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LONDON, SATURDAY, DEC. 13, 1856.

POSTSCRIPT.

SURRENDER OF HERkT.

(By Submarine and British Telegraph front Paris.)
Intelligence from Constantinople to the sth states
that Herat has surrendered to the Persian General
Mourat Shall. .

The British operations in the Persian Gulf had
commenced.
The Preue d'Orient of the Ist of December
says :

It was on the 26th of October that the town was taken.
The tchapar (messenger), who was immediately sent to
Teheran with the news, only took eight days to cross
the vast plains which separate Herat from the Persian
capital.

The same journal announces the departure from
Teheran of all the members of the British Consulate.
Mr. Stevens had gone to Tabriz, and Mr. Abbott,
with the other members of the Consulate, had taken
the road to Bombay.

The Ti► Res (second edition, Friday) Berlin cor-
respondent writes :

A St. Petersburg correspondent of the Konigsberg Journal
states that it is understood in St. Petersburg that General
Ilirjuloff, who commands the troops on the Russo• Persian
frontier, has received orders to enter Persia with 50,000
men at the first requisition made to him by the Shah of
Persia. At the same time it is said that two corps•d'armie
have. been set in motion towards the Austrian frontier.
The correspondent then says, as a comment of his own
on this statement, that Russia cannot look on a passive
spectator of the bold steps the British Government is
taking towards Persia, or of the tergiversations of Austria;
and that it will not be Russia's fault if new warlike com-
plications arise. Of the Russian army, however, it is
ad led, perils we dernantle pas mime than to measure its
atr:ngth with the Austrians, whom it saved in 1849.

The Augsburger Al!genuine Zeitung contains a
communication, dated from the Polish frontier,
which, in some degree, corroborates the statement
of the movement of the Russian forces southward
and (as'ward. It states that the entire Russian
army, which has hitherto been stationed in the
south, is not only to remain there during the winter,
but also a considerable portion of it is to be moved
farther southward to the frontier of Bessarabia and
the coast of the Black Sea.
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PRUSSIA AND NEUFCHATEL.

The Berlin correspondent of the Independance of
Thursday, states that Prussia has announced in her
recent note that, the negotiations with Switzerland
are 'closed, and there remains for Prussia but to
make preparations for active measures. Meanwhile,
Prussia will be ready to receive any new proposition,
but she will not make any herself. The same cor-
respondent intimates that a special congress to
discuss this affair of Neufchatel is not improbable.
The Berlin correspondent of Le Nord says, that
Prussia is about to demand from the great Powers
whether they have exhausted all the diplomatic
mans towards a solution, and if the answer be in
the affirmative, she will then be prepared to do jus-
tice to herself.

A letter from I. i.nna, dated December 8, has the
following curious paragraph :
It has long been rumoured in the city that many Roman
Catholics intend to join the Protestant Church, but no per.

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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.—Dec. 11.
BOOKS.

Poetry from Life. C. M. K. Smith and Elder
Parliamentary Minutes, respecting Public and Private Bills,

Commillees,tc.

Waterlow and Sons

Sir Edwin Gilderoy. A Ballad. Feltham Burghley.
J. Chapman

Edith Frankheart ; or, the Baronet's Daughter. Capt. Cur-
ling. Three 'Vols. Saunders and Otley
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England and Mask Natural Allift. Hamilton and Adam;
Gethsemane; and other Pont. Thomas G. Hortnn.

Judd and Glass
Summer Experiences; or, Borne, Perugia, and Siena.
W. Skeffington
George Magian!; Adventures of an Emigrant. T. Hodgson
Widows and Widowers. Ditto.
The English of Shakespeare. George L. Craik.
Chapman and Hall
Dialogues on Divine Providence. By a Fellow of a College
J. W. Parker and Son
Clover Cottage; or, I can't get in. A Novelette.
Chapman and Hall
The Paragreens on a Visit to the Paris Universal Exhibition

Hamilton and Adams
Dramatic Scenes; and other Poems. Barry Cornwall.
Chapman and Hall
Smith and Elder
Hatchard and Co.
Rout ledge

Stories for the Young.
Memoirs of John Abernethy, F.R.S.
Under Green Leaves. Charles Mackay.
Modern Manicheism ; and other Poems.

J. W. Parker and Son
The Old Monaslery. Two Vols. Bentley
The Course of Time. A Poem. Illustrated Edition.
Blackwoods
Agnes Milbourne ; or," Foy Pour Deroir." Two Vols.
Skeet

The Good Old Tiniee. A Tale of Auvergne.

H'all and Virtue
Ditto

The De of Sunshine.

The Sisters Of Saleure. A Tale of the Sixteenth Century.
By C. S.W. Nisbit and Co.
PAMPHLETS.

Ombrological Almanac. Eighteenth Year. Wm. Walker
—Evenings with the People. Nos. 111. and IV.—On the
Rjhc•acy of Small Doses of Morphia.—The Rise and Progress
of British Opium Smuggling. Judd and Glass.—A Treatise
of I,tle Assurance Societies and Savings• Banks. C. Mitchell.
—Harry Hau kins's H Book. Griffith and Ferran.—The
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and Pound Foolish. Hatehard.— Thick and Thin Seeding.
J. Ridgway.

PERIODICALS.

Corner Cupboard. Holliston and Stoneman.—Routiedge's
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Letts and Co.

(7) Granny's Wonderful Chair, and its Tales of Fairy Times.
By Francis Brow'ie. London : Griffithand Ferran.
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DECEMBER 13, 1856.

SIR CHARLES NAPIER AND LORD
PALMERSTON.
SIR CHARLES NAPIER has this week forwarded to the
morning papers copies of the following correspon-
dence :
London, England, 1856-12-13

NO 11. SIR C. NAPIER TO LORD PALWERSTON.

Merchistoun, Dec. 7, 1856.
My Lord,—Since writing to your lordship on the sth of
December, 1 beg to send you a copy of the Grand Duke's
reply to me, just received.
It is for your lordship to judge whether a member of
your lordship's Government--who has endeavoured to ruin
the reputation of au old officer—is fit to be one of his
masters ; and your lordship may, perhaps, be able to as-
certain who the " highest authority " is to whom Sir R.
Peel alluded in his speech.—l have, Sze. 41:c.,

CHAS. NAPIER.
The Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston.

NO. 111.-SIR C. NAPIER TO THE GRAND DUKE
CONSTANTINE.

➢lerchistoun, Oct. 29, IMti.
Sir,—l beg to send to your Imperial Highness a speech
of Sir It. Peel—a Lord of the Admiralty—in which he
accuses me of not doing my duty before Cronstadt.
I also send your Highness my letter to him, and two to
Lord Palmerston.—(Vide letter to Sir It. Peel in Morning
Post.)

I think I have distinctly stated what passed between
your Imperial Highness and myself relative to Cronstadt,
which certainly does not agree with what Sir It. Peel states.
I shall make no apology to your Imperial Highness for
writing to you. Your Highness is a frank, open-hearted
sailor. I therefore request you will be pleased to inform
me whether I have correctly stated what passed between
your Highness and myself when you honoured me with an
interview, and whether, as stated by Sir R. Peel, if I had
attacked Cronstadt I would have crumbled it into dust.—
I have the honour, &c. &c.,
CHARLES NAPIF.R, Vice• Admiral.
His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine.

NO. IV.-THE GRAND DUKE CONSTANTINE TO SIR C.
NAPIER.

St. Petersburg, 13th (25th) Nov., 1856.
My dear Admiral,—ln answer to your letter of the 29th
of October, 1 willingly affirm that you have quite exactly
rern ted the conversation I had with you concerning
Cronstadt.

With respect to Sir R. Peel's statement, I consider it
necessary to say that I spoke with him but once, viz., at
his official presentation at Moscow, and that not a word
concerning Cronstadt—not even the name itself—was men•
tioned by either of us.—Yours affectionately,
CONSTANTME.
Sir Charles Napier, Vice• Admiral.
London, England, 1856-12-13

THE SCENE AT WOBURN.

The PREMIER.—Thank you, Duke, no. I'll sit here, where I can
see the fire without feeling it. This room is warm enough anywhere.
The DUKE.—Young blood, eh, my dear Palmerston.
The PREMlER.—Perhaps so. Ha ! ha! And now, apropos of
young blood, let us talk of new blood. What does your brother say ?
The DUKE —He would, I am sure, wish me, in the first place, to
know what you say. Seniores priores, as Horace says.
The PREMIER.-1 think we have known one another long enough
not to make it necessary to be diplomatic. N )%v I'll speak out at
once, and tell you what I want. Has Lord John Russell got a Reform
Bill ready ?
The DUKE.—May I ask whether you call that telling me any
thing ?

The PREMIER.—WeII, what I was going to say, is this. We have
got a Reform Bill, a remarkably fine one—nonsense, apart—one with
some things in it that would get up an excitement, and rather do the
trick than not. No, upon my word, Duke, you look incredulous, but it
IS a first-rate article, drawn up by somebody who hopes to build a re-
putation on it. If I named him you would admit that the bill was
likely to be a remarkable one.
The DUKE —lt can never be a source of regret to my brother
that any one should endeavour to improve the Constitution of the
c,-)untry

The PREMIER.—Of course not, but still it's rather poaching on
his preserves, your know. I am ready to admit that. Now, if he
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DECEMBER 13, 1856.

left free, and the Opposition, as one man, loy-
ally " stood by the Sovereign." The screams
of dismal, and the cry of " horrible and heart-
rending," came not from the Opposition, but
from NVhigs discontented at the ascendency
of Lord ABERDEEN, and " the commendable
ambition" of the Duke of NEWCASTLE.

We can well imagine if the Opposition had
changed places with the Cabinet, and had
undertaken to plunge into a European war
with a peace establishment, what fierce and
usparing attacks would have been made by
the Whigs out of office on the convocations in
Downing-street. The calamities of the country
would have caused factious glee, and been
greeted as Opposition successes. How bitter
would have been Lord JOHN RUSSELL! Sir BEN-
JAMIN HALL would have played up to his
part as Bonarges to the Marylebone Vestry ;
and Mr. RALPH OSBORNE would have ran-
sacked FOOTE'S farces and his commonplace
book to get points for his "eloquence" learned
by rote. A Whig Opposition during such a
dispensation as a Crimean war would have
presented a most unfavorable contrast to the
loyal and constitutional bearing so gallantly
assumed and consistently maintained by the
Conservatives of England. The " explosion "
of Lord Joux RUSSELL and the destruction of
the Queen's Ministry in an hour of imminent
peril (in order to promote the personal objects
of patrician Whigs), shows us what the country
would have suffered if an Opposition on Whig
principles had existed during the late san•
gainary struggle.
We must, however, caution Conservatives
against being influenced in any degree by the
attacks to which we allude. The object of
those who make them is too transparent.
Besides, the Conservative party is quite com-
petent to conduct its own affairs without the
help of admonitions from any of the factionists
of the Reform Club ; and in the present cir-
cumstances of the country, personal discus
sions of any kind are to be deprecated, and
should be left to the Ministers in Downing-
street.
London, England, 1856-12-13

RUSSIA.

Le Nord this week, in an able article upon the
Persian question, attributes the British Persian ex-
pedition to England's jealousy of the growing in-
fluence of the French at Teheran. Le Nord then
comments upon the treaties with England, and
asserts that the Court of Teheran had constantly
invoked its treaty with England as interdicting the
interference of England in the struggles of Persia
against her neghbours.
In remarking upon the statements of some of the
English journals that it was the intention of England
to seize upon the Isle of Karrak and other isles in
the northern point of the Gulf, Le Nord observes
:
Such a proceeding on the part of England would give
rise to a very delicate question, not only between Persia
and England, but between England and France.
London, England, 1856-12-13

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Court an ps4ion.

The Queen and the Royal Family remain at
Osborne.
His Royal Highness Prince Frederick William of
Prussia took leave of her Majesty on Wednesday and
started for Paris.
The Court returns to Windsor next week.

Viscount Palmerston, accompanied by her lady-
ship, lett Cambridge-house on Saturday afternoon to
visit the Duke and Duchess of Bedford at Woburn
Abbey, Bedfordshire. The Premier returned to town
on Tuesday.
The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma
Stanley left town on Wednesday for Knowsley-park,
Lancashire, for the Christmas. Lord Stanley, M.P.,
has arrived in St. James's square, from Lancashire.
Lady Mary Wood left the Admiralty yesterday for
Hickleton-hall, Yorkshire. The Right Hon. Sir
Charles Wood will join his family at Hickleton in a
few days.
London, England, 1856-12-13

1190

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive'
Their insertion is often delayed owing to a prees of matter-
►nd when omitted, It lie frequently from reasons quite iude.
pendent of the merits of the communication.
We cannot undertake toreturn communications of which we do

not avail ourselves.
Comnrinications should always bel egiblywritten, and on one
side of the paper only. If long it increases the difficulty of
finding space for them.
Whateveris intended fort nsertion must be authenticated by the
name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publielt-
ti..n, but as a guarantee of his good faith.
Advertisements sentfrom the country must be accompanied by a
remittance or a reference for payment in town.
London, England, 1856-07-05

SUBSCRIPTIONS BY THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.

The Marquis of CLANRICARDE asked whether the
5001. lately subscribed by the East India Company
for the French Inundation Fund was to be provided
from the public revenue of India, and whether the
Home Government would exercise any control over
similar appropriations of that revenue.
The Duke of ARGYLL stated that the subscription
was a vote of money from the revenue of India, and
had been duly sanctioned by the President of the
Board of Control.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH remarked that the
mere concurrence of the President of the Board of
Control could not make the grant legal. Under the
act of 1833 the directors of the East India Company
were legally converted into mere trustees of the pro-
duce of our Oriental empire on behalf of the public
generally, receiving in exchange for their old pro-
prietorship an annuity, partially guaranteed by the
Imperial Government But it we, not to this con
tribution of 5001. he so much objected, as to the
immense expenses frequently incurred by the
directors :

What would their lordships think of a Secretary of State
of this country, on the examination of the cadets at Send-
bust or at Woolwich, inviting f irty or fifty officers to go
down, undertaking to pay all their expenses, and giving
them a inagniticeut dtuner ou their arrival? Would the
Howie of Commons tolerate an estimate of an expense
incurred for such a purpose? Their lordships knew. they
would not. Her Meje-ty's Ministers, at the commence-
ment of the late war, thought it expedient to inaugurate
that war by a grand dinner at the Reform Club, at which
the naval department was most especially exalted ; but he
apprehended that the expense of that dinner never ap-
peared in the naval estimates to be paid for by the country.
Neither would the army estimates, he ventured to say,
include the expense of the dinner to be given by the Secre-
tary of War to Sir William Codrington, on his return from
the Crimea. It was not for the benefit of the Government
of India that these expenses should be incurred. The
service of that Government was not the object of such ex-
penditure. But the Court of Directors seemed to be of
the same opinion as Louis XIV., and appeared to conceive
that "they were the State."
He earnestly entreated the Government to consider
whether a bill ought not to be forthwith brought
in to establish an independent auditor for the ac-
counts of the East India Company :
It was really ton bad that 23,000,0001. should be ex-
pended year after year without any independent audit what-
ever—with no audit but that which was under the control
and influence of the very persons by whom the money was
expended. Their lordships would not be acting honestly
towards the people of India unless they adopted a different
course. He therefore did trust that the Government
would not allow this session to pass without introducing a
bill for the purpose of putting an end to that most inju-
rious system.
The subject then dropped.
London, England, 1856-07-05

5, 1856.

roccainis in ,parliament.

HOUSE OF LORDS—.MONDAT, Juxa 30.
OATS or ♦BJUBATION AMENDMENT BILL.
The Earl of DERBY moved for permission to dis-
charge the order for the third reading of this bill,
fixed for Thursday. The noble earl complained of
the misconsuuction the measure had been subjected
to, as well as the spirit of hostility and defiance it
had been met with in the house. It was a measure
essentially conciliatory ; and, although he withdrew
it, his conviction remained that it was the only mode
of abrogating the obsolete oaths.
London, England, 1856-07-05

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Incident. In offering his own hand, I was particularly
struck with the undertaking to " introduce her to his
daughters, who would vie with him in making her home
happy."
With the letter in my hand I sought out Mrs. Collins,
and, presenting it to her, said smilingly—" There, Mrs.
Collins, is an offer of marriage for you I" " For me, sir !"
she exclaimed, with her usual strong Irish accent, and,
seizing the letter, read a few lines—and, muttering some
contemptuous words, she indignantly cast it into the fire,
seemingly enraged at the temerity of the writer. There
was something in the poor old woman's scornful energy
that awakened in my mind an involuntary passing respect
for her ; and 1 thought that, notwithstanding her avarice
and dishonesty, there still remained in her mind some
slight consciousness of dignity, which this singular proposi-
thin had so suddenly tended to evoke.
The following statement from so good an
authority is satisfactory :

I believe it to be a pure fiction to estimate the gains of
the begger clique as highly as the public has been wont to
assess them ; and the tales of evening enjoyment, hot
suppers, and " lemon with their veal cutlet," are mere
amusing epicurean tables. On the contrary, according to
my observation, the life appears to be a hard one, and the
fare attending it the very reverse of sumptuous. The ad.
venturer who revels in abundance is the begging-letter
imposter.
As a collection of stories concerning noted
criminals, the volumes are curious, and they
are of some value as affording glimpses of the
system of discipline which the author found it
expedient to pursue.
London, England, 1856-07-05

THE BISHOP OF LONDON.

Fon some time past it has been rumoured
that the eminent Prelate, who since 182 S Las
presided over our Metropolitan Diocese, is
about to resign, and a calm view of his long
career, passed in. stormy times, may not be
without advantage.
The Bishop (.f LONDON was, in many re-
spects, one of the first-class public figures of
his generation, and from a variety of causes
full justice was seldom rendered to his great
professional ability, or to his many public
services. Born in 1785, the son of a school
master at Bury St. Edmunds, his Lordship

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LONDON,' SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1856.

MR. MOORE'S motion has left the American
question where it was. That motion was un-
authorised by the Opposition, and failed to
command their support. The minority did
not contain the names of Mr. DISRAELI, of Mr.
WALPOLE, of Lord STANLEY, of Lord JOHN
MANNERS, of Sir E. B. LrrvoN, or of Mr.
HENLEY. When the Opposition wish to ex-
press their sense of the conduct of her Ma-
jesty's Government, they are not likely to
select Mr. H. G. MOORE as their spokesman.

The position of our relations with the United
States' Government, as explained by the Pre-
mier himself, is this :—He maintains " that
" the law of the United States was not
" violated ;" that our Envoy at Washington
and our Consuls did not afford the United
States' Government any just ground of com-
plaint; that that Government acted unfairly
and deceitially towards Mr. CIWIPrON in re-

fraining to demand- explanations from him,
as to the alleged violations of the law, " that
" they might allow causes of complaint to ac-
" cumulate, in order that, when the proper
" time arrived, they might take advantage of
" them, and act upon them, or deal with them
"as matters which did not deserve considers-
" tiun ;" that, in regard to the Consuls, " the
" United States' Government failed to take
" those steps which it was their duty to take
"if they thought that foreign agents were
" violating the laws of the Union ;" that,
" the accusations of the United States' Govern-
" ment rests entirely upon the evidence of men
"who are admitted on all hands to be men of
" vile and infamous character, and totally un•
"worthy of belief ; " that, finally, her Majesty's
Government had offered an ample apology for
any offence which could have been uninten-
tionally committed, and that the apology was
not accepted.
Having shown that the United States' Go-
vernment had been guilty of all this falsehood,
unfairness, double dealing, and dereliction
of duty, he turns to the Opposition, and
says, if you venture to declare that England
has been treated with insult and contumely,
then I charge upon you the responsibility of
" exciting in the people of England a spirit of
" resentment against your neighbours and
" kindred in the United States." After most
artfully loading the United States' Govern-
ment with such charges of falsehood and
dishonour as no Government can possibly
listen to without the strongest feelings of in-
dignation and resentment, he stretches forth
his hands and exclaims: Behold in me a
Peacemaker, and in the gentlemen opposite
firebrands !

According to his statements and reasoning,
this country ought not to have submitted to
the dismissal of our agents without retaliation,
Inasmuch as the dismissal was au act of pre-
meditated injustice. lie insists that, con-
trary to good faith and fair dealing, the United
States' Government formed an ambush against
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Amount applied out of the Income for the Quarter
ended June 30, 1856, to Redemption of Exchequer
Bills (deficiency) for the quarter ended March 31,
1856, less portion of Charge transferred to hetet d £2,569,109
Exchequer Bills Redeemed with Money received
under the Act for Funding Exchequer Bills
Amount applied out of the Income to supply Ser-
vices in the Quarter ended June 30, 1856 15,508,195
Charge of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter
ended June 30, 1b56, viz.:—
Interest of the Permanent Debt .. £6,248,993
Terminable Debt
Interest of Exchequer Bills (De-
ficiency)
The Civil List
Other Charges on Consolid Fund 360,011
Advances for Public Works, tko... 324,700
------ 7,734,394
Balance of Money received under the Act for Funding
Exchequer Bill•, carried to Revenue
Surplus Balance beyond the Charge of the Consoli-
dated Fund for the Quarter ended June 30, 1856,
viz.:—
Great Britain
Ireland

2,188
999,581

126,459,943

their destination. the Queen will, we believe, proceed
in a carriage to Hyde park, and the brigade, 3,000
strong, will be there inspected by her Majesty.
The officers who have lately held commands in
the Crimea will immediately be placed in similar
positions on the staff at home. Five of them have
been already appointed to the command of brigades
at Aldershott, and several district staff appoint-
ments will shortly be vacated, to which other Cri-
mean officers will, in all probability, be named.—
Globe.
The banquet given by the Grenadier Guards, was
held on Thursday at the London Tavern, his Royal
Highness Prince Albert in the chair. Covers were laid
for 140. The company included the Duke of Cambridge,
the Prince of Saxe Weimar, General Bentinck,
Colonel S. Wood, Lord Downes, Lord Grantley,
Duke of Manchester, Sir G. Nugent, Sir J. Kirk-
land, Sze.
Mr. Clifford's excellent and safe apparatus for
lowering ships boats instantly and safely, has by
order of the Admiralty, been fitted to a line-of-battle
ship and steamer for trial at sea.
The Ist battalion of the Scots Fusilier Guards,
under Colonel Walker, C.B , has arrived at Ports-
mouth in H.M.S. Princess Royal, and proceeded by
special trains to Aldershott. The Orinoco, with the
Scots Greys and various detachments has also ar-
rived.
Colonel Wetherell, late deputy giartermaster-
General of the Turkish Contingent, has bee ap-
pointed to the head-quarters staff at the Horse
Guards.

Mrs. Scacole, the celebrated proprietress of the
provision store in the Crimea, intends isetting up a
similar establishment at Aldershott. Her fame in
this particular department of business is so well
known among all military men that success in her
new speculation is almost certain.
Lieutenant-General Beatson, writ ing to the Times
this week with reference to a paragraph in the last
Indian News, gives the following statements of
certain pending proceedings relative to the gallant •
lieutenant-general's late command in the East
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lII.—EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS. (From all Sources.)

Surplus Balance beyond the Charge of the Consoli-
dated Fund for the Quarter ended Mar. 31,1836, viz.,
. .

Great Britain
1647,41
Ireland
£647,831

Balance of Money received under the Act for funding
Exchequer Bills .... 159,000
Income received in the Quarter ended June 30, 1830,
as shown in Account I
Amount received in the Quarter ended June 30,1856,
iu full of First Loan of .C 5,000,001,
Ditto in part of Second Loan of Rb,000,000 2,500,000
Money received in lieu of Exchequer Bills, iu part of
Funding of 83,000,000
Amount received in the Quarter ending June 30,1836,
in repayment of advances for Public Works, kc.

874,471

122,675,298
Balance, being the deficiency on the 30th June,
1856, upon the charge of the Consolidated Fund in
Great Britain, to meet the Dividends and other
charges payable iu the Quarter to Sept, 30,
1b513, and for which Exchequer Bills (deficiency)
will be issued in that Quarter 3,584,645

126.459,943

gabal ateatilitarg nttiligente.

THE CAMP iw THE CRIMEA.—LetteTs to the 21st
June state that Sir William Codrington and staff had
proceeded to Kertcb, the army in the meantime
being commanded by Lieutenant-General Windham.
All the huts are to be sold, three Jews having con-
sented to give 10s. apiece for them as they stand.
As the huts are marked they are to be given over
and the money received. Sir Houston Stewart is
still embarking the granite from the Sebastopol
docks, for the purpose of making a larger basin at
Malta; and the Gladiator, Captain Hillyar, still lies
off Fort Paul embarking stores. A yacht with a lady
on board is also in the harbour. The obelisk at
Inkermann is nearly completed, and the inscription
on it is understood to be, "In memory of the Eng-
lish, French, and Russians who fell at the battle of
Inkermann, sth November, 1854." On the return
of the Commander•in-Chief from Kertch it is his in-
tention to go up the country and round by Alouchta,
and finally quit the Crimea about the 10th of July,
leaving Major-General Garrett, K.H., in command of
the five regiments attached to the fourth division,
who are only delayed on account of the railway,
which it will take three weeks to embark at least.

Major-General Sir Colin Campbell and Major-
General Sir Richard England a:e about to be
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General in
the Army.
General Viscount Gough, G.C.8., has arrived in
town from his mission to the Crimea, where the
gallant veteran was delegated by her Majesty to in
vest the French marshal and generals with the
Order of the Bath.

The Grenadier Guards arrived at Spithead from
the Crimea on Sunday night, and the Fusilier Guards
on Friday morning last. The line of march of the
Guards on their public entry into London will be
from Waterloo-bridge,iup the Strand and Piccadilly to
Buckingham Palace, and thence by Constitution-hill
to Hyde-park. As soon as the Guards have reached
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63A

A COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS, for
ntirelv remodelling Dulwich College, and redis-
tributirg the large and increasing revenues of that
establishment, so as more widely to spread the
benefits intended by Edward Alleyne, the founder,
sat for the first time on Wednesday. The pro-
visions of the new bill propose that the existing
corporation of "God's Gift," be dissolved. The Arch-
bishop of Canterbury and his successors to be visi-
tors of the college. After the 31st of December,
1858, fifteen governors, four elected and eleven ap-
pointed by Chancery, should have the entire control
and management of the charity, its estates and pro-
perty. Allowance to he paid to the master, wardens,
fellows, and poor brethren in full satisfaction of all
rights and privileges at present enjoyed ; the institu-
tion of two schools, with a head master at 3501. per
annum, and a second master at 2501. The religions
instruction to be that of' the Church of England.
The scheme contains some minor details for working
out the plan. Mr. Sergeant Merewether, on the part
of the members of the theatrical profession, moved
on Wednesday the insertion of a clause which should
allow four aged actors and actresses to be pensioners
on the endowment; and eight sons of actors and
actresses, duly qualified, to be toundationers in the
schools. This application was considered by the
committee and rejected. After going through some
of the clauses, the committee adjiurned.

THE LOCAL DUES COMMITTEE has closed its pro-
ceedings. Mr. Headlam moved a report recognising
these dues as the private property of the various
corporations, and laying down the principle of com-
pensation for their abolition. On this an amend-
ment was moved, that the evidence should be simply
reported to the house. A discussion of some length
ensued, and the committee divided equally—eight
against eight on the question. The chairman, Mr.
Lowe, having the casting vote, gave it in favour of
the amendment, which was accordingly carried.
THE COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE EAST INDIA
COMPANY deny the reported suspension of public
works in India.
London, England, 1856-07-05

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE

Tuesday, July 1.

BANKRUPTS.—LaxuaL BEOCKLZBANK, Willesden, napths
manufacturer—T. D. W. C. SEYD, Finsbury-square, private hotel-
keeper—ROßEßT HUDSON, tiouthamptui-street, Strand, ship and
insurance broker—Joitx Hnwirr, the younger. Helvergate,
Norfolk. miller—HENßY Atiou BTUS Hors, West-street, Smith -
field, City, hay salesman—l DWABD YOUNGE, Holt, Norkilk,
bookseller—Simon. NEWMAN, Granville Hotel, Lee, Bent,
builder and publican— ISAAC THOMAS ROGERB, New Oxford-
street, importer of American cIocks—GEORGE JOSEPH GREEN.
Birmingham, glass manufacturer—THOMAS GOOLD, Birmingham,
military ornament manufacturer—Wm. Tstion, Liverpool, corn
dealer.

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SCOTCH SEQTJESTRATIONS.—Jamas M.Gissow, Glasgow,
miller--Jons LITTLE lUld Co., Glasgow, ironmongers—Wit.
hiscrannarts (tiecessed), Perth, commission agent.

Friday, July 4
RANKRUPTS—Josh llNwtrr, the younger, late of Halvor.
gate, miller—War-um W►aiNo, Crown-street Walworth-road.
chemist and druggist—Josh BRINDLSY, Chester, stationer—.
14:DIVARD Gas, Blackrod, near Wighan, coal dealer—ST►rs=X
M♦saa-ma, Birmingham, licensed victualler—Husav theca,
St, Leopards-on-Sea, Sussex, linen draper—Jo-we ktossirrs.
Poplar, engineer—WK. HAIIROP, Cullingworth, stuff =masa.
turcr—JoesnA CLAYTON, Bedford, commission agent.

_ •
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.—HostaT KisT, Perth, now
deceased, jeweller—Hues CoLynx' CHRISTM, Tain, wine row-
chant—ROszar AnusTaore and Co., Castle Mug's" grocers.

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VelauL

MR. JAMES SADLEIR, M.P., director of the Tippe-
rary Joint-stock Bank, is said to have effected his
escape from Ireland. He gut into a yacht near
Kingstown in the presence of two detectives under
whose surveillance he was, and the policemen
waited in vain for his return, as the yacht was met
off Dublin harbour by an emigrant ship, in which he
proceeded to America.
THE annual report of the Queen's visit has been
authoritatively denied by the Evening Mail.
LIEUTENANT MASSY of the 19th, better known as
Redan Massy, was presented with a sword of honour
on Monday, by his fellow-students at the College,
Dublin. The fellows of Tnnity afterwards enter-
tained the gallant young officer at a dinner.
Mr. JOHN CARDEN, who two years since attempted
the abduction of Miss Arbuthnott, was liberated on
Thursdeo on the expiration of his period for metha
tation and reflection.

THE EXPECTED JUDGMENT of the Court of Common
Pleas with reference to the application of the old
act of 33rd George 11. to the affairs of the Tippe-
rary Bank, has been postponed for the present term
owing to the absence of Judge Ball.
A DELIBERATE MURDER was committed near Roscrea
on Monday evening on a respectable farmer named
William Curran, who was shot dead in his own Louse
while sitting down to supper, the assassin having
fired at him through the parlour window. An in-
quest was held on Wednesday, and a verdict of "Wilful
murder" returned.

PRINCE NAPOLEON is expected to visit Cork in the
course of a few days.
London, England, 1856-07-05

July 5,

The Emperor Napoleon, it is stated authoritatively,
has invited the Emperor of Austria to a conference
at the Chateau of Arenemberg, anJ that the Austrian
Emperor has accepted the invitation.
General Kisseleff, it is believed, will be the
Russian Ambassador at Paris.

AUSTRIA.
The Emperor, it is said, will grant a political am-
nesty on the approaching delivery of the Empress.
Marshal Radetzky is reported to have submitted
his resignation of the Italian command to the Em-
peror, who declined to accept it, in consideration of
the agitated state of Italy.
Prince Gort,chakoff has left Vienna.
Cardinal Rauscher had also left to submit to the
Pope the deliberations of the late Episcopal Con-
ferences.

jolt, y;l4.- etil
London, England, 1856-10-18

AUSTRALIA.

Intelligence from Melbourne to the 28th July has
been received this week.

The advices contain no political or general news
of importance.

The news confirmatory of the declaration of peace
had been received with enthusiasm by the inhabi-
tants of Melbourne, Sydney, &e., and each town cele-
brated the event by a general holiday.
The prospects of the various gold-fields were most
promising. A new gold-field had been discovered
near Maitland in New South Wales.

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON drove into Paris on
Tuesday in an open carriage. He was hardly recog-
nised as he passed along the Champs Elysies, and
consequently there was little or no demonstration :

On arriving at the Tuileries (continues a correspon-
dent) he mounted on horseback, and traversed, at a slow
pace, the whole of the once formidable Faubourg St. An-
toine. It was two o'clock, the ht.ur at which the workmen
were at their dinner, so that his way lay through the thick
of the crowd. He was attended by a brilliant buff, and
the squadron of the Cent.-Oardes, complete in costume
and in number, served as his escort. He rode in advance
of them, and his intrepid confidence in passing through
the mass of the working population at a moment of suffer-
ing and discontent, and with a display so anti democra-
tical, could not fail in its fascination on the lower orders
of the people. The "pride, pomp, and circumstance of
war " affect none more than the French, and of the French
no population more than the Parisian ; and therefore
Napoleon 111. was well and warmly received even by those
who an hour before may have murmured loudest against
him. He passed on at the head of the brilliant cortege,
glittering in their cuirasses and helmets, to St. Maur,
where he held a review and conducted the manoeuvres on
the field. He returned at half-past five by the same
faubourg, which was then nearly deserted, as the crowds
had returned to their workshops. Some anxiety had been
felt by the authorities as to the reception his Majesty
might meet with, and numerous police agents in plain
cloths were stationed en echelon along the way. The pre-
cautions, however prudent, proved unnecessary, as nothing
occurred.
London, England, 1856-10-18

AT last we have an intelligible explanation
of the Ministerial policy towards Italy from a
Ministerial journal. Tardy as it is, we receive
it gladly. It must open the eyes of our public,
if anything can, to the impolicy of the course
we are pursuing.
Italy, it is said, is a divided and distracted
country, incapable of winning independence—
or if independence were a free gift, of main-
taining it—torn by furious parties, and rent
asunder by petty ',States. It has alternately
been:subject to the domination of Austria and
France, and those Powers, it is assumed, are
ready at lany moment to divide the territory
between them, should any insurrection give
them a pretence for interference. To counter-
act their influence, England must play a game
of her own. We are, it is argued, compelled
to interfere, that the interference of France
and Austria may be kept within limits. If we
do not interfere, we are, as regards the Italian
peninsula, reduced to political insignificance,
and we throw Italy completely into the hands
of her mighty neighbours. IVe must keep up
a party there—not, indeed, with any confident
expectation that we shall benefit the party—
but that we may not ourselves be driven into a
corner This is the sum and substance of the
argument put forth to justify the Ministerial
policy.
Now, in the first place, the theory assumes
• too much. Tiler:: is no just ground for sup-
i.posing that Austria and France regard Italy
;as a, sick man, and are ready to take joint
yosseision of his effects. The interests of
those Powers are so adverse that it is ex-
tremely unlikely they would ever come to
such an agreement as is suggested. There is
not the slightest reason to imagine that they
contemplate such a violation of the public
law of Europe. Neither Power can be very
anxious to have the other for its next door
neighbour. If we suffer remote contingencies
• of this kind to influence our policy, we must
be prepared to make every one of the minor
Courts of Europe the theatre of our intrigues ;
and, instead of teaching them to rest in peace
under shelter of a general agreement of all
European• Powers to maintain their rights and
territorial bounds, we shall inspire them with
dread of invasion, and tell them that they
have no hope of safety but by attempting to
create division on matters concerning their
internal affairs among the Governments with
which they have relations.
To urge the principle of interference in the
internal affairs of any country, is surely not
the best plan to secure it from foreign invasion.
If Italy is really in danger from France and
Austria, does it not appen• that the policy we
are pursuing is sure to aggravate that danger?
Are we to assist in embarrassing the affairs of
any Italian State, to assail its independence,
and to promote its occupation by foreign
forces, in order that we may have a finger in
the pie? The apologists of our Ministry say—
London, England, 1856-10-18

INDIA.

The usual mail has brought full details of the con-
templated expedition to Persia. The Times cor-
respondent writes from Bombay, Sept. 12 :
The expedition will sail about the end of October or
the beginning of November. The strength of the con
templated Bombay force, and even the individual regi-
ments of which it is to be composed, still remain uncer-
tain. But it seems probable that it will consist at first of
two brigades of infantry, two field batteries, and oae troop
of horse artillery, a siege train, two companies of sappers
and miners, and a regiment of irregular cavalry—the
Poonah Horse.
Whether the Persians were really in occupation of
Herat was unknown.

The opening of a new loan by Government, at
four and a half per cent., for expenditure on public
works, had taken the money market by surprise, and
was not responded to. The Times correspondent
writes :

The rapid recurrence of these loans, the astounding
blunders committed in 1R54, and the distrust which is
beginning to make itself felt as to the results of our
policy in the matter of public works, all point to one fact.
Wo need a financial commission of inquiry, composed in
part at least of English financiers.