The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1653.

time, we should still be disposed to attach all but
implicit faith in the testimony of such a gentle-
man as Mr. COPPOCK. If he cannot instruct us
on this subject, we should like to know who can.
Mr. BROWN, perhaps, or W. B. and his agents.
We are quite sure their testimony would be
as decided as Mr. COPPOCK'S, if they wished to
give it. Now Mr. COPPOCK distinctly told the
commissioners at St. Alban's, and he adheres to
this day to his opinion then expressed, that the
Ballot is the only thing which offers a chance of
purity of election. He believes it would put an
end to bribery. We repeat, what can the opi-
nion of a Cabinet Minister or an Edinburgh
Reviewer be worth on this point compared
with that of a man to whom information,
unreserved confidential information, information
at first hand, flows freely from every borough in
the kingdom ; who knows the price at which each
may be secured, and the persons to whom to
apply ; and who has been consulted as to the
legality or feasibility of a thousand schemes and
dodges ? We should almost be willing to legislate
at once upon the honest opinion of one such a
thorough master of the subject as Mr. COPPOCK,
and our Reform Bill framers may be assured that
the country will put much more faith in the
firmly avowed conviction of such a man than in
all the paltry evasions by which twelve-thirteenths
of the Cabinet will, doubtless, excuse their con-
signing the other thirteenth to Reform Bill
insignificance.
The desirableness of some extension of the suf-
frage seems to be acknowledged byall. Even ahot-
headed Tory clergymen at a public dinnerthe other
day declares for enfranchising all his peasants ! The
Derby leaders, some of them, openly avowed their
readiness to grant a large extension of the suf-
frage. We apprehend, therefore, the fight for real
Liberals will have to be on behalf of an indepen-
dent and unpurchaseable extension of it—for
large constituencies, voting, on the one hand, in
freedom from fear, and, on the other, without
the power to prove to the corrupter that they
voted as they were paid. We do not, however,
wish :to imply that we are indifferent to enlarging
the electoral constituency to the utmost possible
extent. The old maxim, that taxation and re-
presentation should be co-extensive, is both sound
in itself, and consonant with English habits ; and
as every man pays taxes, it is hard to evade
the inference that every man should have
a vote. There would be, too, the great
convenience of a clear principle if this
course were adopted, and if, as we once be-
fore suggested, a small poll-tax were made the
condition of registration, and the receipt for it

the proof of the claim at the hustings, it would
most advantageously simplify registration, and
verification of right to vote at the poll. We do
not at all object, however, to household suffrage,
or a rate-book suffrage, provided some exact and
stringent regulations were made for registering
the names of all persons on the rate-book who
virtually, as well as actually, ray rates. Legal
men can tell us what an imperfect register they
often find the rate-book to be of the actual
occupant of a tenement or property. This, how-
ever, would not be difficult of arrangement ; and
if all persons' names stood in the rate-book who
held property for which rates were paid, it would
approach near enough to universal suffrage to
satisfy even the remnants of the Chartists them-
selves.

Some of our contemporaries are busying them-
selves with clever schemes of representation of
classes. Such projects read, indeed, well on
paper, but we fear they are not at all adapted
to the business of life. They would not,
we think, work so well in the long run,
as giving men their rights as men, and
leaving equitable principles to work out their
results in practice. Some have pointed to the
present strikes as evidence of the unfitness of the
masses to share in the representation. We think
just to the contrary. Had their Mr. NEWTON or
their Mr. COWELL been Members of Parliament,
and had their arguments been exposed in debate
before the eyes of their dupes, they would have
soon shrunk into their proper dimensions. The
good sense of English operatives, for the most
part, only needs to be fairly appealed to, and both
sides to be heard by them. St. STEPHEN'S would
have taught them both sides.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, OCT. 27.

The royal dinner party yesterday included the
the King of the Belgians, the Duchess of Brabant, the
Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Brabant, the Count of
Flanders, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William of
Hesse Philipsthal, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess
of Brabant, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of
Kent, the Baroness de Speth, the Belgian Minister, the
Austrian Minister, the Countess Colloredo, the Earl and
Countess of Clarendon, Count Gustave de Lannoy,
Colonel de Moerkerke, Baron Prisse, M. Ricken,
and the Gentleman in Waiting to the Duke of Cam-
bridge.

The band of the let Life Guards attended in the castle
during dinner and played the following► compositions :
Jubel, overture
Selection, " Rigoletto" Verdi.
Slowranka Klange Walzer
Potpourri, " Lucrezia Borgia" Donizetti.
Edinburgh Schottische Labitzky.
Polka. Hammonia Leutner.
Her Majesty's private band attended afterwards, and
performed the following selection :

Overture, " Egmont" Beethoven.
Fantasia, violin, M. Sainton Sainton.

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Coro, "il Crociato" Meyerbeer.
Scene de Danse, "La Bayadere" Auber.

The Queen and Prince, with the King of the Belgians,
the Duke and Duchess of Brabant, and the Count of
Flanders, attended by the Countess of Desart, the Count
and Countess Gustave de Lannoy and the gentlemen in
waiting, went to London this morning by a special train
of the great Western Railway.
Her Majesty drove to Buckingham Palace and after-
wards visited the Duchess of Gloucester.
The Queen and Prince returned to Windsor Castle at
ten minutest past two. The Prince of Wales and Prince
Alfred took their usual riding exercise.
Prince William of Hesse Philipsthal, the Austrian
Minister and Countess Colleredo, and the Earl and
Countess of Clarendon left the castle this morning for
London.

The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, the Duke and
Duchess of Atholl and the Marquis of Abercorn have
been invited, and are expected to-day.

A deputation from the Evangelical Alliance had an
interview with the Earl of Clarendon yesterday, at the
Foreign-office. The deputation consisted of Sir C. E.
Eardley, Mr. G. Hitchcock (London), Mr. John Hen-
derson (Glasgow), Rev. Dr. Steane, honorary secretary
of the Evangelical Alliance ; Rev. Dr. Blackwood,
LL.D. : Rev. Dr. Bunting, late secretary of the Wes-
leyan Missionary Society ; Rev. P. Latrobe, secretary
of the Moravian Missionary Society; Rev. John Angell
James (Birmingham) ; Rev. Carr John Glynn, M.A.,
rector of Witchampton, Rev. Dr. Duff, missionary of
Free Church of Scotland, Calcutta ; and the Rev. John
Jordan, vicar of Enstone.
The Commissioners for Inquiring into the state of the
Corporation of the city of London held a meeting yes-
terday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the
Treasury in Downing-street. The commissioners pre-
sent were the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, the Right
Hon. Sir John Patteson, and G. Cornewali Lewis, Esq.

Gold Mining Company
from their Tainbaeroora Mine, fromßsr:lrtifsahceAustralianworkings, ,
GOLD FR A
any have received 287 ozs. of gold
abnesaildissedvar:touosnsz.pcamhnes of quartz rock, which will be
sel election of ofCtOwmoP
reports from the company's
agents are very favourable.
special meeting of the Van Die ANY, . Yesterday a
directors,s when Wm.
ma!' s Land Company
Lynes, Esq., and Jas. Lonergan
tOOkVA:laceDfioErmtEhNe
The chairman (John Cattley, Esq.) too}c{.l7hwe were elected.
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of saying that the expenses had been now reduced
about 1,5001. for home and the colony, and that
td to
their
present
rental was about 1,8001. a-year. There was
8,0001. to be remitted from the colony, and a balance.
of about 5,0001. in Canada. He hoped before long t
be able to recommend some division of their fling
amongst the shareholders. The state of the company's
lands was greatly improving.
THE WRECK 0 -..ii THE DALHOUSIE.—A telegraphic mes-
sage received from the coroner of Rye, states that a body
body of a female was washed up on the beach of Dym.
church, supposed to be one of the Dalhousie's passen-
gers. She is described to be about 50 years of age ; her
linen marked "M. A. U." The initials correspond with
those of Mrs. Underwood, and a gentleman has been
sent down to identify the body. Large quantities of
wreckage have been washed ashore, between Hastings
and Rye, together with several cases, containing velvets
and other manufactured goods. The exact position of
the wreck has not yet been discovered. She is suppos;d
to be lying in 27 fathoms of water.

MONEY M/VIIKET

AND
CITY INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 5,000 bales, all to the trade. The
market was flat, and prices had a downward tend-
ency. The sales comprised 4,000 American, 30
Pernam and Maranham at 6id. to 61d., 20 Bahia
6p., 500 Egyptian at 6d. to 6g., 500 Surat at 3-d.
to 41d., and 30 Sea Island at 2s. to 2s. 2d. per lb.
Railway Shares were flat.
In the Produce Markets this week less has been
doing. Tea, however, has been brisk owing to the
last advices, and the purchases of this article will
have to be made chiefly for cash, British goods
being difficult of sale. In tallow there has been
less doing, and the firmness perceptible in the week
has not been maintained. Iron is in demand for
actual wants. Sugar and coffee have been dull and
cotton is quieter.
The arrival of the Argo steamer from Australia
inis justly regarded in the City as another
triumph days,f
steam navigation, ,and will go far to
dispel the prejudices that have been fostered among
old hands by previous mishaps. It is exceedingly
important too, that the attempt to come home by
way of Cape Horn has proved as successful in the
case of a steamer, as of some of the clipper vessels
that have made the passage, and that the Argo
appears to have had scarcely any need to use her
coals, having sailed the greater part of the distance.
The voyage is not at all seasons of the year agree-
able for passengers, owing to the excessive cold when
rounding Cape Horn, but due provision being
made, and the shortness of the time occupied being
in some respects compensatory, we may look ere long
for a removal of the objections entertained, and
which were the cause of the Harbinger coming by way
of the Cape of Good Hope. A circumstance that will
afford great satisfaction, because of the large capital
embarked by the shareholders, is the arrival out of
the new steamer Victoria, owned by the Royal
Australian Mail Company, in a shorter period,
reckoning her departure from Gravesend as op-
posed to that of other vessels from Plymouth, than
has yet been recorded. The Australian, another
steamer, having gone out very quickly to the Cape
of Good Hope, there was some prospect of the com-
pany not only standing higher in public estimation,
but likewise recovering its pecuniary status. Tho
overland letters from Australia will hereafter be
very likely to be as long reaching us as by steamer
direct.

The following are one or two colonial items, but
the letters are not yet delivered.
A Port Philip journalist states :
" The agitation among the diggers for a reduction of
the license fee, is assuming a formidable aspect. So
long as the gold fields were highly productive, there
was little to be feared from any movement of dissatis-
faction ; but now there is a large mass of disappointed
men, who are not only unwilling, but unable, to com-
ply with the demands of the tax collector. The read-
justment of the license-fee appears to us to be imperative.
The truth is, we believe that during the last six months
nine-tenths of the license-fees have been paid, not out of
the profits of gold digging, but from the funds brought
to the colony by new arrivals, or from funds the pro-
ceeds of labour at other pursuits. This cannot last long.
The revenue from license-fees is certain to fall to a low
figure during the present quarter."

From Geelong we have the following :
" Seventy-five men are employed in the You-yangs
and vicinity felling timber for the railway, to be delivered
on the line. The contractor is Mr. Nickless, of Ashby.
"GOLD.-It was reported last evening that a second
escort had arrived from Ballarat, bringing down half a
ton of gold. No escort arrived, nor do we believe that
any such quantity is waiting. A goodly amount was
left behind, but we have no intelligence of any discovery,
or extra yields, to warrant the belief that it amounts to
the sum stated. Six thousand ounces is very good for
one week, and to our knowledge two hundred ounces
brought down by private hand, were sold to one person
on Wednesday morning, which shows a steady progres-
sive improvement. Ballarat is the only gold field at the
present time which keeps up an uniform yield. Mount
Alexander, Bendigo, the Ovens, and M'lvor, dwindle
every week."
A private communication fron New Zealand con-
tains an account of the further research for gold,
which has failed to discover anything remunera-
tive. A party returned with 10 dwts. as the result
of a week's labour. Imports have decreased con-
siderably. Exports have increased thirty per cent.
The benefits of the gold had at length reached
New Zealand, as instanced by her exports from a
people thinned out by Victorian attractions.
Labour is in much demand, wages advancing,
especially in the timber trade, which is very brisk.
Several shippers were looking anxiously to Gee-
long, but could get no vessels of draught light
enough to cross the bar ; besides which, the skip-
pers stipulate to deliver off' Williams Town.
Consols opened well this morning upon the in-
telligence of so much gold having arrived, and
and were done at 92k, but the information just to
hand that hostilities have commenced between
Russia and Turkey, and the assertion that the
former power is the aggressor—so contrary to
what its admirers have predicted—has led to
renewed sales of stock, whereby the prices
are now lowered to 92 to 924. The New
Three-and-a-Quarter Cents. have been quo-
ted 93i to 93k, and the Three per Cents.
Kg to East India Stock has been 247 to 250.
Exchequer Bills are still depressed, having realised
is. discount to ls. premium. South Sea Old An-
nuities bring 99i.
_

Foreign Stocks have been very quiet. Spanish
Three per cent. Deferred are at 211. Portuguese
Four per Cents. bring 40, and the old Five per
Cents. 424. Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
have been quoted 704. Mexican Bonds have been
firm at 2411 k. Brazilian 5 per Cents. have been
quoted 97. Dutch 2 per Cents. have been at
The Railway Share Market is extremely quiet,
and prices given way generally in the few in-
staneewhhveearesales have been made. Caledonian
have dropped to 4, North Western to 1, and
Great Western to f. French shares have been
about ss. to 108. lower.

The Gold Mine Shares have been steady with
moderate purchases, and the Australian Bank and
Land Shares are dearer.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List. )

Business done.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 914 1 a
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 92
New 31 per Cent. Annuities 93
3f
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860
India Stock 247 50
South Sea Old Annuities 99/
8 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 lOO
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, 2d.
£lOOO .., ldlp
£5OO 1 P Par 3 P
Small 1 p par 4 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per t lout
Ditto Small
?lexicon 3 per Cent.
Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent. 7O
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent 42
Ditto 4 per Cont. _

Spanish Nev Deferred, 3 per Cent. 2li
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Guil ..... 62.3
HALF-PAST TWO.
Consols
Ditto October Account . 92 t,

THE INCOME TAX.—A. very strong feeling of dissatis-
faction is becoming prevalent amongst the numerous
class of persons in receipt of only 1001. per year, whose
incomes have been trenched upon to the extent of 3 per
cent. income tax by the budget of Mr. Gladstone.
When the proposition was made, it was not oppos-
ed by the class referred to, in consequence of the
inducements held out that all the necessaries of

life would be so reduced by the ameliorations in
the commercial tariff, as to be more than com-
mensurate with the tax imposed. But now that every
staple article of subsistence has so much advanced—as
to make what last year 801. would purchase, which now
upwards of 1001. is inadequate to do—a feeling of dis-
content is showing itself, and which is likely to be more
strongly developed as the winter advances, and the
collection is enforced.

A MAN KILLED BY A RAILWAY TRAlN.—Yesterday
morning Mr. W. Payne received information of the
death of Henry Conybear, aged 30, who was employed
at Messrs. Myers' works, Crystal Palace, Sydenham.
The deceased was crossing the railway for the purpose
of returning to London, when he was knocked down
by one of the trains, and crushed to death almost in-
stantaneously. He was convoyed to the accident ward,
Guy's Hospital, but life was extinct.
THE BEST FRIENDS TO FRENCH TRADE.—England
and the United States are placed at the head of the
great outlets for our manufactures. England fur-
nishes us to the amount of about 133;000,000f. of
different articles, among which stand in the first
place raw and floss silk, wool, coals, copper, and
woven good, which we reexport for the most part, as
they are charred with a heavy import duty. Out of
these 133,000,000 f. of imports, 94,000.000 f. at the utmost
enter into our own consumption. With England, contrary
to what is the case with Russia and the northern states
of Europe, our exports far exceed our imports. Silk
and woollen goods occupy the first place in the articles
with which we supply our neighbours. These two arti-
cles alone represent a sum of 123,000,000 f. out of a
total amount of 296000,000 f., or 260,000,000 f. more
than that of the English merchandise which we con.
The establishment of Mr. John Turner, jeweller, 58
and 59, New Bond-street, was honoured, during a
lengthened visit, by the patronage of their Royal High-
nesses the Duke and Duchess of Brabant, accompanied
by the Count of Flanders, his Excellency M. Van de
Weyer, and suite.

NEWMARKET RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

£5O PLATE. A. F.

St. Faith
Waverley
Five ran.
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES.

Seahorse
Assault gelding
Thirteen ran.
NURSERY STAKES.

Orson
Dead heat for second between Punch Box and St. Spiro.

Fifteen ran.

lanthe

HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. D. M.

Hunca Munca .

Eleven ran.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY-(THIS DAY).

THE ISLINGTON CATTLE MARKET.-IN RE KIRK.

This bankrupt was one of 'the directors of the pro-
posed Islington Cattle Market, and having been arrested
in consequence of his liabilities, had been made bank-
rupt, and a petition had been presented in this matter,
and bankrupt applied for his discharge.
His Honour said he would give his decision at the same
time as on the petition in re Westbrook, who had also
been a director in the same company, who has dis-
puted his liability under the bankrupt law. His Honour
expressed himself perfectly satisfied with the bankrupt's
evidence, and would order his discharge as soon as the
case admitted.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT (THIS DAY)*

OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Justice Cresswell and Mr. Justice Williams.)

WILFUL MURDER.

Egzabeth Widgery, aged 25, a married woman, was
ndicted for the wilful murder of her male child. The
prisoner had been in the service of a gentleman residing
at Tulse Hill, and towards the close of August her fel-
low servants suspected and taxed her with being in the
family way, but she denied it. Some time later, on the
16th of Sept., the prisoner complained of pain about her
body, and said she had the toothache. She was advised
to go to bed, and she did so about half-past 8 o'clock in
the evening, when she was supplied with medicine and
gruel. At a later period of the evening, two of her
fellow-servants, who slept in the same room, retired to
rest, and directly they got into the room she gave a
sudden shriek. One of 'the other servants asked her
what was the matter, and she replied that she was very
ill, at the same time requesting her to put her hand under
the bed-clothes. The other servant did as she was re-
quested, and was surprised to find her hand upon the
head of an infant. The prisoner upon this burst into
tears, and confessing that she was in the family-way and
about to be confined, she asked what she had better do ?
Her fellow-servant very naturally thought that the only
thing to be done was to send for a medical man, which
they did after consulting with their mistress, and
when the surgeon arrived he found a new born
infant in the prisoner's bed. The child was a healthy
one, and thrived for the next two or three days, but on
the following Sunday the medical man discovered an
appearance upon the throat of the child as if some liga-
ture had been drawn tightly round it. The prisoner
denied all knowledge of it, but the child dying shortly
afterwards, a post mortera examination took place, the
result of which satisfied the medical man that the child
died of suffocation. The prisoner had made no prepa-
ration for the birth, nor had she evinced any disposition
to nourish the child, and the latter circumstance, toppled
with the red mark round the neck of the child, led to
the prisoner's being given into custody on the present
charge.

Mr. Ribton, who defended the prisoner, insisted, in
his address to the jury, that the case depended so much
upon circumstantial evidence, that it would be inhuman,
if not unjust, to convict the prisoner of the capital offence.
The jury found a verdict of not guilty.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
A RUNAWAY BANKRUPT.

Michael Thomas Stacey Welsh, 28, draper, pleaded
guilty to an indictment for feloniously not surrendering
himself, having been duly adjudged a bankrupt.
Mr. Clarkson informed the court that the prisoner
had formerly been a draper at Romford, and having ob-
tained goods to a large amount from a great many of
the leading city warehouses—sold his business and
stock and absconded to Australia, and in the meantime
was adjudged a bankrupt some time after. Mr. Walker,
one of the assignees, found that the prisoner had come
back to this country, and was taken at Southampton
just as he was about to sail for New York, and through
his instrumentality between 7001. and 8001. had been
recovered.

The Recorder, in passing sentence, said that in a com-
mercial community such an offence was of a most serious
character, and it was necessary to make a severe ex-
ample of persons so offending, and had the law stood as
it formerly did he should have transported him ; but as
he no longer had the power to transport for that period
'he should sentence him to four years' penal servitude.

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE.
The Emperor, on Wednesday at 10 o'clock, passed
in review, on the open space in front of the Palace
of Compiegne, four squadrons of the 7th regiment
of chasseurs, a battalion of the 36th regiment of
the line, and four brigades of gendarmery, and
distributed several decorations. His Majesty was
followed by Marshal Magnan, General de Monte-
bello, Colonel Fleury, and the Aides-de-Camp on
duty. The Marquis of Worcester joined the Im-
perial suite in a hussar uniform. The troops, and
the population assembled around, received the Em-
peror with the loudest acclamations.
Yesterday the Emperor and Empress returned
to Paris from Compiegne.
The Moniteur publishes a note on the Eastern
question. It is the first time that the official organ
of the French Government has made any allusion
to the Russo-Turkish quarrel ; and the article in
question may be taken as an official programme of
the intentions of the French Government. The
article is to the effect that the French Govern-
ment is fully determined not to abandon Tur-
key in the struggle with Russia, and that
the eventuality of war is not only looked upon
as probable, but as a matter which France
will in case of necessity not avoid. The impres-
sion in Paris is that the note is an announce-
ment that the period for negotiation is at an end,
and that the period for action has arrived. It is
also remarked that this note affords clear evidence
of the .displeasure felt by the French and English
Governments at the attitude assumed by Austria
and Prussia in the affair. Notwithstanding the
evident caution and studied moderation of the
language of the Moniteur, it leaves no further
doubt of the part which France will take in the
affair, and we may look forward forthwith for
vigorous measures befitting the occasion. The ex-
plication of the Moniteur, coming as it does with
the announcement that the squadrons have passed.
the Straits of the Dardanelles, is considered a com-
plete triumph for the Sultan, who declined to grant
a firman till he had received assurances of active
assistance from the two Powers.

A severe struggle took place at the Bourse yester-
day, between the speculators for a rise and those
for a fall, in which the " bears" ultimately obtained
the advantage. The Three per Cents. were first
called at 72f. 30c., but on a demand for the de-
Every of 200,000 rentes, sold for the end of the
month, they rose to 72f. 55c. Heavy sales made
subsequently forced them down to 72f. 35c., at
which they closed for the end of the month. The
Four-and-a-Half per Cents, closed at 99f. 10c. ;
Orleans Railway shares, 1,146 f. 25c. ; Rouen,
996 f. ; Havre, 480 f ; Great Northern, 836 f. 25c. ?
Paris and Strasburg, 891 f. 25c. • Paris and Lyons,
887 f. 25c. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 722 f.
50cc. ; Western of France, 685 f. ; Bordeaux and
Cette, 575. ; Great Central, 513 f. 75c. • Lyons
and Geneva, 475 f. ; Shares of the Bank Of Credit
Mobilier. 690 f.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
COMMENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES.

The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the follow-
ing despatch from Bucharest, dated Oct. 22 :
" Two Russian steamers and eight gun-boats
forced a passage on the Danube on Sunday, and

were encountered by a smart fire from the Turkish
forts of Isactcha, between Reni and Ismail. The
Russians had a lieutenant-colonel, three officers,
and twelve men killed, and fifty wounded. They
pretend having set fire to the fortress of Isacteha."
Advices from Moldavia state that fresh Russian
troops are still pouring in and marching to the
Danube.

The town of Jassy has a garrison of 6,000 Russian
troops.

Precautionary measures have been taken to pre-
vent the entrance of Polish travellers into the
Danubian Principalities.
We learn from Constantinople, dated the 15th,
that the Prussian officers employed there as direc-
tors in the School of Engineers were about to leave
for the army. The director, Capt. Schmedt, pro-
ceeds, with Lieut. Blubme, assistant to Major
Kourozowski, and who has displayed much talent,
to direct the works of fortifications on the Danube.
They proceed by Salonica to Sophia and Nissa, and
are accompanied by a number of Turkish officers.
The only officer that has remained in the school is
Capt. Grunewald, formerly a staff-officer of the
Holstein army. All the pupils of the school who
could be disposed of have been sent to the army to
learn war by practice.
The following is from Constantinople, Oct. 13 :
—The Greek Patriarch has been invited to attend
the sittings of the Privy Council. The Minister of
Finance, Mouktar Bey, has resigned his post.
Moussa Safetti Pasha has been appointed in his
place. A corps of 25,000 Russians has been landed
at Redont Kal6, with a view, it is supposed, of
attacking Batoum.

The Siecle says :—" A letter, from London,
written by a person in a position to be wellin-
formed, tells us that the Governments of France
and England have charged their ambassadors to
declare to the Sultan that the demands of Russia
being really inadmissible, they approved, after
examination, of the resistance which Turkey op-
posed to the Note of Vienna, interpreted as it has
been by the letters of Count Nesselrode. The
ambassadors have been, moreover, charged to say,
that their Governments had seen with satisfaction
that the security of the Christians had not been
threatened. Lastly, that Lord Redcliffe and M.
de Lacour have received orders to declare that the
fleets go to Constantinople with the intention of
lending to Turkey material and mdral co-opera-
tion, and that in certain foreseen eventualities the
fleets will pass into the Black Sea. These explana-
tions have appeared completely satisfactory to the
Porte, which replied that it accepted with gratitude
the co-operation generously offered by its allies. On
the morning of the 18th, the date of the last tele-
graphic dispatch, the fleets had not, however, ar-
rived at Constantinople, but it was thought that
they would arrive there on the 19th or 20th.
The Turkish government has appointed three
moustechars or councillors to the three generals in
command of the armies of the Danube, of Asia, and
of the frontier of Georgia. These functionaries are
to correspond directly with the Grand-Visir and
the Minister of War, and are to devote their
attention to the administrative affairs of the
army.

letter from Bucharest states that the best un-
derstanding exists between Prince Stirbey and the
Russian government. His son, who commands a
Wallachian regiment, is about to enter the Russian
service.

A Frankfort journal says :—" According to the
latest accounts received from the Danubian prin-
cipalities a collision has taken place between the
Turks and Russians. The former have occupied a
small island between Widden and Kalafat. In the
night of the 15th, the Turks pushed forward a re-
connaissance, when an exchange of shots took place
between the advanced posts, but without any in-
jury being sustained. The Turks have also occu-
pied the large island above the fortress, and have
manifested an intention to throw a bridge over the
second arm of the Danube. Letters from Turnul
state that the Ottoman troops have not yet ap-
peared in the neighbourhood of that place, but it is
expected that it will shortly become the theatre of
war. The merchants and the greater part of the
rich inhabitants have left for the interior. The
public treasury of Wallachia has been seized in con-
quence of these circumstances by the Russians, par-
ticularly the military reserve funds. All the Rus-
sian army had been ready for some days to com-
mence its march, but it was not known whether to
advance or retire. Now, however, the matter is
cleared up, and important events may be expected.
The majority of the Boyard families are' preparinc,
to quit the country."

AUSTRIA.
The Emperor of Austria returned to Vienna on
the 20th.

The German Journal of Frankfort, under date
of Vienna, says.—" Two small journals, the Aus-
trian Gazette of the People, and the Spectator,
have received from the governor of Lower Austria
a severe warning for having published malevolent
articles against the Jews on the occasion of the re-
cent decree concerning them, and they have been
threatened with the loss of their licences if they
recommence. them. The principal journals have
also been requested to abstain from any malevolent
insinuations relative to the Jews."