The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-17 00:00:00

PRISONS AND PRISONERS.

The annual reports of the Directors of Convict
Prisons in England have. been issued—documents
necessarily Of much interest now that the Penal
Servitude Act retains in this country large bodies
of convicts who were formerly sent abroad. Of
course these reports do not touch the county and
borough prisons, in which there were at the latest
return (Michaelmas last) 15,574 prisoners. During
the twelvemonth 126,861 persons had been com-
mitted to those gaols, but many of them for short
periods and slight offences, there being not a few
who were afterwards acquitted, and 15,120 who
were but debtors ; and it is satisfactory to have to
add that the average number of prisoners showed
a decrease, the recommittals of the same prisoners
were fewer, the proportion of juvenile offenders
decreased, and the punishments for prison offences
diminished in a greater degree than the prison
population. It is of the worst, most depraved,
and most dangerous of this class that
the Convict Prisons Reports treat—those who are
sentenced to penal servitude, and removed from
these local gaols to Government prisons to undergo
their sentence, first in separatel confinement and
thiiiifrissociated labour. There were 11,007 pri-
soners in the convict prisons of England at one time
or other in the year 1859 ' • the number at the be-
ginning of the year was 8,115, and at its close 8,122,
and of this last number 1,188 were women. In the
course of the year 224 of the men were transported
to Western Australia, 421 were sent to labour at
the public works of Gibraltar and Bermuda, and
215 men and 20 women were released under orders
of licence, or, as they used to be called, tickets of
leave. No less than 1,837 were set at liberty in
consequence of the expiration of their sentence.
While in separate confinement the convicts are em-
ployed in work, and instruction is given to them--
many learn there for the first time to read ; they
meet at school, at chapel, and in exercise, but are
punished if they communicate with one another,
the punishmentoheing generally a dark cell and
punishment diet. At ..Millbank the women made
last year 43,728 shirts, for a city firm, without a
single rejection. In the next stage the men are
employed on public works at Portland, Portsmouth,
or Chatham, where they work ten hours a-day,
when there is light enough ; bat are allowed half
a day's schooling in the week. Endeavours are
made to educate them sufficiently to qualify them
for useful situations, and the effort is appreciated;
they are divided into classes according to character
and conduct, and in the last few months of their
time men of exemplary prison character are placed
in posts of some confidence, without any immediate
' supervision over them. Some small gratuities may
be earned by diligence, to accumulate against the
day of discharge, being then paid with precautions.
Those who are only fit for' light labour are sent to
Dartmoor Prison, which is in a highly. oxygenised.
and bracing spot, and convicts unfit for labour have
been hitherto sent to Lewes Invalid Prison, now
merging in the new prison at Woking. A con-
siderable number of these last improve in health
sufficiently to be draughted to Dartmoor. In
speaking of the diet allowed them, the surgeon
notes that the men most difficult to please are from
the vagrant class or from the lowest grades of
society. From all these convict prisons the reports
are satisfactory. The convicts behave in an orderly
manner, and work Well. The maintenance of such
good order is, in a great measure, attributed to the
system of remitting a considerable part of the sen-
tence to well-conducted industrious men, who appear
1
likely to endeavour to earn an honest livelihood on
their discharge. As for the question whether there

is any real reformation wrought, it seems to be con-
sidered that of the regular habitual thieves there is:
little hope—their reformation, as Mr. S. Redgravet
says, is as difficult a task to themselves as to their
teachers. The experienced chaplain of Millba.nk
prison classifies the convicts received there in 1659

thus :-61 per cent. (869) were professional thieves,
following crime as a business; 25 per cent. (304)
were careless profligates, but not hardened mcni ; 6
per cent. (89) were occasional offenders, on the
whole working honestly for their living, but com-
mitting a dishonest act when a favourable oppor-
tunity occurs; the remaining 8 per cent. (08) were
comparatively respectable, but had resorted to a.
crime to extricate themselves from difficulties,
generally caused by their not having had sufficient
self-denial to live within their means. Of all but
the regular thieves he has hope that with few
exceptions they leave the prison better men than.
when they came, and with sufficient right principle
to prevent their relapsing into crime. Of the lads
at Parkhurst the governor reports that in no one of
the 16 years during which he has had charge of
that prison was the conduct of the„inmates so satis-
factory ; it has been marked by order, obedience,
and cheerful industry. The Directors of Convict
Prisons consider that this section of the juvenile
population is gradually yielding under the influence
of Ragged School teaching, district visiting, andthe
juvenile reformatory movement of the last few years.
Of the female convicts (at Brixton and Fulham) the
report is that" they are genera ly in extremes." The
most troublesome are young women who know that
their ill health will shield them from punishment.
But no extent of punishment could ever keep
some of them in order. Their perverse depravity
makes their cases appear, humanly speaking, hope-
less. These cases, however, are few. Among
many at Brixton, and more generally at Fulham
(to which the best conducted are sent for final

training), there is a strong desire to lead an honest
life. Efforts are made to inspire them with self-
respect, enable them to break off strongly-rooted
evil habits, and take a lively interest in their work,
with a desire to turn it to a good account hereafter.
Two-thirds of the women discharged from Fulham
refuge in 1859 got into situations, where they were
likely to do well, and were at the end of the year
going on satisfactorily. Both to men and women
the Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society is rendering
most important services at a most criti cal season.
But any attempt to trace prisoners for a length of
time in after life interferes with the it object of
hiding their disgrace and merging in society. A
suggestion made by the chaplain of Pa:AL-burst raises
a grave question ; he considers that, as there is a
system of liberating before the time , there should
also be a discretionary power to d( stain after the
time. It can do no good to releaf ie such men as
lone of whom we are here told, wh o said plainly,
" It's not likely I'll work for 15s. a-week when I
can get pounds." But, at all eve nts, with very
many much improvement is now e: ET ected by prison
discipline and teaching. The pris of iers are treated
fairly, with consideration and huir 'at iity, often with
great judgment; they have no juE it ground of com-
plaint, they are accustomed to remaur habits and
self-restraint, and have held out 1-,01 them every
encouragement to good conduct and industry. Such
seed will surely bring some harv-est.

Galignani states that the Rev. Dr. Cumming, of
London, is to preach in the church of the Orat oire, Paris, on
Sunday next, in connexion with the Church c If Scotland.
A HINT TO TOURISTS.—A sad acciden t happened
at Bareges on the 9th inst., when an English lady and
gentleman attempted to make the ascent of ' the Pic du
Midi. Darkness coming on they were unal de to see the
danger of a pass before them ; they urged on their horses,
Chatsworth, and
which hesitated to advance, and all fell tog( *her down a
precipice. The gentleman had his head sews rely cut, and
his wife had an arm broken, having escaped wii lb. their lives
by a miracle.
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• THE SUN.

LO. STOW, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1860.

Lori l ELcrro's letter deserves a distinct notice.
It rais es the question—ought we to have artisan
corps 1 )f volunteers, or ought the artisan volunteers
to be mingled with the gentlemen volunteers ?
While; mach pleased with the spirit of Lord
ELCE .o's letter, and concurring with his remarks,
it mu yet he acknowledged that the argument is
not all on one side. We certainly think, as we
latire atal in our last on this subject, that one of
the great advantages of artisan volunteers would
bet found in the mixture of classes. Both classes
mould be the better for it. Class ill-will and dis-
likes are nur,4ured by nothing more than mutual
ignorance. Pei .baps half the feuds in society are
due to the .
fact, t hat the hostile sections know each
other so little tl -tat they have no idea how much
good there is ;nth. ose whom they are taught to re-
g,•trd as natural foe g•
It is even so among nations.
The comparatively few 'who travel do not like war
with the people, -cv horn, ,
ny residence among them,
they have founet, so vr„d
f regarduly , att bottom,o
the war
like people at horn. 2. And with
of classes, where a lord is the unpatronising friend
of
all
classes in ki s neighbourhood, the demagogue
would stand a chr Lnce of atoning at the pump for
orations "setting class against class."
At present we have literally nothing but one 0,
two games—the' ,Id glorious one of cricket being
the chief—to brir g together the different classes of

society on those terms which equalise distinctions
1..f0r the time, without raising one party above, or
sinking the other below, his natural place. None
which bring together in genial, cordial, mutually
respectful association the lord, the squire, and the
master; the tradesmen, the artisan, and the
labourer. Young lords taking the chair at working
men's meetings, to spout to them absurd political
economy, ends rather in contempt than cordiality.
What is wanted is just what Volunteer. Corps pre-
sent—a common, a noble object, in which lord and
labourer are equally interested; and as object to
be obtained by a personal training and practice, in
which the peer himself has no personal advantage
over his artisan fellow-soldier. In volunteer drill
all classes compete on equal terms, the only dif-
ference being that the richer have more leisure for
practice, if they choose to use it. Everything in
the nature of the institution is favourable to Lord
ELcHe's views.

We imagine that the whole question runs up
into that of cost. Assuming that the middle classes
and gentry are as willing to associate in a corps
with working men, as they ought to be, the only
doubt is whether our middle class volunteers will
be ready to abandon that military finery which so
many of them like so well, and to accept a uniform
with serviceableness for its chief recommendation.
somehow soldiers have always loved military dis-
play. Gilding, lace, plumes, embroidery, frippery
of all sorts adhering closely, or dangling about, or
waving in the breeze, seems, unaccountably, at first
sight, the taste of those whose real business is of the
roughest and gravest kind. It seems as if a soldier
could no more forget the pomp of full regimentals,
than " a bride her ornaments, or a maid her attire.'
We much fear that Lord ELCHO may here find the
stream too strong for him. We acknowledge that
nothing can seem more snobbish than to set mili-
tary show against general, and even military
utility, yet it has been done so long and persistently
that it is not easy .to get rid of it. How many sol-
soldiers have fallen sick, if not died, that their offi-
cers might have the pleasure of seeing their chins
perched at an unnatural angle on the famous black
stock. We do not like even to suggest such a thing,
but we fear Lord ELCHO must take care of insist-
ing too strongly on the sacrifice of military finery
by our present volunteers. It ought not to render
the service distasteful; we are sorry even to sup-
pose that there may be need of caution.
The modes in which he has proposed to over-
come the difficulty may be very good ; that of pur-
chasing the uniform by instalments of is. 3d. a-
week especially so. It is the way in which work-
ing men are accustomed to attain their objects,
which involve much outlay; and, so far as the
dress is concerned, since it would serve the man for
his Sunday and holiday dress—the chief occasions
when he appears in full dress—it is reasonable he
should pay for it. But we would venture to inquire
whether the idea of volunteering may net be ab-
surdly strained ? Why should not the purely mili-
tary articles be furnished to the men ? They are,
emphatically, for public service, and have quite as
much claim on the public revenue as the Hon. Mr.
COWPER'S iron hurdles to fence off an aristocratic
ride in Kensington Gardens. Those equipments of
the corps which can be of no service to the volun-
teer, but for public purposes, surely the public
should purchase. Enough for the artizan, if he
contribute the time to learn the use of them.
But two things we think the Government espe-
cially bound to provide—the rifles with their am-
munition, and the drill sergeants. The Govern-
ment interferes to a certain extent ; it wants all the
corps drilled to act together, and trained to use
certain weapons. Of the drill sergeants and of the
rifles, it has, we suppose plenty, paid for by the
public. Why then make just that portion of the
public, which gives what is most valuable of all to
the state, pay, over again, for what they have
already paid for by taxation ?
We must say that it strikes us that the best way
to settle the question may be to let both plans ad-
verted to in Lord ELcHo's letter take their chance
together. If it turn out that the artisan class
prefer to emulate the upper classes, by corps,
rather than as individuals of a mixed corps, then so
let it be. Decidedly we prefer what Lord ELCHO
advocates; still this is a volunteer question—and
we must allow the volunteers to choose for them-
selves. Some working men themselves may prefer
the mixed corps, and others one in which they
would meet only their own order. They may also
feel some pride in showing what they can do when
actin► by themselves. Let there be entire free-
dom ; let different plans be acted on, as far as each
meets the tastes of all, and in a short time we shall
all be in a position to judge what is best.

His Imperial Majesty the Sultan ABDUL MEDJID
claims the privilege of chastising those murderous
fanatics of the Lebanon who have but just now
accomplished, within the narrow c')mpass of a few
weeks, massacres unparalleled for many past gene-
rations. As a preliminary to the punishment of
those wretches, the Grand Vizier has been despatched
into Syria with the utmost speed, pomp, and cere-
mony from Constantinople. The chief offenders,
the ringleaders, the instigators of these inhuman
butcheries are being singled out by the Commis-
sioners appointed to inquire into their guilt by
the Turkish Government. Meanwhile, the
Great Powers of Europe are adopting
energetic measures for the prevention of further
atrocities of the like kind—their combined arma-
ments, both military and maritime, are arriving off
the devastated coasts for purposes, at the very least,
of rigorous surveillance.

It cannot but strike the attention of the least
observant, however, that the administrators of
Turkey, no less than the leading European Powers
themselves, are acting thus only, alas ! when it is
too late for the unfortunate Maronites and the rest
of the Christian Syrian population. When the steed
is stolen it is rather superfluous, as the proverb hints,
to turn the key in the lock of the stable-door. How
much more is it not an act, rather be it said, of
fatuity than of mere supererogation, to spring the
bolts of the lock when the steed is destroyed and
the stable burnt to the ground by the lawless
hand of an incendiary !

The latest tidings received from the scene of
these disastrous occurrences tell of another and a
quite supplementary massacre, in which the
Druses have indulged at Baalbec their insatiable
thirst for the blood of the Christians. But before
the intelligence of those last acts of butchery at
Baalbec, how frightful had been the aggre-
gate of the crimes perpetrated by the in-
fidel revilers of Christianity ! Down to the dreadful
murders accomplished by wholesale throughout
the entire of the Christian quarter of Damascus,
it is calculated upon reliable evidence that the late
sanguinary conspiracy had, in an almost incredibly
brief interval of time, utterly destroyed and
razed to the ground one hundred and fifty towns
and villages !—had massacred six thousand Chris-
tians, men, women, and children ! !—had brought
down seventy thousand others to beggary and star-
vation!!! All this, recollect, within a very few weeks,
within a portion of June and July. The pillage
accompanying all these hideous assassinations has
served yet further to illustrate the execrable and

degraded character of the murderous barbarians :
demonstrating that not religious fanticism alone
has been the source of their most criminal con-

spiracy.
It is in the full glare of this appalling catastrophe
that the Turkish Government is now affecting to
mete out among the murderers and their accomplices
fitting measures of retribution. It is with incidents
of this deplorable character yet vividly in their
recollection that the Chief Powers of Europe are
assembling their observant and avenging arma-
ments upon the Syrian coasts of the Mediterranean.
Can it be believed by any rational spectator of
these events that a Government which has been
thus powerless to prevent the execrable massacres
we are all lamenting, will be in any way competent
to punish the barbarous hordes by whom those
massacres have been perpetrated ? The SULTAN,
as we have said, claims the right and privilege
of dealing out adequate retribution among
the leading criminals. But the heinous
nature of the very criminality demanding ven-
geance, is proof positive of the literal powerlessness
of his effete and degraded Government.
The Western Allies have already acted towards
Turkey with sufficient, and more than sufficient,
magnanimity. England and France, in the last
war made by them against Russia in defence of the
independence of the Ottoman Porte, filled up for
that power, filled up to overflowing, the cup of its
obligations. One hundred thousand lives, one
hundred millions sterling were then lavished—
with what return we now know—in the
cause of the SULTAN'S sovereignty, in the
interests of the independence of the anomalous
Turkish Government. Those heroic efforts in
behalf of the SUBLIME PORTE have now been re-
paid by the butchery, in Syria, of six thousand of
our fellow Christians, by the beggary of seventy
thousand of the still surviving Christian population.
It is true that all these lives, and all this property
have been destroyed or captured by those Pagan
tribes—the fanatical Druses of the Lebanon—but
it is notorious, at the same time, that the crimes of
the Druses have been connived at, aided, and
abetted, by the Moslem population owing
obedience to the Turkish Government. Every-
thing in effect combines to demonstrate
that the time has at length arrived for the
close of the anomalous power of the Turk in Chris-
tendom. After surviving now for four hundred
years and upwards—throughout the whole of that
time as a recognised and indisputable anomaly—
the Mussulman rule in Europe will at last have
to receive (what it had been better perhaps had it
received at first) its exquatur from among the group
of the leading States of Christendom. The
sooner arrangements can now be made for its be-
coming the barrier of the Bosphorus the better,
for the honour, as well as the interests of European
civilisation.

GREAT WESTERN RAIL TP AY.

HALF-YEARLY MEETING-(THIS DAY).

The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the share-
holders in this company was held this day at the
Paddington Station, for the purpose of receiving
the directors' report, and other purposes.
The routine business having been transacted,
The CHAIRMAN rose to move the adoption of the
directors' report, which states that a comparison of
the revenue account during the past six months
with those of the same period in 1859 shows that the
increased receipts on the Great Western amounted,
on passengers and mails, to £15,022 ; on goods,
minerals, and live stock, to £48,880 ; and on
parcels and all other income, to £3,881 ; total
increase £67,783, and the increased charges
£19,050. On the Shrewsbury railways the increased
receipts on passengers and mails amounted to
£1,401, on goods, minerals, and live stock to
£5,654, avid on parcels and other income to £585 ;
total increased receipts, £7,640, and the increased
charges were £14,151. The increased receipts on
both lines for the half-year amounted to £75,423, and
the increased charges to £33,201, leaving a net bal-
ance for the half•year, being increased profit, of
£42,222. The increase of expenditure arises princi-
pally under two heads of charge—viz., the removal
and repair of carriage and waggon stock in the
southern division of the line, which exceeds that
of 1859 by £13,980, and the outlay for relaying
about 17 miles of permanent way in the northern
division, as well as that for narrow gauge plant,
amounting together to £9,970, as the increased
expenses connected with the Shrewsbury lines.
Those two branches of expenditure represent to a
great extent substantial improvements to the
property of the company, and augment in the ag-
gregate by £23,250 the revenue disbursements of the
half-year. The report goes on to state,—" Advert-
ing to the 'General Revenue Account,' the directors
wish to call the attention of the proprietors to three
points ; firstly, that the tolls for the use of the
Brentford Railway and docks are included in it;
the actual tonnage conveyed during the half-year
having been 52,655 tons of goods (exclusive of.
coals, &c.), which exceeds the minimum quantity
of goods stipulated to be paid for under the lease ;
secondly, that the Kennet and Avon Canal has
for the first time yielded to this company a profit,
instead of leaving a deficiency ; and lastly, that
the total sum reserved out of the South
Wales dividends, in pursuance of the report ap-
proved at the meeting on the 17th of August,
1854, has exceeded the estimated loss on the lease
to that period, for which such reservation was
ordered to be made. That loss since 1854, as shown
by the South Wales accounts, has been written off
in each half-year as soon as ascertained ; so
that it seems probable, when an equitable and
final adjustment can be made of all accounts
between the two companies, the entire dividends
belonging to and receivable by this company for
South Wales Stock will be brought to the credit of
the general revenue. The directors recommend
that a dividend, at the rate of 3 per cent, per annum,
should now be declared out of the disposable
balance of £129,046 4s. 91., to be payable on
the Ist of September to the proprietors of Great
Western consolidated stock and Windsor shares,
leaving the sum of £5,487 ls. 11d. to be carried
forwar to the next half-year. •
The motion was agreed to.
A resolution for the payment of the dividend and
a vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the pro-
ceedings.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN

RAILWAY.

HALF-YEARLY MEETING (THIS DAY).

The ordinary half•yearly meeting of the share-
holders of the London and North-Western Rail-
way was held this day at the Euston Terminus.
The usual routine business having been trans-
acted, and the report (which has already appeared
i❑ The sun) taken as read,
The CHAIRMAN rose to move its reception and
adoption. Having alluded to the present satisfactory
position of the company's affairs, he proceeded to
notice the principal points of the report. The re-
ceipts from passengers, parcels, and mails, it ap-
peared, amounted to £946,526, being an increase
over the corresponding half-year 0f1859 of £55,048;
ditto from merchandise, &c., £1,065,816; increase,
£124,397 ; total, £2,012,342 ; increase, £179,445.
Working expenses, £869,619; increase, £80,363.
During the past six months the increase in
the number of passengers and tons of goods car-
ried, and of train miles run, as compared with the
corresponding period of 1859, has been—Passen-
gers, 264,355; goods and minerals, 575,394 tons.
The statement of the half-year's accounts showed
that the net proceeds were £607,279 10s. Bd.; to
which the balance carried from last account, £10,870
7s , showed a disposable balance of £618,149 17s.
Bd. ; dividend recommended (5 per cent.) £605,341
Bs. 6d. ; balance to be carried to next account,
£12,808 9s. 2d. The directors recommended the
payment of a dividend for the past half-year after
the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, carrying forward
a balance of £12,808 9s. 2d.
After some discussion the report was adopted,
and shortly afterwards the proceedings terminated.

'Their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Leiningcn have left Howehin's Hotel on a visit to the
Queen at Balmoral.

His Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame
Van de Weyer leave town to-day for New Lodge, Windsor
Forest.

Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury has left Hert-
ford-street for Pencarrow, Cornwall, on a visit to Lady
Molesworth.

The Countess Dowager of Jersey has left
Berkeley •square for Brighton.

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T bis 1
NEWS , •

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

TURIN, FRIDAY.

The Opinione publishes a despatch dated Naples,
15th inst., stating that the news of Garibaldi's dis-
embarkation in Calabria is unfounded. Up to the
11th inst. only several inconsiderable disembarka-
tions had taken place at different points.

TURIN, AUG. 16.

The Opinione publishes a despatch, dated Naples
14th, announcing that the Electoral Committees
have been dissolved.

The Opinione adds :

" Although this despatch does not mention any
disembarkation of Garibaldi, it nevertheless ap-
pears quite certain that he has succeeded in effect-
ing a landing.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Alm. 11.

Ad'cices from Damascus to the sth inst. state
that 14'uad Pasha had surrounded the Lebanon with
troops, and threatened fire and sword if the
Druse Sheikhs did not surrender in two days.
Twenty had already been taken, and nearly 800
other important arrests had been made.

A thousand camel loads of plundered property
had been recovered.

The Sultan viAted the Porte on Thursday and
delivered a speech to the Ministers expressing
his resolution to punish the Syrian offenders
most severely, and also his intention to reduce
the vast list of sinecure high functionaries and
effect economy generally.
The paper money is to remain in circulation till
July next.

The Sultan is about to address another auto-
graph letter to Queen Victoria and the Emperor
Napoleon on the subject of Syria, expressing his
desire to have the sole punishment of offenders.

The news of massacres at Baalbec has been
confirmed. No details have yet been received.

FARO, AUG. 13.

This morning the Castiglia attempted, but with-
out success, to capture a Neapolitan steamer.
The Fulminante fired upon the Castiglia.

Last night the Veloce disembarked one batta-
lion of Garibaldian volunteers in Calabria. The
Neapolitans kept up a brisk fire during half an
hour.

Scalia's artillery has not yet left Sicily.

A Calabrian has been arrested here. He has
confessed having received money from Count
Aquila to assassinate Garibaldi.

TRIESTE, AUG. 11.

The Archduke Maximilian has left for Pola,
in order to despatch another frigate to Naples,
where the disembarkation of Garibaldi is consi-
dered imminent.

CATTARO, AUG. 16.

The assassin of Prince Daniel°, who has been
arrested here, is an exile. He denies having
committed the mime.

The body of tl e deceased Prince has been con-
veyed to Cettignye, accompanied by his widow.
The nephew of the Prince, who is being educated
at Paris, has been proclaimed his successor.

ZARA, AUG. 15.

Nikizza, the son of Mirco Petrovitch, was yes-
terday evening proclaimed Prince of Montenegro
at Cettignye.

CALCUT'IA AND CHINA MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY.

The Peninsula) and Oriental Company's steamer
Ceylon, Captain leans, with the heavy portion of
f bas arrived.
the above mails

She brings £1,015 in specie and a general cargo,
including 1,621 bales of silk, value upwards of
£160,000. The British ship Inkerman, of Greenock,
with coals for Bonbay, sprung a leak at sea on the
Ist inst. and foundered in latitude 43 N., long.
11.10 W. The Captain and crew landed at Gib-
raltar on the ith.

Her Majesty's
frigate Melpomene, with the
Moorish Ambassadors, arrived at Tangiers on the
Bth inst.

GIBRALTAR, Aua. 11.

Exchange on London. 90 days, 501 to 50!- ; Paris,
5.32; Marseilles and Genoa, 5.33; Madrid and
Malaga, 8 days eight, -I discount. Freights un-
altered.

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY.

BOURSE, August
16.—The arrival of the Eng-
lish funds with lower quotations has imparted
heaviness to the
Market, and prices are generally
lower than on Tuesday. Threes, for the account,
are now at 67f 85c ;
Mobilier, 675 f ; Orleans,
1,357 f 50c; Lyons, 881 f 25c ; Lombard, 471 f 25c ;
tations :
Austrian, 480 f. The following are the last quo-

41 per per Cents 97 85;
Do end month 97 85
3 per Cents
Do. end month ... 67 80
Bank Shares 2830
Credit Mobilier 675
Do. Account 676 25

Credit Fancier —
Belgian 41 —
Piedmontese Fives 7B 75
Roman
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt

RAILWAYS.
Cash.

Account.

Orleans . .......
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Meditarranean
Geneva,,,.,..
Southern ......
Western
Eastern .......
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard

..._.
- - .. 1362 50
- - .. 950 --

- - .. 883 75
- - .. 365
-
- • . 500 --

- - ; : 582 50
- - .. 628 75
- - .. 390 -

- - 480 -
- 472 50

AUSTRIA.

A Vienna letter contains the following :—" In
•
presence of the armaments now in progress in Pied-
mont, and the new loan of 150 millions intended
to meet the war expenditure of that Power, Austria
has necessarily taken additional precautions for the
defence of Venetia ; it is certain, however, that she
will not begin
a conflict. The greatest activity
prevails in the Austrian arsenals, and a number of
officers of the
staff and of the engineers have re-
ceived orders to join the corps of troops stationed
in different parts of Venetia. Austria will, there-
fore, calmly wait for the revolution to assume the
offensive."

The Bank Gazette of Berlin, on the 13th, says :
—" Several of the most important commercial firms
of Vienna have sent numerous telegraphic despatches
to this place, declaring that the rumours spread on
the Bourse of Vienna as to the aggressive intentions
of Austria are unfounded, and were concocted for
speculative purposes."

" It would appear," says the Independance,"
that
disaffection towards Austria is not confined to Ve-
neia. According to the kchutzenzeitung, there is
also a certain degree of fermentation in the Italian
Tyrol, from which 300 persons have already emi-
grated without passports. The official journal, the
inspruck, Gazette, has published a list of their
names, calling on them to return and appear before
the tribunals. Sixty-nine of these persons, belong-
ing to the upper classes, who neglected to answer
the first summons, have been declared illegally ab-
sent, and their property sequestrated. Neverthe-
less, the emigration still continues."

A NOBLE EXAMPLE.—The Rev. T. Binney
appealed to his congregation at the Weigh house Chapel on
Sunday evening for the poor sufferers in Syria, and though
no previous notice had been given, about £ll2 or £ll4 was
collected at the close of the service,--Patriot,