The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, `
,!FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEVIBER 26, 1862.

Some, comparing Sir HUGH CAIRNS' scheme with
Lord WESTBURY'S, still accord to the former a very
decided preference. Altogether idle, however, at
the present moment, is any such comparison.
What we have to deal with, is the actual
measure passed into law last session the
act which is nominally to come into operation on
the Ist of this ensuing month of October : a date
that will probably have to be abandoned from the
difficulties still remaining to be cleared away,
so that, in all likelihood, the commencement
of the operation of the act will be postponed
from the beginning to the end of October.
Sooner or later, by a few days, in any case that
act will unquestionably come into operation.
There need be no alarm at all, nevertheless, even
amongst the most timorous, because of this cer-
tainty of its coming into operation so very speedily.
And for the one simple reason, that the act itself
is purely permissive. Advantages of a very
obvious and of a very considerable value are
held out to all those who will avail themselves of
the enactment by registering. But their doing so
is a matter purely optional. And even when they
have called the Act into operation by registering
their title to real estates, they can at any subsequent
period, at their own pleasure, cause the fact of their
having done so to be erased from the books of re-
gistration. The very preamble ot Lord WESTBURY'S
Act states the object of the Act to be threefold ;
namely, "first, to give security to the title of real
estates; secondly, to facilitate the proof of such
title; and thirdly, to render the dealing with land
more simple and inexpensive than it is at present."
As to the greater simplicity ensured by the
new enactment here ie an instantly appre•
ciable exemplar of that advantage. Here, in
other words, is the very brief and lucid
form of transfer of land which will have to be filled
up after the enactment comes formally into opera-
tion some time in the course of this next month of
October :

apparently only enough so to prevent the Federal

troops being withdrawn thence into Maryland. In
South Carolina also they have attacked the Federal
troops, and suffered a repulse ; the attack being
probably with the same object. It was repelled,
as of old, by gunboats. Ohio is frightened, but
thinks itself safe. Pennsylvania is still more
alarmed, but probably with little reason. It would
be madness for the South to attack States it could
not hope to gain. An opinion is indeed expressed
by the New Tork Times that the Confederates
really aim to subvert the LINCOLN Government and
install their own. JEFFERSON DAVIS is too shrewd
to think of that.

MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS
MARIA PIA.

TURIN, SEPT. 23.

The civil contract preliminary to the wedding
ceremony between the Princess Maria Pia and the
Marquis of Louie, acting as proxy for King Louis I.
of Portugal, is to be signed to-day. For the wed-
ding ceremony the 27th, Saturday next, is ap-
pointed. There are to be grand Court dinners both
on Thursday and Saturday; on the latter day a
serenade and illumination; on Friday a grand con-
cert at the palace. The bride will leave Turin for
Genoa on Sunday, acccmpanied by the Prince of
Piedmont, her brother, the heir to the throne.
Three Portuguese men-of-war and the best part of
the Italian fleet are awaiting the youthful Queen.
An Italian squadron of four ships, under the orders
of Admiral Albini, will follow the nuptial cortege.
This is the first instance on record of a " daughter
of Italy" being given in marriage. The congratu-
lations which both the Princess and the King her
father received from almost all the most conspicu-
ous cities of the newly-united kingdom, are as many
proofs of the depth of feeling to which loyalty to
the reigning dynasty has already penetrated in
Italian hearts. Handsome, elegant, and sumptuous
presents also come in from all parts.
The corporation of the city of Turin presents an
album of beautiful drawings in water-colour paint-
ings, illustrating the localities among which the
childhood of the young bride were spent. Florence
and Milan are quite determined not to be beaten by
Turin in their token of devotion to their King's
daughter; and we hear from Naples that the muni-
cipality are sending over a splendid ornament in
pink coral, of native manufacture, of the value of
4,500 ducats.

Dated this day of . I, AB, of &c., in
consideration of (five thousand pounds) paid to me, grant
to C D and his heirs for ever, all (insert description of
land).

Signed and sealed by A. B.
Witness—E F, of, &c., a Solicitor of the High Court
of Chancery, or a certified conveyancer.
Again, turning from the mere simplicity of these
new arrangements to the manner of the order-
ing of them—supposing that any proposed title
be approved, the applicant for registration will be
required to furnish to the registrar-
1. An exact description of the lands to be registered.
2. A statement of the several persons interested in such
lands, and of the nature of such interest; and

The most important present, however, comes
from that once most ardent of all Italian patriots,
his Holiness Pope Pius IX. The good Victor
Emmanuel, however, deemed the marriage of his
daughter too auspicious an opportunity of laying
aside political rancour, and the Abate Stellardi, his
chaplain, was sent to Rome to announce the forth-
coming wedding. The sleek, soft-hearted Pius IX.
seemed to take great interest in the welfare of his
god-daughter, who bears his name Pia (the prm-
nomen, Maria, being common to all the ladies of
her house), and on the Abate taking his leave, his
Holiness gave him a parcel containing his wedding
present to the bride, consisting of a magnificent
album, all studded with precious stones, with two
fine engravings, representing the Virgin and an
Ecce Homo. The Pope's autograph is on the title
page, and Stellardi bears with him the Pontiff's
blessing for the bride and bridegroom. The sister
of the bride, Princess Clotilde, and her husband,
Prince Napoleon, will arrive in Turin from Paris
to-morrow, and great festivities are prepared by
way of greeting to then.

3. A statement of the charges and incumbrances (if any)
on such lands, and of the persons entitled thereto."

Finally, in illustration of the scope of the ope-
ration of this new enactment, it is especially notice-
able that it expressly provides that all registered
land may be dealt with or conveyed—

„ 1. By a statutory disposition in any of the forms de
scribed in the schedule to the Act.
2. By endorsement on the land certificate.
3. By deposit of the land certificate.

4. By any deed, will, or other instrument by which land,
not registered, may now be conveyed or dealt with.

As to any doubts that may yet be entertained by
the cavillers against Lord WESTBURY's measure,
as one appreciably inferior (according to their
view of it), when contrasted with Sir HUGH Csiivis'
earlier and certainly more comprehensive and elabo-
rated enactment—but a very few months will suffice
to demonstrate the validity or the perverseness of
those objections. So hampered, hitherto, has been the
transference of land throughout, that it is impos-
sible not to wish that all possible success may
attend the earnest, vigorous, and conscientious
efforts embodied in this enactment of the Lord
Chancellor's efforts, namely, to clear away,
henceforth, and for ever, a mass of costly, wit\
worse than idle, of absolutely pernicious obstruc-
tiveness.

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.—The visitors
to the Exhibition yesterday numbered 41,369, of whom
4,052 were admitted by season tickets, and 37,317 paid at
the doors.

STOKE ELECTION.—A somewhat strange course
of proceeding has been adopted with reference to the elec-
tion of Mr. Grenfell. On beialf of Mr. Hope a protest has
been entered against the validity of his election, on the
ground that the seconder of his nomination (Mr. Hill) is
not an elector.

THE IltoN TRADE.---BIRMINGHAM, Sept. 25.--
The preliminary meeting of the ironmasters of South Staf-
fordshire and East Worcestershire was held at the Hen and
Chickens Hotel here to-day—Mr. Philip Williams in the
chair. The reports were concurrent as to the fact of the
trade being in a much more healthy state than it has for a
long time been. There is in increasing demand for all de
scriptions of finished iron, bars especially; and the prices
of makers who usually undersell are coming nearer to the
upper class of makers. In these circumstances an advance
in the price of iron generally might have been ventured
upon ; it would not, howevtr, have been quite prudent to do
so, and a resolution was uranimously passed to adhere to
the old scale of prices. Jig-iron is half-a-crown a ton
higher than it was three m(nthe ago. There was a nume-
rous attendance of the memaers of the trade to-day, and the
tone was cheerful, from tht conviction that the improve-
ment which has taken plate is the result of a legitimate
and not speculative demane for manufactured iron. The
North Staffordshire makersare full of orders, and are ready
to advance prices, but will lot do so except in concert with
their brethren in the south There is a scarcity of labour
of the unskilled class in tiis district. If there are any
stout fellows in Lancashire out of employment, and willing
to labour, they may find at some of the works on the
Wolverhampton side of thi3 district, and possibly in other
quarters in the neighbourhood.
THE GRAIN TRADE AT LIVERPOOL.—The Mersey
Docks and Harbour Boar( at its meeting yesterday agreed
to erect very extensive warehouses on both the Liverpool
and Birkenhead side of tle river for the accommodation of
the corn trade of the wt. A special committee of the
board had been consideri) g the subject for some time; and
the recommendations of that committee were yesterday
adopted—namely, to erect warehouses, fitted up with all
the requisite appliances, upon the Birkenhead side of the
Mersey, at an estimated cost of £169,486, £lOB,OOO of which
sum appertain exclusively to the buildings ; and to con-
struct warehouses on the Liverpool side for similar purposes
at an estimated cost of 1291,671, £131,000 of which amount
will be expended upon tae warehouses exclusively, and the
balance will be applied for affecting alterations in 113 e
Prince's Basin, for machinery, and other purposes con-
nected with the efficient working of the workhouses.

The long expected mails from America have
reached us at last. They are both exciting and
disappointing. It is easy to see that M'CLELLAN
and the Confederates have met, have marched, and
perhaps countermarched; but whether there has
been a really decisive battle, and what are the exact
positions occupied, is by no means clear. The last
account is a " private telegram" to Mr. INMAN,
dated the 17th, from New York, via Cape Race.
The regular telegram, via the same place, is
dated the 16th. This last telegram says that
M'CLELLAN had occupied Hagerstown, and men-
tions a battle at Sharpsburg, considerably nearer the
Potomac and Washington, too. While it describes
the Federals as surrounded by the Confederates at
Harper's Ferry, which is en the Washington side
of Sharpsburg. The private telegram of the 17th
speaks of a terrible battle at Hagerstown between
the two commanders-in-chief, M'CLELLAN and
LEE.
All these accounts may possibly be true, yet they
do not harmonise conveniently with each other ;
the dash and vigour of the Confederates are such,
that positions are quite possible, which yet do not
seem easy to be accounted for. The Potomac runs
northwest from Washington past Harper's Ferry,
separating a long narrow strip of Maryland from
Virginia. Chiefly in this narrower portion of the

State, which lies immediately south of Pennsylvania,
the operations we now read of are carried on.

A soiree was given two evenings back by the
Literary and Artistic Association of Brussels to the Mem-

Hagerstown is the furthest from Washington, yet
hers of the Social Science Congress now sitting in that
city.
The Duke de Brabant and the Co n Count de Fla dre
M'CLELLAN seems to have gone thither after LEE, were present, and conversed with several foreigners of dis-
who had arrived before him, Frederick city, nearer tinction who were presented to them by the President of
Washington, having been evacuated by the Confe-
the Association.
The steam-frigate Christophe Colomb has just
derates. Yet but a day or two before LEE had been arrived at Toulon from Algiers and Ajaccio, bringing 100
reported on the south of the Potomac, at Leesburg, cavalry horses from Algeria and a battalion of the 87th
with a large force. We gather, however, from the Regiment from the latter place. This vessel is to return
whole that the Confederates had retreated westward 1 toG oAv
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from Frederick city to Hagerstown, and that the at Toulon under orders to leave on the Ist October for
Federals and they had had some sharp en- ATlexandrialfilrst ctahlling
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private telegram be- true we cannot know dent which has just occurred in the pond of Moulin-a-
forTill% Oceanpof Brest menliiaieotrnsesertpao melancholy
some days yet. If they are, the Confederates Poudre, situatednearthe militaryt port.
which
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have been obliged to recross the Potomac ; and
twheerebank
amusingthemselves
After playing on it for some time they unfas-
M'CLELLAN has fairly beaten LEE in the field. tened the rope which held it and pushed it off into the
Such a victory would somewhat revive the Federal middle of the pond, where some irregular movement on
courage, their part capsized it, and all of them were precipitated into
the water which was 15ft. deep. Four of them were rescued,
The entrance of the Confederates into Maryland though with great difficulty, by two parsons who happened
has threatened not only that State, but Pennsyl-
to wiftniessho thehaacdcihdent,oandhe the
fotherdtwho by a las
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direction, and of the orders of the Pennsyl-
wSPearer drownedde i
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vanian authorities to call out the militia and to were recovered. quite extinct when the bodies
make prePkrations for defence. As to Maryland it- EXTRAORDINARY FEAT.—Mr. Samuel Harris,
self, the Confederate landlord of the Fox and Crane, Bristol, accompanied by his
Confederates are pretty sure that that State brother, adopted a novel mode of visiting the International
t with will throw in its lo •
th the South. They treat the Exhibition. Having seated themselves on a velocipede
inhabitants therefore well, and offer to liberate them (which had previously been constructed by Mr. Harris), off
from Federal rule. Th they started, and arrived in London (a distance of 108 miles)
el' tell them, however, that on Monday, at mid-day, the journey having occupied exactly
the decision lies with the Marylanders themselves. 211 hours. After spending three days in the metropolis
The South will receive them into the confederation the return journey was comfortably performed in 18 hours,
by their own free act only. The of the travellers feeling any fatigue.—Tresterrr
neither
South 'is disposed Daily Press.
to conquer the goodwill of a State three-fourths of EXTRAORDINARY EFFECT OF A FIRE.—On Mon-
inhabtants of which,
the iWe fear,are already warm day afternoon a fire broke out in a newly erected blockr of
e-
pro-slave Y
r men, though a large pr -
°portion of the buildings belonging to Mr. Ridley, consisting of four
' Gently erected houses on the road leading to the Wyche,
more intelligent deeply regret the breaking-up of about a mile from Malvern. An engine was soon on the
Indeed the Border States, Which , spot, but before the flames were arrested two of the houses
the Union. pl.-ac-
tically unite the worst Slave States to the North; i were completely gutted. Mrs. Thomas,.
the occupant of
;the house in which the fire originated, in a moment of ex-
sympathies with both.
have naturally strong They 1 • discoverymishap, cut her throat,
otement at the of the
in a condi-
whiteshave slaves, though few comparatively—they have shl/49 remains in a very precarious state, and not
t. 13.
'Dating numbers. Tradition
,to furnish any information as to her mo ive.— ir-
in largely predominating
nano, m Daily Gazette.
tion with them looks to the South, progress to the ,-.,
iit ATAL ACCIDENT AT THE NEW-STREET
North. `STATION, B:RMINGRAM.—The inquest was resumed on
much of their Tuesday afternoon before Dr. B. Davis, and a great. deal of
Operations in other parts lose
Amongst other witnesses
Maryland.ln additional evident, was taken.
interest in the great struggle in Mr. Graham lianieb- who erected the scaffold, was exa-
Kentucky the Confederates continue active, but mined, but the hattiry was acljetumed•

NEW ADELPHL

AIR. WEBSTER'S BENEFIT.

The benefit of a London favourite, whether
manager or actor, must always be rooked at in
the light rather of a challenge to public sympathy
than an appeal to public support. It must be re-
garded as an occasion on which his patrons are en-
abled to testify to him personally-- apart from
the acknowledgments, pecuniary and profes-
sional, which they may make throughout a season.
Viewed in this light, it has a propriety
which is creditable to both sides. It is a test of
personal estimate which it is as worthy in an actor
to invite, as it must always be gratifying to the
public whenever warrantable to tender. It is, in
fact, an occasion on which artist and patron
shake hands as it were, together, and with as
little loss of dignity on the one side as
of sincerity on the other. As we believe
it would be difficult to mention a man
who, in the course of a long professional
career, has succeeded in engaging a larger amount
of personal respect than Mr. Webster—in addition
to the admiration which he has so justly won, as
one of the most perfect artists in the drama of real
life who have been seen in modern times
—there can be little wonder that his benefit
should always be regarded by the public
as a very pleasurable opportunity of crowding his
theatre to the roof. Last evening, however, he
enforced the event by two additional attractions.
He revived in the first place, after a slumber of some
five or six seasons—one of the best Adelphi
pieces, and one of the greatest of modern suc-
cesses—Mr. Buckstone's drama of the " Green
Bushes," and he presented in its heroine, a lady whose
tragic power has been demonstrated as successfully
on the boards of the Adelphi, as at Drury-lane
—Miss Avonia Jones. Of the drama itself we can
have no occasion at this late period to speak. Ail
who have ever seen or heard of it are well aware
that, whether in respect to its interest or its
humour, its force of situation, or its happy
grasp of character, it has had few, if any
equals in the native melodrama of our stage.
It had, it is true, the advantage originally of
wonderful talent in its acting; but its continued
popularity afford sufficient proof that the great root
of its success lay after all in its own inherent and in-
disputable merit. One of its most striking features
undoubtedly is the character of its Indian heroine,
in which Madame Celeste, it will be remembered,
produced so powerful an impression. It was a charac-
ter in every way adapted to the genius of that lady,
alike on the score of its vigorous emotion
and its wild and picturesque details. She had the
advantage of studying Indian life in her early
travels in America, and years before in the same
theatre had presented the first picture of its truth
in a little drama which was taken from Cooper's
story of the " Borderers." All these circumstances
must be remembered, and in merest justice
to that lady, if we would fairly esti-
mate either the trial or the triumph of
her successor, Miss Jones had to follow an ad-
mirable actress in her very greatest impersonation,
and to follow her in a field of acting which is en •
tirely distinct from her own. Miss Jones, as we
have repeatedly said, is a purely ideal actress, who
neither by sympathy or study is adapted for mere
melodrama. She belongs to the school of Rachel
or Ristori rather than Celeste, and would
be infinitely more at home in Shakespeare
or Milman, than in Buckstone. Nevertheless, by
a sudden effort, that was just as surprising as it
was agreeable, she evinced last evening that the
range of her powers was quite on a level with their
depth. As in other eases she made her difficulties
the true measure of her success. In the early
scenes of the Indian huntress she threw a spirit
and reality which could not be exceeded,
and in the conflict of passion which arises on her
discovery of her betrayal—the kindling of revenge
in the blood of the Indian, struggling with devo-
tion to her deceiver, until at length the madden-
ing sight of his enfolding a rival in his arms,
leads her, as she watches his caresses, to level her
rifle at his heart, and achieve in his.punishment
a far worse doom for herself she found a
means of revelation for the tragic power she pos-
sesses, which revived the memory of higher efforts,
and fully established all her claims. In entire con-
trast to this display was the calm and pathetic
dignity with which she invested the last act, when
the loving and remorseful girl, haunted with the
thought of her fearful crime, and yearn-
ing in some way to atone for it, comes
to the land of her lover, and at length
obtaining her desire—dies calmly and thankfully
at the expiation she has rendered. The deep pathetic
truth of the sinking spirit of the poor Indian—
Miss Jones painted with a quiet power that was
quite as striking and affecting as her most
impassioned ebullitions. It is unnecessary to
say that the impression she produced was most
decisive, and that, applauded loudly in
her early scenes, her closing one raised
the audience to a general feeling of enthusiasm.
She was called for, together with her associates, at
the close of the second act, and also the last. The
drama was excellently played throughout. Mrs.
Mellon renewed her admirable and unique picture
of the Irish Girl—originally sustained by Mrs.
Fitzwilliam—rendering it with a mingled humour
and pathos which no other actress of our
time could rival ; and Mrs. Billington played the
deserted wife—originally sustained by Mrs. Yates
—with an earnestness and feeling that were scarcely
less successful. Among the gentlemen, Mr. Billing-
ton played the husband with great tenderness—
giving to the one good scene that is allotted him—
his reading the letter of his wife—a more than
usual amount of interest. Mr. Bedford, of
course, resumed his original character,
Jack Gong, and with not the slightest
diminution of the peculiar quaintness of its first
performance—whilst Mr. Toole, who, we believe,
appeared for the first time in Muster Grinnedge,
added another to his many and very original as-
sumptions. The thorough earnestness he threw
alike into the terrors and the dignity of the pere-
grinative showman, expanded its humour to a
point which could scarcely have been surpassed.
After the drama, which, we must remark, was ex-
cellently placed upon the stage—Mr. Webster con-
tributed his quota to the night's enjoyment by ap-
pe ring in his old Haymarket character of the
Woman Hater, in the petite drama of Mr. Ber-
nard. His reception, we need not say, was
most enthusiastic from the whole house, and his
acting of the would-be misanthrope—whose theo-
retic asceticism thaws under the presence of domes-
tic happiness—had all the force and geniality which
stamped it years ago.

Several musical celebrities passed through Berlin
last week—Verdi, on his way to St. Petersburg ;
Lombord, on her way to Moscow; and Von Flotow, who
was going to Paris to superintend the performance of his
work, " Stradella," at the Grand Opera there.
Tamburini, the celebrated baritone, has arrived
at Nice, where he intends passing the winter season with
his son .in-law Gardoni, who recently arrived there from
London.

Lightning fell on Thursday on a floating prison
for convicts, anchored in the Roads of Toulon. After
having traversed the roof and pierced the two decks, the
electric fluid escaped without having caused any further in-
jury except having set fire to some timber, which was easily
extinguished. But it is not easy to describe the horror
experienced by 800 convicts when they perceived the electric
spark flying from one end to the other of the massive iron
bar to which their chains were attached.
DEATH OF MR. FORBES MACKENZIE—We re-
gret to record the sudden death of Mr. William Forbes
Mackenzie of Portmore. Mr. Mackenzie had been at "The
Glen" on a visit to Mr. Charles Tennant, and had retired
to bed on Tuesday
night apparently in his usual health.
On his attendant calling him
yesterday morning, he found^
him dead in bed. Mr. Forbes Mackenzie was returnea ror
Peeblesshire in 1837, and retained his seat for that consti-
tuency till the general election of 1852, when he was suc-
ceeded by his brother-in-law, Sir Graham Montgomery.
At that time, Mr. Mackenzie, having been a Lord of the
Treasury in the Ministry of Lord Derby, offered himself for
Liverpool, and was returned, though in a month or two
unseated upon petition' for bribery and treating. As a
Mackenzie's name threatens to live
legislator Mr. Forbes
longest in connection with the parentage of the Public-
we believe, the demerit of
Rouses Act of 1852—though,
that Act really belongs to Lord Kinnaird and (we grieve
to say), to our otherwise reasonable townsman, Mr.
Duncan, S.S.C. After his retirement from Parliament,
Mr. Forbes Mackenzie took little part in public affairs.—
The /Scotsman.

LATEST NEWS.

ROME, SEPT. 24.
The Marquis de Lavalette will leave next week
for Biarritz, whence he will proceed to Spain.
It is asserted that M. de Lavalette, having ex-
hausted all diplomatic means of bringing about a
solution of the Roman question, will not again re-
turn to Rome as Ambassador from France to the
Holy See.

TURIN, SEPT. 25, EVENING.

A grand banquet took place at Court to-day,
after the ceremony of reading the stipulations of the
marriage contract between Princess Maria Pia and
the King of Portugal.
Chevalier Nigra has arrived. The arrival of the
Princess Mathilde is expected to-morrow.
Senor de Castro has presented his credentials as
Minister Plenipotentiary of Portugal.

The papers of this evening state that Prince Napo-
leon had a long interview to-day with the President
of the Council, and received several other members
of the Ministry.

Several deputations of Syndics from provincial
towns have arrived with presents for Princess Maria,
upon the occasion of her marriage.

MADRID, SEPT. 25.
It is asserted that the King and Queen of Portugal
will go to Paris after the marriage.
Ovations continue to be given to the King and
Queen of Spain at Seville.

ATHENS, SEPT. 23 (via Marseilles).

The Bill relating to the re-organisation of the
National Guard has been voted by the Chambers.
The session was then closed.

The soldiers who took part in the insurrection of
Naupoliu, and afterwards fled into foreign countries,
have been amnestied by the King.

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 26.

The Union Company's steamer Dane, with the
Cape mail, arrived here this morning. She left
Table Bay on the 21st, St. Helena on the 29th ult.,
and Ascension on the 2d inst.
She brings 53 passengers.
The Cape Parliament was prorogued on the 9th
ult.

A motion for the complete separation of the two
provinces had been rejected.
The real grievances of the eastern colonists were
being remedied. Parliament and Government were
concurring in vigorous exertions for that purpose.
The principal department complained of, " the
Roads and Bridges," had been called to account
by the Assembly, and taken in hand by the Go-
vernor himself.

A bill had been passed for the construction of a
railway from Port Elizabeth to Graham's Town, the
colonial revenue being pledged for the interest at 6
per cent. on £750,000.
A proposal was made to introduce a bill for
facilitating the administration of justice on the
frontiers. It was, however, resolved to postpone
the measure for another year, in order that the
question might be maturely considered.
A proposal had been made to petition the Gover-
nor to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the
country, but was rejected.
£15,000 had been granted for the immigration
service this year.
A large quantity of evidence and information re-
specting irrigation had been collected, and a Bill
on the subject would be introduced next session.
Bills had been passed for a railway from Wel-
lington to Worcester, with a branch line to Malmes-
bury,

The long pending separation movement has been
abandoned, and the state of feeling between the
two provinces had become very favourable.
The weather had been very boisterous, and rain
bad fallen incessantly. The rivers throughout a
great portion of the colony were dangerously
swollen. Bridges had been washed away, and the
roads in some parts completely destroyed.
The destruction of private property had been
enormous. The damage was estimated at £50,000.
The shipping had also suffered severely.

On the Bth ult. the brigantine Marietta and the
barks Kate and Crystal Palace were driven ashore
in Table Bay, and became total wrecks. The crews
were saved.

The steamer Golden Fleece, from Calcutta, put
into Simon's Bay on the 12th inst., totally dis-
masted. The captain was killed.
The breakwater and dock works withstood the
gales.
The Norman arrived in Table Bay on the 12th.
The Ariel reached Simon's Bay on the 21st from the
West Coast.

No despatches had been received from Dr.
Livingstone's expedition at Cape Town.
Mr. Robert Moffat, jun., died near Durruman.
The Rev. J. S. Moffat was returning, with his wife,
dangerously ill.

The Coquette, from Rio, had arrived at Simon's

Bay.
Business at the Cape was still very dull.

THE CALCUTTA ANI) CHINA MAILS.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company have received the following telegram :
MARSEILLES, FRIDAY MORNING.
" The Yectis, with the above mails, arrived at
Marseilles at 7 a.m. this day.

'' The mails were to leave for London at 11 a.m."

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Sept. 25.—The documents published by
the Ilfonzteur have been the subject of general con-
versation during the morning. As may naturally
be expected, they are regarded in different points
of view, but the opinion which most generally pre-
vails is that they may tend to facilitate the settle-
ment of the Roman question. Threes, for the
Account, opened at 69fr. 5c., but with rather an
upward tendency. Railway Share Market quiet,
but in general firm. The following are the las"
prices :

4t per Cent 5....... 96 50
Do. end month....
3 per Cents ...... 69 20
Do. end month•• •• 69 15
New 3 per Cents ••
Do. end month....
Credit Mobilier.... 1001 25
Do. end month.. ••1007 50

Bank Shares 3200
Credit } oncier 1240
Piedmontese FivQs 71 60
Italian Loan 7l 35
Roman —
Austrian
Bpanish Threes, —
Home Debt .. 49i

BAIL WAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans
•
Northern
New ditto
• •
Lyons and Mediterranean 1168 75 .. 1170 --
Geneva 372 50 ..
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lowbard