The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LO N DON, SATURDAY EVENI 340, SEPTEMBER 2O, 1856,

has invariably been in the cause of heartless '
Despots ! It has seldom, if ever, been made on
behalf of oppressed and suffering Nationalities.
When a Monarch shocks every feeling o: huma-
nity, he is simply left to his fate ; lut if he
offers the most trivial and merely colourable con-
cessions, he is still sustained and supported. The
measure now taken should have long since been
adopted ; but it was not until the whole
body of Sovereigns were compelled to pro-
nounce the conduct of their brother Mo-
narch too bad that he was at length
abandoned to his fate. If, however, there be a
general rule against only meddling with mis-
government, however palpable, the principle
should be extended so as to provide against any
armed assistance to a Sovereign against whom his
subjects have felt it necessary to rise.

We announced in our impression of yesterday
that there was no longer any hope of an amicable
arrangement of the Neapolitan difficulty. Fur-
ther advices confirm the accuracy of the intelli-
gence, and show the full extent of the difficulty
in which the incarnation of the Bourbon spirit is
now placed. We can easily anticipate that there
will be whining remonstrances and servile apolo-
gies offered now that it is seen that
the foundations of the throne have been
shaken, and that the very sceptre itself is falling
from his relaxed and paralysed grasp. But the
last chance of redemption has passed from his
imbecile hands. It is now too late for leniency.
We must be merciful to the people, or at least
permit them to work out their own safety. Every-
thing practicable has already been tried, but in
vain. He would not allow us to save him, and having
withdrawn in disgust from the fruitless effort,
we cannot again hold the ugis of protection be-
tween him and his indignant subjects. It cannot
be said that this decided step has been taken
without ample warning. He will now only have
himself to blame for the results whatever they
may be. We shall await the next accounts with
some anxiety, although we cannot entertain any
serious doubts as to the result, which must even-
tuate in the triumph of the popular side.

American Slavery has long been the great scan-
dal of civil and religious freedom. All the des•
pots and autocrats of Europe point across the
Atlantic, and defame Liberty through the deeds
of its unworthy children. But is the disgrace
precisely what has been represented Y All the
States are guilty of having admitted, contrary to
the intention of the founder of the Republic, ad-
ditional Slave States into the Union ; all are guilty
of the Missouri compromise ; all guilty of its re-
peal after slaveholders had gained all they wanted
from it ; and when its repeal opened Kansas and
Nebraska to slavery ; and all are guilty of the
atrocious Fugitive Slave Law ; but the depth of
the disgrace is the conversion of the Republic into
en oligarchy of tyrants. America has been a Re-
public in little more than name. Venice was so
termed under its lordly oligarchy, and so may the
States be—but the fact is, that three hundred and
City thousand slaveholders are an absolute oligar-
chy, both in the North and South, to the extent
of their wishes; over twenty-seven millions of '
people ! In their own States the slaves, and, we
may add, the non-slaveholders, are wholly
in their power, with the latter they can do every-
thing but flog them ; and in the North, where
they do not reside, and where they desire nothing
more, they are as absolute, politically, as Austria
in her subject provinces. The burning dis-
grace of the North is, that it is the Lom-
bardy to the South. New York, Pennsyl-
vania, Massachusetts, and all the free and
populous States of the North, have been
hitherto but the subject provinces of the three
hundred and fifty thousand slaveholders. Some
twenty millions of freemen bear the yoke of some
five or six millions of whites and slaves together.
The ignominy is the greater because they could eman-
cipate themselves at once. At the next election
For Congress they could do it; and at the impend-
ing presidential election they could make a great
step towards it. With an anti-slavery President,
and a large majority in the Rouse, it would be '
practicable to bring the Senate to obedience be-
fore the slaveholding, senators could be exchanged
for men who refused to hold property in human
beings. We repeat, then, that America is by its
own disgraceful cowardice, not a republic, but an
oligarchy. And what an oligarchy—not of
descent; of title, of education, not even of purse,
but of negro slaves ! Possession of negro slaves,
in America, raises men to the dignity of Lords of
the land. To lack slaves is to be at the mercy,
politically, of those who have them. Nobility is
conferred at the patent office of the slave pen
or the slave auction, and the TILLEY'S are the
Kings-at-Arms.

It has long bean the wonder as well as the grief
of England to witness year after year the growing
humiliations put upon the American Lombardy.
To the European one, the presence of bayonets
by the hundred thousand, removes the disgrace
of submission ; but iu America there has been
nothing but servility. In England, with universal
suffrage, and members apportioned to population,
we should like to see the oligarchy which 'could
nake our Parliament pass laws at its bidding.
We hope, however, the tido is turned. We re-
cognise the magnitude of the defeat in the late
surrender of the restriction imposed by the Lower
Souse on a treacherous President. It was an
ignominious surrender on the part of those who
were able last spring to return their Speaker,
and who had before them all the villanies
perpetrated and perpetrating by the President
and the border ruffians in Kansas. Still we hope
it is but the larger wave in a falling tide, and that
it will reach thus far no more. It ought not
to discourage Freesoilers, but to arouse and pro-
voke them to yet greater efforts ; and we may
hope that it will. If so, BUCHANAN and human
slavery will meet their deserts in—the political
bottomless pit. The gain would be great, in the
present state of things, to add one more to the
four non•slaveholding Presidents, and to prevent
the addition of one more to the thirteen slave-
holders who have filled the office. Moreover,
the changes made, down to the lowest officer,
when a new party accedes to office, makes the
administration of the American Executive a very
powerful political engine. Now every office is
filled by pro-slavery men.

We have also great hope that Kansas will yet
be refused admission as a Free State. PIERCE
will, of course, more or less openly aid the border
ruffians, and enable them in November to return
another Legislature by means of the atrocious
laws enacted by the present fictitious one.
But two things may yet vanquish him :
one, the Northern men, short as the time
is, sending the 3,000 armed and provisioned
men, demanded by the late Governor FEEDER,
to fight out with the slavery marauders the rights
of the genuine residents. The other, that should
fraud and violence triumph technically in Kansas,
Congress can still refuse the application of a
Legislature, constituted by such frauds, for ad-
mission as a Slave State. The North must see
that to prevent the consummation of this atro-
cious job demands all their energies and firmness.
The South has now Ural the North to resist its

lasting ascendancy—surely the North will not
decline file battle. The territory on which the
teeming population of the Free States would na-
turally pour itself forth, which is theirs by posi-
tion, by the shamefully abrogated Missouri com-
promise, and by political necessity, is now sought
to be wrested from them by the most barefaced
perfidy 'and outrage. If the Free States will sub-
mit to this they will submit to anything. We
will hardly suppose that they would not rather
renounce the Union, and bid the slaveholders
settle it with their slaves as they best could.
The issue would not long be doubtful. The
truth is, the South dare not quit the North. The
threat of dissolving the connection would bring
them to their knees.

But in this great affair literature, and the lite-
rature of fiction too, has done and will do its part.
"Uncle Tom" and "Dred" have opened the eyes of
millions to,see what they never saw before. Genius
has indelibly fixed in the minds of all freemen the
inevitable wickedness, cruelty, oppression, degra-
dation of whites as well as blacks, and corruption
of Christianity itself, inherent in, or attendant
on, American slavery. Politicians may wish to
ignore the power of a woman, but the power of
genius and truth combined, whether put forth
by man or woman, transcends that of the calcu-
lating politician. It can sap his intrenohments and
baffle his calculations ; and, little as FRANKLIN
PIERCE may like to acknowledge it, he may
greatly thank the thrilling pages of HARRIET
BEECHER STOWE for consigning his mediocrity to
ignominious oblivion. His own misdeeds have
compelled him to flight, but a woman has struck

the fatal blow. At the very worst, should Kan-
sas fall for the present, should BUCHANAN and
slavery triumph, we should yet believe, till we
saw to the contrary, that in four years more the
North would be victors.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.—Sept. 19.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.—Arrived—
Sept. 12. Gloriana, schooner, 134 tons, Joseph Gee,
Esq., from Dartmouth ; Ginevra, schooner, 142 tons,
Sir E. Colebrook, Bart., from Greenock ; Gipsy Queen,
schooner, Sir H. B. Hoghton, Bart., from Dover.
13. Capricorn, schooner, 344 tons, C. R. M. Talbot,
Esq., M.P., from Southampton ; Columbine, schooner,
72 tons, Captain R. H. Smith Barry, from Yarmouth ;
Sultana, yawl, 130 tons, Lord Colville, from Guernsey ;
Zoe, schooner, 161 tons, the Earl of Yarborough, from
Guernsey. 16. Hussar, brig, 120 tons, Lieut.-Col. T.
Pier Williams, M.P., Ryde. Sailed—Sept. 16. Gipsy
Queen and Zoe, for the westward. Yachts at and about
the station- -Capricorn, Gloriana, Sultana, Hussar,
Columbine, and Aurora.
The Earl of Yarborough finds his health so much irn-
proved since he has taken to yachting that he intends
keeping afloat as long as the fine weather lasts.
Lieut.-Col. T. Pier Williams has taken one of the large
houses on the Parade at West Cowes.
The Vice-Commodore (C. R. M. Talbot, Esq.) has
given directions to the Messrs. White to convert his
yacht into a screw steamer this winter. She is to be
ready for sea by April next.
The new Club House is being proceeded with with
every possible despatch. As many men are employed on
it as c.in find room to work.
THE POTATO DISEASE.—More than half the crop in
this neighbourhood has been destroyed by the disease.
It is very similar in its effects to the year 1852 ; but
there was such quantities planted that the price is not
likely to range high. Turnips are a very bad crop ;
corn and hay very excellent ones.

COURT CIRCULAR.

BALMORAL, SEPT. 13.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange, attended
by Col. de Casembroot, left Balmoral yesterday morning.
The Earl of Clarendon likewisq, took his departure for
Taymouth Castle.
Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the
Prince Consort walked out yesterday.
His S,rene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar
enjoyed the sport of deer stalking.

His Royal Highrkegs the Duke of Cambridge leaves
town early in the ensuing week to honour Sir George
‘Veinbwell with a visit at hip seat in Yorkshire.
The Duke of Devonshire is entertaining a succession
of viAitoni at Li.anore Castles, the noble Duke's :-.eat rn
Ireland. The Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare,
from Carton, County Kildare, the Hon. and Rev. the
Dean of Li,inore, and Miss Brown, Mr. and Lady Fanny
Howard, Hon. Geo. and Mrs. O'Callaghan, Mr. and
MN. William Cavendish, &c., have arrived on a visit, to .
his grace.
The Duke of Roxhurglie has left the Clarendon for
Floors Cale, Kelso, N.B.
The Duchess of Wellington is at Yester House, Had.
dingtonsbire, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness
ofirweeddale, who are entertaining a select circle there.
The Duchess subsequently goes in waiting on the Queen
at 13almorat.

The Duchess of Beaufort has returned to Gopsall
Had, on a visit to the Earl and Countess Howe., who
are suirounded by a family circ:e. Tho Duke, during
the week, has been staying at Doncaster for the races.
Miss NIGHTINGALE AT BALHOEAL.—Miss Night-
ingale arrived at Balm Oral on Thursday, on a visit to
the Queen, by special invitation. It is expected that she
will remain a week or two in the Highlands, to rest re
her shattered health. _ _

a.• •
The Cheltenham Examiner says, the Bishop of Glou-
cester and Bristol has determined to be enthroned by
proxy, but it is not yet known on what day.
THE BISHOP OF EXETER.—The Plymouth papers an-
nounce the somewhat serious illness of the Bishop of
Exeter. His lordship is 79 years of age.
THE NEW IRISH PEER.—The Dublin Gazette of Tues-
day contains the announcement of Mr. Burke Roche's
elevation, to the peerage, with the title of Baron
Fermoy.
The Glasgow Herald announces the death of its "ami-
able nod accomplished editor, Mr. George Outran,
advocate."
The Town Council of Edinburgh have elected Mr.
Donaldson to fill the post of Master of the High School,
eacated by the death of Dr. Boyd.
PRICE OF GOLD IN BELGIUM.—The national bank of
Belgium has notified that it will take gold pieces of 20f.
only at the value of 19f. 80c.
Mr. W. M. Pleniston's services have been secured by
the niroctors of the Pernambuco Railway as engineer ie
chief, and he sails from Southampton, with his staff of
assistants, on the 9th October.
MAIL FOR JAMAICA..—A mail will be made up at the
Liverpool post•office on Monday, the 22d inst., for
Kingston, Jamaica, which will be carried out by the
new scree( steamer Saladin. Letters require to be
posted in Liverpool before 2 p.m. on the 22d inst., or
with late fees until 2 30 p.m., each letter or newspaper
to be marked " per Saladin."
RETIREMENT Or MR. NOBLE OF THE CUSTOMS.—This
gentleman, who lately held the situation of first clerk in
the Receiver General's Office, has retired from active
service, and now waits the decision of the Treasury as
to the amount of retiring pension, which we hope will
be the full amount to which he is entitled after 48 years'
honourable and faithful service.—Civil Service Gazette.
DREADFUL FIRE AT PORTsmOUTH —PoRTsEA, Thurs-
day Morning.—Last night an alarming fire occurred in
Queen-street, Portsea, which has entirely consumed this
premises occupied by Mr. Buckle, draper, Portsea, and
very much injured by water the premises of Mr.
Sruithere, watchmaker and jeweller, and the house of
Mr. Attwood, grocer ; consequently all the above are
compelled to suspend businees for some short time.
LOCAL CHARGES ON SHIPPING.—Yesterday morning
the report of the select committee on this subject was
issued. It is a very bulky affair, extending to 703 folio
pages, and is, besides, embellished with maps and draw-
ings. The conmittee simply report that they have con-
sidered some of the matters to them referred, and have
taken evidence thereupon, which they have agreed to
report to the house without any expression of opinion.
The price of the report is marked Bs.
FARNHAM,--110P PICKING AND OPEN-AIR PREACH-
ING.—The Rev. J. S. Uttertan, vicar, addressed a large
congregation last Sunday in the open air. There was a
motley group of persons of all classes, with a large pro-
portion of hop-pickers of the poorest order and roughest
exterior. The text was taken from Revelations, and
the sermon was listened to with profound attention and
evident emotion on the part of many. A considerable
number joined in singing a hymn, during which, and
while the vicar was praying, almost every head was un-
covered. The whole service was most solemn ; not a
sound was uttered to interrupt it. A large number
'if " Wayside Tracts" were distributed among the
strangers, who received them with the greatest avidity.
Notice was given of another service of the same kind
next Sunday ; but the hop-pickers are already beginning
to disperse to their several homes.
SAILING MATCH BETWEEN THE EUGENIE AND WATER
KELPIE.—It will be remenibeeed that in the London
Model Yacht Club Race on the 9;1 inst., the Water
Kelpie, which, however, had been passed by the Eu-
genie, mistook the distance buoy, and consequently
did not round, the Eugenie winning. Mr. J. Hare,
the owner of the Water Kelpie, not feeling satisfied
with his defeat, challenged the Eugenie 's owner,
Mr. F. Sweeting, and accordingly another
snatch was made between them, Mr. Sweating
staking 121. to Mr. Hare's 10/. The match will take
place on Tuesday next at 10 o'clock, the distance to be
sailed being Irons a flag moored off the Sea Witch, East
Greenwich, to another flag-beat off the "Royal" Graves
end, and back to Greenwich. The match is to be sailed
under the London Model Yacht Club rules, with four
men in each boat, and Mr. T. H. Williams, vice-commo-
-
dore, has kindly consented to act as umpire and stake
holder. The Eugenie will have the No. 1 station on the
Isouth shore, and should the weather prove favourable,
a capital match is anticipated.
•

MINING

(Front the Mining Journal of this day.)

Mining business continues in a very active state, and
the increase of share transactions is daily perceptible.
There have been within the last week or two some very
important improvements and discoveries in a few pro
gressive mines, which have caused a great influx of
buyers in the market, as well as a rise in value i❑
many stacks equal to 100 and 200 per cent. Added
to this, the satisfactory state of the metal trade, to
which we alluded last week, has given greater confidence
in mines in general. We confidently look forward,
therefore, to even a far greater increase in mining trans-
actions, and are of opinion that before long other mines
we might mention may cause as much excitement in the
market as Great Alfred has done : shares in this mine rose
as high as 16, and then became flatter, not from any fall-
ing off in the mine, for it continues to improve, but from
the price inducing many parties who purchased before
the rise to realise their gains, which in some cases have
been very considerable ; the shares left off at 14 to 141.
United Mine shares have been enquired after at 140 to
150, and an improvement may be looked for in the mine.
Porkellis, as a tin mine, is holding out great prospects,
and at the present price, 11/. per share, are considered
cheap. At East Trefusis, there is a very fine gossan
lode, and shares in request at 21 to 3. At Grambler and
St. Aubyn, the lode in the 24 east has improved to 201.
per fm. South Frances, 360 to 365 ; Basset, 285 to
290 ; Great Devon, 400, ex div. of 101. per share de-
clared on Wednesday ; after paying this dividend, about
5,0001. are added to the balance in hand, and the divi-
dend at the next bi-monthly meeting is expected to be
121. per share. Alfred Consols have been sought after,
and have risen to 151, 16 ; Grenvilles have advanced,
' with a good demand, from 1B to 2f, 21 ; the lode in
Newton shaft is daily improving, and should a course of
ore come in shares will go to a high price ; altogether,
24,0001. have been expended on the mine, and from its
immediately adjoining South Frances, and on the run
of the Basset lodes, the progress of it is watched
with great interest. Any discovery in Grenville
would also cause a demand for West Grenville and
South Condurrow, shares in both of which are now at
mere nominal prices. East Pool have been enquired
for at 275, but there are few sellers. Great South
Tolgus, another good progressive mine, likely soon to
pay dividends, has been enquired for, at 10 to 101 i
Holmbush, 2t021 ; Tamar Consols, to 11 ; South
Tamar, 1 ; West Basset, 30 to 31 ; North Basset, 38 ;
Uny, 4f to 41; Mary Ann, 38 ; Hender, 41 to 4.1 ;
Sortridge Consols, 21 to 21 ; Gonamena, 27. Wheal
Buller, owing to a reported improvement in the eastern
levels, rese from 295 to 350, but left off at 330, sellers ;
the next dividend, it is reported, will not be more than
51. per share. North Frances, 10 to 10; ; Treleigh (old
scrip), 4 to a ; North Downs, 2i to 23 ; South Tolgus,
150.

The precise amount of the specie shipments by the
Peninsular and Oriental steamer Colombo is 435,035/.,
of which 8,5001. is gold for Alexandria and Madras, and
426,535/. silver for Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta.
The bar silver brought by the last West India steamer
has been sold at 62,3/4d. per ounce, being an advance of
id. on the price realised for that by the preceding packet.
In some instances a slightly higher rate was paid in the
early part of the week.
Yesterday was issued the report from the select C3lll.
mittee on contracts for public departmentp. The com-
mittee having entered upon the inquiry late in the ses
sion, have confined themselves to simply reporting the
evidence, and recommending the re-appointment of the
committee next session.

Late yesterday afternoon it was rumoured that some
irregularities, involving a considerable sure, have been
discovered in the transfer of a certain ❑umber of Crystal
Palace shares. The shares, which left off on Thursday at
2 to 21, were quoted yesterday 11 to 2, and closed with
great heaviness.
CANDIDATES FOR EXAMINEESHIPS, INLAND REVENUE.
—The following gentlemen successfully p:issed their
examination at Somerset-house on Wednesday, the 10th
instant, for promotion to the rank of Examiner :—Mr.
Edward S. White, of Dewsbury ; Mr. Philip T. Evane,
of Pimlico ; Mr. Edward T. Crabb, of Bromley ; Mr.
Thomas Peacock, of Sunbury ; Mr. John Mullany, of
Lday ; Mr. William Young, of Retford.—Civil Service
Gazette.

A. company called the Australian Auxiliary Steam
Clipper Company has been formed, with a capital of
250,0001., in 251. shares, to establish a direct commuld
cation with Melbourne. They have already purchased
three vessels,—one of 1,470 tons and 100 horse power ;
one of 1,170 tons, 80-horse power ; and one of 1,400
tons, 60-horse power. The first will leave London on
the 10th of November, touching at Plymouth for pas-
sengers. The directors assert that, although their vessel,
will cost only half the amount of those lately employed
on the route, and will consume only a ninth part of the
fuel, they will.carry thrice as much cargo and make the
passage in the same, if not in less, time.

(- THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF THE ALMA
This day (Saturday) being the anniversary of the glo
rious victory at Alma, will be especially celebrated at
the camp at Aldershot. Among the various preparations
have bee❑ the erection of a large marquee by Benjamin
algingtoo, of Duke-street, Tooley-street, in which' a
splendid banquet will be given by the officers of the 7th
Fusiliers to those of the 231 Welsh Fusiliers and the 21
battalion of the Rifle Brigade. The foregoing troops, it
may be remembered, in conjunction with the 331 Foot,
at present in Ireland, formed a portion of the Light
division, and came under the command of General Sir
W. Codriugton, at that great triumph, the battle of the
Alma.

ROYAL BRITISH BANK.—The announcement that a
sum of 200,0001. will be required to make up the defici-
ency in the assets of the Royal British Bank was re-
ceived yesterday without much surprise. This will in-
volve calls amounting-to 661. 13s. 41. upon each share,
even assuming, that the whole of the proprietary respond;
but there can be no doubt that a large number will be
found wholly unable to pay anything. The loss to be
sustained by those who have property that can be at
tached will therefore be proportionately increased. In
addition they must also prepare to meet the flagrant
expense which invariably attends a winding-up in the
Court of Chancery, and which in this instance is likely
to come up to any one of the worst examplel.
THE EAST INDIA CIVIL SERVICE.—The Governor.
General has come to a decision regarding the transfer of
the Punjaub offices of audit and accounts from Agra.
They are to be made over to the Chief Commissioner of
Lahore, from the Ist of May, 1857. An uncovenanted
auditor and accountant are to be appointed, each upon
a salary of 700 rupees a month. It is stated that the
Indian Government has found it necessary to withhold
from several civil servants permission to proceed to
Europe on special leave or on furlough, in consequence
of the number absent making it difficult to fill up va-
cant offices. It has even been suggested not to allow
any extension of leave except on medical certificate.
LOSSES OF A RUSSIAN VESSEL AND SEVEN LIVES.--
LIVERPOOL, Friday.—lntelligenca was received here this
afternoon of the total wreck of the Rwsian barque Alta,
of Wasa (Finland), which left this port on the 9th inst.
for Wasa with a cargo consisting of salt, anchors, chains,
molasses, cotton, rain, and gin. The calamity occurred
at a place called Hain, about five miles east of Thurso,
in the Pentland Frith, on the 16th inst. She was com-
manded by Capt. Jarvelin, a Russian, who, with his
wife and five of his crew, meta watery grave, amongst
whom was an Englishman, said to have been shipped at
this port. Two of the crew were saved, one of whom,
named John Lundstrain, can speak very good English,
and a Russian called Brockman, who speaks no English.
THE WAY TO RUSSlA.—Preface.—About a fort❑ight
ago Brown met Jones at his own door in Tyburnia.
Jones had his hands full of stone jars and tin cases.
They have not met since they had the following conver-
sation :—Brown : I3allo, Jones, whatever are you going
to do with that tremendous bundle of potted meats anti
preserves?—Jones.: Why, you see me on the point of
starting for Russia. I haven't a minute to spare. I leaVe
you to send away the servants—lock up the house—
close the shutters—shut myself up in a back bed-room
—light the camphine—and leave word with the char-
woman to tell all visitors for the next month—" If you
please, Sir, master's gone to Moskey, to see the Hem-
peror crowned." These little things are the provisions
to last me on the journey. Goodbye, my boy ; I'm off.—
Punch.

THE EFFECT OF LITERARY GARBAGE.-At the Shef-
field Police-court on Thursday a fork-grinder, named W.
M`Dermott, aged 17 years, was charged on remand from
the previous Tuesday, with attempting to shoot and rob
Mr. B. Moxon, a cutler, reEident at the village of Crookes,
near Sheffield. Mr. Moxon was going home with his
wife about half-past 11 o'clock on Saturday night, and
when passing along a newly formed road leading into
Leavy-greave, a suburb, was 'met by the prisoner, who
presented a pistol at his head, demanding "Your
money or your life—l'm hard up." Mrs. Moxon, in
great trepidation, implored her husband to give up his
money, but the latter suddenly struck the fellow's
hand with his walkingstick. The pistol went oft with-
out doing any harm, and the prisoner immediately ran
away, pursued by Mr. Moxon, who caught him on the
Glossop-road and soundly belaboured him with the
walking-stick. Prisoner escaped, but was almost imme-
diately recaptured and given in charge to a policeman.
When asked his trade prisoner replied " What I've
been doing to-night -" and on being requested to give
up his "tools" produced from his trousers-pocket a
pistol, saying, "This is the little boy that has done the
job." He afterwards said he had committed the offence
"for a living," and because 116 bad " nothing to take
to." The latter statement was subsequently found to be
untrue!(the prisoner having during the evening given
his mother, with whom be resides, 9s. as his earnings,
and paid 2s. GI. for the pistol, besides 3d. for powder
and shot), and a very different cause for the daring act
was assigned. From a statement made by his brother
it appeared that the_ prisoner has recently been reading
-,oaie literary garbage obtained at a circulating library,
purporting to narrate the adventures of " Claude Du
Val, or the Dashing Highwayman," and has been
o,re.,tly excited by the "brilliant exploits" of the redoubt-
able Claude. The story so wrought upon his youthful
imagination as to lead him to purchase powder, shGt,
and pistol, and attempt to become a humble imitator of
the fabulous highwayman. The prisoner had previously
said he was sorry fur the offence, but smiled when his
brother revealed the secret of his strange conduct, and
appeared rather to pride himself on what he had done.
Ho was committed to take his trial at the ensuing assizes
at York.

LATEST NEWS.

CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 12.
The Naib Chief of the Ciinassians, sent by Sefer
Pacha, has arrived here.
Sefer Pacha, who is at the head of 30,000
men, has issued a proclamation, calling on all the
Circassians to fight the Russians with energy.

The Emperor of Russia las granted charters to
three steam-navigation companies. One in the
Black Sea will ply between all the important ports
of the Black, Mediterranean, and Adriatic Seas.

The inhabitants of Leghorn have sent 1,509
francs, the result of small contributions, to the
royal treasury of Turin, as their subscription to
the 100 guns of Alessandria.

FRANCE.
PARIS, FRIDAY ETIMING.

A decree in the Moniteur puts an end to the ad
interim administration of the Ministry of State by
M. Abbatucci, M. Foula having resumed his func--
tions.

The Moniteur publishes the official return of the
customs revenue for the month of August, which
amounted to 14,070,134 fr., being a decrease of
3,972,696 fr. as compared with the corresponding
month of last year. The receipts of the first eight
months of the present year amounted to 114,592,525
francs, being 24,671,685 fr. less than in the cor-
responding period of 1855. Among the articles
which during the eight months have shown the
principal falling off are coffee, 6,004,674 fr. ;
raw wool, 4,516,662 fr. ; foreign colonial sugar,
15,848,617 fr. ; potable liquors, 1,145,416 fr. ;
olive oil, 400,352 f. Those articles which have
given the most improved receipts are corn,
1,293,137 f. ; French colonial sugar, 1,129,448 f. ;
raw cotton, 889,089 f. ; coal, 503,441 f. ; bar iron,
457,884 f. ; sesame seed, 190,356 f.
The Marquis de Turgot, French ambassador at
Madrid, has arrived in Paris from Bayonne.
Count de Rayneval, French ambassador at Rome,
and who on account of the state of his health had
been forced to temporarily quit his post, left Paris
yesterday to resume his functions. .

_ ..
BOURSE, Sept. 19.—The following were the_last
quotations :

Cash. fr. a. End of Month.
4i per Cents (x/i) 9O 59 —f. --o.
3 per Cents 7O 45 70 60
Yew
Y Loan 7O 50

Bank Shares 4,125 Roman
Credit Mobilier 1,710 Austrian
3elgian Fives — Spanish Threes 43
?iedmontese(s) 9l Home Debt 393

`RUSSIAN CORONATION FETES.

Moscow, Sept. 11.—The sight presented at the
theatre this evening was, perhaps, the finest as a
spectacle of the many which the Coronation has
yet offered to us. It had nothing of the stiffness
of a procession or that ultra-artificial look of which
such formal proceedings cannot be divested, and
which is indeed their very essence ; but it was, at
the same time, a great State ceremony, and there
was quite enough of gold and glitter to satisfy the
eye, and of form and dignity to convey to the mind
an impression of solemnity. The Emperor went
in state to the Opera, and all the foreign Ambas-
sadors Extraordinary, the Ministers and strangers
of distinction, the officers of the empire, the mem-
bers of the Court, the Generals and Admirals,
were invited to attend on the occasion. It was
called the " Spectacle Gala." No theatre in the
world could have afforded such a coup d'ceil, for,
although it is not so deep as the Scala, the Moscow
salle is broader across, and is said to be more spa-
cious ; it displays to perfection all the toilet and
uniforms of the audience, and there is uo doubt
but that it would have ;been difficult to equal in
variety, richness, and magnificence the very
distinguished and brilliant crowd who attended
this evening by order of the gala. The house
(which is decorated in the richest manner in
white and gold) contains six rows of boxes, or,
more properly speaking, their are six tiers of gal-
leries, open at the front, and without any bar-
riers to the line of seats, but at the back of
each gallery there is an inner row of boxes, into
which the occupants of the seats in front can retire
if they wish. These boxes are draped with red or
crimson hangings, and the seats and cushions of
the house are of the same colour. There are no pil-
lars, columns, or caryatides to support the boxes,
and thus all the audience sit out, as it were, on
open benches, and can see and be seen all around,
except when they wish to retire into the inner circle
of covered boxes. It began to rain in the afternoon,
but the only effect that had was to make the lamps
used in illuminating the outside of the theatre and
the large square in which it is placed pale their fires
and cause great anxiety to their attendants. At 7
o'clock the whole of this square was filled with car-
riages, which the Cossacks and Gendarmerie had
difficulty in reducing into order. The lights of
the illumination flashed through the drizzle on a
sea of tossing plumes, feathers, and waving-crests,
through which the "eternal Cossack," just as much
at home here as on his old look-out from Canrobert's-
hill, rode like a dolphin. The pillars and the facade
of the house were covered with the ciphers and
honours of the Czar traced in characters of fire.
But it was, for the sternest disregarder of these
things, almost impossible not to give way to a thrill
of admiration and surprise on entering the body of
the house and taking the first look from the pit. A
Roman amphitheatre warprobably a grander, but it
could not have been a more brilliant sight. A gorge-
ous and magnificent crowd filled the theatre, but the
arrangements were so good that there was neither
hustling, confusion, nor noise. There were no
ladies in the pit, so that the effect of the many
splendid uniforms was homogeneous, but the front
rows of the first tier of boxes were occupied by the
mistresses of creation in full dress—such diamonds,
in coronets, circlets, earrings, necklaces, bracelets,
brooches—in all the forms that millinery and jewel-
lery could combine those precious stones they were
present—looking their best, and filling the house
with an atmosphere of flashes and sparks in the rays
of the waxlights. The grand ladies of the Russian
Court—the haughty old haute noblesse—were there,
rich with the treasures won, in ages past, by their
hard pated ancestors from Tartar, Turk, or Geor-
gian. Some of these ladies are very beautiful, but
if there could be any portion of womankind which,
as a rule, could be said not to be exquisite and of
resplendent charms, it might be safely affirmed
that they lived in Russia. The exceptions to
such a remark are very conspicuous. There is one
little head which always attracts any eyes that
may be near it—a baby mignon face, with the most
peachlike colour, enveloped in a wild riotous set-
ting of flaxen hair, which bursts from all control
of band or circlet, and rushes in a flood over the
shoulders. it is such a face as inspired the artists
who operated on old Dresden china, and it belongs
to a young 'Russian Princess, who has just burst
upon the Moscow world. Another lady near her is
Juno herself—a statelier and more perfect beauty
could not be seen. A little further on there is a
lovely young Moldave, married to a Russian
Prince, who has just been sent off to the Caucasus
—three months after the wedding. There are also
—. But the catalogue—not raisonne, I fear—
must cease here for the present, for the crowd in
the pit increases, and the Emperor may be expected
every moment. In the front rows of the pit are
placed the Generals and Admirals, Privy Council-
lors, Officers of State, Chamberlains, and person-
ages of the Court. Behind these are similar offi-
cers, mingled together with members of the foreign
missions, and the strangers who were invited to be
present. There were not half-a-dozen black coats
in this assemblage of distinguished people ; all the
rest were in full uniform. Lord Granville was
already in his box in the grand row on the left-
hand side of the Emperor's state box. M. de
Morny and the French Embassy were placed in the
box on the right of the Czar's. The other Minis-
ters and Ambassadors were provided with places in
the same row, and the attaches who had no room
above were accommodated with seats in the pit.
It was past 8 o'clock when the Emperor appeared,
and the instant he was seen the whole of the house
rose as if thrilled by an electric flash, and cheered
most vehemently again and again. The Czar and
Czarina bowed, and every salutation was the signal
for a repetition of the enthusiastic uproar, through
which at last the strains of " God preserve the Czar"
forced their way, and the audience resumed their
places. On the left of the Czar was the Grand
Duke of Saxe-Weimar ; on the right the Empress,
and next to her the Grand Duchess Constantine
and Princess of Leuchtenberg. Tho Grand Duke
Constantine sat in a demi-box on the left of the
Emperor. As soon as the greeting and the National
Anthem ceased, the orchestra commenced the over-
ture to " l'Elisir d'Amore," and the opera, which
was admirably sung by Bosio, Lablache, and Cal-
zo]ari, was performed amid a dead silence. It was
followed by " La Vivandiere," in which Elrito
made her appearance.
The other day we went to visit the arsenal in the
Kremlin. It was a fete-day, and every public office
was closed ; but on the Commandant being told
that an English Major-General was with the party,
he at once came out and accompanied us over the
place. Before the war this arsenal contained
400,000 stand of arms ; it now has only 150,000, of
which nearly 100,000 are sabres and long swords.
There are many differentkinds of firearms here, but
the most remarkable thing is the change which this
war has introduced into the Russian ideas of effi-
ciency and manufacture. I recollect we were asto-
nished to find that many of the troops at the Alma
were armed with old flint firelocks altered for per-
cussion caps, and that the stocks were of the old an-
tiquated form, very small and narrow at the butt,
which is still preserved in the East. All these arms
to-day were full in the butt and stock and provided
with excellent percussion locks. About 10,000
stand were fitted with an improved sight near the
breech, and were adjusted to fire with precision
up to 600 metres a large conical ball with a hollow
base. About 20,000 stand, perhaps, were rages,
and had a turn and a half of rifle twist in the barrel
and a Liege sight. Most of these weapons are
made at a town in Siberia, where they find the iron
is better than that at Tula. The rifled arms, how-
,
ever, had originally been muskets, and the barrel
did not look thick enough to bear the rifling. Many
firelocks of this kind were used at Sebastopol
towards the end of the siege. A few thousand stand
of arms were of the old style—flint locks and small
stocks—others were horsemen's carbines, some sets
of which were long, heavy, and cumbersome. The
new musket weighs 14 livres, with bayonetat-i
at-
tached; but we saw a new pattern Liege rifle which
will weigh only 125 livres (40 Russian livres being
equal to 361 b. avoirdupois). There
raareoalstsoof
sabres
here b
themr es
here for nearly 100;000 cavalry, and
are superior to the weapons we found in the Crimea.
The swords for the Dragoons and heavy cavalry,
which are exceedingly long, seemed very good in-
deed, and had more spring and were better ba-
lanced than is usually the case with Russian arms.
The artillery swords and those of the_ Cossacks are
in leather or wooden sheaths, and are somewhat
curved and sharp—those of the heavy cavalry are
in steel scabbards, and are straight with sharp
points. The former have no guard to the hilt,
and there has been recently introduced the practice
of wearing them, as we would consider it," back
foremost—that is, with the convex side of the
[sheath upwards, he bhcklos being attached to it,
so that the concave side of the curve is towards
the ground. They also showed us rather a cum-
brous affair—a swordfor the Dragoons, some regi-
ments of which are in verity still only Grenadiers-
a-cheval. Attached to the sheath of the sword is
the bayonet, to be used in case the Dragoon dis•
mounts and uses his carbine as an infantry soldier.
There is a considerable collection of cuirasses for
cavalry also. Those of the Guard are of brass well
padded, and weigh 24 livres ; those of the Cuiras-
siers are of steel, and weigh e.bout 16 livres. The
standards of disbanded regiments are carefully kept
well as the
e as drums. The care taken of all
the arms is most creditable. Every blade, every
lock, is highly polished. The interior of the bar-
rels is clean, and without a partiele of rust. The
Commandant said that every piece was cleaned
thoroughly and greased three
times a year. av-
ing walked
through
long halls and galleries filled
with muskets,
sabres, and,
cuirmses3 we were glad

to descend to the ground floor, where the artille
carriages, caissons, and harness for field guns are
kept. Of these there is a very small display at
Moscow ; but all the carriages bore the date of
1856, and were models of strength and lightness
as well as of workmanship. The mode of elevating
and depressing the gun seems more simple than our
own—it is by means of a triangle of wood placed
vertically on the carriage below the gun, with the
apex of the triangle towards the muzzle, and the base
towards the trail ; this triangle is worked forwards
or backwards by means of a simple cog wheel and
handle, and as it moves forward the breech, which
rests on the upper leg of the triangle, is of course
elevated, and when it recedes the breech is lowered.
The most noteworthy thing, however, about the
carriages was, that the body on which the gun rests
consists of plates of sheet iron, which form a hollow
and light but very strong support—whether they
are good for service is another thing. The Rus-
sians seem to have a predilection for iron carriages
for field and position guns, and the examples We
saw at Yenikale and Kinbourn did not certainly
justify it as regards the latter. The harness is ad-
mirably light and strong, and is beautifully kept ;
the traces for the leading horses are merely of lope
well oiled and painted. Here again we heard that
the " licorne" will be used henceforth in all _Rus-
sian batteries, but the officer was very anxious to
prevent the credit of the introduction of the gun
being given to the Emperor Napoleon, and insisted
that it owes its origin to the great Frederick of
Prussia. The carriages we saw were, however, for
8 or 91b. guns. All these carriages are kept merely'
varnished, so that one can examine the fibre and
condition of the wood till they are required for
service when they are painted the usual pet:green,
eo familiar to us. The open artillery carts, some
of which we saw at Mackenzie, are no longer used,
as the war proved they were worthless, com-
paratively.

FINANCIAL POSITION OF THE
COUNTRY.

(From the Times' City Article.)
The opinion entertained regarding the favour-
able charrter of the financial position of the coun-
try at the present moment appears to require only
one additional fact for its confirmation. The
great activity of our export trade, the moderate
and legitimate nature of our expenditure, and,
for the moment, the comparatively prudent limi-
tation of our foreign investments having all
been demonstrated, the sole point on which
a doubt might yet be suggested as to the pro-
bable course of our future pecuniary relations
must consist in the question whether our exist-
ing stock of goods on hand stands at a fair amount,
or whether we have yet to incur heavy payments
to bring it up to what might be deemed adequate.
On this subject it is impossible to arrive at anything
more than a general inference, because the great
mass of merchantable property in the country is com-
posed of items too multitudinous and too widely
distributed to admit of any statistical information,
while at the same time the complication is indefi-
nitely increased by such fluctuations in prices so
may have occurred between any periods that might
be selected for comparison. Judging from the re-
markable confidence which has been observable dur-
ing the past eight or nine months in every depart-
ment of our national industry, and, on the other
hand, taking into account that the average rate of
discount, while it has not been so heavy as to dis-
courage the manufacturer from holding a fair re-
serve of raw material, has yet been high enough to
deter him from venturing upon any speculative
accumulations, it would seem reasonable to assume,:‘,.
that our operations, on the whole, have been so!:
as not merely to maintain us in a position as good:
as that which we occupied a year ago, but to hate
caused us to recover a fair proportion of the diral-
nution naturally sustained during the worst prep .
sure of the war. Taking as a test thirteen of the;
principal articles of commerce, this expectation).
would seem to be corroborated. Subjoined is 91L''
statement of stocks held on the Ist of the presenct•
month, as compared with the corresponding perio ,
of 1855 and 1854 : ;
STOCKS.

Articles. Sept. 1, 1856. Sept. 1, 1855. Sept. 1, 1854'
Cotton, in U.K., bales 799,000 637,700 988,550
Sugar, tons • • ..... ...... • 107,000 87,000 159,000
Tea, 1b5............ • • 82,118,000 72,402 00 68,
Indigo, in London, chests .• 25,637 19,434 27,759
i ice, tons 45,920 11,399 19,938 •
Silk, bales
••• altpetre, tons ..... . • • . • • • 6,337 7,700 8,951, •
Hides, No. • • 92,100 90,000 15,,009 .
Tallow, casks .... • • .... •• 8,450 35,568 373,000
31,903
Cocoanut Oil, tons ...... • • 4,021 5,640 3,731
Rum, puncheons .......... 26,795 24,649 16,631
Pepper, black, tons ...... 1,919 1,335 1.398 ".

988,550
159,000
68,373,000
27,759
19,938 •
35,215 •,
11,456 •
8,951, •
15',,000
31,903
3,731
16,631
1,398 ".

A considerable increase is here presented in many
important articles over September, 1855, while as
contrasted with 1854 there is still a large deficiency;
In money value, at present prices, the amount not
held of the above articles would perhaps show an
excess of about 1,000,000/. over what was held
last year, while it would fall short of 1854 by nearly
5,000,0001., but this calculation would be much
less favourable than that we are entitled to make,
since the great deficiency is in silk, and the worth
of the stocks of that article held in 1854 and 1855
must not be reckoned from present quotations.
Taking this and some other analogous features into
account, it would probably be more correct to re-
gard the increase upon last year as nearly
2,000,0001., and the diminution from 1844 as be-
tween 3,000,0001. and 4,000,0001. All these must
be regarded, however, as little better than conjee"
tural figures. Even in the above list the majority
of the totals comprise merely the stocks held in.
London, and not in the United Kingdom. The
utmost that can be said is that so far as they g°
they support the deductions which a general retro-
spect of the business of the country and the course
of the discount-market would appear to warrant
on the subject, and that these deductions are o°l2,
as fully to sustain the reliance on our commercial
and monetary prospects which every other conside-
ration has already tended to inspire.

MR. AND MRS. SIMS REEVES AT TH
STANDARD THEATRE, SHOREDITC.Lr.

Those who have not visited this Bplendid theatre will
be agreeably surprised to find a beautifully-clecorate
house, well lighted and ventil7..ted, and comfortable pry:
vate boxes, which some of. the theatres at the West-end
cannot boast of. Last night we made a pilgrimage to
the E•ast to hear our favourite tenor, and well were we
repaid, for we never heard him in better voice, nor ever
saw him act with greater spirit. Sims Reeves certainly
f
is a great artiste. He knows well the best means c)
pleasing the audience he is performing to. This wi',
manifest in his admirable singing, acting, dancing, 3°et
quaint humour, when he gave the popular song,
," Auld Lang Syne," which was listened to with breath'
less attention by a house crowded to the ceiling, the
delight of the audience to a man (the ladies, of course,
were in extacies) was so great that Mr. Sims Reeves
repeated it—and, i possible, with increased effect. Mrs'
Sims Reeves was, as she always is, the pink of fashiniti
and perfect to a nicety. Her charming singing °
" Within a Mile of Edinboro' Town" will long be re'
membered by her eastern admirers, who applauded her
to the echo ; and the truly artistic manner in which she
seconded her talented better-half, in the duets, " Th°'
you leave me now in sorrow," and " Forlorn and broken"
delighted their enraptured audience to the
greatest extent

But what shall we say of the gem of the evening, "Good
bye, sweetheart, good bye I" We can say but one word
(as sung by the prince of tenors, Sims Reeves), and tbat
word is perfection. To hear this sweet ballad, as we
beard it sung last night, is alone worth a visit to Mr.
Douglas's theatre ; and we congratulate the spirited
lessee on the success that, has attended his theatrical
career, but more particularly on the present occasion.
In rendering homage to our favourite vocalists we must
not forget to mention the excellent acting of Miss Ade-
laide Cooke as Helen Macgregor, of Mr. James John-
stone as Rob Roy, of Mr. C. W. Bernard as Major
Galbraith, of Mr. John Mordaunt as the Douual creh-
ture, and the very humorous and quaint performance of
Mr. J. Gates as Bailie Nicol Jarvie, which afforded
considerable amusement, not only to the audience, but to
his companions on the stage. The evening's entertain-
ment concluded with "The Mysterious Lady," in which
two established favourites at this theatre, Mrs. R.
Homer and Miss Eliza Terry performed the principal
parts with their accustomed success. Various attrac-
tions are in preparation for the ensuing week,
which we are sure will afford the highest gratification
to our eastern friends.

THE GOLDEN-SQUARE DISTRICT, LONDON.—WiII Yon
allow me, through the medium of the Builder, to call
the attention of the vestry to the " pest-house" in Mgr:
shall.street, t the resent time, as I her application IS
made for a licence p to carry on the business I One blood'
hole, two bullock-pounds, one dung-hole, three slaughter'
houses, two cow-houses, one grain-hole, several stableet
a tripe-boiling establishment, with large coppers, &c:'
from one huge " factory" to emit nauseous smells, poz-
sonous vapours, and foul air to the inhabitants al.
closely-packed and as closely confined neighbourboeu
Notwithstanding the vigilance that has been taken by the
sanitary officers, under Dr. Lancaster, these smells,
still continue. During the hot weather the door of the
tripe-house is left open, to let out the effluvia, whict
j,,ined with what proceeds from the grain-hole, on
slaughter-houses, &0., make a delightful relish for the
neighbours when they open the windows in the early
morning. So confined is this "hot-hod of malaria," that
some beasts were this summer in a state of putreiac*
tion before the flesh could get cold, which I 23133
told on authority I can believes would not have been the
ca'e Lad a proper amount of air, unpolluted, surroundedthem. All that is asked of the vestry is, to do justice
to the poor who surround' this "precious place" by rei
fusing hell lioenee, and rootiuz out the main-spring °J.
dismtkion that is so loudly proclaimed by 3 har
working and justly complaining people. I had forgotten
to state two new gullies were made just above the outlet
of the draiu in Marshall-street, some 12 months since,
to cleanse the main sewer perfectly.--The Builder.