The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-07 00:00:00

`IIE SU N Lt DON, TOES 411. '‘ EVEN IN OC OBER 7, 18b0.

LINES LEASED AT FILED IttrIVALS.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

CHESTER RACES—(This Day.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEURAPII.)

HOUSE OF LORDS--(This Day.)

SHORTS HANDICAP.

To-day the LORD CHANCELLOR, and the other peors
named in the R9yal Commission, having taken their
seats on the woolsack, the Yeoman Usber of the Black
Rod was directed to summon the Commons to the bar
of their lordships' house.

Equrgeois
Princess of Orange . . . 2
Four ran.

Sporting Intelligence.

The R .yal Commission was read by the Clerk at the
table, and

TATTERS A.LL'S.-MONDAY.

The LORD CHANCELLOR then formally declared
the Parliament to stand prorogued until Thursday, the
the 13th of November.

Although the subjoined list of quotations show several
important changes in the betting on the Cesarewitch, yet
the range of speculation was limited, and the investments
for the most part were in only trifling sums. Middleton,
who at the commencement of last week was under con•
siderable suspicion, but in whose favour a reaction set
in befo/ e the termination of the Ne wmarket meeting, was
brought with increased force into the market, and at his
closingprice-15 to I—he was spiritedly supported. 100
to 6 was taken freely about Merlin. At one time 20 to
1 was booked about Barfleur ; but at last five points
more might have been obtained without difficulty.
The prices on the Cambridgeshire were merely nominal.
DERBY.-16 to 1 was taken to some money about Mr.
Bowes's lot, and 1,000 to 20 was booked five times about
Colonist. The other quotations do not require comment.

The above proceedings only occupied their lordships a
few minutes.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
IN RE WHETTONE.

This bankrupt was described as of Oxford-street, book.
seller, and today was appointed for further consideration
of his certificate.

The meeting was further adjourned, in consequence of
the ill health of the bankrupt.

CLOSING PRICES.
CESAREWITCH STAKES.
10 to 1 agst Fulbeck (taken and offered)
15 to 1 agst Middleton (taken)
100 to 6 agst Cotswold (taken)
100 to 6 agst Merlin (taken)
25 to 1 agst Homily (taken)
25 to 1 agst Bprfleur (taken)
25 to 1 agst Alice Wentworth (taken)
30 to 1 agst King of Scotland (taken)
500 to 15 agst The Earl (taken)
40 to 1 agst First Fly (taken)
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
15 to 1 agst Lance
20 to 1 apt Polmoodie
Offers to take 25 to 1 about Cotswold
DERBY.

EX PARTE AS TO A PETITIONING CREDITOR'S DEDT,

IMPORTANT QUESTION.
Mr. Warrand, of Basinghall-street, applied to open a
petition in bankruptcy under the following circum-
stances :—lt appeared that the petitioning creditor had
obtained a judgment on one debt, and sought to make
the debtor a bankrupt on a bill of exchange.
His Honour at first doubted whether a petition could
be granted after judgment obtained.
Mr. Warrand submitted that the bill was wholly dis-
tinct from the judgment debt, and his client would make
an affidavit to that effect. This having been done,
His Honour allowed the petition.
The other meetings were adjourned.

16 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's lot (taken)
1000 to 30 agst Athlete (taken)
45 to 1 agst Saunterer (taken)
50 to 1 apt Colonist (taken)
50 to 1 aget Adamas (taken)
50 to 1 aget Kent (taken)
1008 to 15 agst Laird Duff (taken)
The room will be opened on Saturday for the compar.
ing of bets on the Cesarewitch.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.— (This Day.

GUILDHALL.

Samuel Moses, cap manufacturer, of 120, Royal Mint-
street, Minories, was charged before Mr. Alderman
Eagleton with obtaining by
false pretences 14 felt hats,
value 11. 41. 6d., and on the 26th ult., 8 dozen of felt
hats, value 81. 81., the property of Mr. J. A. Chester,
hat manufacturer, of 8, St. Andrew's•hill, Doctors'.
commons.

AQUATICS.

PRINCE OF WALES' AQUATIC CLUB FOUR,

OARED RACE.

A very capital four-oared race took place yesterday
amongst the members of this newlyestablished trades-
men's club, which did great credit to those concerned
in it. Notwithstanding the state of the weather, it was
witnessed by a number of spectators, and at the time
fixed upon to start, half•pagt three, it was fortunately
dry. The race was for four silver oars and a rudder,
and the distance from Westminster-bridge to Battersea
ditto. The following was the result :
White
Mr.J. M`Guire I Mr. J. Blanshard
Mr. G. Grammer I Mr. T. Jackson
Mr. T. Rapley, coxswain:

It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner was
formerly in the employ of Messrs. Bebarfald and San,
Houndsditch. On the 12th September he called at the
prosecutor's warehouse and said he wanted some "felts"
for Messrs. Bebarfald and Son, to make up an order.
In consequence of this he was shown some, and he
selected 14, value together 11. 4s. 6d., which he
took away with him•—an invoice having been first
given to him, charging the goods to Messrs.
Bebatfald and Son. On the 25th September the prisoner
called on the prosecutor, and had some sample hats,
which he took away with him to show Messrs. Bebar-
fald and Son, and on the following day he returned and
gh
oa
od
d eight
Prosecutor dozen i n
had their
beennames,
in the habit of dealing with signing a receipt for the
Messrs. Bebarfald, but the former had never supplied
the latter with goods. The prosecutor subsequently
ascertained that the prisoner was not in Messrs. Bebar-
fald and Son's employ, and had not been sent by them
for the goods, and he gave him into custody.
Mr. Bebarfald deposed that the prisoner, who had
been their traveller, left them in August last. He
never authoriscd the prisoner to obtain the above goods
from the prosecutor.

Red ..

Mr. J. Matthews Mr. C. Isaacks
Mr. G. Blanchard I Mr. A. Green
Mr. W. Dineen, coxswain.

Blue
Mr. J. Jones I Mr. C. Scott
' Mr. B. Guilland Mr. J. Jackson
Mr. E. Jaffries, coxswain.
It was a capital start, all going off well together.
Blue took the lead, followcd by Red, White close up.
White then began to pass Red, and was soon up to
Blue, and, after a goci race, went by them at Vauxhall-
pier, and were through Vauxhall-bridge first by half a
length. Red now overlapped Blue, and an excellent
race went on to Thames-bank, where Red began to
leave their opponents, and at the new bridge were
clear, but after this they were never more than a length
or two a-head. White won by four or five lengths,
Red second by one length.

Green, a city detective, apprehended the pi isoner this
morning in Rosemary-lane, and charged him with the
offence, but he made no reply to it. In the prisoner's
pocket-book be found some of Messrs. Bebarfald and
Son's trade cards and the two invoices of the goods
obtained.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.

FOREIGN INTERVENTION.

LI 1E RAT UR E.

The Nord of Brussels publishes in prominent
type, ana draws particular attention to the sub-
joined article, which appears in the Journal de
Frankfort as a communication from Vienna :
"It is clearly one of the fundamental principles of in.
ternational law that the sovereignty of every indepen-
dent State ought to be respected as sacred ; that, conse-
quently, other States have not the right of prescribing
the course of its internal policy—of exacting that it
should follow their counsels, and especially of accom-
panying their demands by threats, or of having recourse
to measures of compuesion.
The only exception to this rule is the case when
the internal policy of a State threatens in an evident
manner to disturb the internal tranquillity or the ex-
ternal peace of other States. In that case, the States
really threatened have the right to demand, and as a
last resource, to obtain by force the removal of that
danger.
"The principle of the sacred character of the sove-
reignty of an independent State ie applicable, without
distinction, to every form of government, to monarchies
as well as to republics. All States are therefore equally
interested in the actual proceedings of the Western
Powers towards Naples. Should they, in this instance,
violate the fundamental principle above cited, they
would inaugurate on our continent a new national law,
making the internal policy of States subordinate to the
will of Powers strong enough to exact it.
" General and indefinite wars would be the inevitable
result. The different States are therefore—for the des-
tinies of all a're equally at stake—justified in devcting
their full attention to the proceedings of the Western
Powers towards the legitimate Sovereign of the King-
dom of the Two Sicilies. The question is not to ascer-
tain whether the internal policy of that monarch is de-
serving of praise or of censure, but to ascertain whether
that policy threatens to disturb the internal tranquillity
or the external peace of France and of England.
" If it does not threaten them—and surely there is no
manifestation of such a danger—those Powers have not
the slightest right to exact a modification of that policy,
still lees to acquirelt by force.
"Yet if those Powers, because it is their good pleasure
to declare as dangerous the system of Governmentof Fer-
dinand 11., or to see therein the germ of a revolution
which might extend over all Italy, have made exactions,
and now use threats (for every demonstration is a threat),
which they are to put into execution should they not be
complied with—which is probable—they thereby lay
down at once a principle incompatible with the indepen-
dence of States, and, further, set an example the conse-
quences of which equally threaten the latter, because it
makes the fear only of possible events a legal motive for
intervention.
" Thirty-six years ago there was also question of in.
tervention in the internal affairs of this same kingdom ;
but it was asked for by the legitimate Sovereign, the
grandfather of the present King. Although that fact
alone justified the assistance given by Austria with the
consent of France, of Prussia, and of Russia, the Aus•
trian Government nevertheless, in its diplomatic docu-
ments, referred to the immediate danger which threat.
ened it.
"Thus we find in Prince Metternich's circular despatch
of the 25th of July, 1820, the following passage :
" ' The interests of his Majesty the Emperor are
especially compromised in these sad events in conse-
quence of his political and personal relations, of his
near relationship with different princely houses of
Italy, and of the geographical position of his own
States.'
"Austria possessed, moreover, the right by con-
tract of exacting that the Constitution of the Cortes
should not be introduced into the kingdom of Naples,
for it is said in a secret article of the treaty con-
cluded on the reth of June, 1815, with Austria :
"' As the engagements which their Majesties take
by this treaty with a view to insure the internal peace
of Italy make it their duty to preserve their States
and their respective subjects from fresh reactions and
from the evil of imprudent innovations which might
occasion their renewal, it is agreed between the high
contracting oarties that his Majesty the King of the
Two Sicilies in resuming the government of his king.
dom (of Naples) shall not introduce any changes
which are not in keeping with the ancient monarchi-
cal institution or with the principles adopted by his
Imperial and Royal Majesty in the internal system
of his Italian provinces.'
" Austria had, therefore, positively the right to exact,
and even to obtain by force, a modification of the Con-
stitution of the Cortes promulgated at Naples, although
no one knew it exactly, even if the former King Ferdi-
nand had published it freely, and had not been compelled
to do so. Prussia, France, and Russia, as allies of Aus-
tria, had fully the right to lend her their moral end ma-
terial support against the revolutionary Government of
Naples.
"At the Congress of Troppau, Austria, Prussia, and
Russia went very far in principle, as appears from the
circular despatch addressed on the Bth of Dec., 1820,
by those three Powers to their representatives at the
Courts of Germany and of the North. In the
precis which accompanied that despatch the events
of Spain, of Naples, and of Portugal rre designated
as objects of the same alliance concluded against
the French Revolution, and the hope is therein
expressed that that alliance will also be able 'to
put a check upon a new domination, not less tyrannical,
not less horrible than that of revolt and of crime.'
" The fallowing passage then occurs :-
1 " ' The Powers have exercised an incontestable light
by taking together common measures of safety against
the States in which the overthrow of the Government,
effected by revolt, if not considered as a dangerous
example, would have for result a hostile attitude against
all legitimate constitutions and Governments. The
exercise of that right became a still ,more urgent neces-
sity when th, se who placed themselves in such a situa-
tion endeavoured to extend to their neighbours the evils
they had drawn down upon themselves, end to propagate
revolt and cor.fusion around them. Such a position, such conduct, is an evident infraction of the compact which
guarantees to all European Governments, because the
inviolability of their territory, the enjoyment of peaceful
relations which exclude any recriprocai onslaught upon
their rights. The fact is incontestable, and is the
point from which the allied Courts started. The Mi-
nisters at Troppau, who were possibly provided with
full powers from their Sovereigns, consequently con-
certed together upon the line of conduct to follow rela-
tive to the States the Governments of which had been
violently overthrown, and upon the pacific or coercive
measures which might bring back those States into the
circle of the European alliance.'
"Although this precis expressed the hope that Eng-
land would join the other Powers responding to the in-
vitation of the King of Naples, conformable to treaties,
and although Lord Castlereagh, then Foreign Secretary,
bad always shared the views of the three allies, he could
not do so on this occasion ; and in a despatch dated the
19th of January, 1821, he had to declare that the King
declined participating in those measures, which he con-
sidered dielectrically opposed to the fundamental laws
of Ene land,
" But (continues Lord Castlereagh in his despatch),
even /li/1 not this decided objection exist, the British Go•
verninent would not the less be of the opinion that the
principles which serve as heals for these measures cannot
be admitted with safety as a system of laws between na-
tions. The Government of the King is of the opinion that
the adoption of those principles would inevitably sanction
and might eventually lead, on the part of less well inten-
tioned Sovereigns, to au intervention in the internal
affairs of States much more frequent and mere extensive
than that which ho is persuaded it is the intention of the
august personage to exercise, or which would be in
keeping with the general interests or with the real
authoi ity and dignity of independent Sovereigns. The
Government of his Majesty dues not think that, ac-
cording to existing treaties, the allies have the right to
assume any general powers of this description, nor does it
think that they can arrogate to themselves such extra-
ordinary powers in virtue of any new diplomatic transac-
tion between the allied Courts, without attributing to
themselves a supremacy incompatible with the rights of
other State?, or, even on acquiring those powers by the
special consent of those same States, without introducing
into Europe a federal, oppressive system, which would
not only be inefficacious in obtaining its object, but
might lead also to the most serious consequences.'
"These are words of wisdom, full of real respect for
international law, for Lord Castlereagh and his colleagues
had no sympathy for the revolution and did not favour
the revolutionary Government of Naples. But the force
of truth made the British Government alive to the den-
gerous consequences of a principle incompatible with the
independence of States, and made it reject it.
" In like manner, in 1823, England refused to parti-
cipate in an intervention in the internal affairs of Spain.
" A passage in the despatch of the 31st of March,
1823, addressed by Lord Canning to Sir C. Stuart, the
British Envoy at Paris, explains the sole conditions
under which England considered an intervention jus-
tified. The Minister points out that the British Pleni-
potentiary at the Congress of Verona did not co-operate
in the resolutions taken there, and that
"'Not because he was not authorised to engage the
faith of his Government in any hypothetical obligation,
but because his Government had, as far back as
April,
1820,
of the alliance to abstain from all intervention in
the internal affairs of Spain, and because, having
since that same period remained perfectly uncon-
cerned in all transactions which might have taken place
between France and Spain, his Government could not
form an opinion upon what foundation the Cabinet of
the Tuileries thought of a possible rupture of.diplornatic
relations with the Court of Madrid, or upon what founda-
tion an event was feared apparently so improbable as a
commencement of hostilities against France by Spain.
The Plenipotentiary of her Majesty (continues the Mi-
nister) did not see the proofs of the existence of any
design on the part of the Spanish Government of in vadieg
the French territory, of any attempt to tamper with the
fidelity of her troops, or of any project to undermine
her political institutions; and as long as the discussions
and troubles of Spain were confined to her own terri-
tory France could not be allowed by the English
Government to plead in favour of foreign interven•
tion. If the end of the last century and the
commencement of the rresent one saw all Europe
leagued against France, it was not on account of inter-
nal changes which France thought necessary for her
own political and civil reformation, but because she
first attetuptcd to propagate her principles, and then
her domination, by force of arms.'
" D.,e; the King of air Two Sicilies, it
r to
asked, reek to tamper with the British troops,
:does
undermine the political institutions of England :hos
/night be
be endeavour in the slightest degree to spread;
eiplce and CA teed Lis domination by force of
,'T,_. , ce,
,si
?prin.
"And if he does nothing of all thie, anoliii''-:
Great Beitein strongly disapproved of interventionBso i
the internal affairs of Spain, how can she ITI 1 . justify
in the point of view of right an intervention in the in-
ternal affairs of the kingdom of Naples I

Tender and True. By the Author of Clara Mori-
son. 2 Vols. Smith and Elder.
This is a pleasing and interesting domestic story,
attraeiive also from home originality in plot and
locality. The authoress, it may be remembered.,
has previously published a story of colonial life,
and her present work is called "A Colonial Tale."
The hero, Robert North, is a man of excellent
principles, and great strength of mind. He has
received a stern and limited education from his
uncle, a Dissenting minister, and all deficiencies in
his knowledge or his fortune be has had to supply
unaided. We are introduced to him as he is taking
possession of a deserted paper mill in a quiet Eng-
lish village. He has always longed for a home and
seine gentle-loving companion, who would rever-
ence his opinions and bend to his wishes. 11,3
meets with the realisation of his dreams in Mary
Lancaster, the eldest daughter of the owner
of the mill. She returns his affection, but her
parents oppose it. After some time they am
induced to consent, and the marriage takes place.
The chief interest of the story, however, only be-
gins hero. Mary looks up to her husband with
reverential affection, she believes him to be " Ten-
der and Truer" in the words of a favourite old
ballad. But somehow their happiness is not quite
what she expected. North having been accustomed.
to much solitary study and thought continues his
old habits, and never makes his wife a sharer
in his projects and ideas. She is not gifted.
with any brilliant talents or great powers of
mind, and soon abandons the attempt to com-
prehend his subjects of interest. She has
been a most devoted and useful member of
her own family, and being much missed she is na-
turally glad to pay frequent visits to her old home_
But her husband, to whom his wife's affection is all
sufficient, cannot understand why it is not the
same with her, and a feeling of jealousy and dis-
content arises in his mind. He never attempts to
enter into her thoughts and wishes, and a want of
confidence exists between them. Suddenly Air.
North meets with severe losses, and though he
might have overcome them, he seizes the oppor-
tunity to insist upon emigrating to Australitt.
tlis wife is in the greatest distress, but he assures
her it is necessary, and they sail. He prospers-int
the colony, and likes the life there, but his wife
pines for sympathy and companionship. She has,
before this, arrived at the conclusion that her hus-
band is true, but not tender. After a few years
her family follow her, and she is dismayed to find.
that her husband does not share her pleasure. She
is still more dismayed when, shortly after, she ac-
cidentally hears that he might have succeeded in
England had he chosen. She bitterly exclaims•to
herself that he is neither true nor tender ; and
while he is thinking her perfectly happy she is in-
wardly fretting and desponding. Her sister Rose
comes to live with them. She has been always
Mary's favourite and companion ; she is possessed.
of many admirable qualities and is devoted to her
sister. But Mr. North begrudges her her share
of Mary's affections. Added to this, he is always
disputing with her father, and does not harmonise
with her mother, for he is harsh and unbending, and
will take no pains toconciliate them, owing to hisjea-
lousy. At length the storm breaks out, and Mary
charges him with being neglectful of her, indif-
ferent to his children, and neither tender nor true.
Poor Mr. North is dismayed ; he had never imap •
gilled his wife could doubt his affection for her,
and ho leaves home in perplexity. He meets a
friend, who persuades him to accompany him on a
visit to the diggings, and when there he falls seri-
ously ill from an epidemic fever. Meanwhile Mrs.
North had arrived at the conclusion that she had
been in extremes, and became alarmed at his ab-
sence. At length all is happily re-adjusted, and
each is determined to fail no more in sympathy or
confidence. Mary learns that there may be deep
feeling with very little demonstration—Mr North
that sympathy and consideration are due from the
husband as well as the wife. Besides the domestic
adventures of the chief persons in the story, there
is an interesting chapter of romance about Rose
Lancaster's love affairs. She is one of the most
attractive of the dramatis persona', and the dif-
ference of character between her and her sister is
very skilfully drawn. The authoress ie, it is to he
presumed, well acquainted with colonial life, as •
she informs us that she has followed the advice :4f
the poet in selecting her subject—" That is best
which lieth nearest"—and, consequently, the
sketches of life and manners in Adelaide may be
considered portraits. Notwithstanding the some-
what sentimental title of the work, it is written in
a very simple and straightforward style, and evi-
dences talent and experience. It enforces its
practical lesson silently but impressively, and no
doubt some of the many readers of " Tender and
True" will derive from it as much profit as plea-
sure.

ORIGIN OF SMOKING TOBACCat
(From 'Vint's', Current Notes )

Columbu', in his first vo;ge of discovery, on his re
turn entered the port of Nips, in Cuba, Oct. 28, 1492,
and on the following day, believing she coast to be
Asia, left it in hopes of finding the city, which, induced
by The Ir,dians, he believed lay to the westward. On the
2d Nov. he deputed messengers to confer with the great
king, who was supposed to govern this vast continent ;
but, ou the fourth day of their absence they returned ;
they had found no Eastern magnificence, but simply a.
town about twelve leagues distant. These messengers, in
the course of their journey, observed, for the first time,
the application of tobacco to smoking. This was de-
scribed as being in the form of a roll of a large quantity
of the leaf, one end of which was on fire, the smoke be-
ing inhaled by the mouth from the other, a process
which occasioned the Spaniards much surprise. Thus,
observes Navarette, was the first lesson given to Euro-
peans, of this extraordinary habit, that has become uni-
versal ; and hence the origin of the so-much prized
and so far celebrated Havanas. The natives on being
questioned why they adopted the practice, replied as
well as they could be understood, that it prevented
them from feeling fatigue. Las Cams, the Spanish his-
torian, is the first to exclaim against tne custom, being
unable on his part to di,cover the benefit that was to be
derived from it, ; but Navarote inadvertently supplies a
sati,..fitctory answer, one that applies to other states as
well as Spain, in simply observing, Who would have.
supposed that this new and curious vice could have be-
come so general, as to he one of the most profitable
sources of revenue to the State ? This after all appears
to be the most beneficial result of the n4e of the weed

in all the various ways in which it is applied. Captain
Itccelor, iu his recently publi-hod allowable wink, the
" Lan !fall of Columbus," p. 356, observes—Hero, as
stated by Las Casas, is the origin of smoking tobacci, a
practice which, however extensive it may be in other
countries, has become so general in this, that, to the
discredit of parents, it is even followed by childran ! the
ete"nal cigar is seen in the mouth of old and young, even
in that of the ragged urchin, who swaggers along not
only astonikling those who see him at his early hardi-
hood, but leaving them to speculate how he came by it,
considering the price which must have been paid for it.
Profitable ;tidied it is to the State, but indulged in to
the coat tf the pocket, the health, and the perional coin-
fort of society, as the following' statement front au ofii•
vial source of the amount of duty derived from tobacco
in the United Kingdom, for the last three years will
substantiate :

1P53 £4,560,827
1854 4,751,776
1 555 4,704,663
These are tolerably good round sums, contributing to
:be ben, lit of the state, if not of its subjects, and as may
be :Added—wholly blown off in a whiff

THE EUPHRAT ES VALLEY RAIL W AY.

It appears from the telegraphic advices received by
the Euphrates Valley Railway Company, ;:dirt Con-
stantinople, that General Chesney, accompanied by
Sir John Macneill, was to premed on the 28th Sep'
teinber to Seleucia, on the clast of Syria, in H.M.S.'
Gladiator, this vessel having been placed by the
Britith Admiral at the service of General Chesney
for the conveyence of the company's staff of
the
gin' ere to the scene of their labours.
arrival of the expedition at Seleucia, surveifYg°
ed with,
proposed route are to be immediately proceed
d high
°:f the
when much is expected from the energy f;
Sir J.
scientific attainments of General andChesuoyieannouneo-
Macileill. In explanatio lof the telegraP,t)t.
tuunt (published in The 8 ofbeFarchela,iynelita:d,s_3lB_:::etet'c'
ji:e'teott:r.l.
eight millions star.
by the company thr,eigh the Ilritisli
jieroi a vY
that a 6 ti
stantinople end the Foreign-office
of
tepresentatives of the.
cent. gtrtratitee is expected to
tion was for a
man Government upon a coaffipiettiacali
ling, it is stated by the
company that the original app
em„,.on . suarau-
for the 9
tee in the firstinstance upon oilej tiff only, this being
construction of
the rum considered applicable
the first section Of the linf_,_.externtlitiv from the Mc-
tliterranean to the FeuPhr3"" -Noy inter from ti e
to ent •
te!egraphi
Government prefers , ettaie the project in its
of au aggregate capital. of eight millions, ap-
the negotiations will proceed upon
dtheasptetclr,,.however, that the Ottoman
entirety, aend
the basis
plicable to the constriietik a of the entire railway.from
ihe Al editerranean to tii. Persian Gulf. It these infer-
ecc,:s bo correct, the company is secured from any da.'-
ger of competition as regards tlic further sections of the
prop .
o.ed railway. Fulier details are looked for with
much interest, the objects contemplated by this corn-
vany being of cosino—Fo
iitan importance. It is gratify-
ing to find that in the present instance Turkish states-
lion have shown a disposition to meet in liberality of
r.pilit the ad vancee of Western capitalists. The eegot.l-
ations with the Porte, however, are umierstoud to
.h.a::.
e
fic,'" ,ont tie] ly bled i: ated through the prompt 16 `de
I,rded I,y Lord Clazendon and Lord Stratford
Redeliffe.

~:POLICEMEN CANNOT VOTE AT ELECTIONS UNDEII THE
1\,1,1Y COUNTY 110L10E BILL.-lit the city of Exeter
huvision Court, oii Wednesday last, U. F. Erskine de-
! ei,ied that the sergeanty-lt place under the Cit' Corpo-
i ration, who are police cflicae, could not legally remain
I on the list of voters for Parliamentary election purpose e