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London, England, 1856-10-16 00:00:00

balance of trade, we mi,ght. hope that after a

TERSON, the celebrated founder of the Bank of
-Ragland, still continues to this day—as we have
said, as we have seen, as we all of us so very
well know—merely talked about, merely dreamt
if, merely suggested : a scheme upon the verit-
tt)le realisation of which no one has yet seriously
and energetically adventured.
The Electric Telegraph already threads with ifs
magical wires almost all the principal quarters of
the European and North American Continents.
It flashes night and day under the waters of the
English Channel ; it is actually in course
of being carried under the billows of
the Mediterranean. It is on the eve of having
An enormous coil of wire " payed out" between
Ireland and Canada, submerged under the depths
of the Atlantic, to thrill like an exquisite nerve
of sympathy between the eastern and the western
hemispheres. A little while longer, and the sys-
tem of electric communication between all parts
of the habitable globe can hardly fail, in GOD'S
good time, to be completed. A succession of
wires being linked together from London, through
most of the European capitals, across the Channel,
across the Mediterranean, along the northern
coast of Africa, through Egypt, onwards to Hin-
dostan, beneath the Chinese waters, and so for-
ward by the Japanese archipelago, till, having
traversed the northern bed of the Pacific, the
electric current may pass onwards, still with the
momentary fleetness of lightning, through the
California line, spanning, as is proposed, the ample
breadth of the Atlantic), and thus completing the
circuit to London by way of San Francisco. A
single instantaneous quiver of the needle at
Cornhill marking the flash of the electric spark at
one scintillation around the broad circumference
of the World. The necessary preliminaries towards

season of severe suffering the bullion might return
to our shores. But it is no tso ! Russia and

Austria provide for the expenditure in paper

money, while the specie " w ill be locked up in the
vaults of the State banks " until they may be en-

gaged in new wars, and find , the means of fighting
England with the money which she is scattering
abroad with lavish hand.

Already we have witness ed •the depreciation o
every public and private sect-Er-14,y, and the enormous
increase in the minimum, rat ( ) of discount at the
quasi National Bank, whic-f L of course rules far
lower than at any private, establishment. It is
now no less than seven per r cent. for bills having
more than 60 days to run- —a rate never exceeded
since the establishment of the Corporation, save
at the time of the virtual suspension of its Char-
ter by the issue of the Goy ernment Letter of the
25th of October, 1847.
How can the industrial community—the com-
mercial and manufacturi i lg interests—bear this
extraordinary charge, wh.sich must transfer their
entire profits into the ha x ids of the moneyocracy,
arrest production, and leave the labouring popu-
lation starving in the -t aidst of plenty ? Where
will then be the receipts on which the Chancellor
of the Exchequer so foul ily calculates ? And how
will he provide for tht ) deficiency that must in-
evitably arise
As the Times justly remarked last week, "if

the Bank of France are determined to buy gold
at any sacrifice, no addition of one or two per
cent. per annum on the xi tte of bills of exchange
will be regarded. The only limit to such an
operation must be found it the exhaustion of their
power to buy up bills on tb .is country, or to obtain
credits here." This, ho, at ever, is a very remote
anticipation—one that :may not occur until

the actual accomplishment of this, have already
been commenced—many of them having been
long since substantially completed. The realisa-

the Bank coffers arei thoroughly drained,
and the circulating nae dium in the hands
of the public reduced to a moiety of its present
amount. Then we shall ft] zd stringent measures
slopted to prevent the / •eturn of the precious
metals ; for them there wi ll be mullet vestigia re-
trorsum—no possible chr ice of a return of the
tide. It is, then, folly of the worst description to
defer remedial measures uu itil the evil has been
consummated. We must. "shut the-stable-door"
before the steed has been married off.
There is but one &met • for the country, and
that is the establishment of a really National
Bank, authorised to issue 3iotes of small denomi-
nations, for 11., 21., and 3'. each, and probably for
intermediate fractional sums, as for 11. 55.,
11. 108., and 1/. 155., which Irish experience
shows to have greatl3r economised the use
of silver, and thus proved very beneficial
to the country. These being receivable in the
payment of taxes, and indeed of every public and
private demand, would maintain their value under
all circumstances ; while the precious metals
would sell for what they -a Were fairly worth—the
amount of the demand being represented by their
appreciation, instead of -the depreciation, in the
quotations of all other commodities.
We cannot conclude without directing attention
to the communication of a respected correspon-
dent, which will be foun cl in another part of this
day's impression. Mr. IV,osiLING has discovered
the true remedy, and if this advice were followed,
with some trivial moditioations, the formidable
danger now impending over the nation would be
averted, and we should be spared the painful dis-
covery, that the folly of our rulers in time of
peace may be far more r.rejudicial to the best
interests of the country tha n the most strenuous
efforts of our most powet,ful opponents in the
time of war.

tion of the entire scheme being literally now merely
a question of time. Yet all this while the Darien
Ship-Canal, proposed between one and two hun-
dred years ago by WILLIAM PATTERSON, though
still admitted on all hands to be in every way
most feasible—the Darien Ship-Canal of PATTER-
ION's suggestion is to this hour nothing more nor
less than a suggestion. As with the Isthmus of
Panama—so too has it been, so too is it to this
day, with the Isthmus of Suez. Although the
latter was proposed at different times to be severed
by the engineers of MEHEMET Am, as it had pre-
viously been intended to be sundered by the great
modern CAISA.R—NAPOLEON. In spite of all
which auguries of success Suez and Panama still
offer a virgin field to engineering enterprise. Can-
not some wholesome incentive to this enterprise be
discovered in the startling, and, in a certain
sense, humiliating contrast displayed between the
serious project, on the one hand, of the Darien
Ship-Canal, and on the other the fanciful day-
dream, the unconscious prophecy, as it may be
called, of what has ripened in our own days into
that great world's wonder, the Electric Tele-
graph.

Have we got the right men at the Metropo-
litan Board, beginning with the Chairman down-
wards ? With all the disposition we have shown
not to press too heavily on the Board, inaugurated
as its career was with an influx of claims on its
attention of a magnitude never perhaps surpassed
in corporate history, we begin to think seriously
we have not ! The manner in which business is
conducted at the Board Room is described to us
as anything but creditable. The Chairman seems
to possess but little authority, and the members,
who would be fa2etious if they could, relieve by
had joiroo displays of L „ 1:t-- c,_
nacity, which occur with such frequency
that one member may be said to lie in
wait for a peck and a crow at another. No
order—knots of talkers—no business done—

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A girdle will in all human probability be put
about the earth before much langer, in a fractional
part of the time hinted at by ROBIN GOODFELLOW'.
Not in " forty minutes," but in the twinkling of
an eye, in the flash of a second, in the one instan-
taneous throb of a pendulum. Preparations being
actually now made for the comaec:ting together of
the various wires of the electric telegraph already
laid down and in actual operatiote as well as for
the extension of those marvellous lines of inter-
communication eastwards and weldwards, trailed
along the bed of the ocean, carrie d over empires
and continents, through the heat t of populous
cities, across the rocky barriers of the great moun-
tain ranges, and over the level -wastes of the
vast desert-plains of Asia. These things are
The demand for bullion still continues. The no longer regarded, even by the most prosaic
,ide is steadily flowing towards the Continent ; man amongst us, as the mere phantasies of some
nor is there any probability of a speedy change ! idle and fantastic imagination. They are among
It is more than hinted that a first-class firm—the the most visible and substantial truths of our
Messrs. ROTHSCHILD, in fact, for there is nothing generation. The realisation, no doubt, of what
to demand concealment—have entered into con- once upon a time were simply so many charming
g
tracts to supply an enormous amount of specie to day-dreams—the theme of those xaceful wits
the Bank of France. Until this large sum—said who were wont to illustrate the age of ANNE by
the exquisite penny essays of the i`Spectator.'
to amount to 140,000,000 francs, or 5,600,0001.
sterling—be transmitted to the Continent, there
For, conspicuous among the many delightful spc-
is no prospect of the Bank of England being en-
culations indulged in by ADDISON and STEELE,
abled to retrieve its position. However large
and their ever genial but subordinate collabora-
may be the receipts, they will be absorbed by tears, there altually did come forth ono fine
m
thoQo who can afford to pay more than the Old morning, to be laid among the equipage of the
L)dy of Threadneedle•street is authorised to offer. breakfast-table, to be nibbled at with tats rolls
and sipped with the chocolate of the periwigged
She is tied down to a fixed price. No matter how
beaux and furbelowed flue gentlewomen cf
quences of any further reduction in her stook ;
urgent may be the pressure, or verious the conse-
the period, a copy of that classical periodical,
she cannot advance a single farthing in her in which was a magical foreshadowing of
bidding. The only competition will be between the miraculous needle nowadays clicking and
the agents of rival nations ; and, in case of any quivering upon the dials of all the " ata-
deficiency, they can come upon the Bank itself to tions," north, south, east, and west, in the
supply their wants. France, Austria, even Old World and in the New, in Europe and in
pt. America. The little sensitive indicator of the
Russia, can draw upon our coffers, and by tem
ing English capitalists to make investments in " thoughts that breathe and words that burn"—
railways or steam-packet companies (the vessels thoughts and words that traverse thousands of
being constructed so as to be suitable for war miles in a twinkling, at the bidding of the mar-
purposes, although unarmed for the time being), venous motive-power of that latest, if not the
can stop the life-blood of English industry, and greatest, among all the many " wonders of the
reduce the trading population to the verge of ruin, world," the Electric Telegraph.
Yet—a little earlier even than the morning
and bring the greatest misery and privation
to the houses of the working classes. We see the which gave birth to that wonderfully prophetic
evil, but are powerless to arrest it. The impro-
paper in the Spectator of Sir RICHARD STEELE
vident legislation of 1844 has occasioned far and the Right Hon. JOSEPH ADDISON, there had
greater mischief than the Russian war—albeit actually been put forth, not merely as a pleasant
the latter cost us the lives of 50,000 of the best fancy, but as a serious and substantial proposition,
and bravest of our brethren, and 100,000,0001. a daring contrivance, the carrying out of which
sterling, is still meditated to this very day, but " still"
A powerful illustration of the deplorable re- only meditated—not, as with the vision of the
sults of this system may be found in a paragraph wonder-working Needle of Conversation actually
contained in the Times' City article of this day. realised !
The bullionist organ announces that the "Gold WILLIAM PATTERSON, the founder of the Bank
brought by the Champion of the Seas has been of England, suggested (as history relates) years
purchased partly by ]Messrs. ROTHSCHILD, and before the issue of that copy of the ,Spectator—
partly by Messrs. BAILING. The sumtaken b y the ithe cutting through the isthmus of Panama of a
letter is supposed to be on account of the Credit! grand ship canal, connecting the commerce of the
Mobilier, for transmission to Vienna, to pay for i Pacific and of the Atlantic by a direct and per-
Austrian Railroads, where it will be locked up in I manent channel of interoceauic communication.
the vaults of the State Bank." We know that I PATTERSON proposed, in furtherance of this
Messrs. ROTHSCHILD nre acting on behalf of the scheme, the establishment of a vast central me-
French Government, and probably also, for some tropolis for the world's enterprise at Darien—the
of their numerous and wealthy correspondents in , grand mercantile capital as he conceived it ought,
all parts of the world. Here, then, we perceive by reason of • its geographical position, to prove
the nature of the demand to which we are ex. ultimately—the capital whence might be regulated
posed, and the paragraph, above referred to, will the trade of both hemispheres.
be but one of many similar notices which, I A hundred years and more pass by—when lo !
with the exception of the name of the vessel, may ' the eccetric day-dream of an essayist in the
be stereotyped for future use. I Spectator resolves itself into a fact actually realised,
Foreign loans and foreign companies are the ! a reality actually in daily and hourly operation !
potent iustruments by which these parties aro , While the business-like plan chalked out long be-
enabled to act on our market. If the demand i fore then by a practical Scotchman, a Scotchman
were of the ordinary character, to arrange the .as business-like and practical as WILLIAM PAT.

past 5 till 7 o'clock every evening.
Subscribers in the Country will please to
observe that the heading " THIRD EDITION"

is always to be seen on the papers containing
the latest new. If any difficulty be experienced

confusion—and salaries going on as usual. The
accuracy of this description, we fear, can be too
readily verified. Not a feeling we have in rela-
tion to the Board but is pained—mortified at its
procedure. Deeply impressed with the evils of
bureaucracy, we cannot but grieve at a show of
reason being thus afforded to the un-English
admirers of centralisation. " Would to HEAVEN !"
we are tempted to exclaim, "we could transfer one
of our provincial corporations—Manchester or
Salford, for instance—to the Metropolitan Board,
and a plan worthy of the exigencies of the case
would be decided on in a fortnight. No lame jokes,
nin. systematic personal hostility over a subject,
involving, as Dr. LETHEBY shows in his admir-
able Report, " so vast a sacrifice of useful lives,
would bo allowed to interpose between their deli-
, borations and so desirable a consummation."

in obtaining that Edition, a communication to
The Sun Office will remedy it.
Sun Office, 112, Strand.

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I,ONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1856.

at
the
matter Let tlieln
like laiyea aside-
,son
The bugbear of the Board appears to be the
tf chaet; r o
ffo no
leeerdyl: sasn edx
pi
100
tutr
able beings. Myriads of the population are daily
deteriorating in health, and thousands are being
cut off in infancy and at the prime of life
for
want of an efficient system of sewerage. N olens
volens a system is to be adopted and carried out
under certain provisions of an Act of Parliament.
Hitherto the Board have been trying to evade the
obligations entailed by those provisions. They
want the work done cheaply. Now, no work,
especially no work of this description, can be said
to bo done cheaply that is not well done, and no
scheme that does not give fair promise of acc)m-
plishing this desideratum will meet with the ap-
probation of the Board of Works. What scheme
will accomplish it ? Any hitherto brought before
the Board ? It is admitted that which proposes
the disemboguement of the sewerage at Sea Reach
will do so—it is more than doubted the Long
Reach disemboguement will not. Why should
there be any further delay? Is a better scheme than
either forthcoming, or likely to be so ? Who will
undertake to answer in the affirmative ? Why
not decide at once and set to work like men, and
not like a parcel of Brobdignagian babies ? The
difference of expenditure between the two schemes
will only involve an extra halfpenny in the pound
—and to the Sea Reach, if public opinion is to be
relied on, they will have to go at last.
Hesitation and delay are worse than foolish--
they are positively criminal.' Would the Board
have it recorded of them that, to avoid a paltry
outlay—for, taking into account the vast popu-
lation and extraordinary wealth of the metropolis,
an extra million is a paltry increase of expendi-
ture—they were content to stultify the principle
of self-government, and be accessories to
the destruction of thousands of the popuht-
Lion ? Let us again remind them they are
furnishing indisputable evidence of the truth
of such an allegation. To one and all
we say, study Dr. LETIIEBY'S Report, weigh well
his appalling statistics, get them off by heart,
and quit you like Englishmen ! The pallid
cheek, the prematurely feeble frame, the raging
fever, and the hollow cough, ought to speak more
eloquently than we can. Listen to their appeal.
Believe in the ratepayers ; don't defame and dis-
honour them without substantial cause. They
don't like to have their earnings wasted, bat we
protest with both hands they would shudder at
the thought of refusing or grumbling at any ex-
penditure necessary to rescue the metropolis from
pestilence, and themselves and their helpleks

THE SUN, LOINDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OC tOBER 16, 1815.

brethren from the jaws of a daily and hourly 1
encroaching death ! Henceforth, let the motto of 1
the Board be " Seaward, ho !" adding, we will do
our duty, and if the Sea Reach scheme does cost
an extra million or more the money will be
well spent, and we cm abide the result with con•
fidence. No more chilly shallying ! no more dodging
or waiting on the Board of Works—but " do it 1"
and sat about the task at once ! Any scheme of
deodorisation can be considered and carried out
afterwards.

ROYAL VISIT TO CANADA.—There is a report preva-
lent in Canada that her Majesty's physician, Sir Henry

Holland, has come over for the purpose of ascertaining
whether Queen Victoria might with safety trust her

royal person to the Canadian climate. The universal
response in Canada is, " that the climate can compare
advantageously with any in Europe, not even excepting
Italy itself. Her Majesty need not have any appre-
hensions of this kind, if she pleases to visit this—the

greatest of her colonies. Let her come, and she wil

meet with a most enthusiastic reception."—Canadian
News.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended
by Colonel Cavendish and Mr. Gibbs, embarked on
Tuesday from the Southampton Docks on boaid the
Fairy, for Osborne, on his return from visiting various
towns and localities in the West of England.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent passed

through London yesterday afternoon, en route from
York to her residence, Frogmore, near Windsor. Her
Royal Highness was accompanied by her Serene High-

ness the Princess Amalie of Hohenlohe•Sohillingfurst,
and was attended by Lady Augusta Bruce and Sir
George Couper.
Lord John Russell arrived at Pisa on the Bth inst.

The Right Rev, the Lord Bishop of Oxford arrived at
the Royal Hotel, Aberdeen, on Friday night, on his
way to Haddo House.
The Marchioness of Abercorn who gave birth to a
son at Brighton on Monday last, is, with the infant,
progressing most favourably.
Lord Palmerston visited on Monday the extensive

Ordnance establishment in Southampton, where the
trigonometrical survey of the United Kingdom is car-
ried on. The staff of this establishment is several
hundred strong, and considerable additions to the Ord-
nance buildings are now being made.
The marriage of the young Princess Mathilde,
daughter of Prince Charles Bonaparte, with Count Louis
de Carubacbres, was celebrated on Tuesday at the
Chapel of the Tuileries.
The Duchess of Parma has dismissed several high
employes, " because the state of their health did not per-
mit of their discharging their duties properly."
It is in contemplation to make Southampton the head
quarters of the Medical Staff Corps.

The municipal council of Mantua has voted a consi-
derable sum for the reception of the Emperor of Austria,
and, in order to perpetuate the remembrance of that
event, has likewise destined a capital of 60,000 fr. for the
erection of a school of reform for young boys.
_ .

A private letter has been received in Southampton
from a person belonging to the Tay steamer, which
states that after she had struck all on board landed on
an uninhabited island, where they remained three days,
and lived on a biscuit a day per loan. Fortunately
water was found on the island, or great numbers would
have perished. The crew were taken off by a Mexican
war steamer, and conveyed to Tampico, where the letter
was written.

There was no withdrawal of gold from the Bank of
England yesterday.
It is rumoured that Paymaster Mowbray will sue
need the late \V. Bell, Esq., in the Royal Yacht.

The inquiry for silver has greatly subsided, and
80,0001. of Mexican dollars, which were brought yester-
day by the New York steamer, have not yet been sold.
A convict attempted to escape yesterday morning
from Portsmouth Dockyard, but he was recaptured by
the police after an absence of half an hour.
OXFORD, Oct. 14.—A congregation will be holden on
Thursday, the 23d inst., at three o'clock, for the election
of five additional curators of the Bodleian Library.
THE AMERIIIIAN MAILS.—LIVERPOOL, Oct. 15.—The
United States' mail steamship Atlantic sailed to-day for
New York, with 136 passengers. The Royal mail steamer
Asia will sail for New York on Saturday.
FIRE IN SMITHFIELD. —A destructive fire broke out
last night on the premises of Mr. Machow White, Hart-
court, West Smithfield, and was not extinguished until
the building was entirely consumed. The surrounding
property was at one time in great danger.

a few days ago suddenly attacked with illness at Man-
chester, has recovered his health, and, according to the
Manchester papers of yesterday, was to appear at the
theatre that evening.
The Star of Peace has arrived from Sydney with 212
ounces of gold, valued at 8481. It appears that the Jas.
Baines, from Melbourne, is expected to bring about
500,0001., and that the Lightning is also likely to bring
a very heavy amount. Both ♦essels may be to )ked for
during the next three weeks.
OMER PACHA AND THE PRINCESS DADlAN.—Another
correspondent of the Times, this morning, states, in
contradiction to the assertion of Lieutenant Cadell, that
1001. would cover the damage sustained by the Princess;
that he saw a large quantity of the property of the
lady shipped on board a Turkish steamer and sent to
Omer's residence at the Bosphorus.
THE LATE ROBBERY AT THE BANS OP AIISTRA-
LASIA.—Yesterday, John Andrews, a horse-dealer, re-
siding in the Hackney-road, was brought before the
Lord Mayor, charged with having changed a twenty
pound note, which formed a portion of the property
stolen from this bank. The man said it was part of a
sum of 751. he had borrowed from a friend, named Mon-
teau. This assertion was denied. He was remanded

pays :

for a week.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Agra and United
Service Bank, hold at Calcutta on the 15th of August,
the profits for the six months wore stated at 62,372/ ,
which, after payment of a dividend at the rate of 10 per
cent. per annum and the appropriation of 11,0001. for
the purchase and building of premises for the branch&s
at Bombay and Canton, leaves 13,8721. to be carried to
the reserve fund, making the total amount of that fund

137,3901.
RUMOURS OF A STRIKE IN PARlS.—Rumours of a
strike among some classes of the Parisian workmen
were rife yesterday. It has not, however, taken place,
but it is feared it may do so in several trades,— among
others, the plasterers, and the workmen of the qucys,
and even a portion of the hackney-coach drivers are
epoken of as likely to follow the example. Should it
of a menacing ;
occur, it has toffnog
these symptoms scontent, and perhaps ofcharacter distresbut
s,
may be followed by others, and we do not now learn
for the first time that political agitators are ever on
the watch to take advantage of any eiroumstance in
their favour.—Times (second edition).
FREAKS OF THE OFFICERS UNDER ARREST AT BEIGE-
TON.--03 Monday morning, at half-past three o'clock
(as we are informed by a respectable inhabitant residing
at the north part of the town), the inhabitants of the
Lewes-road were awoke by a loud noise and shouting.
A (petrel, it seems, had taken place between Lord
Ernest Vane and Cornet Dirt (supposed to be under
arrest), who had just driven up to the stables occupied
by his lordship, at the Race Hill Inn. From what our
informant could see, his lordship knocked Mr. Dirt nut
of the vehicle, using very bad language, and afterwards
a general fight took place between all parties, the grooms
included. This continued for some time, until the po-
lice came up and put an end to the affair. His lordship
then drove away towards the barracks.—. Brighten Guar
dials of yesterday.
REPORTED MILITARY BARBARITY AT WOOLWICH,

We have received a communication from Woolwich to
the effect serjeant in the Foot Artil-
lery was subjected to the disgrace and barbarity of re-
ceiving fifty lashes, and that then he was branded with
drummed out of the regiment, and seta
t
the
tlheetter`D," `treadmill for twelve months, with hard labour.
\-4'e forbear to offer any observations on the affair—sup.
posing it shall turn out to be true—until some further
particulars are placed before us. Should the facts be as
they have been represented to us, we shall not fail le
give a full and fearless expression of our opinion on a
matter in which are alike involved the best interests of
the army and the character of the country.—Moriting
A dvertiscr.
EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA.--The arrivals from the
mother country during the month of Juno have been
much snore numerous than in any previous month this
year, but the whole seem to be absorbed immediately on
their arrival, and the labour rates show that no diminu-
tion in wages follows the influx. The official return for
the month of June is not yet ready, but that for the
month of May has been published, and furnishes the
following results :—The comparative arrivals and depar-
tures from and to Great Britain and foreign ports stand
thus:—Arrivals for the roohtb, 477; departures for the
mouth, 843 ; showing a balance of 36 ; against the
colony. For the neighbourbing colonies the comparison
is still in our favour, viz.—Arrivals for the month,
1,877 ; departures for ditto, 1,045 ; balance in favour of
the colony, 832. The net balance in our favour is 469
souls for the month. Of the sexes, we notice that the
arrival of males of all ages has been 1,660, and of
females 697 ; the departures, 1,502 males, and 386
females ; showing a considerable addition per cent. for
females remaihiog in the colony. The price of bread
(lower than in England) and the abundance of all the
necessaries of life here are facts which must have
reached the labouring classes in Europe ere this ; and
taken in connection with the great and constant increase
of rcral occupations, must assure them that it is quite
as much their interest as that of the colonists already
here to make. Viotoria their home.—Melbourne Herald,
July 8.

LATEST NEWS.

The Paris Correspondent of the Times (second
edition), in his letter of yesterday, says :
"This day, in all probability, the note of the
allies will have been communicated by Baron
Brenier to the King of Naples. The repeated
assurance is given that the note in question
is couched in very moderate and conciliatory
terms. The effect no one supposes will be what
France and England desire namely, com-
pliance with the earnest admonitions addressed
by them to King Ferdinand. The instruc-

tious of Baron Brenier are, that if his Majesty
persists in refusing, he is to demand his passports,
and withdraw with the whole of his Legation.
Similar instructions have, no doubt, been sent to
the British Minister. With respect to the fleets, it
is stated that the French squadron will proceed to
Malta to join the British, and that both will await
there the result of the last note and the final
answer of the King ; and if it prove, as is anti-
cipated, unfavourable, they are then to proceed
towards, but not to, the Italian coast. On this
point., however, there exists some difference ; yet
it is evident that ships must be at hand to receive
such French and British residents as may not con-
sider it safe to stay after the departure of their
respective Legations. It, is, however, believed
that the consequences will be pacific —at any
rate, that nothing will be done to provoke a revo-
lution either in Sicily or Naples."

The Vienna correspondent of the Times (second
edition), in his letter dated Oct. 12, writes as
follows :

" The Governmental organs of the Austrian
press make not the slightest mention either
of General von Martini or of his mission, but
tke following reliable communication as to the
actual state of the Neapolitan question has
this morning reached me :--` The King posi-
tively refuses to pledge himself to make the
concessions required, and you may there-
fore soon expect to hear that the ships of one or
both of the Western Powers have appeared in the
Bay of Naples.' A north German paper, which
is generally well informed on Russian matters,
states that there is a very considerable difference
in the wording of the special Notes not long since
addressed by the St. Petersburg Cabinet to the
French and Austrian Governments. The Rus-
sian Government almost warns' the French
Cabinet against sharing in an expedition which
it says would be a violation of all international
law, but in his note to the Austrian Govern-
ment, Prince Gortschakoff presupposes that it
disapproves of the measures which the Western
Powers propose to take against the King of
Naples, and accordingly calls on it to oppose them.
That this Government obeyed the summons, and
strongly urged. the French Cabinet to make a
retrograde movement in the Neapolitan affair, is
a notorious fact, but it is believed to have met
with but partial success. The Emperor Napoleon
consented to delay the departure of the expedi-
tion, but there is no reason to suppose that he
promised not to make common cause with Eng-
land."

The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post
(second edition), in his letter dated yesterday,

" It is announced from Vienna that despatches
had reached there from Naples. Of course there
are hopes' of a pacific termination of the Nea-
politan difficulties, and those o hopes' are, as

J.- 13—z. Tha onilrior r-ha, T
presume, tcok despatches recalling the members
of her Majesty's mission ought to reach Naples
this evening. If this act, pith a similar proceed-
ing on the part of France, does not result in ob-
taining concessions from the King, then I hear
the fleets are to leave—that is, as soon as tele-
graphic intelligence to that effect reaches London
and Paris. Meanwhile the French squadron rests
at Toulon, and everything is unchanged.
" In my letter of yesterday T took occasion to
inform you that since the arrival of the Emperor
in Paris the questions relating to foreign affairs
had assnmed a more decided attitude, and that
the action of England and France would be more
united and decided. Such is the wish of the
Emperor, I am assured ; and if his Majesty's
commands are carried out our TIT
Russia and the King of Naples w difficulties with
be
,
brought to a satisfactory conclusion.'

A letter from Vienna, in the Tru..tzburg Gazette,

says :
" The Neapolitan Governmeni-, continues its
armaments with the greatest activity. The war
reserves have been called out, which will bring
up the force of the infantry to near]y 70,000. A
special credit has been opened to General Filan_
gieri, the chief of the artillery, who is occupied
in replacing all the old guns on the ba,tterie3 by
new ones. The same activity
gisoidnigspolialyscodriilipicril:
naval department. The King has ordered that
acid f(s)ervesr:l-
l the vessels of war shall be fitted o
vic; and that operation is
y
that in a short time 2 line-of-battle chips, 15
sailing and steam frigates, 2 corvett;:s,
small steamers, and a great numlJer of gun-boats,
will be ready to leave the Neapolitan Ports.„

According to the Ost Deutsche Post the Am-
bassadors of the Western Powers at Naples have
in all probability by this time bun relalled ; but
the fleets will only proceed to Malta, where they
will remain in observation. The same journal
adds that the difficulty is in a fair way of
settlement.

RUSSIA.
A letter from St. Petersburg, of the sth says :
_cc The Minister of Public Instruction sth,
re-
turned here from the tour which he has been mak-
ing for several months past in the various govern-
ments of Russia, and particularly in the Central
and 'Western ones. Ile has sent in full reports to
the Emperor relative to the visits which he made
to the several universities. In general his reports
express satisfaction at what ho saw, but they also
point out many items on which itrovoments are
called for." The same letter says--"
The incor-
poration of the regiments of the old dragoon corps
in the 7th cavalry division of the active army bas
just been effected. This proceeding lessens the
Russian army by five regiments."