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been is. 11d. to buy, and 2s. Itd. to sell, for credits,
and 2s. 1 id. for document bills,with an upward tendency,
according to the character of the paper. Apprehensions
entertained of a rupture with America have latterly sub-
sided, the last advices from home giving great hopes of
u amicable adjustment of the question at issue. Since
the receipt of intelligence that the court of directors have
raised their rate of exchange to 2s. Oid.' there has been
less inclination on the part of buyers, the last two days,
to operate at the rates ruling previously, and our market
has assumed an upward tendency.
Freights—Nothing has been done for the continent of
Europe, but shipments to 'the United States of America
are being carried forward on a scale of great magnitude,
and the number of ships now loading, principally for
Boston, is very large. Engagements of sundry parcels
have been made at 10 doll, to 11 dole, per ton ; and we
hear the ship Gleaner, of 999 tons, has been retailing
amongst several shippers at an average of 11 dole. per
ton for New York. We have had lately no charters for
Great Britain, but several for the West Indies, Australia,
and Bombay.

R 15, 1856.

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The Republicans were afraid of the effect of this,
and withdrew enough of their forces to allow the
bill to pass. The vote on the passage was 101 to 98.
"The news from Nicaragua indicates that that
eminent patriot and founder of a new empire, Gene-
ral William Walker, is in a fair way of receiving his
deserts. Out of the facts (admitted by both sides)
and the conclusions drawn from them by the friends
of each party you can make up your own mind how
much chance he has of holding on to the power
which he has seized. It seems to be admitted that
Leon, heretofore a democratic stronghold, is in the
possession of Walker's enemies, without ally possi-
bility on his part of preventing it. It also seems
to he conceded that the united forces under Rivas
decidedly otAsumber those under Walker, that all
th. other Central American States are preparing to
join them when the season will permit a demon-
stration to be made, and that there is dissatisfac-
tion with Walker among the native population of
Nicaragua. It is further represented by his enemies
that dissatisfaction prevails among Walker's Ameri-
can troops, but this is denied ; and it is apparent
that, however they may feel towards each other,
self-interest and the instinct of self-preservation
must bind them together, if there is anything like
the opposition to them which their enemies repre-
sent. Out of these facts the most opposite conclu-
sions aro drawn. The friends of Rivas represent
the union between the native forces as complete
and harmonious and, pointing to the arming of
Costa Rica and Honduras, assert that by Novena
ber or December a combination will be made that
will overthrow Walker. They say that while
Walker was the ally of one of the factions into
which that country is unhappily divided he was
strong'--even irresistible by any force which the
opposing party could bring against him ; but that
when he threw off the mask and caused himself to
be elected President over the leaders who had
elevated him to power he showed a total ignorance
of the character of the natives, and made a great
political blunder, which alienated from him the
whole native support. His downfall is there-
fore, they say, only an affair of time. His posi-
tion is further involved, they say, by a want of
money to pay his troops, by the absence of
anything to plunder, except land, which has been
stripped and cannot be sold, and by consequent dis-
content among his men. On the other hand, the
followers of Walker affect to regard without discom-
posure the combinations against him. Leon has
ever been, they say, the stronghold of the democra-
tic forces, as Granada has that of the patrician.
These petty factions of a turbulent State have waged
a constant war with a varying success. At one time
the patrician banner has been carried into the
streets of Leon ; at another the democratic army
has surrounded Granada, and kept it in a state of
siege. The animosities which prompted these quar-
rels survive, and no union of such opposing ele-
ments can be permanent. Walker permitted them
to unite, that they might destroy each other.
Holding himself aloof from them, they must quar-
rel, and speedily do the work of destruction more
effectually than he could do it to them. Mean-
while the disturbed state of the country has pre-
vented emigration and caused the outflow of cap-
tal. His soldiers take temporary pay in scrip, which
is not to be sold for less than 80 cents on the dol-
lar. Plantations producing $lO,OOO, $20,000, or
even $50,000 a-year can be bought for a song, and,
if capitalists will only take courage, and come in,
peace will be re-establsshed, the sway of Walker
will be continued, and prosperity restored. Such
aro the parties as painted by the rival parties. It
is not difficult to see where the probable truth lies.
The last effort is to interest this Government in
their quarrels. The dismissal of Mr. Crampton has
been travestied in the dismissal of Mr. Man-
ning, the British Consul, for au alleged interference
in the domestic politics of Nicaragua. A. merchant
of Lion, named Salizar, has been seized and shot
for the crime of being in arms against Walker. The
allied forces, on hearing of the seizure, retaliated
by seizing a Dr. Livingston, a citizen of the United
States, and represented to be Acting-Consul at
Leon. Walker's authorities further represent that
they threatened to shoot Livingston if Salizar was
injured, and thereupon Minister Wheeler wrote
a sharp letter, promising the vengeance of the
United States if they meddled with Livingston.
At that moment the steamer sailed, and we aro
left, as in a number of Mr. Dickens' or Thackeray's
raeria,lN just on the edge of a crisis, and must wait
a fortnight to know whether Livingston lives or
dies, and whether we are to be invoked to help
Walker out of his troubles by flogging his enemies,
or are to leave him to get out as he can. Walker's
open fraternisation with the Cuban exiles, ban-
quets held by them at his quarters, the toasts
drank at them, and the presence of Mr. Soul 6 in
that part of the country, show how things will
go if he succeeds in carrying out his schemes.
" The President has announced his purpose to
prevent hereafter any invasion of Kansas, come
from what quarter the expedition may, and has
promised that actual settlers shall have a fair elec-
tion, though it costs the whole force of the Federal
Government to secure it. He has coupled with
this promise, however, an expression of a determi-
nation to enforce the obnoxious territorial laws,
which several democratic senators denounced as
unconstitutional, arbitrary, and tyrannical, and
has declined to interfere to protect emigrants on
their way to the territory. The state of things out
there continues deplorable. Both parties are arm-
ing. The Missourians are concentrating near West-
port on the Missouri line in large numbers, under
command, according to the telegraph, of General
Atchison, who has made himself so conspicuous
hitherto in forcing slavery upon the territory. The
Free State men, under General Lane, were fortify-
ing themselves about seven miles from the Santa
Fe camp on the Wanuka, the main body being at
Lawrence, variously estimated from 1,000 to 2,000.
The Missourians were estimated by their enemies
at 3,000. Provisions had become scarce at Law-
rence, and communication with supplies was cut
off. If the telegraph is to be trusted, it indicates
a triumph of the pro-slavery party, unless the
Federal Government interfere.'

THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY, SEPT. 14.
By the Royal Mail steamer Atrato, Captain
Woolley, which arrived this afternoon with the
West India and Pacific mails, in chargo of Lieute-
nant Pearson, R.N., Admiralty agent, wo have
dates from—

Belize Aug. 17 , St. Vincent's Aug. 26
Puerto Cabello ... 22 St. Lucia
G reytown — 20 Martinique
Carthagena
Colon — 23 Dominica
La Guayra
Jamaica
Jacmel . 28 Nevis
Porto Rico
Berbice .
Demerara - 251 Trinidad
Barbadoes . —271 Tobago
Grenada
The Atrato brings 58 passengers, among whom are
Sir R. Horsford, C. 8., Chief Justice of Antigua,
and lady ; Captains Levallois and Bartlett, Ensign
Jackson, and two non-commissioned officers of the
3d West India Regiment, and two distressed Bri-
tish subjects (one of whom belonged to Walker's
army) from Greytown. On freight this packet
brings 831,850 dollars, of which 370,231 dollars are
in sliver, and the remainder is gold, from the fol-
lowing places : Pacific, 384,047 dollars ; Cali-
fornia, 364,463 dollars ; Carthagena, 47,470 dollars ;
Jamaica, 12,392 dollars ; and other parts of the
West Indies, 23,293 dollars ; 6,3831. value in plata
pins, &c., and copper value 1,200 dols. The cargo
consists of 1,358 serons of cochineal, 1 seron of ipe-
cacuanha, 260 serous of bark, 6 casks of beeswax, 72
bales of sarsaparilla, 7 live turtles, 2 cases of tor-
toiseshell, 9 cases of succades, and 52 packages of
sundries.

The Royal mail steamer Magdalena, from South-
ampton on 17th ult., had not reached St. Thomas
when the Atrato

The Toviot was at St. Thomas preparing to sail
for. Southampton for repairs. It was expected she
would leave about the 9th inst.
The Atrato has experienced, for the first eight
days, fine weather; for two days afterwards a strong
head wind, and since light easterly winds. On the
9th inst., in lat. 43.16 N., long. 35.50 W., she
passed. an American ship, with emigrants, bound to
the. westward, showing over the ensign a white flag
with red star iu centre ; on the 11th, in lat. 46.52
N., long. 24.18 1.1'., passed another-American ship,
bound to the eastward, showing name "W. V.
Moses" on a flag ; and on the 12th, in lat. 47.51
N., long. 18.52 W., passed the English barque
Spectator, standing to north-east.
The boatswain of the Atrato died at sea of yel-
low fever on the 6th inst. A subscription was
made on board for his wife and three young chil-

dren.
Captain Ramsay, R.M., and Mr. Groves, sur-
geon of her Majesty's ship Euryalus, died at Port
Royal on the 26th and 27th ult.
Her Majesty's ships Imperieuse and Intrepid
I were at Greytown, Vestal at Antigua, and Arad=

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at Barbadoes. The squadron was
h althy.
:The weather at St. Thomas has been extremely
hot, with occasional showers. On the 28th ult. a
very severe shock of an earthquake was felt. It
lasted about five seconds, during which time a few
buildings were cracked. A few deaths by cholera
occur daily on shore.
Our adviccs " < c, • th, es", th
Matters reins Lang A, war -eas to
the probable successor of 'Sir Henry-Barkly in the
government of that colony. The Legislature
was prorogued to the end of October, and
it was generally supposed that it would not meet
before the second week in November, which is
about the usual time. The weather had been in-
tensely hot for several days, the thermometer
ranging from 92 deg. to 95 deg. in the shade.
There had been one or two sudden deaths, which,
in a great measure, were attributed to the heated
state of the atmosphere. Fever was very prevalent,
and several deaths are reported. There is little to
notice in commercial matters. Alewives continued
dull of sale at 17s. per barrel. Good quality but-
ter was much wanted, and no Irish had arrived.
Sales of corn had taken place at Bs. 6d. per bag.
Flour was realising 425. ,per Barrel. Exchange
on London, for bills at 90 days, was quoted at 2
per cent. pin. ; 60 days, 2i ditto ; 30 days, 3 ditto.
Merchants' bills were realising per cent. pm.
Her Majesty's vess.els at Port Royal were the
Imaum, Eurydice, Espiegle, and Euryalus. Vessels
in KingEbon harbour—The barks Lady Bute
(English ; the Mary Chapman, and Elizabeth J.
(American); the brigantines Liberal (English), and
Sarah Bernice (American); the schooners Dolphin
and Liberty (American).
The American brig Abbe Francis, from Navy.
bay, bound to Port-au-Prince, put into Kinrrston
harbour on the 12th of August, for medicaraid,
crew sick with fever. The English brigantine Li-
beral, from Navy•bay, bound to, St. Thomas, also
put into that port, on the 17th of August, for me-
dical aid, captain and part of her crew sick. The
American brigantine Merlin, from Rio Janeiro, 71
days out, bound to New Orleans, put into Port
Royal on the 25th ult. for a supply of water.
The West Indis. journals speak of a terrific storm
which swept over some of the Islands on the 13th
ult., doing considerable damage. It appears to
have been felt principally at Grenada and Barba-
does. A gentleman writing from Carriacou, on
the 14th ult., says :

"One of the heaviest storms on record here since the
great hurricane of 1780 set in yesterday afternoon, and
continued with more or less violence till early this morn-
ing. The morning of Wednesday was gusty and lower-
ing, and about noon strong squalls commenced with
rain, which increased towards evening, when it blow a
heavy gale. About 8 p.m. this increased to a hurri-
cane, and so continued for fully two hours ; after which
it gradually abated, though still blowing hard. The
whole island this morning presents sad evidences of the
strength of the storm—the roads impassable, on account
of broken and uprooted roots, and debris of various sorts
—cattle pens unroofed, and labourers' cottages in many
instances levelled with the ground, with a large propor-
tion more or less damaged ; plantain tree-7, corn, and
other provisions torn up by the roots or laid prostrate.
From the long-centinued drought thecane cultivation was
not sufficiently advanced to suffer materially, but where
it had attained any degree of growth it has been quite
levelled. The brig Dorothea, at anchor in Hillsborough-
bay, dragged her anchors for a time, but by serving out
75 fathoms on each this vessel rode out the gale in
safety. The fine sloop Blossom, belonging to Captain
John R. Desbat, was less fortunate; having taken in a
load of sugar for the Dorothea, the gale came on abont
the time the lading was completed, and, being obliged
to remain at anchor, she drove for the night and got
beached ; it is said that she will be got off, and that her
cargo is not to any great extent injured. All the estates
have suffered to some extent, especially Beausejcoir, the
buildings of which, lying at the base of a gorge, are
peculiarly liable to be affected by heavy gusts ; and, for
the same reason, many of the labourers' houses have
suffered. Happily, so far as I can learn, this visitation
has not been attended with loss of life. Providentially,
the gale did not shift its course mere than three points,
the direction of the heaviest part of it being from the
north-eact, and at no time was the barometer below 30
deg. It is feared we may hear still more disastrous
accounts from some of the other islands, and that vessels
at sea may have suffered."
Demerara intelligence is to the 23d ult. The
Court of policy has been occupied during the fort-
night with the consideration of numerous impor-
tant measures. Among the bills passed were an
act to amend the law fur the punishment of petty
offences, a bill to improve the law relating to va-
grancy, and a bill for raising a loan for the pay-
ment of bounty to Indian immigrants. The
amount proposed to be raised is 50,0001. In re-
ferring to the Vagrancy Bill the i-loyal Gazette
says:

" This measure is much wanted in the colony, and
we anticipate from this, in conjunction with other ordi.
nances relating to the improvement of the population,
the best possible results. Vagrancy is the curse of 'this
country, and has been so ever since the emancipation.
There are tbousand4 of creole.; in tbis colony who will
not settle down to steady habits of industry, but they
prefer to lead a vagabond life, wandering about fronrono
part of the colony to the other, and subsisting by plun-
der. If this measure should have the effect of checking
the vagrant habits of a large proportion of the creole
peasantry it will be of great benefit to the colony, and
all classes will rejoice at it. But unless the bill be fol-
lowed by a measure for the compulsory registration of
the people, we do not think it will be productive of any
substantial good. Such a measure is essential to the
wellbeing of this colony, where society is composed of
such an heterogeneous mixture of races. In addition to
the European colonists we have the creole population—a
complete medley in its,df— Hindoos, Chinese, Portu-
guese from Madeira, the Azores and Cape Verd, Afri-
cans, and others. It is necessary for the preservation of
good order among such an incongruous variety of people
that the whole population should be registered."
The Town-council of George Town had determined
to petition the Governor and Court of Policy to
reform the municipal constitution, by reducing the
qualification of members for a seat in the Council
to $1,440 in the books of the receiver of town taxes,
and to extend the right of voting in the election of
members to parties paying an annual rental of $4BO
per annum. The town tax for the present year has
been fixed at 1J per cent., and the experiment of col-
lecting the sanitary rate from the occupiers of houses
was about to be tried. A disturbance took place
on the West Coast, at plantation Flankonburg, on.
the 12th, between two rival parties of coolies, who
were celebrating some religious festival. A proces-
sion of one party met the other, and a fight ensued,
and the party which got the worst of it went to the
village of Anna Catherina and enlisted a number of
creeks, and returned and beat their opponents,
who were overpowered and compelled to fly.
Many persons were severely wounded, but no lives
were lost. The riot was becoming very alarming,
when a body of rural constables came up and
dispersed the combatants, and captured a num
ber of them. They were tried before the sti-
pendiary magistrate, and were sentenced to
various terms of imprisonment ; two of the ring-
leaders were sentenced to receive in addition
39 lashes. The weather during the fortnight
was showery, but the dry weather, it was believed,
had set in. Vegetation during the last three
months had been thriving rapidly, and a little dry
weather would bring the canes to maturity. Little
sugar was being made, but in the course of another
month grinding would become general throughout
the estates. Trade was still dull among the mer-
chants. Freights were moderato and produce
scarce. The exports during the last fortnight were
—sugar, 440 hhds, 22 trcs, 931 brls ; foreign sugar,
21 hhds ; rum, 390 punchns, 43 hhds, 4 brls ; mo-
lasses, 166 punchns, 2 hhds ; coffee, 18 bags ; hard-
wood timber, 6,222 ft ; 29 packages of old metal ;
pork, 14 tree, 59 brie ; beef, 547 half-brls ; flour,
650 brl? ; coals, 2 tree and 3 bags.
The bark Hamilton Mitchell arrived at Demerara
on the afternoon of the 23d ult with 65 African

immigrants from. St. Helena. They were all boys,
and. were captured as they were being conveyed in
a barge to a slave ship.
At St. Lucia there had been some changes in the
judicial department of • a temporary nature. His
Honour the resident Judge had been removed to
St. Vincent, to fill the chief justiceship of that
island during the absence of Mr. Sharp. The Hon.
L. Lucazo had been appointed at St. Lucia as act-
ing resident Judge. The schooner William, of Bar-
badoes, which was supposed to have foundered
during the gale on the 13th ult., had arrived at
Castries with the loss of the foremost. Her cargo,
whicti consists of 24 puncheons of molasses, was
uninjured.
At Grenada the weather bad boon very unsettled
•
and the crops had experienced great damage by the
late gale. Mach timo would be lost in again put-
ting the roads in good repair. There was no im-
provement noticeable in the trade of the colony..
Native provisions were extremely dear, and im-
ported articles were hold at a price which aliwris
prohibited consumption. The- sanitary condition
of the island was satisfactory.
At Barbadoes the young eano_crop,bad consider-
ably improved, owing to Some...fine rains falling.
American produce was not abundant, and rates were
consegne,ntly high. The is continued. healthy.
There are no casualties of .importance reported in
the Barbadues journals as havincaused g Leer by
the late gale.
Nests from Trinidad reports the weather fine and
the crops promising well. Flour was still wanted.
Meal was; in better supply. Cod fish continua'
dull.

AtI6TnALIA.—ARRIVAL OF THE SABDINIAN.—LIVER•
POOL, Saturday.—The White Stir mall-ship Sardinian,
Ciptain Sheri( an, arrived in the Mersey this morning
from Melbourne, from which port she sailed on the 25th
of June. She landed her gold (65,000 ounces) to-day
and it will be duly forwarded to London. Her newt;
has already been published.

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ARCHFXS MATCH, Open to all England,
for an. ELEGANT SILVER CllP.—Archers intending to
take part in this Match at the CRYSTAL PALACE on the 20th
Inst., should immediately apply by letter, as below, for particulars of
terms of entry, &c., as no names will be enrolled after the 18th inst.,
if the list is then filled.
The Cup nal ty be seen at Messrs. Savory and Sons,ll nd 1
bill. JOIIN LILWALL,a Hon 2. , Corn-
Sec.
Offices of the Early Closing Associatien,
35, Ludgate-hill.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.

OaAl the 11r.nagement of ?Sr. CIIARLEs BEAR.

THIS EVENING,
MUSIC likTH CHARMS.

After whten,
PIZARRO.
Rolla, by Mr. C. Kean ; Elvira, by Mrs. C. Kean.

To conclude with
A PRINCE FOR AN HOUR.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Under she Management of Mr. Backstan;
THIS EVENING,

TaE BEAST' STRATAGEM.

Followed by
EL GAMBTISINO.
After which,
CHARLES THE SECOND.

To conalade with
THE SPANISH SERJEANT:

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE,
Under the management of Mr. Charles Dillon,

I cry, and if it prove successful all will be well.
The Southerns have hitherto generally succeeded
by art, not by their intrinsic strength. It would
be ridiculous to suppose that 300,000 Yankees,
burdened with ten times their number of slaves,
could conquer 25,000,000 of freemen. But they
have studied the maxim divide et impera—
they have contrived to sow dissensiola
amongst their adversaries, and by alternately
casting their weights in to different scales
have succeeded in obtaining doubtful majorities,
or the single point in which they were chiefly
interested. The American Nestor, QIIINCEY, has
lifted the veil, and clearly explained the devices
by which they have achieved their triumphs.
Like the English Protectionists, the interests of
the many were made subservient to the ag-
grandisement of the few. The million yielded
to the ten thousand. But it will not
always be so ; the course of truth and justice
must eventually prevail, more especially when
sustained by an overwhelming superiority in phy-
sical force. The slave drivers have triumphed
for the moment, but another such victory will
prove their ruin. They cannot long hold their
ground ; and should it produce the threatened
separation they will themselves be the parties
to mourn the result in sackcloth and
ashes. The North can do without the South.
It will be far better off after the dissolution of the
unholy alliance. But how will it be with the
other side ? What will the coloured population
say or do? When they find that the power of the
Free-soilers can no longer, under the federal laws,
be produced to rivet their chains, ten men will
no longer be tyrannised over by a single despot.
We need say no more on this point to prove that
the Southerns must at any sacrifice avoid a disso-
lution, which would be the signal for their total
and irremediable ruin.

THIS EVENING,
BE LTHE GOB.
Belphogor, Mr. Chas. Dillon; Madeline, Mrs. Chas. Dillon.
To be followed by W. Brough's new Burlesque,
TERDTTA, THE ROYAL MILKMAID ; or, a Winter's Tale.
llorizel, Mrs. A. liellon (late Miss Woolear) ; Antolyeus, Mr. J.
Toole ; Hermione, Mrs. Buckingham White ; Leontes. Mr. S.
Co.lhaem ; Polixines, King of Bithynia, Mr. Wm. Brouch (his first
app eirance on any atage) ; Fast Time, Miss Harriet Gordon ; Ter-
lite . Miss Marie Wilton; Antlgonas, Mr. Barrett. Was Rosiva
Wriott, and a grand Corps de Ballet.
To conclude with
TEE WEDDING DAY.
Lady Contest, lidim Fitzpatrick.
55.; Dress Circle. 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, is.; Gallery.
Is. Commence at 7. Half price to all parts at 9. Box Office open
daily .from 11 till 4.

ROYAL THEATRE ADELPHI.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. -
Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING,
IRELAND AS IT IS.
Followed by
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

To conclude with
IITKSII AMUR INCE AND YANKEE MODESTY.

AsTrArs ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
THIS EVENING,
Fevent h Week ! Shakspere's RICHARD THE THIRD, with the
introduct doh of horses. The equestrian illustrations imagined by Mr.
W. Cooke. Death of White Surrey. (Vide " lillustrated News," of
Saturday„ ith. Rattle of Bosworth Field, &c.
After which,
The EQUESTRIAN GEMS in the CIRCLE.
To con elude with a number of other Entertainments.
Box-oil Ice open fram Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. Equestrian Director. lir. 4". Cooke, Jun.
N.B. Vide "Illustrated News of Sept. 6th for the Death of White
Surrey.

The decision of the Poor-Law Board on the
woman-flogging at Marylebone Workhouse cannot
be said to be characterised by any degree of
harshness so far as the three culprits are concerned.
Indeed, considered without reference to the guar-
dians, their position and antecedents, it must be
regarded as falling short of what the public had
a right to look for. It was not too much to er-
pect that the directors and guardians should be
required to dismiss the Master of the Workhouse
with ignominy, instead of calling upon him to re-
sign, and further to give instructions for a criminal
prosecution against the workhouse HAYNAU and
his brutal subordinates. The Board, however,
would seem to have refrained from doing so under
the influence of colourable, if not of adequate,
motives. The chief offenders, apparently, in its
estimation, are the Directors and Guardians them-
selves ; who, if they did not approve of woman-
flogging, are at least responsible for that wretched
mismanagement which yielded the temptation to
which the women-floggers succumbed. Under
this impression it has doubtless seemed invidious
to the Board to require the well-merited punish-
ment of the three subordinates at the hands of
their official superiors, when the latter, though
responsible for their conduct, must escape compa-
ratively scot free. We cannot admit the validity
of such reasoning, but feel indisposed to comment
on it with any degree of asperity.
The Directors and Guardians have certainly
incurred an unenviable responsibility, and ought
not to be surprised if the public endorse the ver-
dict of the Poor-Law Board against them, as
couched in the following terms :—" The Board
cannot lout observe, with great regret, the amount
of disorder and turbulence which the evidence
taken by their inspector discloses as existed in
the Maiylebone Workhouse. They are quite
prepared to admit that it is a task of no little
difficulty to maintain discipline, good order, and
subordination amongst a number of persons of the
unhappy class to which these inmates belong.
To do so with any success requires not only great
temper, firmness, and judgment on the part of the
officers, particularly of the chief one, to whose
control they are subjected, but also such well-
devised arrangements of the building in which
they are retained, and such regulations for the
classification, discipline, and treatment of the
inmates themselves, that every impediment is
presented to the outbreak of disorder, and every
facility at hand for its immediate suppres-
The Board lament to find that in
an establishment of the extent and import-
ance of the Marylebone Workhouse there
appears to be an entire absence of these con-
ditions of its successful management. They are
therefore not surprised at the occurrences which
have formed the subject of inquiry, or to
find a state of things existing in the work-
house such as is described in their inspector's
report ;" on this follow an approval of the
acceptance, by the Directors and Guardians,
of the resignation of the two porters—a
request, prefaced by appropriate comment, that
the Master be called upon to resign, and an
enunciation of the intention of the Board "to
issue to the parish of Marylebone forthwith simi-
lar rules and regulations for the management of
the workhouses in England and Wales." The
reception met with by this (singularly ill-worded)
document lends force, we are sorry to say, to the
justice of the rebuke. Not a statement in it was
impugned, yet a majority of the Directors saw fit,
without a single expression of contrition, or hold-
ing out the most remote prospect of amendment,
to resolve " That the Poor-Law Commissioners be
informed that this Board have fully inquired into
the subject of their communication of the 11th
inst., and having already decided upon admonishing
the master and the parties, respectfully decline to
open the case." In other words this precious majority
resolved to keep the master, who has disgraced the
name of Englishman and outraged the privileges
of womanhood, in his place, and that place sur-
rounded by those influences which offered the
only semblance of palliation of his unmanly mis-
conduct, in utter defiance of public opinion and
the Poor-Law Board." The matter cannot end
here. The supporters of the resolution have not
only the Poor-Law Board, but the public also to
deal with. They have grievously betrayed their
trust by neglect, and shamelessly countenanced a
dastardly and inhuman practice by the extreme
lenity they have shown to the HAYNAU in chief.
By their negligence' they have provoked a collision
with the Poor-Law Board, and by their subsequent
Conduct have armed that Board with a power it would
not otherwise have possessed. Let them cry out
against Cen tralisation as they will. No worse enemies
of the
principleof local self-government than there-
selves and individuals of their stamp can be
found, and they must make up their minds to be
regarded accordingly by the ratepayers. Public
rights are not safe iu such hands, and we look
with confidence to a decided expression of this
opinion by the body whose unworthy representa-

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LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1856.

The Free-soilers have yielded to their more
energetic opponents. The House of Representa-
tives has, by an infinitesimal majority, abandoned
the Kansas rider to the Army Appropriation Bill,
and the Senate has completely triumphed.
FRANKLIN PIERCE will now be enabled to have it
all his own way during the few remaining months
of his tenure of office. The time is fortunately
very short ; but he may, even within that brief
interval, be enabled to turn the scale, so as to
render Kansas permanently a Slave State ; that is
to say, with as much permanency as can belong
to a system in every respect so iniquitous.
We confess that we had hoped better things
from the Northern Legislators. We did not be-
lieve that anything could have persuaded them to
have abdicated their functions, and to have tamely
surrendered the rights and privileges which few
members of the English House of Commons
would have abandoned, even at the cost
of their lives. But the plague-spot of
Slavery tainted the entire mass. Every
possible inducement was brought into ope-
ration. Nothing was spared. Money was
forthcoming to any amount to satisfy the cupidity
of the venal, while intimidation was also freely
resorted to in order to terrify the timid. The
Southerns had set their lives and fortunes on the
cast, and, with " cogged dice," succeeded, after
a severe struggle. The last division, which
sealed the disgrace of Congress, was carried by a
majority of 3 ; there being 101 votes for capitu-
lation, while 08 sturdy Republicans still "nailed
their colours to the mast," and remained faithful
to the last.
It is said, and with much appearance of truth,
that it was the summary dismissal of the Govern-
ment workmen and employes, not holding com-
missions directly from the PRESIDENT, which led
to the disgraceful surrender. The irritation that
must inevitably have followed the loss, of employ-
ment by a large number of persons terrified a
few timid men ; and the change of opinion, or
even the absence of two or three men, turned the
scale, where the parties had previously been so
closehr balanced. We shall look with much
curiosity for a history of the transactions at Wash-
ington during the crisis. We fancy that it will
disclose an organised system of bribery, carrup.
tion, and intimidation unparalleled since the time
of the passing of the Union with Ireland.
It is said that Mr. PIIIRCK has solemnly pro-
mised to act henceforward with perfect impartiality
so far as Kansas is concerned ; that he has pledged
himself to prevent any invasion of the debatable,
no matter from what quarter it might proceed,
and that the bona fide settlers shall have a fair
election, so far as the federal authorities can en-
sure it. His acts do not, however, keep pace with
his professions. He is still resolved to enforce
the territorial laws that have been so loudly and
patty complained of. He also refuses to afford
any protection to bona fide emigrants en route to
Kansas. Re can give a shrewd guess at the
means by which the Missourian ruffians will retard
the journeys from the north, while they eau pour
in their own bands without impediment or inter-
runtion. And thisis what Mr.
FRANKLIN PIERCE,
is facetiously pleased to term showing fair play to

sion.

both sides. tines they are. Nothing slior:, if their migna-
But although the outwork has been deserted tin ought to suffice, and we trust, this will be
the game is by ne means lost. The eon_ peremptorily demanded, and, as far as possible,
test, hitherto, has been comparatively but enforced. Down with the woman-floggers, and
an affair of outposts. The picquets Only all who support them ! They can have no claim
have been i engaged. The Presidential Elec. to interfere in the direction of Marylebone or any
tion will be the grand "champ de battaille"— other workhouse, and should forthwith be
the field that must decide the future fate of the " booked" to their respective homes, if not
Republic ! "Fremont and Liberty" is au inspiring " through " to Austria.

THE SUN, ti MONDAY EVFNING, SEPTEMB_EiI 1,i“:

hot visit to Biarritz, the bride being an old friend
of the Empress."
13ornsz, Sept. 13.—The following were the last
quotations :
Cash. fr. e. End of Month.
4. per Cents (xd) 92 50 —f. —o.
3 per Cents 7O 75 70 80
New Loan —
Bank Shares 4,150 Roman
Credit Mobilier 1,677 50 Austrian . 87i
Belgian Fives. — Spanish Threes —
Piedmonteee (5) 9l 50 !dome Debt ....,.,.t 40g

RAILWAYS—TOB CABLI.
fr. c. fl.. C.
Orleans ........ ...... 1,360 Western 940
Northern .... ....... 1,005 Strasburg
Lyons • New Ditto
Mediterranean l,BOO Grand Central
Lyons Geneva 785 Testa
Cette 738 75 Austilan Coax. 876 25

ITALY.
The Genoa Corriere Mercantile of the 11th instil
quotes a letter from Alessandria of the 10th, stating
that the works of the new fortifications had com-
menced, and that the contractors intended to carry
them on with the greatest activity. General La
Nlarmera, the Minister of War, arrived at Ales-
sandria on that day, and proceeded immediately to
visit the works which the sappers are executing on
the bastions in the direction of Marengo. At- er
visiting the ground on :which the other fortification s
are to be erected, the General reviewed the garri-
son drawn up under arms in the citadel, and re-
turned in the evening to Turin.
The Cologne Gazette states that the new collec-
tive note which the western powers intend sendinc,
to the Kink• of Naples, and which it is even said,
has already been forwarded, dwells on the neces-
sity of carrying out the following four points :-
Ist. Suppression of the arbitrary authority of the
police and of punishments arbitrarily inflicted by
that body. 2d. An amelioration in the political
administration, and a modification in the exercise
of justice in what relates to judicial proceedings
previously to trial. 3d. The oreation of credit
establishments, so as to give an impetus to coin-
merce_and manufactures. 4th. Permission to all
emigrants and exiles to return to their country
and their restoration to their civil rights and former
positions,!provided they sign an act of submission.

THE TRADE OF SOUTH STAFFORD-
SHIRE.

BIRMINGHAM, Saturday Evening.—The general
trade of this town during the past week has been
on the whole very satisfactory, and prices conse-
quently are being well sustained. It is cheering
to read the travellers' letters from the agricultural
aihnuarnedazdt har-
vest cluaveia'stttli.opi enrtos s'apri ten' co
twnshiasi trc oh
ut
thnhede yl
them,ardgees c rtiarbnaedd ittihihgee communities,
particularly of the north. The home trade is re-
viving in all directions, and the demand for general
hardware and some fancy goods is considerable. In
the home trade may be included of course the Irish
;narket, which is now really reviving, and evi-
dently indicating an improvement, which the most
ianguine could not have anticipated a few years
ago. The orders from Ireland aro not as formerly
;onfineci to mere necessaries, but include many of
the comforts and some of the luxuries of life, and
;he accounts are well met. we have also
on the books some brisk continental, American,
and Canadian orders, for general hardware goods
and jewellery, and the advices are of an encourag-
ing character asto the future. From South America
we have a good share of orders for superior jewel-
lery, and the Spanish travellers are sending home
useful order-sheets. The last advices from Sydney
Ind Melbourne received here are encouraging, and
we have now at the refiners large quantities of gold
preparing for the manufacturers. The quality of
rho gold is reported infinitely better than it was,
and the yield much greater.
Relative to the iron trade there is little to report.
By some it is said that the demand is increasing,
and that prices will be maintained at the forth-
coming meeting, whilst others contend that it is
injustice to the respectable houses to require them
to adhere to prices which will not be maintained by
the small makers. The demand for pig iron is not
so great as it was a few weeks ago, and prices
fluctuate according to the requirements of the
maker. In the quantity made there has latterly
been a considerable reduction, and it is only by
diminishing the stocks prices can be 'upheld. The
difficulty wich the iron trade now has to contend
with arises from the fact of our immense powers of
production being greater than the demand. Dur-
ing the last few years an enormous amount of
capital, real and artificial, has been spent in mining
operations in this district, and anything like ordi-
nary demand is not equal to our production. Mr.
Bessemer's discovery still occupies a good deal of
public attention, and many able papers have been
written for and against it. The general opinion
seems to be, that it is impracticable in its present
state, whatever benefit may ultimately arise from
it.

NEW AUSTRALIAN MAIL CONTRACT COM,

PANY.

A meeting was held at Glasgow last week of the com-
pany engaged in the new Australian mail contract. At
,its first formation it bore the inappropriate title of the
European and Columbian Steam Navigation Company,
,and its capital was 410,0001. it is now styled the Euro-
pean and Australian Royal Mail Company, and the
;capital is to be 500,0e0/., with power to borrow to the
extent of one-fourth. This increase of capital has been
deemed expedient in consequence of the company having
acceded to a request of the Government to provide a
steamer to carry the mails between Malta and Mar-
seilles, while they have also resolved to increase the
capacity of the vessels intended for the service between
Southampton and Alexandria from 1,600 tons and 350-
horse power, as originally proposed, to 2,300 tons and
500-horse power. They likewise contemplate having
five steamers instead of four to perform the work be-
tween Suez and Sydney. Under these circumstances
their ultimate outlay is estimated as follows :
Two steamers, European, 2,380 tons, and Colum-
bian, 2,300 tons
One steamer, Oneida, 2,320 tons 60,000
One steamer, arranging for with Messrs. J. and
G. Thomson, of 2,860 tons, builder's measure-
ment, and 650-horse power, Clyde measurement 86,750
One steamer, arranging for with Messrs. Scott and.
Co., of 2,320 tons, 500-horse power, Clyde mea-
surement. , 70,000
One steamer, arranging with Messrs. Lawrence
Hill and Co., of 2,320 tons, 500-horse power,
Clyde measurement 70,000
One steamer, for service between Malta and Mar-
seilles, say . 25,000
Expense of refitting three steamers 20,000
Expense of furnishing three now steamers, say—. 10,000
Six barges for coaling at Aden

477,750
If the fifth steamer is built for outside service .... 70,000

Supposed amount.....

£547,750

The contract is for five years, at 185,000 per annum,
and the continuous monthly service between Sydney
and England is to commence in January next. The
outward passage from Suez to Melbourne is performed
in 39 days, and the homeward in 35, under penalties of
501. for a delay of one day, 1001. for two days, and a
progressive increase of 501. for every additional day ;
such penalties, however, being limited in the aggregate
to the amount of subsidy applicable to- the individual
voyage. The offer of the Peninsular and. Oriental
Company was to perform the service for 140,0001., but
under certain stipulations, which were deemed inadmis-
sible. Upon the refusal of their terms the latter
coMpany protested that the Government had thrown
away 45,0001. per annum, since the company would be
unable to maintain the promised speed, and had under-
taken the contract only because the extra 45,0001. per
annum would cover an amount of fines such as to
enable them to be several days behind time en
each voyage, and yet receive more than the
Peninsular and Oriental Company had demanded.
In reply to these assumptions the new company have
addressed a letter to their shareholders, denying the
right of the Peninsular and Oriental Company to make
a charge against their competitors of a deliberate inten
tion to break faith, and pointing out that the penalties
in question were not assented to until after the Govern.
ment had been urged to adopt in preference the usual
test hitherto practised of ascertaining the speed of the
vessels to be employed before admitting them to the
service. "Having agreed to them after vain attempts
to substitute the speed test for them, the company,"
it is remarked, "eannot be expected to submit to the
latter also." Under all the circumstances, and es-
pecially taking into consideration the advantages to be
hoped from the line being independent, and, through
a part of the route, competitive, there is reason to
believe that the Government have made the best choice
in their power. This admission, however, must not
be held to affect the argument against the unsound-
ness of the contract system generally. A strong opinion
prevails that if the Government had declared from the
first that it would leave the ocean conveyance of letters
as open to competition as that of other articles, allowing
shipowners to charge whatever the merchants and others
might think warranted by their relative speed, fleets
both for passengers and mails would have rapidly grown
up in proportion to the demand, and the disgrace of all
the delays of the past four or fire years would have been
avoided. But it was now too late to revert to the experi-
ment, and some arrangement like that just concluded
was unavoidable. The route via the Cape, however, is
at present free from contract boats of any kind, and
there are experienced persons who predict that, if the
Government will but issue a notification that it shall
remain so, private enterprise will soon achieve results,
as far at least as the passenger traffic is concerned, far
more satisfactory than any that have yet been contem
plated.—Times City Article,