The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-17 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

Self and Self-Sacrifice. By Anna Lisle. Groom-
bridge and Son.
A valuable contribution to our store of "moral"
fiction, and if we are not mistaken a maiden effort.
If so, we can congratulate the author on more
than the average success, and prognosticate for her
a useful, and it may be a distinguished career, pro-
vided she cultivates as she ought her unquestion-
able talent for this species of composition. " Self
and Self-Sacrifice" is a story of woman's life, in
he main truthfully conceived and naturally dove-
loped„by one evidently possessed both of taste and
feeling, and able to produce impressive effects.
Though by no means complex in plot or crowded
with characters, " Nelly's Story," such is the
second title of the book, is invested with
sufficient variety and force of incident to carry the
reader with growing interest to the conclusion.
The purpose of the author is of a highly moral and
practical nature. Primarily, it is "to portray
the quiet virtue of self-sacrifice," to render the
beauty of holiness more attractive than the false
allurements of the world, and to show that there is
but one strength that is able to nerve us against
temptation. Secondarily, to illustrate the import-
ance of sound religious training in youth. Nelly
—the narrator—is an orphan, who is brought up
by a stepmother, a lady of cold exterior, but
endowed with strong passions—along with her
half-sister, little Edith. Her early days are clouded
with an oppressive sense of injustice, being as
much an object of quiet but unconquerable aver-
sion to her stepmother as Edith is of demonstra-
tive fondness and pernicious indulgence. To add
to her sorrow she is perpetually reminded of her
sister's superior beauty by taunts of ugliness—by
no means warranted as the remainder of the story
will show. Fortunately for her future welfare in
this school of adversity she is not without a
friendly guide in the pesson of Aunt Mary, her
deceased father's sister—a very pleasing and well-
drawn character. To this lady, the proud, sensitive
child naturally repairs, and finds in her affectionate
sympathies rescue from a state of isolation, as
well as receives counsel characterised at once by
piety, disaimination, and good sense, and admir-
ably calculated to sober her perturbed spirit and
direct her future course. A bright morning
dawns at last on Nelly. Having, in a successful
attempt to rescue her little sister from the rage of

a bull, she is tossed by the infuriated animal,
and wakes to consciousness with the hitherto cold
eyes of her stepmother gazing fondly upon her,
having sacrificed a bitter sense of injury by Nelly, s
mother to a womanly recognition of the fine, gene-
rous qualities of her stepdaughter. Nelly's first
great grief is over ; she finds what she has ever-
more longed for—a mother. The day, however,
is soon overclouded. Her new-found mother's
brother, uncle Rob, appears on the scene, and, by
his ill-advised speculations, reduces his sister to
comparative poverty. Aunt Mary adds her memo
to those 61 her sister-in-law, and they live toge-
ther for a brief period, when the latter dies of
grief, leaving her daughter, the idolised Edith, to
the charge of Nelly, to instil into her mind those
religious principles which she had failed to implant
herself when they were most likely to take firm
and lasting root. Nelly battles bravely with the
world, and fulfils, her promise. The great evevt
of her life, her first love, pledged before the death
of her stepmother,, proves to her a source of the
bitterest trial. The impulsive and negligent
lever, for whose sake she had made many sacrifices,
becomes the false lover, and to her keen anguish
,she finds her successful rival in "little Edith,"
tie child of her adoption, who thus rewards
hey- sister's kindness from her childhood upwards.
Womanly vengeance is permitted a temporary sway,
but principle triumphs—she gives up her reclaimed
and rewon lover, and her sister is married. In
the fate of that sister the tragedy of the story is
centred, but we will not forestall the reader's curi-
osity further than by saying, the self-sacrificing
spirit of Nelly meets at last with its reward, while
over her unfortunate sister's name and fame there
is cast a cloud her premature death can hardly re-
move. The above is scarcaly an outline of the
story, but is enough for our purpose. Somo of
the scenes rise to dramatic intensity, and the prin-
cipal characters are portrayed with graphic skill,
and leave behind a corresponding impression. The
work is not without defect, but these are such as
might be expected from a novice. Taking it as a
whole, we would commend " Nelly's Story" to the
notice of those who can appreciate a tale of fiction
written with a moral aim, and marred by no
maudlin sentiment, but healthy and invigorating
in tone, and demanding no sort of compulsion to
insure its perusal.

How a Penny became a Thousand Pounds.

HOnlston and Stoneman.

A good shilling's worth of " philosophy teaching
by example" is here. A curious, interesting, in-
structive little volume, containing a great deal of
sound common sense, quaintly conveyed, by a
writer who appears to have happily caught a spark
of the spirit of Sterne, without apeing the manner-
isms of that singular humorist. He professes
himself to be a small tradesman, who, some years
ago, in 1843, became impressed with the produc-
tiveness of a penny, if set apart from the general
risks of business, turned to a profit, and allowed
continually to grow by the augmentation of its own
profits, which were not to be diverted under any
circumstances, until a given sum had accumulated.
By earnest determination and discreet manage-
ment, the Penny had grown in 1855 to the impor-
tant sum of One Thousand Pounds. For the modus
operandi, we must refer to the shrewd and amus-
ing pages of the industrious autobiographer, who
appears to have been gifted with a felicitous com-
bination of luck and judgment. It may not be
within the scope of every man's capabilities to
carry out to a practical issue the theory of our
Penny-wise (but not Pound-foolish) philosopher ;
but the details of his enterprise are well worth
perusal, and, being "level to the meanest capa-
city,' may set many a thrifty soul in the right
path to turn his or her copper piece to shining,
solid gold.

The Art- Journa',. principll illustratio.s
for the month are Harding's " Hyde-park in 1851,"
engraved by J. B. Allen, " The Madonna," by
Carlo Dolce, engraved by F. Thll—both pictures
in the Royal collection—and " Titania," engraved
by J. H. Baker from the bas-relief by F. M.
Miller. The latter is a work of high promise,
but to our thinking falls short of the conception of
the artist, The British artist selected for illustra-
tion is tha renowned Turner—three of whose pic-
tures, displaying his " light" and " dark" styles,
contribute to the value of the number. The
literary portion of the journal is, as usual, rich in
criticism, information, and :suggestion, on both
high and every-day practical art.

Ths Church of England Monthly Review.--
Has an article on " Physical Geography and
National Development," in addition to a number
of contributions interesting to Churchmen and
biblical students. The " Church of England
Quarterly Review" is, we perceive, to be amalga-
mated with it, and it is to appear in quarterly as
well as monthly parts.

Willis's Price Current.—The list of new publica-
tions and " Current Notes for the Month " are pre-
faced by original papers on literary and antiquarian
subjects, the first of which presents us with new
facts respecting " Robinson Crusoe." The paper
is illustrated.

SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 16.—The Peninsular and Orien-
tal Company's screw steamship Sultan,
sailed this afternoon for Cadiz, Gibraltar,capainCook,
Malta, and
Alexandria. The Sultan conveys 50 first-class and 72
second-class passengers, among whom are thePlnce
de Salerno, Duke and Duchess d'Aurnale, Prinieods :
Conde, .Countess de Cooffier, Monsieur de Contierie,
secretary to the Duke d'Aumale, and suite, who
land at Cadiz. On freight the Sultan has about will
tons of cargo. This vessel has been placed upon the
Mediterranean line pas,t act as an extra ship for the
purpose of conveying pengers rod cargo which is
left over by the regular mail steamers. The Alhambra,
Captain Joy, the first of the additional packets, is ex-
pected to arrive at Snithampton from Alexandria,
Malta, and Gibraltar about the 20th instant.' The
`-''Anmbo, Captain Cooper, with the homeward India
and Mediterranean mails, is expected about Saturday.
The, Royal mail steamer Orinoco, with the West India
and Pacific mails, and the United States' mail steam-
ship Washington, with the mails from New York, for
Germany,t Prance, and England is expected to-morrow.
T h e
rat°, with the West India, and Pacific mails, and
the Euxine, with the Peninsular mails, sails at mid-day
to-morrow.
FEMALE S —ZRVANTS FOR AUSTRALIA _Female do-
mestic servants
dviiihio
Australia
understand their bu,iness are
in great denim ustralia, and are sure to obtain im-
mediate employment
Emigration Oommissiat good wages. To all such the
bllowing conditions 7'41: will grant passages on the
under 18 nor over 35 years of
candidates must not be
unexeeptional character They must be of
;airs goolf?daghee:alth, and free from
bodily and mental defect:
housemaids, nehey must have lived in
service as cooks,
maids, or as servants of all vverkerY-m6l3'
; and they must pro-
or laundry-
duce satisractory certificates and testimonials on these
points.—Emigration Record.
RIFLE SHOOTING.—THE INDIAN PRINCE On Wed-
nesday the Nawab of Surat and ether Inscii;
with their suite, paid a visit to Captain Jay, a t princee,
his ,
sidence, near Hendon, and enjoyed the sport of rime and
pigeon shooting. The Nawab has the reputationof being
a first-rate shot. A large party had been
incited : a
o
meet the illustrious guests, and the whole sat down t
detjeuner ; at the conclusion of which the princes T,
entered their carriages and left for town.

pelled to hoard in Eder the terms of its charter. I
is obliged to keep • some eight or ten millions of
bullion stored in i is vaults, of no greater utility
than an equal wei, ?I] .t of paving stones, which, if
properly sealed up, • would answer the purpose just
as well. All perso s who have the power to do
so, follow the exampl e thus set. Men who see an
impending crisis loon sing in the future take ad-
vantage of every avai 'able opportunity to provide
not merely for their probable, but also for their
possible exigencies. It is true that with money
at 7or 8 per cent. they "pay very dearly for
their whistles," but still they regard it as an
assurance against poss ible ruin ; and are satis-
fied to make heavy sac rif.ces to provide against
possible disastrous cone A q,ciences.
On the Continent w e si3e the Russian and Aus-
trian Governments a• :or emulating large stores of
the precious metals, b 3 r the formation of railway,
steam-packet, and oth• S r companies, the shares of
which must be paid for • in French and English gold
or silver, while the cxi is nses are provided for by in-
convertible paper. The: French Government, which
has not as yet suspende d cash payments, is making
gigantic efforts to purcl lase specie at a heavy loss.
Asystem that cannot ion .g be maintained, and which
will only be continued a o long as the Bank of Eng-
land remains a species of " mulch cow" from
which the ROTIISCHII I.s can draw the means of
supplying the 5,600,1 )001. of bullion which they
have contracted for with the Bank, or, rather,
with the Government of France, and on which
the myriads of minor speculators can pull until it
is at last run dry, as. it must speedily be under
such untoward cireumsl`,,a.nces.
But on the Continery t there are other causes to
lead to private hoardin J besides those that ope-
rate on the merchants, r manufacturers, and traders
of Great Britain. It is not merely commercial
demands that Frenehmo, a have to look to. There is
always the possibility of a political convulsion, pos-
sibly a'revolution, under • which all classes of secu-
rities may be greatly de/ ,reciated, and nothing but
the precious metals pass ourrent. Every private
person desires to have a ;stock in hand sufficient Ivo
provide for an emergen e.;y, with which he may take
refuge even in a foreign land. In his official
report, recently publish ked, M. MAGNE calculates
that since 1850 the importation of specie has
exceeded the exportat it m thereof by no less than
800,000,000 francs (32,000,000/. sterling),
while the balance .of trade in favour of
France within the same period reached the
enormous amount of 1,360,000,000 franks,
(or 54,400,000/. sterling). Under such circum-
stances it is obvious t hat the people must be
" hoarding." Nothing else can explain the phe-
nomena of a dearth of specie, and the further
progress of the evil can only be averted by the
speedy suspension of cash payments.
This course has been eagerly anticipated for
several days past. A rumour was yesterday cur-
rent on the Stock Exchange that the change had
actually taken place, and the immediate result
was an increased buoyancy and a consider-
able improvement in the quotations of
our own funds. An advance off` one-half
per cent. took place at the moment. If such was
the effect of a very doubtful report, what would
be the actual certainty of a matter that would at
once stop the artificial drain on our own re-
sources be ? We may easiily see its vast importance
from the movement amongst the Bulls and Bears
of Capel Ccurt, consequent on the rumour.
But, according to the old proverb, "If the
mountain won't go to MATIONIET, MAHOMET must
go to the mountain." If the Bank of France
won't take th e necessary steps for its own protection,
the English Government must prevent the Bank
of England from being involved in one common
ruin with it. For that purpose Parliament should
be convened for the earliest possible day, and au•
thority obtained to issue Exchequer bills for small
amounts which should be a legal tender,
and which might be paid by the Bank of
England in liquidation of their notes, in
place of gold and silver. It would be still
better if Ministers, without waiting for Parlia-
mentary sanction, should take upon themselves
the responsibility as in 1847, and trust to an
indemnity, whic(l would be granted without hesi-
atien. By adopting such a course they would
prove themselves worthy of the exalted position
n which they are placed, and entitle themselves
to the unceasing thanks and gratitude of the
People.

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" The cat would catch fish, but is afraid •f
wetting her feet." So runs the proverb—at least
in effect. France and England would do some-
thing at Naples, but, to all appearance, are afraid
of something else if they send their fleets into the
Neapolitan Bay. Admiral DUNDAS has got his
iustructions, and has sailed with his squadron
from Ajaccio. The French Admiral, in all pro-
bability, has got his instructions also, and will

shortly sail from Toulon. These instructions--

Ifor we presume both are alike—are, it is said, to
I sail towards, but not to, Naples. This may be
called explicit ; but we really c tu't quite compre
bend it. Are the two fleets to go so far, and then
practise the goose-step ; or arc they condemned,
like the Flying Dutchman, to sail on without evcr
making port ? Not to perplex the reader, we
will assume the meaning to be, the Admirals will
cruise off but not enter the Bay of Naples ; will
give the population an opportunity of assuring
themselves the fleet are at hand, but not of in- ,
dulging in a close inspection.
There may be sound policy in this procedure.
That will depend on the object contemplated.
But we confess, after the Russian Circular, we
should have liked the fleets, when they did
appear, to enter on the scene in a manner more
worthy of the great Powers they represent.
There may be no febrile apprehension of con-
sequences, but it will look as if there were ; and
if the Allies mean to frighten BOMBA. merely into
submission, to seem afraid will be to insure pre-
cisely the opposite effect. This, however, is no
' great concern of ours ; the worst effect a failure
can have is to occasion delay. The Neapolitans,
however, are to be taken into account during, no
less than after, the experiment. What will they
do ? With an army of sixty or more thousand
men, a giant fortress whose guns sweep the streets,
and a bloodthirsty horde of lazzaroni whetting
their knives for slaughter, are they likely to rise?
That will depend on their courage, of which we
know little, and on the fidelity of the troops, of
which we know less. Calculation is baffled.

Suppose the Neapolitans see good reason for
not rising unless backed by the thunders of the
fleets, what then ? Will England and France be
content to be the laughing-stocks, not merely of
EOMBA, but of Europe and America ? The
tapering► spars of their fleets described as sign-
posts, and the hulks buoys for the naval way-
farer ? We should imagine not. We shall see,
if we are not mistaken, the fleetsiturned to some
purpose. It may be urged the presence of the
fleets is intended for the protection of English
and French subjects, and that only. The mis-
chief is nobody believes it, and incredulity is in-
creased by the fact of more ships being despatched
than are necessary for the purpose.

Of BoxnA's submission We have but little
hops. The worn•out Bovaßox is cursed with

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judicial blindness. What faint traces of reason
were left him have been obliterated by the Rus•
sian Circular. He must " dree his wierd." That
is the long and the short of it. Nothing less than
his abdication will suffice, and it would be well if
the people do not rise and win their own freedom
at once, to hold that forth as a sine qua non
without which there can be no departure of the
fleets. The soldiery, if they have brains, would
in all probability be paralysed; and between their
wavering and the attitude of the citizens the
coward fears of the tyrant might be so played on
as to insure his abdication without bloodshed.
Unfortunately the disturbing causes are so nume-
rous, and the information at hand so unreliable,
that no man can say what a day may bring forth.
A rising of the lazzaroni, for instance, may preci-
pitate matters ; for we can hardly believe the
fleets would float idly by while such butchery as
the lazzaroni are likely to indulge in, was going
On. We must content ourselves for the present
with indulging the hope that, " come what
may," the constitutional liberties of the Neapoli-
tans will one way or other be restored to them,
and before long established on an enduring basis.

What between overseers, workhouse masters,
and clerical magistrates, to say nothing of inat_
tentive doctors—the lot of the destitute poor is
by no means enviable. Now we find some poor
unfortunates dying outside the workhouse for
want of parish aid, and now others within it
neglected, or flagellated, or taken before the
Bench and unmercifully sentenced. Instances of
the kind, we apprehend, are but too familiar to
the reader's recollection. That miserable tragedy
in Bethnal-green, where hunger held such mortal
revel, that of six orphans three at a time lay dead
before their widowed mother's gaze, cannot have
been quite forgotten. It is only the tribe of
officials" who forget these things. The poor
themselves don't, and if they would are not
suffered to do so. Week after week some new
tale of inhuman neglect, or execrable tyranny
reaches their ears, thickens the crass darkness
too often interposing between them and their
GOD, and widens the " vasty" gulf between them
and their more fortunate brethren. This very
week two cases have come before us, one so hor-
rible that our flesh creeps at it, and the other in-
volving such absurd tyranny, that one cannot
refrain from a sardonic smile on perusing it.

It may be well to notice the latter first. Some
stupid chaplain, dear at forty pounds a year,
preaches every Sunday to the inmates of St. Neot's
Union, in so drowsy a fashion, that one
of them, a young woman, probably, to keep
herself awake, scribbled something in a Prayer-
book the other Sunday, and together with another
inmate indulged in suppressed laughter. Nothing
would serve the Master but to take her before
a parson Justice, who, we suppose, having feel-
ingly lectured her on the high crime and misde-
meanour of which she had been guilty, mercifully
sentenced her to 21 days' imprisonment. Twenty-
one days' imprisonment for trying to keep awake
under a leaden divine ! Why she ought to have
been rewarded at least with a new bonnet, handed
over to her by a new chaplain for the work-
house. Seriously—if the Great • Judge whip
paltry offenders after this fashion, what
is to become of the parsons ? No subscriber to
the Thirty-nine Articles—we must say—is in a
state of mind to dispense justice from the thou-
sand and one statutes of our Criminal Law.
Place him in the bench, and, presto ! the placid
Christian is changed into an exaggeration of a
Ebrew Jew.
The other case is so horrible that we are lothe
to refer to it. A poor wretch who had seen
better days comes to London in a penniless condi-
tion, and not meeting with employment, takes up
his residence in a low locality in Lambeth. Star-
vation before him—to the pangs of hunger he
finds added a loathsome disease—glanders, got by
infection from a horse. At last he obtains employ-
, went, but is compelled by his frightful complaint
to give it up. His doom is sealed. The next
thing we hear of him is his being discovered lying
on the bare bricks of a stable to which he
had crawled in the pangs of disease and hunger.
For three mortal days no food had reached his
lips, and probably no human voice nor pre-
sence had cheered for a moment his sinking heart.
He is taken to a coffeehouse, and from thence to
the workhouse, where his sufferings some to an
end, so far as we can see, without any alleviation
from the doctor. That official, however, does not
appear to have been sent for—at all events, if
sent for, it was when nothing could be done; and
this much is to be said in his favour, his decision
led to an inquiry by the coroner, when the awful
circumstances of the case came out, for had he
not described the death in the certificate as re-
•sulting purely from destitution no inquest would
have been held. It will hardly be believed that
for doing so he has been charged by the assistant-
overseer with conniving with the summoning
officer to get up such inquiries, and otherwise
insulted before the Board of Guardians. One
c alld Wish the energies of the women-floggers
expended on a fellow like this, if not on some
of his masters, from whom he doubtless takes
his cue. Were it not for coroner's inquests, what
tragedies would escape detection !

The inquiry, at Swansea, touching the death of An-
thony Alder, the engineer who was killed in the cob
lision on the South Wales Railway, terminated yester-
day. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against
Mr. E. Hancorn, the station master, for telegraphing
the road was clear, in consequence of which message the
collision took place, and the deceased was killed.
Daniel Clever, " a brick," upon a cab-rank, was fined
51. yesterday, at the Westminster Police-court, for res-
cuing a prisoner from the police, charged with felony.
Excitement being caused by the removal of the tomb-
stones in Bunhill-fields burial-ground, by Mr. Jones, the
superintendent, Mr. Tyrwhitt, issued a warrant for his
attendance yesterday at Clerkenwell Police-court ; but
he refused to appear. The magistrate said the conduct
of Jones was highly improper, but he regretted he could
not at present interfere.
A ragged and emaciated young man was yesterday
charged, before Mr. Henry, at Bow-street, with attempt-
ing to steal a bundle of umbrellas from a shop in Holborn.
Want he said was the cause of the theft. He preferred
a prison to the workhouse. He was sentenced to three
months' imprisonment.

At the meeting of the Camberwell vestry, last night,
the offer of certain persons to inclose and improve Cam.
berwell•green was accepted.
Bland, the man who was remanded for stealing four
gold rings from the shop of Mr. Benson, Ludgate-hill,
was yesterday
fully committed for trial by Sir Peter
Laurie.

COURT OP COMMON COUNCIL.—At the meeting of the
corporation yesterday, it was resolved to place a marble
bust, with a suitable inscription, in the council chamber
to the memory of the late T. H. Hall. Alderman Cubitt
was elected to fill the seat of the deceased gentleman at
the Metropolitan Board of Works.

Last night an inquest was held at the Brunswick
Tavern, Hackney, on the body of a married woman,
named Gaylor, who had taken a quantity of sulphate of
potash to procure abortion, The husband, it appeared,
during tue investigation, procured the stuff, but he
alleged be did not know for what purpose his wife
wanted it. The inquiry was adjourned in Order that a
post portem examination might be made.
The late election of incumbent of St. James's, Clerken-
well, not being considered legal by the party of the Rev.
M. Roberts, a meeting of the vestry was held last night
t consider what steps should be taken, in consequence
of a caveat having been issued by the rev. gentleman
and Mr. Jones. It was resolved to engage counsel to
defend the eleotion of Mr. M'Guire.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales arrived in
town last evening from Osborne, to meet her Majesty on
the arrival of the Court from Scotland.

The Duke of Devonshire left Lismore Castle yester-
day for Devonshire House.
His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the
Countess Persigny arrived at Albert-gate House, last
evening, from Backenham Hal!, near Thetford, Norfolk.
Excellencies Diller Bey, Kiazin Bey, and Kadri
Effendi, have taken their departure from Cla,ri,ige's
Hotel. Lady Chantrey and Mrs. Palmer and Miss
Palmer have arrived at the same establishment.

Viscountess Jocelyn and her youthful family arrived
at Cambridge House, the residence of Viscount and
Viscountess Palmerston, a few days since, from St.
Leonards•on-Sea.

Elt is proposed to erect a music hall in Aberdeen.
There is a project on foot at Cheltenham to convert
the Clarence Hotel into a new town hall.

Mr. John B. Lee, of the Broad Sanctuary, has been
appointed secretary to the Bishop of London.
Madame Grisi and Signor Mario will sing at Brighton
in the "Opera Recitals" twice nest week.

M. Guizot, it is announced, is to reply to M. Blot on
the reception of the latter by the French Academy.
His Holiness the Pope has, says the Univers, signed
an amnesty comprising about 30 persons, for the most
part condemned for the affair of Nov. 16, 1849.
The want of adequate steam tug accommodation is
much complained of by the merchants and captains at
Calcutta.

The inquiry for silver has greatly subsided, and 30,000/.
of Mexican dole., which were brought by the New York
steamer, have not yet been sold.

ARCHDEACON DENISON'S CASE.—Tuesday next is
fixed by the Archbishop of Canterbury for the settle-
ment of the dispute arising out of this case.
On Tuesday evening a man named Milnes was attacked
and murdered near Bradford. The man committing the
crime, Jowatt, is still at large.

Yesterday afternoon a locomotive engine exploded at
Bolbow and Vaughan's Iron Work; Middlesbro'. The
engineer of the works and three men were killed.
The Russian General Tolstoi and Count Gortschakoff,
gentlemen of the chamber to the Emperor of Russia,
have arrived in Paris.

Tbo official publication of the betrothal of the second
son of the King of Sweden, PriEce Oscar, with the
Princess of Nassau, took place at Stockholm on the 7th.
The Emperor Alexander 11. has conferred the order
of St. Alexander Nowsky on Baron Alexander Hum-
boldt.

The officers of the Royal Engineers lately engaged in
the Crimea and the Baltic dined together last evening,
at the Freemasons' Tavern. Sir J. Burgoyne presided.
Mrs. Webb, the lady of colour, who lately appeared
at tafford-house, has been giving her readings of
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" and " Hiawatha" at Cheltenham,
but the local papers say they were but thinly attended.
The number of dogs not employed for useful purposes
in Austria amounts to 11 millions ; it is the intention
of government to impose on each a tax of two florins
(about 4f.)
The Irish sculptor Hogan lam just sent the model of
his colossal statue of O'Connell to Paris to be cast in
bronze. The statue is to be inaugurated at Dublin next
month.

Mr. C. Anstey finds that his office of Attorney-Genera
at Hong Kong is no sinecure. He says he is insulted
and degraded on all sides. His friends are trying to
get him another appointment.
Accounts from Rome, in the Augsburg Gazette, says
"Three Catholic priests have arrived here from Wur-
temberg with the view of negotiating a concordat be-
tween that country and the Holy See."
SYDNEY, July B.—Theatricals continue to be well
patronised in Sydney. An English opera company is
the last importation from London, the principal artists
being Madame Cramer, Miss Julia Harland, Mr. Farqu-
harson, and Mr. Walter Sherwin.
An Ovens paper mentions a new locality in which gold
has been found, more than enough to " pay for the
shot." A gentleman shot some wild ducks, and in their
gizzards were found several very palpable pieces.of gra-
nular gold.
PROGRESS OF EUIGRATION.—From the quarterly re-
turns'of emigration, it appears that the number of per-
sons who emigrated during the quarter ending the 30th
of September was 50,228, against 44,698 for the same
period of 1855.—Emigration Record.
The Bank of Savoy, following the example of the
Banks of Paris and of London, has raised its rate of
interest to 6 per cent. In a circular which it has
issued it expresses a hope this measure will be only
temporary.

REPRESENTATION OF GLASGOW. —The North British.
Mail says : —A. requisition bas been pretty numerously
signed, calling upon James 111‘Kenzie, Esq., National
Bank Buildings, to offer himself as a candidate for the
representation of the city in Parliament.
Experiments have just been made on the Northern
Railway of France with an apparatus for rapidly bring-
ing-up railway trains in motion. The invention is that
of K. Cardot, and is in principle a brake. Its action is
said to be nearly instantaneous.

Yesterday Holford House, Regent's-park, was opened
as a college for the education of Nonconformist ministers,
This college is to take the place of the ancient establish-
ment at Stepney. There was a dinner to celebrate the
occasion in the evening, over which Sir S. ➢i. Peto

presided.
MILITARY FUNERAL or THE LATE HON. C. GEMSTONE.
—The mortal remains of this much respected officer, who
was adjutant of the 4th Royal Middlesex Militia, and
formerly attached to the Coldstream Guards, were in-
terred yesterday morning, in the churchyard at Houns-
low, with military honours.

The Minister of Justice of the Netherlands has just
adopted a measure which will be favourably received
by travellers on the Dutch railways. The commissaries
of police will not for the future have to register pass-
ports of foreigners, unless of such persons as may appear
suspicious.

THE LIVERPOOL FINANCIAL REFORM ASSOCIATION.—
At the meeting of this association a long letter was read
from a gentleman, advocating the desirability of 40 or
50 nme►nbers of the House of Commons banding them-
pelves together to resist "count outs," and other cxpe-
dients for burlsing disagreeable discussions.

A NEW POLITICAL CRY.—A correspondent of the
T,iines this morning says :—" It is said- a popular poli-
tical cry is wanting. ' Reduce the Income Tax !' ought
to be one of the strongest rallying cries during the next
session. The Government are evidently tricky on the
subject. Nothing could exceed the cool impudence of
the pretence put forward last session for its continuance,
at its present high rate, during two more dreary years.
It was worthy of the diplomatic Premier, or of a ruse
Russian plenipotentiary. It could be thought states.
manlike only in a Cabinet of jugglers."
LYCEUM THEATRE.—Last night was produced at this
theatre an English version of " La Jeunesse illousque-
ta;re," a drama which has had in Paris more than ordi-
nary success. The English version goes by the name of
" The King's Musketeers," and is intended to represent
not only the deadly feuds of the /4lusqueteers of Louiz
XIII. and of Richelieu's Guards, but also the intrigues
and general characteristics of that celebrated epoch.
The scenery and costumes are accurate and splendid,
and as the acting is spirited there can be no rashness in
predicting for the English version a success not much
inferior to that which attended the original drama.
FREEDOM OF THE CITY.—The following notice was
this morning posted in front of the Guildhall, and the
various corporate buildings in the neighbourhood. Li-
beral Registration—The recent abolition of all fice4,
fees, and stamps on admission to the freedom of the city
of London, the electors on the Parliamentary registry
may now be admitted to the freedom of the City gratis,
by attending on any lawful day at the Chamberlain's
office, between the hours of ten and three o'clock.
Electors desirous of being enrolled on the municipal list
of voters for Aldermen and Common Councilmen, com-
ing into force on the let of November, are requested to
make immediate application to the Chamberlain for ad-
mission to the freedom-4, Charlotte Row.

THE NEAPOLITAN QUESTION.--The Paris correspon-
dent of the Morning Post (second edition), says :—" It
is hard to tell a persecuted people to wait a little longer
to be prudent, and let the day of battle be brought on
by coming events; and yet it is the wisest advice, for
France and England cannot do much more than they
are doing. Some persons have said that we should have
bombarded the town when the King sent his impertinent
notes to England and France. But who would have suf-
fered ? The people of Naples, whom we wiQh to serve,
not to injure. The King would have crept away to Ca-
serta, and rejoiced over the ruins of the citizens' houses.
When we blockaded Greece the real offLoder escaped ;
the people were the victims. All we can do with the
King of Naples is to cut him,' and there will be au
outcry about that in some quarters. The one or two
British merchants who sell salt fish in Naples, and who
are cavaliers, decorated by the King, they will address
the Manchester people, and protest against the injury
inflicted on commerce,' in the penny-come-and-kick-me
papers of Cobden and Bright. The Neapolitans may
rest assured that what can be done will be done to im-
ploys their position. Meanwhile let them assume a
dignified and tranquil attitude like the inhabitants of
Lombardy and Venice ; the future is full of promise for
Italy, if not spoiled by premature isolated action."

LATEST NEWS.

SAILING 01' THE MEDITERRANEAN

SQUADRON.

MA RSEILLES, THURSDAY.

We have intelligence from, Ajaccio to the 4th.

Admiral Dandas, having received telegraphic in-
struction's from the Admiralty by way of France,

has left Ajaccio with his squadron.
At Toulon it is rumoured that the French

squadron is about to set sail.

DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS IN
CIRCASSIA.
. TRIESTE, THURSDAY.

Advices from Constantinople, of the 9th inst.,
state that Sefer Pacha has gained two victories

over the Russians in Circassia, and has taken

from them about 800 prisoners and 21 guns.

MADRID, Om. 16.

The statement that the present Government
considers the late Concordat with Rome as being
in full force turns out to bo perfectly correct.
A Royal decree has been issued, declaring it to
continue in all its force, and annulling contrary
dispositions.

By another decree the fund-redemption pro-
cess, by the sale of Church lands, is suspended,
and prices restricted in the meanwhile.
The Governors of Toledo, Ciudad Real, Pon-
tevedra, Alicant, Cordova, and Corunna are
recalled.

Arquedles has been named Director of the
Colonies.

The railway from Madrid to Bayonne has been
conceded to the Spanish Credit Mobilier Company
Pereire, with a grant of 200,000,000 reals. M.
Prost had deposited caution-money to the amount
of 1,000,000, but not being present the adjudi-
cation was against him.

Advices from Constantinople, received at Mar,
seilles yesterday, announce that the Porte is send.
ing troops to Trebizond.

Austria refuses to pay the due levied for the
maintenance of a lighthouse at the Sulina mouth
of the Danube, on the plea that she was not con-
sulted respecting its establishment.

The Paris correspondent of the Times (second
edition), in his letter of yesterday, says
" The answer of the Neapolitan Government to
the last note presented by Baron Brenier is ex-
pected here from one moment to another. It is
not anticipated that it will be satisfactory. As
soon as it is received the Moniteur will publish
an article on the Neapolitan question, giving, it
is said, full information—at least, as full infor-
mation as it is the practice of the Government to
do. The recall of M. Brenier is certain, but as
to the fleets I can say nothing more than I have
already mentioned. I believe that the Government
will be glad to get out of the affair as soon, and
of course as well, as possible, and that a very mo-
derate concession would satisfy it. King Fer-
dinand, of course, knows his advantage, and the
forbearance shown towards him will no doubt be
interpreted to unwillingness to brave the conse-
quences of a revolutionary movement.

" A diplomatic dinner was given yesterday at
the hotel of the Foreign Minister. Among the
guests was the Neapolitan Ambassador, M. Anto-
nini, who, to all appearance, was as tranquil and
as much at his ease as if Naples and the Allies
were the best friends in the world. Another
Neapolitan of rank, the Prince of San Giacoma,
was also present.
" The journals in the Austrian interest re-
double their energy in decrying what they
term the violence' exercised on the King
of Naples. They denounce this interven-
tion in the internal affairs of a nation'
as a scandalous violation of one of the essen-
tial principles of the international law of Europe.
Every one must be struck with the gross
inconsistency of Austria in this matter. Not to
go farther back than 1815, it was Austria herself
who has since, at all times and in all places, given
the example of the violation of treaties, and of
violence against the independence of the secondary
States of Europe : in Cracow as in Ferrara, in
Naples as in Piedmont ; in 1821, 1834, 1846,
and 1848 ; on the banks of the Po as on the
Danube and the Pruth ; at Piacenza, where she
extends her fortifications with no right to do so; and
in the Danubian Principalities, which, in utter
disregard of her own solemn obligations, she at
the moment occupies with her army. If Austria
is sincere in her denunciation of our conduct at
Naples, she can prove it by giving orders to
Count Degenfeld to evacuate Bologna, and to her
General at Parma.to withdraw his troops. Until
Austria does this she has no right to proclaim
herself the defender of a principle to which her
own conduct is a permanent contradiction."

The Vienna correspondent of the Times (second
edition), in his letter dated Oct. 13, writes as
follows

"In financial circles it is related that the British
and French missions have already been recalled
from Naples, but the assurance has been given me
that no official news to that effect has yet been re-
ceived here. According to private letters the Ring
is assembling an army of 40,000 trustworthy'
troops around him at Gaeta, and the Austro-
Neapolitan correspondents express their conviction
that his Majesty will not make the concessions
demanded of him unless literally forced to do so.
There is reason to believe that this Government
will send a couple of vessels to the Bay of Naples
' for the protection of Austrian subjects and pro-
perty,' as soon as it has received official notice
that the Anglo-French squadron is on its way to
Naples.
"In more than one of my recent letters it has
been hinted that the relations between Austria
aanndd
iFtriaannceow inarenot so satisfactory as they were,
ray power to speak more plainly
on the subject. This Government strongly
suspects that there is something passing between
France and Russia, or rather between Count
Walewslci and Prince Gortschakoff, which is
kept from the knowledge of Austria and
England. The foregoing intelligence is from
an excellent source, but still undue importance
must not be attached to it, as it is somewhat diffi-
cult to believe that the Emperor of the French
can be such a short-sighted politician as to think of
playing England false. That the French Govern.
merit is getting somewhat tired of its alliance with
a Power which can never be induced to act with de-
cision appears probable enough, but my common
sense tells me that the.rnaintenance of the alliance
with England
must be of the very highest import-
ance to Napoleon. While writing, it occurs to me
that Austria is a Power which is not over scrupu-
lous in respect to the means which she employs to
attain her ends, and it is just possible that she
affects to distrust France in order to shako the
confidence of England in that Power."

A letter dated Naples, Oct. 13, says :
cc His Majesty is still at Gaeta, and apparently
still bent on resistance. Great quantities of