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London, England, 1855-10-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26 1855

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of the Malakhoff and the Redan, and the com-
manders at Kinbourn, are equal to anything.
What we need is political combinations worthy
of the hour. Several factions are combining to
force on the present Premier an abrupt termina-
tion of the War, or to eject him from office. To
Conservatives they allege that the War, if con-
tinued, must soon become a War of principles.
We must have a " Conservative peace, or a Demo-
cratic war," as they are pleased to phrase it. To
the people they say, despite fifty glaring proofs to
the contrary, that dear bread, and six per cent.
for money, are the fruits of the War. The latter
we cannot now stay to refute, if refutation
can be needed by those who remember inte-
rest as high and higher without war not quite
ten years ago ; or by those who know that
a deficient continental harvest, with one not
more than an average of our own, are suffi-
cient to account for the price of bread ; that
in America it is nearly as high as it is here, and
that even sugar, which, so far as Russian con-
sumption goes, ought to be cheapened by the war,
is rising as well as tallow itself. As to the awful
threat held in terroran over the heads of all good
Conservatives, our only fear is lest it should
prove a threat merely. We can but wish for a
Democratic war—for a war of 2yrinciples. Un-
principled war, or, to use the mildest term, war
inspired by poor and low principles, by a tempo-
rising expediency rather, can issue in no elevating
and stable results. Let us ask every reasonable
man in England and France whether a war
for the Princes and Courts of Europe, or
for the peoples of Europe, is most needed ?
I Which of the two classes, the rulers or the ruled,
most need an intervention in their favour ? From
BOMBA in the South, to his brethren at Vienna
and Berlin, who will say that any of them are
worth—may we say, " powder and shot ?" Will
any one, on the other hand, disgrace his British
name by denying that the groaning Italians, the
down-trodden Hungarians, the almost murdered
Poles, nay, even the cheated Prussians, are wor-
thy of some help at least ? Our only fear, how-
ever, is, that Lord PALMERSTON is too Conserva-
tive iby far to allow the War to become, if he can
prevent it, the liberator of the nations. Splen-
didly, indeed, would his reputation and that of
our Imperial Ally go down to posterity could
they have the courage to burst the bonds of dy-
nasticism, and reinstate the peoples of Europe in
their natural rights.
Paltry as have been the results of Sir CHARLES
WOSD'S costly addition to the Baltic mismanage-
ment of the previous year, yet the country is so
far satisfied with achievements in the East that
it will not discontinue the War from want of suc-
cess. It understands, too, that the means of de-
cided success iu the Baltic, as well as the Euxine,
are so clear now, that even Sir CHARLES WOOD
dares not, under peril or losing (awful for a
Whig) his place, betray the country another
year. He must smash the forts and burn the
ships to which ho has given another winter and
spring, we suppose, lest the work of conquest should
be too easy. What the country now wants for its
encouragement is effective political combinations.
Another campaign. must be commenced with
greatly improved administration of the army and
with a vastly improved adaptation of our navy to
the nature of the war. That is settled ; we
want to see the campaign commence also
with the aid of nations who long to join us,
but whom we have hitherto not used ; and with
the casting off those who have been " Allies to a
certain extent"—the alliance, to wit, of the drag-
chain with the wheel.
We refer especially just now to Sweden and
Norway. Their KING has no such guilty reasons
as Austria and Prussia for a traitorous and mali-
cious leaning to Russia ; the Western Powers can
serve his purposes much better. His people are
openly enthusiastic in the cause of the Allies.
They regard Russia :as their subtle and sworn
enemy. They remember how she has wrested the
Baltic Provinces and Islands successively from
Sweden, partly by force, partly by fraud. They
have not forgotten Bomarsund. What they want is
some adequate " material guarantee that when
the War closes, and when Sweden shall be
left to confront Russia as an independent
nation, she shall be, in a territorial and
military sense, in a fair condition to bid
defiance to anything Russia could do. It
was said at one time that Sweden demanded a
Polish campaign on the part of the Allies, as the
surest means of reducing Russia to be no more
than a fair match for her. If so, it was the
soundest wisdom. Stript of Poland, as in all
reason and conscience Russia should be, she would
be no longer a terror to Sweden any more than
to Germany. It would seem likely that Sweden
might also ask a permanent treaty, offensive and
defensive, as against Russia, with the Allies ; it
would be but prudence to grant it. She could
hardly fail to require the restoration of Finland
and the islands of the Baltic, with the destruc-
tion of the forts in the Gulf of Finland which
were not placed in her hands ; and this would be
but justice to her, and to the Finns and islanders.

To put Sweden into this position would be to
secure the brave and free Scandinavians as a last-
ing bulwark against the cupidity of the CZARS.
They have. been as stea4hily advancing, even in
Lapland itself, against Sweden, as in the provinces
against Turkey. '';'hey covet an unfrozen port
in Norway, and, the territory of both Sweden
and Norstay too. They
~would thus become
troubles
erne naval neighbours to us, or to France,
accord:Lug as events might dispose them to aid
either of us against the other. They would ac-
guise, too, the services of a large number of real
sailors to man the fleet, instead of the land-
lubbers who have- never yet dared to meet a
French or English ship. Near Sweden can easily
enable us to place her in the position iadicated.
She has an army which could more than threaten
Finland ; but she has, especially, that splendid
fleet of gnn-boats,
of which we have heard so
rmich adapted ,
to the navigation, and navigated
by sailors who are familiar with the waters. She
could supply, at an hour's notice, what would
take our Admiralty a sad long while to prepare.
hug:Supported by our floating batteries these
naval light cavalry could render Sweaborg and
Cronstadt an easy prey to
the broadsides of the
former. The return of the Swedish envoy from
Paris, the asserted mission of another thither, the
hopes we
visit of our Admiral to Stockholm, suggests
should be glad to cherish. We are confident that
a hearty alliance with Sweden would be bailed
by this nation as a guarantee of a bolder policy) a
more effective war, and, therefore, of a more
speedy, honourable, and lasting peace.

People on the Continent, wheSeaby our papers
the Duke of CAMBRIDGE and Lord CARDIGAN
going abcut England receiving honours for their
bravery, and for the excellence of their leadership,
ask with surprise, "BUT IVRY ARE THEY AT HOME ?
Do they not continue to receive pay ? If they
were privates would they be allowed to continue
to receive pay without doing duty ? You Eng-
lishmen are complaining, and justly, that the
generalship of your army does not do justice to
the qualities of the men in the ranks. Good
leadership is not, according to your own accounts,

so common that you have any of this precious '
quality to spare. Then why aro not these good
leaders in the field ? See the great and good
example set to the ranks of the army by
Miss NIGHTINGALE and your ladies. She and
some of them have suffered by fever, and have
been reduced in strength ; but immediately she
at least was convalescent, instead of returning
home and gathering incense, she returned to
her post—one of more real danger than the
trenches ; in hospital wards' crowded with fever
and dysentery patients, amidst the groans of the
suffering and the dying ?
" And your leading military men keep at home
amidst luxury ?
" Can these laudations of them be real or true,
or are they the mere outcries of weak and igno-
rant people, and must not the truth be that your
War Department is glad to have them away I"
These are natural suggestions. In either case
what a display does it make for the Administra-
tive Reform of our army. At a time when the
country is heavily pressed by its War taxation,
here is either valuable service wasted, or the hard-
earned resources of the country paid for services
not given ! Why, first and last, the country can
scarcely have expended less than twenty thousand
pounds on Lord CARDIGAN to bring him up to his
position, for which the return is one half hour's
charge ! Did BONAPARTE let MURAT, his first
cavalry officer, go about the country receiving
Mayors' addresses and Corporation adulation
after a single charge, whilst the war was going on,
and the Russians were in force in the field ? Yet
we are in all probability paying to these two
officers, who are doing nothing, twice as much as
was refused to the Royal Society for the Advance-
ment of Science, on the plea of the necessities of
the War ? On that plea Sir GEORGE LEWIS and
Messrs. RAYTER and WiLsoN, of the Treasury,
are making candidates for clerkships pay fees, the
wretched expenses of the examinations, by which
the majority of them, the rejected, will be made
to feel that they have thrown their money away.
Real and economical service is depressed, whilst
vast sums are expended on what the Administra-
i tion itself treats as outrageous shams. These aro
1 surely cases, amongst others, for the Adminis-
trative Reform Association.

It is time for the Currency Reformers to be up
said doing ! There is consternation in the ranks
of the Bullionists ! It is seen that the Act of
1844 cannot possibly be maintained—that it is
to all intents and purposes inconsistent with the
vigorous and energetic conduct of the just and
necessary War in which we are engaged, and that
we must either submit to a dishonourable and
temporary peace on any conditions which Austria
pleases to suggest and Russia to accept, or enter
into a complete revision of our monetary system.
If we seek to " maintain the integrity" of the
bullionist standard we must inevitably submit to
the degradation of the national standard. "The
flag that braved a thousand years the battle and
the breeze" must be tarnished in order to save
the prejudices of the Currency quacks, and to
gratify what we are told is the Englishman's
" liking " to have gold in his pocket,
although the smaller denominations of bank
notes would be for all practical purposes much
more convenient, as a circulating medium, for
conducting the domestic trade and commerce of
the country.
Never, perhaps, was there a time when agita-
tion on this all-important question was more
urgently required, when public opinion could be
more effectually brought to bear on the Govern-
ment and both Houses of Parliament. The Act
of 1844 will, virtually, expire next year, and
clue provision must he made for an adequate sub-
stitute. Even the great organ of the bullionists
has been compelled to acknowledge that there are
points in which it requires alteration. What,
then, shall be the nature and extent of • these
much-required changes ? Are all promises to
pay on demand less than 5/. sterling to be
peremptorily eschewed ; or, may we be allowed a
small-note currency, similar to that in opera-
tion in
.the Sister Kingdoms ? Are we to
have a really national note issued by the
Government, under the control and direc-
tion of Parliament, receivable in payment
of all fiscal charges, or to confer a monopoly on a
trading corporation which has shown itself to be
far more concerned for its own profits, than for
the safety, honour, and welfare of the SOVEREIGN
and her dominions ? And is one of the most valu-
able
Royalty—one
be permanently of the brightest
jewelsable prerogatives
n the
British of
c r
Crown—to
wsurrendered to a by no means worthy substitute?
We can scarcely doubt the nature of the responses
which will be returned from all parts of the
country, and which must penetrate to the most
secret recesses of Downing-street. The manage-
ment of the monetary concerns of the country
must be transferred from the Bank Parlour to a
Board responsible to Parliament and the country
f.r its proceedings.

The Times, in its City Article of this day,
sounds the note of preparation for the rapidly-
approaching contest. It is already setting its
shoulders to the wheel to obtain the best terms
for the moneyocracy. " Fas est ab hoste doceri."
The Currency Reformers should follow the example
of their most energetic and most powerful oppo-
nent. If they wish for a successful termination
of the conflict, they should lose no time in acting
on the public mind. Agitate ! agitate ! agitate !
That is indispensable under existing circumstances
if they would not see the golden opportunity lost
for a long succession of years, or possibly for ever,
and a substitute for the Act of 1844 foisted on
the country, which would operate as seriously
to the detriment of the industrious classes
as that which is now happily approaching
to its termination. Let the people remember
that it has been proved by an unexceptionable
witness that the last great war in which England
was engaged could not possibly have been carried
on but for the suspension of cash payments.
Tho Minister of the day persevered too long before
he adopted the necessary step. Great loss was
thereby occasioned to the country. But that
would he altogether averted if timely measures
no v,s'o,
were taken, before all the bullion had left our
shores. The obvious course to be adopted in the
present
of
u, and instance2i. te
whichu hibewouldto
relieve
oobtainan issue
a laerg e
proportion of the • sovereigns now in daily use.
Their reception by the community would furnish
a useful guide for the t. legis ai 1 on that must ensu©.
With that and the suspension of the Bank Charter
Act, similar to that authorised by the celebrated
letter of the 25th October, 184'
, we could
manage to await without difficulty the Parlia-
mentary investigation that must ensue, and the
rate of interest might be reduced within limits
consistent with the prosperity of the trade and
commerce of the country, and the welfare and
happiness of the
industrial portion of the com-
munity.

What about the costs of the War ? "Rather
early," some may say, "to enter on a considera-
tion of the subject. When the pride of Russia is
effectually bumbled, and her power is reduced to
such dimensions as are compatible with the safety

of Europe, then will be the time to talk about
costs." It may be as well, however, for the public
to establish their opinion on the matter, and
fortify their understandings in preparation for
the assaults that will be—indeed, are now being
made on them.

Russia has broken the peace by invading Tur-
key, and has satisfied all reasonable men of the
existence of a long-premeditated design on her
part to ride rough-shod over law, freedom, and
civilisation in Europe. France and England
rushed to the rescue, in conformity with the obli-
gations their position and interests imposed upon
them ; and it would be somewhat audacious to
say that they are not entitled to insist on having
the expenditure they and their allies have been,
and will be, put to in the vindication of the
rights of nations refunded. Pragmatic individuals
and political trimmers are, however, to be found
who would have the public take another view of
the matter. These domestic traitors, in further-
ance of a conspiracy they have entered into to
put a stop to the War, at whatever cost, have re-
course to sophistry, in order at once to gull
the nation, and divert the odium a naked revela-
tion of their miserable aim would bring down upon
them. " Russia," they propound, " will not pay
the costs of tho War if she can help it. To pre-
vent, therefore, that further slaughter of our
brave troops which a continuance of the bloody
struggle will necessitate, would it not be wise and
humane not to insist on the payment of costs ?
Ts do otherwise, would it not be to sell our
soldiers' blood for gold ?' " Plausible enough,
humane reader, is it not? Yes, we admit ; but
diabolically inhuman. Russia, we grant, is not
likely to pay " the costs of the bloody suit" if she
can help it. But the object of the War is so to
reduce her over-grown pride and strength that
she cannot help paying them, were it only from a
regard for her own interests. To let her off scot
free would be to " sell our soldiers' blood" for the
profit of knaves. It would be to rob the glorious
' sacrifice of our slaughtered heroes of its efficacy—
to cast away the pearl of safety (from barbaric
outrage) to swine. It would be to plunder the
bereaved parent, the widow, and the orphan of
that righteous consolation that soothes their re-
gret for the dear ones they have lost—the reflec-
tion that they fell fighting for the liberties of
Europe, and that their blood was not shed in vain.
It would be to stultify the patriotism, humanity,
and wisdom of our times, and write us down
heartless ingrates, inhuman spendthrifts, and con-
summate asses to boot. When the grand object
of the War is attained, and not till then, Russia
will be prepared to pay the costs ; and until that
time arrives hostilities must be carried on with
the utmost vigour. This is pretty much the real
logic of the War, and it is very simple.

PORTRAIT OF MR. RUSSELL,

"THE TIMES CORRESPONDENT."

There he sits—sketched off to the very life by
the magic pencil of the sunbeam—that wonder-
ful historian of the war, The Times "Special
Correspondent" before Sebastopol. Who is there
in England but has some interest in scanning his
effigy ? Who that does not entertain some rational
feelings of curiosity as to the aspect of this daring
Critic of the Camp—no longer a vague mysterious
entity, but a substantial representative of Journal-
ism on the great battle-field of European civilisation.
Talk as we may about the inconvenience of hav-
ing our military plans and operations analysed in
the face of day by the adventurous intellect of a
civilian—it is scarcely possible to overrate the
advantages accruing to the common interests now
at stake, to the grand cdise now at issue in this
momentous struggle between the East and the
West, between the Allies and Russia, from the
vigilance of a keen and impartial observer like
,
e r
person
' the one here presented to our view in his strongly-
sdoefininich
eldalyndi'lvliiavmid
itiunsdsievlildinuahliitsyo.
wnlptroipsscarcely
who may be herein recognised by his numerous
friends, and let us add, too, by his innu-
merable admirers, as a man of this age,
so essentially a type of his class as .to
have assumed, permanently, a foremost rank
among the eminent public characters of our gene-
ration. As such the portrait-sketch, lithographed
by M. and N. Hanhart, after a drawing by J. a
Lynch, from the original photograph by R. Fenton,
now in the possession of the Messrs. Agnew and
Sons, the enterprising art-publishers of Man-
chester represents scarcely so much W. IL
Russell as The Times Correspondent, scarcely so
much The Times Correspondent, indeed, as
what shall we say—CAPrArif PEN. Yes ! there,
in that graphic limning, is the veritable imper-
sonation of that hitherto merely mythic, or purely
imaginary being, Captain Pen Capped et /a
militaire, coated as a civilian, booted (vigor-
ously) like one accustomed to the saddle
on the miry roads of Crim Tartary, bearded
like the pard, or, what is pretty much the same
nowadays, like any wandering gentleman in the
far East--there he sits—that Champion of the
Soldier and In telli gen cer of the People—watchfully
observant from his camp-stool, perhaps, of some
incident of the contest, the chivalrous execution
of which his hand will be the first to celebrate, or
the blundering design of which his judgment
will be the first and foremost to arraign. Slung
at his side--no sword—but a telescope, or, may
be, a pouch with a scroll of paper, destined by its
luminous perspicuity of statement, or by its rhe-
torical brilliancy of description, to contrast almost
painfully with the bungling and incoherent Des-
patch transmitted by the same mail from head-
quarters, signed and sealed by an unlettered Com-
mander-in-Chief. Every one we are persuaded
will examine with interest, many with admiration,
the effigy and the sign-manual of this bold, manly,
uncompromising, patriotic Correspondent. Every
one must assuredly so do who recalls to mind for
one instant some few of the great things which have
been accomplished, beyond all doubt chiefly through
the instrumeStality of Mr. RussELL, acting in his
very delicate and responsible capacity as The Times
Correspondent. It will be remembered how nobly
out-spoken were his words of indignant remon-
strance as the dread Crimean winter closed in
upon the British army encamped before Sebas-
topol, without those provisions for its Com-
fort, the want of which his prescience recog-
nised from the first as being calculated to prove
so dismally and deplorably destructive. It
cannot be forgotten how resolutely, moreover,
from first to last, his pen has dealt with
the whole series of delinquencies by which these
two memorable campaigns have in so many in-
stances been most lamentably illustrated—his
reprehension being no less severely articulated in
reference to the wielder of the Marshal's baton,
or the potterer over the inkhorn of some obscure
or subordinate Commissary. Neither can it
very speedily pass away from the popular remem-
brance—the recollection of those brilliant chap-
ters of contemporary history, in which the groat
deeds of the War against Russia are acknowledged,
far and wide, to have been the most picturesquely
and the most durably commemorated. For, as-
suredly, such must be the almost universally
unanimous opinion pronounced over that earnest
narrative, in which the glorious storming of the
heights of the Alma, and the magnificent cavalry
charges at Balaklava, and the desperate hand-to-
hand struggle at Inkerman, and the deadly night
work in the trenches, and the final assaults upon
the Roden and the Malakhoff have been told, so
to speak, in characters of blood and tears, by the
nervous pen of The Times Correspondent.

THE SUCCESSOR OF GENERAL SIMPSON.—We believe
there is no longer any reason to doubt tfn.t Sir William
t telegraphic
General cum
ruLugnti
Codrington has been appointed to succeed Gen. Simpson
Corninander-in-Cliief of our army in the Crimea. A
oenatioonn ti‘olothudatayeffieacstt.w.23Blol2.awriziAttead.
verlijcr.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, THURSDAY.
There was no addition to the Royal dinner party yes-
terday.
The Queen, with the Princess Royal, walked in the
Home Park this morning.
His Royal Highness the Prince went out shooting.
The following have been invited, and are expected
this afternoon :—His Serene Highness Prince Edward
of Saxe Weimar, the Portuguese Minister and the
Countess de Lavradio, Sir Charles and Lady Mary
Wood, and Major-General Sir Richard England.

Sir Alexander Spearman had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer on Wednesday, at his
official residence in Downing-street.
Despatches from the Governor of West Australia,
and also from the Governor of Ceylon, were received
yesterday at the Colonial-office.

The Duchess of Inverness entertained Sir Charles and
Lady Mary Wood and a select party to dinner on Wed-
nesday evening, at Kensington Palace.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford are entertaining a
succession of visitors at WoburnAbbey„Beds._

The Marquis of Blandford and Lord Alfred Churchill
during the last week have been staying on a visit to the
Doke of Marlborough, at Blenheim Palace.
The Earl and Countess of Darnley have gone on a
continental tour.
The Earl of Southesk is having made great alterations
and improvements at Kinnaird Castle, the ancient
baronial residence of the Carnegies.
The Earl and Countess Bruce are staying at Savernake
Lodge, near Marlborough, Wilts. There was a review
of the Marlborough troop of the Wilts Yeomanry Ca-
valry a few days since on the lawn at Savernake, at
which the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury and a
large party were present. The officers of the corps, in-
cluding the Earl Bruce, Lord Edward Thynne, Lord
Ernest Bruce, Major Ward, &c., dined together in the
evening.
Lady Mary Fox has joined the circle assembled at
Wercyss Caste, N.B.
The Right Hon. Sir James Graham has returned to
Netherby, from visiting the Earl of Aberdeen, at Haddo
House, N.B.
The Right Hon. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood
left the Admiralty yesterday afternoon, to remain a few
days on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
The Right Hon. Henry and Lady Mary Labouchere,
after a tour of visits in Ireland, in the course of which
they visited the Duke of Devonshire, at Lismore Castle ;
Lady Dover, at Gowran Castle ; and his Excellency the
Earl of Carlisle, at Dublin, have returned to their seat
near Windsor.

We regret to hear that the Bishop of London is se-
riously ill at his residence at Fulham. Its lordship has
very lately returned from a visit to the Continent.
Ma. Macaunev.—lt is understood that Mr. Macaulay
retires from the representation of Edinburgh at the next
dissolution of Parliament. Lord Melgund is spoken of as
the successor to the great essayist.—Aberdeen Tournal.i
Some further amounts of gold were taken to the Bank
yesterday afternoon, and it is believed that the total
thus retained out of the recent arrivals is about 300,0001.
In the discount market yesterday increased ease was
observable. In the Stock Exchange money could be
obtained on Stock at from 2,i to 3 per cent., and on
other Government securities at 4 per cent,
Miss Kate Saville, nieets of Miss Helen Faucit, ap-
pears on Saturday evening at the Old Wells Theatre,
as Pauline Deschapelles, in Vie Lady of Lyons.
Mademoiselle Taglioni has just arrived at Vienna from
Berlin, for the purpose of performing a limited number
of nights at the Karnther-gate Theatre.
The Grand Opera at Paris is in a dilemma ; some of
Its brightest ornaments, Mdms. Alboni and Cruvelli, and
M. Roger, intend leaving Paris about the end of De-
cember, and the director knows not what substitutes to
obtain.
MRS. CITATTERLEY'S DRA3IATIC READINGS. —On
Wednesday evening, in accordance with public announce-
ment, Mrs. Chatterley read Much, Ado About Nothing,
in the lecture hall of the Bristol Athenaeum, to a nume-
rous and highly respectable audience.
THE LATE SUPERINTENDENT MAY.—Tho statement
which has appeared in most of the journals to the effect
that the late Mr. John May, Superintendent of the A
Division of Police, was appointed to the Force by Sir
Robert Peel as "constable," and from which rank he
passed throngh the different grades to that of superin-
tendent, is not, we are told, correct. Mr. May was ap-
pointed by Sir Robert Peel, on the formation of the
Police Corps, to the office of superintendent.
By way of advertisement for foreign artists who may
be tempted to give concerts at Berlin, a journal which
appears in that city every Monday morning, called the
Fire-Bnoint, publishes the list of 80 grand indigenous
concerts expected during the ensuing winter. This num-
ber does not include the concerts of M. Radersdorff, nor
those of Liebig chapel, nor those for charitable pur-
poses, &c.
It is understsed that the Honstrable the Court of
Directors have, to a considerable extent, acceded to the
suggestions conveyed by the Bombay Government, for
equalising the rank and furlough-pay of the Indian navy
with that of the military branch of the East India Com-
pany's service. These alterations will considerably in-
crease the furloug,h•pay of certain ranks in the Indian
navy.-Overland Mail.. _ _ _

'fhe Nubia, which brought home the East India mail-
the day Won) yesterday, made the passage from Malta
to England in Ices than nine days, including a stoppage
at Gibraltar. During her voyage from Southampton to
Alexandria and Each, which occupied about a month, she
conveyed 314 passengers. Tho Nubia will shortly be
placed on the Indian line.

THE AMERICAN MAILS.—LIVERPOOL Thursday.—
Letters for the Asia, for Boston and Halifax, will require
to be posted at the General Post-Office before eight a.m.
on the 27th instant, with late fees until nine a.m., and
finally at the landing stage until teu a.m. A ship letter
bag for the Eagle clipper, for Melbourne, will be made
up here the same day, letters to be posted before ten
a.m., and with late fees to 10.80 a.m.
AUSTRALIAN MAIL SHIES.—The Royal wail ship
Emma, Captain Underwood, of the White Star line,
which sailed from the Mersey on the 21st ult., for Mel-
bourne, with the Australian mails, was spoken by a
vessel arrived in, the Clyde, on the 11th of September,
in lat. 10 N, long. 25 W, 21 days out. The Favourite,
arrived in the Mersey yesterday, reports having paesed
the Royal mail ship Lightning, of the Black Ball line,
on the 25th of September, 20 days out, in lat. 12 N,
long. 28 W. The Royal mail ship Shaliman, Captain
Amos Robertson, also of the White Star line, has been
spoken (and letters sent home) on the 29th of August,
out 40 days, in lat. 24 S, long. 27 W, all well.
THE COAL FOR THE WEST INDIA STEAMERS.—SnMS
considerable time since the owners of the colliers running
between Wales and Southampton raised their freights,
and from that period the West India Company have had
nearly the whole of the coals for their coal depot at
Southampton brought all the way by rail from Wales.
Long trains of coal waggons arrive at the depot daily,
containing sometimes 100 or 150 tons. The consump-
tion of coal at Southampton by the West India Com-
pany's steamers is upwards of 3.000 tons per month.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE, STOCKWELL—A lecture
was delivered here on Tuesday evening last, on " Popu-
lar Superstitions—their Causes and Remedies," by Mr.
Simpson, of Tunbridge Wells, late librarian to the
Islington Institution. The design of the lecture was to
explode the belief in fortune-tellers, apparitions, dreams,
and similar superstitions, which still find a place in the
minds of the uneducated. The subject was ably dis-
cussed, and afforded considerable instruction and amuse-
ment to a large and highly respectable audience.
Sin WILLIAM Mouswoura.—The executive com-
mittee of the Ballot Society held a meeting on Wednes-
day, at the offices, 5, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-
street, when it was unanimously resolved, on the notion
of Mr. Prout, seconded by General Thompson—" That
this committee, deeply lamenting the death of Sir Wil-
liam Molesworth, Bart., M-P., remember with gratitude
the many and invaluable services rendered to the cause
of complete freedom of election by his speeches and
writings in favour of the vote by ballot. That, through-
out a long Parliamentary career he invariably supported
the motions of Mr. Grote and Mr. F. H. F. Berkeley ;
and that, when raised to the Cabinet, he not only con-
tinued to support the vote by ballot, but delivered one
of the ablest speeches ever made in its favour. The
death of this lamented statesman is a loss to the
whole country and its dependencies, but the friends
of the ballot have especial cause to lament his untimely
end."

ARRIVAL OF GENERAL MARICHAII.—A.mong the pas-
sengers who arrived on Wednesday at Southampton by.
the Indiaii mail-steamer Nubia was the celebrated
Indian officer, Major-General Markham, who commanded
at the assault of the Redan on the day of the capture of
Sebastopol. He has arrived home in ill health, arising
principally from a change of climate from India to the
Crimea and from a hurried journey through India,
Egypt, and Turkey. His legs are so swollen t!.at he
can hardly walk. Although not 50 years of age he
looks almost 70. His face is very thin, and is literally
black with exposure to the sun. He wears an immense
beard, which is quite grey. He was the first to leave
the Nubia, and was assisted to walk by his aide-de-camp.
The crowd of persons who witnessed his landing, struck
with his remarkable appearance, and knowing that he
was one of the principals engaged in the assault of Se-
bastopol on the last terrible and glorious day, fell back
respectfully to make way for him to pass along the docks.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA, July 25.—About 10 a.m. on
Friday (July 20) the Avalanche hove in sight, making
for the Garden Island anchorage. The presence of Go-
vernor Kennedy on board was immediately known by
the ensign flying at the main, followed by the firing of
two guns— signals which had been previously agreed
upon. A deputation from the inhabitants of Fremantle
immediately proceeded on board, and, after congratulat-
ing his Excellency on his safe arrival, presented hiss with
a copy of the address, which they intimated would be
read to him on his arrival at Fremantle. On Saturday
his Excellency landed under a salute of 17 guns ; the
town presented a scene of unusual gaiety. Immediately
after passing under the triumphal arch at the end of
Cliff-street his Excellency was met by the deputation,
who read an address, to which be replied, thanking them
for their cordial welcome, to which, having no claim be-
yond that of being her Majesty's representative, he ac-
cepted as additional proofs of the loyalty and affection
which they entertained for her most gracious Majesty.
The address would serve to remind him of the grave re-
sponsibility he had undertaken, and would stimulate
him, he trusted, to discharge the duties of the office ho
held in a manner to justify her Msjesty's selection, and
the expectations they might have formed. He earnestl:(
reciprocated theirhope for that unanimity, without which
their extended efforts would be as ropes of sand, and,
above all, joined them in the trust that a merciful Pro-
.vitlence might direct and prosper all measures condu-
cive to the wellbeing of the inhabitants of the' colony.
His Excellency proceeded the following day to Perth, the
seat of Government.