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judicial blindness. What faint traces of reason
were left bim 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 gazs, 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
Gon, 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 punds 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 rewardel 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 hina—to the pangs of hunger he
finds added a loathsome disease—glanders, got by
infection from a horse. At last he obtains employ-
ment, but is compelled by his frightful complaint
to give it, up. His doom is sealed. The next
thing we hear of him is:,is 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 Ills sufferings come to an
end, so far as we can see, without any alleviation
from the doctor. That official, however, does not
appear to have been scat 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
could 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 AU-
thony Alder, the engineer who was killed in the col-
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, yeAerday, 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 Banhill-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 inaprop:r, 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 OF 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
=a 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,
an r.ed Gaylor, who had taken a quantity of sulphate of
pot ash to procure abortion, Tha husband, it appeared,
during the investigation, procured the stuff, but he
all( god he did not know for what purpose his wife
wry lted it. The inquiry was adjourned in order that a
pos,: portent, examination might be made.
1 'he late election of incumbent of St. James's, Clerken-
wel I, not being considered legal by the party of the Rev.
M. Roberts, a meeting of the vestry was held last night
to c onsider 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
defelad the election of Mr, M•Guira.

TEE SUN, IJONDON, FRIDAY' EVEMINA OCTOBER 17, 'u.;

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales arrived in
town last evening from Osbcrne, 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 Buckenham Hall, near Thetford, Norfolk.
Their Excellencies Emier Bey, Kiazin Bey, and Kadri
Eifindi, have taken their departure from Claridge'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.

It 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 next week.

M. Guizot, it is announced, is to reply to M. Biot 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 30,0001.
of Mexican dols., 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 foi 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 Works, Middlesbro'. The
engineer of the works and three men were killed.

The Russian General Tolstoi and Count Gortschakoff,
gentlemen of the chambor to the Emperor of Russia,
have arrived in Paris.

The official publication of the betrothal of the second
son of the King of S weden, Prince Oscar, with the
Princess of Nassau, took place at Stockholm on the 7th.
The Emperor Alexander if. has conferred the order
of St. Alexander Newsky on Baron Alexander Hum-
boldt.

The officers of the Royal Engineers lately engaged in
the Crimea and the Baltic dined together last eveninp,
at the Freemasons' Tavern. Sir J. Burgoyne presided.
Mrs. Webb, the lady of colour, who lately appeared
at Stafford-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 ha,s just sent the model of
his colossal statue of O'Connell 0 Paris to be cast in
bronze. The statue is to be inalgurated at Dablin 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 aro trying to
get him another appointment.
Accounts from Rome, in the Augsburj 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 Sea."
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 Cratm,r, Miss Julia Harland, Mr. Farqu-
harson, and Mr. Walter Sherwin.

An Ovens paper mentions anew 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.

PiIOGRESS OF ENIIGIIITION.—From the quarterly re-
turns of emigration, it appears that the number .of per-
sons who emigrated during the cparter ending the 30th
of Sopternbfx was 50,223, agAinst 41,693 for the same
period of 1855.—Egagration, Record.
The Bank of Savoy, following the example of the
Banks of Paris and of London, his raised its rate of
iatereit to 6 per cent. In a circular which it has
i3i.uoi it expresses a hope this measure will be only
temporary.

REPRESENTATION OF GLASGow.—The North British
Jail says : —A. requisition has been pretty numerously
signed, calling upon James Algienzie, Esq., National
Thtnk Buildings, to offer hiLmelf as a candidate for the
rvpreacutaLion uf ale city in Parliament.

Experiments have just been made on the Northern
Railway of Franco with an apparatus for rapidly bring-
ing-up railway trains in motion. The invention is that
of M. Cardot, and is in principle a brake. Its action is
said to be nearly instlntaneous.

Yesterday lloNord House, Regent's park, was opened
as a college for the educatiun 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. M. Peto
presided.

MILITARY FUNERAL OF THE LATE HON. C. GRIMSTONE.
—The mort:il 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 llouns-
low, with military honours.

The Minister of Justice of the Netherlands has just
adopted a measure, which Nvill be favourably received
by travellers on the Dutch railways. The commissaries
of police will not for the futute have to register pass-
ports of fureigners, unless of sieh 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 members of the House of Commons banding them-
selves together to resist " count outs," and other expe-
dients for barking disagreeable discussions.
A NEW POLITICAL CRY.— A correspondent of the
Times 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 1'2186
Russian plenipotentiary. It could bethought states-
manlike only in a Cabinet of jugglers."
LYCEUM THEATRE.—Last night was produced at this
theatre an English version of " La Jeunesse Mousque-
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 Musqueteers of Louis
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 ink
predicting for the English version a success not much
inferior to that which attended the original drama.
FREEDOM OF THE CITY.—The following notice wag
this morning posted in front of the Guildhall, and the
various c3rporate buildings in the neighbourhood. Li.
beral Registration—Tae recent abolition of all fiee,,,
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,
ing into force on the Ist of November, are requested
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), y "It
is hard to tell a persecuted people to wait b a says
:
eFonger
to be prudent, and let the day of battle e brought on
by coming events; and yet it is the wisest advice, for
m
France and England cannot do
more than they
are doing. Some persons have said that we should have
bombarded the town when the KBinugt rent his impertinent
notes to England and France. h who would have suf-
fered ? The people of le,,
to
tsoerve,not to injure. Tao King wouldwh whom
we
wish
Ca-
serta,
and rejoiced over the ruins oafvetbeerefittizaZ'Yhouses.
When we blockaded Greece the real offender escaped ;
the people were the victims. All we can do with the
King of Naples is to `cut him,' and there will be an
outcry about that in some
fish . quarters. The one or two
British merchants who sell salt Naples, and who
are cavaliers, decorated by the King, they will address
the Manchester people, and against the injury
inflicted on commercee', penTnhya-cNomeaa and-kick-me
papers of Cobden and Briahet. Neapolitans may
rest assured that what can be done will beP
im-
prove their position. Meanwhile let them done
to
dignified and tranquil attitude like the inhabitants oaf
Lombardy and Venice ; the future is full of promise for
Italy, if not spoiled by premature isolated action."

LATEST NEWS.

SAILING OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
SQUADRON.
MARSEILLES, THURSDAY.

We have intelligence from Ajaccio to the 4th.
Admiral Dundas, having received telegraphic in-
structions 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
CIROASSIA.
TRIESTE, THURSDAY.

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

over the Russians in Cireassia, and has taken
from them about 800 prisoners and 21 guns.

MADRID, OCT. 16.

The statement that the present Government
considers the late Concordat with Rome as being
in full force turns out to be 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.

Arguedles has been named Director of th•
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 presen!-, 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.

ammunition have been taken to St. Elmo,
and not a day passes in which we do not wit-
ness signs of military preparation. The public
works at Ischia have been suspended, and a
few days since 200 prisoners were transferred
from Procida to Portici as a precautionary mea-
sure. Gaeta has been cleared of many of its use-
less hands ; among others of a battalion of mili-
tary cadets. While preparations are thus being
made for resistance to imaginary dangers, his Ma-
jesty affects to laugh at the Western Powers, and
to treat them with the utmost contempt. The
Royalists adopt the same tone, and thus scarcely a
day has passed this week in which printed bills of
the same import as the written oneof which I spoke
have not been posted on the walls. ' Lost, two
Fleets, in the Mediterran9an. Whoever shall bring
any notice of them to the Palazzi Serra-Caprioli
and Policastro (the French and British Legations)
shall be rewarded.' Bon-bons, too, wrapped uP
in the same bills, have been thrown about
the streets. To political agitation has been
added considerable alarm, created by two violent
shocks of earthquake early yesterday morning--
at 2 o'clock. The shocks were horizontal, and ev-
tended all along the coast. Bells rang, doors opened
and shut, crockery rattled, and so great was the
alarm that many persons, and among them his Royal
Highness the Count of Syracuse, passed the night
in their carriages or in the streets. So also did the
inhabitants of Sorrento. In the afternoon there wag
a religious procession, in which the Madonna was
carried in state along the Magellina, in order to
secure her assistance against the dangers of
other shock.

" The Sicilian Government has just concluded
a commercial treaty with Russia on the same basil
as that with other countries,"

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 he satisfactory. As
ibon 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 advan Cage, and the
forbearance shown towards him wilt 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 Naplea 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 abet 4,1
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
extendsherfortificationswithno 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 deiaunciation 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 TIiMCS (second
edition), in his letter dated Oct. 10, 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 bean given me
that no official news to that effect has yet been re-.
ceived here. According to private letters the King
is assembling an army of 40,000 trustworthy'
troops around him at Gaeta, and the Neapolitan correspondents 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 subjectt,: 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 lett Hs it has
been hinted that the relations between Austria
and France are not so satisfactory as
tlhey were,
and it is now in my power to speak more plainly
lon the subject. This Government strongly
suspects that there is something passing between
France and Russia, or rather between Count
Walewski 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-
ment 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 maintenance 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 shake the
confidence of England in that Power."

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