty prevents the firmness of outline
which the subsequent discovery of his true
nature would have justified. He appears a
charlatan when he should have figured as a
subtle diplomatist. Kinmont Willie, on the
other hand, is perhaps too literal a represen
tation of his class. He has not a touch of
romance in his disposition. He is the shrewd
daring Border riever, fond of adventure for its
own sake, but liking it still better when plun-
der is to be found in its company. Some of
the minor personages are well drawn, as
old Euphatne, the trooper's grandmother,
and David Moyse, King James's gentleman
usher.

The artistic talent of the book would alone
entitle it to commendation, were the results
less successful than they are. The author has
taken pains with his work. Every part. is
neatly finished. The construction is excellent.
The narrative is continuous. There are no
passages in it which lead to nothing ; none of
those disappointing cubs-de-sac which engage
us for a time only to retard our progress, and
do cause disappointment. Every incident has
spine connection ,vith the main story, and the
reader feels as he closes the book that what-
ever pleasure he has experienced from its
perusal is fairly due to the honest exercise of
the authoi's story-telling skill.
We are unwilling to close without an ex-
tract, and, as the author is conscientious when
moving in the strict province of history, we
give portions of his sketches of the King and
his Consort:—
London, England, 1856-05-31

T li

QOVEREterN tiFt OFPICE,
it) 49, ST. JAMES'S-STREET, London. Founded 1815.
TRUSTEES.
The Earl Talbot I B. Bond Cabbell, Esq., M.P.
!Sir Claude Scott, Bart. Henry Puwuall, Esq.
Chairman—Lieut.-Colonel Lord Arthur Lennox.
Deputy-Chairman Sir James Carmichael, Bart.
This Ottied possemies a large paid-up and inverted Capital,
while the claims by death scarcely exceed one-tifth of the Pre-
miums received.
Hence. the Bonuses declared by this Office are unusually
large. Thus —On a .4500 Policy, effected in 1a46, RAO lie. has
been received for Premium, while the amowit now payable at
death is .9466, being a return of more than three-fourths of the
sum invested.

Claims are paid three months after proof of death.
No Charge. are Inside except the Premium.
Hates are calculated for all ages, climates, and etre
connects with Life Assurance.

Proepectuaes, Forms, and eery information, can be obtained
at the Odic°, 49, Si.. Jamas street, London.
H. D. DAVENPORT, Secretary.
Active Agents required.