The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-10 00:00:00

Commence at 7 o'clock.

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Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ; Herr F. Jonghmans,
Mr. Henshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio,
E. L. Hime, Mr. Badsey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell,
Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Albyn. Mr. John G. Forde and E.
W. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks—Harmonium,
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NOTICE.—The Proprietor begs respectfully to announce
that in the month of October,

A FINE ARTS GALLERY,
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THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, SEPT. 10.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
70—highest since noon yesterday.
60—lowest this morning and during the night.
70—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30'00.
WAD, South-Westerly ; light and fine.

A very important meeting of representatives from
several leading railway companies was held yester-
day, at the Euston Hotel, in order to decide on the
policy henceforward to be pursued in order to get
rid of the internecine hostility occasionally mani-
fested, which must in the long run prove exceed-
ingly injurious to all parties concerned. We regret
that we are unable to give an accurate report of
the proceedings. Conscious of the great importance
of the matters under discussion, not, merely to rail-
way shareholders but to the community at large,
we caused a gentleman to attend from our office,
but unfortunately it was decided not to admit the
representatives of the Press. Unfortunately, we
say, because we are convinced that truth would be
greatly promoted by the publication of the debate,
and of the reasons adduced by the different speakers
for the views they respectively put forward.
At present we are only enabled to give the reso-
lutions adopted by the delegates of 18 railway com-
panies, representing £150,000,000 of capital. They
are, of course, the companies who have been engaged
either as principals or auxiliaries in the recent con-
flict. The South-We ;tern, South-Eastern, and
Eastern Counties, not being concerned, did not in-
terfere in the transaction ; although probably their
directors, being free from bias or prejudice of any
kind, would have made the best arbitrators on the
various questions at issue. We therefore regret
their absence, inasmuch as their participation must
have lent great additional weight to the resolutions.
As we recently pointed out, railways have been
treated very unfairly by Parliament. Enormous
preliniinary expenses were imposed that ren-
dered the outlay, even before the turning of
the first sod, more than would have sufficed for
the construction of the entire line in America
or on the Continent. But this enormous and
useless drain was not the only burden. Heavy
taxation was imposed by the state, which, between
the passengers'-tax, income-tax, and other exi-
gencies, although by no means equitable imposts,
absorbed more than 10 per cent. of the real profits.
While the parochial authorities went at the lines
with an enthusiasm that showed how thoroughly
they were prepared to avail themselves of the good
pings placed within their reach, the fact
that the value of property in these hungry
puishes had been increased tenfold, and in many
instances twentyfold, was totally disregarded by
the railways. They went for all they could get,
and it only remained with the companies to decide
whether they should submit to the gross imposition,
or adopt the more honourable, albeit the more
expensive, course of plunging into a sea of litiga-
tion by appealing against the gross overcharge.
But the evils occasioned on the part of the public
to their great benefactors were, if possible, exceeded
by those produced by the bad management of seve-
ral boards. Many were anxious to gain extraor-
dinary- advantages for themselves at the expense of
their nefhbours, without thinking how those
neighbours would resent the attempt,- and carry
the contest int 6 21ieir own territories. The wars of
the " Roses " scarce I.y- cost more than those of the
" guages ;" nor was iheie more enthusiasm dis-
played when the fate of neiu:ns was at stake than
when the traffic between dil!fe:ent districts was
contested by competing comp ;es. They could
prolong the conflict as long as the pleased, for
they had the money of the sharehold, iirs to play
with.

The resolutions carried at the meeting yes. +erdaY
would go far to remedy this flagrant evil. illeY
are to the following effect, viz.:—

" 1: That the rates and fares on the several rail-
ways of the kingdom should be so fixed as to realise
the largest amount of nett profits, due regard being
had to the interests of the public.
" 2. That -where any two or more companies in-
terested m any particular traffic fail to agree among
themselves as to the rates and fares to be charged,
the points in dispute shall be referred to arbitra-
tion.

" 3. That where two or more routes exist between
any two points, the rates, fares, and charges be
tweenmueih points shall be equal.
"4. That this
meeting strongly recommends the
settlement
of all differences between railway com-
panies byarbitration,•
instead of by recourse to law,
or to exeessisvoeugahntd
for
competition, and that
Towers be
ensuing session, to enable any lefrom Parliament, in the
two or more railway
companies to settle all
sal stoing assenting
consisting
by arbitration.
" 6. That a committee, of the chairmen
(or ,other directors) of thei
with the addition of the companies,
Right lion. J. Parker, Mr. leoefmLiverpool, the
Wilson, be now appointed to prepare aanbillanfa Mr.
seutation to Parliament, with
power to add to their
pre-
their
number, and to appoint an executive sub-com-
mittee."
The great principle enunciated in the foregoing
resolutions is, that questions that must constantly
arise between neighbouring companies should be
settled by the friendly intervention of Others who
before
are not interested in the matter at issue, .
-they enter into a reckless course of competition, -iliat
insist inevitably prove ruinous to both. If adopted,.
it will prove very beneficial to all; and we have nO
doubt that the Legislature will be ready to give
erect to the wishes of so many
influential parties,
wien clearly and intelligibly

It is surely time that we should hear the last at
last about the settlement of the Danubian Princi-
palities. According to the latest accounts received
from that quarter of the globe, we are informed
that " Prince GIIIKA was continuing to exert all

hiS influence to obtain the post of Hospodar," with
the supplementary intimation that " the electoral
struggle bids fair to be very sharp in Wallachia."
It is such an uncommonly old story, all this, that
we have come at length to be heartily sick of it.
The flavour of intelligence of this kind really palls
upon the appetite. It has become, long since—
stale, flat, and unprofitable. It is not simply
vapid—it is vapidity. It has not the ghost of a
relish about it any longer. Bucharest, Jassy, Wal-
lachia, Moldavia, Hospodars, Boyards—all these
are names that have grown to be a
nuisance —hores that have expanded into
absolute abominations. We are jaded to
death with the old, old rigmarole—reasoning about
which is so tormentingly interminable, that it ob-
viously must be by necessity " reasoning in a circle"
—for we certainly never do get to the end of it.
The situation is everlastingly the same—we plod
round and round the mill-wheel of diplomacy with-
out getting any 'further advanced than the Green-
wich Pensioner who trudged all night without
moving an inch on his way homewards, simply by
reason of his having got the point of his wooden
leg- into a plughole. Here has a commission been
sitting for months in the French capital, for the ex-
press purpose of bringing this very difficulty to an
end--and lo ! just upon the strike of what every-
body fancied must be the twelfth hour, there
comes a tormenting indication that we have. actually
as yet barely commenced. " The electoral struggle
bids fair to be very sharp in Wallachia." " Prince
GHIEZA was continuing to exert all his influence to
obtain the post of Hospodar"—and so on—and so
on—really the News from those particular banks
of the Danube might be stereotyped, it is
so
,Perpetually the same, identically the
same to-day as it was yesterday. There
is teach" monotonous uniformity about it.
Mold.o-Wallachia—like Man—" never is, but always
to be blessed." So invariably, indeed, that one
might.; conjecture, as poor JOE did in Bleak House,
in ref; .ard to the city graveyard, that it must posi-
tively.--" have been tothered ! " Never was such a
political quandary—not even that old puzzling
botivoration about the Bund—nay, actually, for.
that :matter, not even that irritating enigma, or, as
the Yankees would call it, fix, further north
yoni3 er, in regard to Schleswig-Holstein. In refe-
rent s 3 to those problems, we do occasionally—thanks
be to Heaven—have a lull for the time being. But
with, the Danubian Principalities—never. It is
one eternal babble about Boyards and Hospodars,
Jassy and Bucharest, Moldavia and Wallachia, from
Jana .ary to June, from June to January. Prince
Gin KA, in fact, is always trying hard to be made
Ho s] mdar. The electoral struggle in his neighbour-
hoed is always bidding fair to be very sharp indeed.
We 4 mly wish it would " look" sharp—and that we
conld contrive at last to learn, Yes or No, whether
Prim ce GruKA's hopes in this matter have or have
not 'been realised. He must surely be some human
im tnertal under an assumed name—Ahasuerus, or
a lirosicrucian. There he is, through all the viscissi-
tufi .es of events and fortune—immoveable, unchange-
aKe—always looking for that electoral struggle
thr .t never comes, hoping even against hope to be
ma de one of these days Hospodar. His tempera-
mc nt must certainly be one of the most sanguine
cv er vouchsafed to man—as buoyant and elastic as
(n, en Mr. MICAWBER'S—under the vague chance
(when :or how is quite another consideration) of
something " turning up" in his favour ultimately.
All this may be a very amusing pastime to him and
) his fellow-countrymen, but to us, mere spectators
1 tom a distance, it has long since, wo repeat, come to
I)e simply intolerable. We are sick to death of it.
"We want to hear the last of it. We want to know
au ,t the entire question about this double princi-
tality on the banks of the Danube is settled somehow,
a anyhow. e don't want everlastingly to be told
by lightning flashes all the way across Europe
tirrough the electric telegraph—that the electoral
struggle in Wallachia is going to begin, and that
Prince GUIKA [couldn't we get two medical certi-
fie ates and lock him up somewhere ?] hopes to be
Hospodar.

Sir JOSEPH SAWLE GRAVES SAWLE, Bart., is a

name probably known as little to the majority of
our readers as it was to us till a few days ago.
;Still less was the name of MARY TRELEAVEN,
widow of a worthy farmer and miller, and one of
the tenants of the Baronet with a quadruple name.

And, but for a battle in the County Court, at St.
Austell, East Cornwall, between the widow and
the Baronet, and a well-deserved victory on the
art of the widow, we should never have heard of
these now famous combatants ; and, but for the
East Cornwall polling-book, and for the want of
the Ballot, the Baronet would have fought no
battle, and the widow would not have known, as
POMPEY said of CICERO'S great feat, where she
might triumph.
Well, then, be it known to our readers, if they
know it not, that THOMAS JAMES AGAR ROBARTES,
Esq., is one of the members for East Cornwall—
they ought to know this, for Mr. ROBARTES has
voted for the Ballot and against Church-rates, and,
therefore, is a first-rate county member. He
ought to be member for East Cornwall—no doubt
of that ; and every East Cornish patriot ought,
therefore, to use his vote and influence to return
such a member as Mr. ROBARTES---his fair influ-
ence, we mean, but many of us think that ten per
cent. off rent is not exactly fair influence. Very
powerful influence we may be sure, but still no
true Liberal will deny that it is of the wrong sort,

Now, the question which a Cornish jury in the
County Court had to solve was just this—whether
1 the Baronet of the long name did use this influence
',or not ; whether he did promise the widow's hus-
band, THOMAS TRELEAVEN, ten per cent. reduction
Crom his rent if he and his father, JOSEPH TRE-
-I:ELVEN, would vote for Mr. ROBARTES. Not, let
tstio realer remember, that this was a gift of
ten pouncti a-year or so, pure et simple, as other
iplomatistg lately phrased it. There was a pre-
v ions " ought" in the matter. Mr. ROBARTES, and
suppose, other landlords, had already taken off
ten per cent., for it was the time of " distressed agri-
, tulturiste in 1852 ; and the TRELEAVENS promised
tl rat, if their landlord would do what lie ought, as
other landlords did, they, the TRELEAVENS, would
cro -what they ought, and vote for the Liberal Mem-
bi 3r and their landlord's candidate. And, then,
another thing, the TRELEAVENS, as distressed agri-
ulturists, were minded to vote for the Protectionist
member, and they surely deserved to see their dis-
t VOSS alleviated either by the election of a Protec-
tionist, or by the bird-in-the-hand of ten per cent.
Qum cam ita sint—as the baronet seems to have said

t a himself—the
ptean:
of per
tedit.othey-must have. Still,
the laws against bribery, meant to be evaded by
:tolftetirhemAaketerso,f must,course,liamtit
be evaded ; the intent
e ncertainly,
abneah oi
ivee d
dida
jury thu
baronet and a
magistrate
ogmi. ,
carry it out, at least, so the ,
empathised with the baronet in his iapvh,s t, and n
e sy
wthings
which led him to swear to some six or seven
mo cei
in
in the lump, nearly all of which he recanted
detail. It seems that on the very eve of the elec-
tion he employed another of his, tenants—a Mr.
WILLIAM THOMAS to canvas the TRELEAVEN&
r.ithe TItELEATENS were firm. Ten per cent.
o, E', or two votes would , be lost t
T;OBARTES, perhaps given to KENDALI ,

No abatement of terms could be procured. " Per-
haps you had bettei," said the agent, " send for the
two men"—" Oh," replied Sir JOSEPH, "I can't do
that—l shall be brought up for bribery." Bribery,
of course, there was not the slightest objection to,
but only " being brought up for it." Like steal-
ing among the old Spartans the thing was all right
enough, the being caught was the 'only fault; and
a great fault indeed, it was under the Act of Par-
liament, designed to sharpen the wits of bribers,
not to destroy their trade. A county Baronet
must be a much greater blockhead to be caught
bribing, than a Spartan to be caught stealing ; he
would deserve to be brought up and made an
example of, as a witless landlord.
However, it seems, in parallelism with another
(if it be another) well-known case, when bribers
and bribed fall out, truth, at least, gets its own.
Mr. WILLIAM THOMAS was guilty of rabbit shoot-
ing, and on Mrs. TRELEAVAN'S occupation ; the
Baronet summons the rabbit shooter ; the widow
attends and gives evidence that she invited the
rabbit killer ; the case fell through ; the magis-
trates dismissed it. This was on the 28th of May—
on the 29th the baronet distrained on Mrs. TRE-
LEAVEN'S property for £llB, of which £56 was for
rent, due only at Lady-day (and Mrs. TRELEAVEN
had always before paid her rent yearly) and £62'
for arrears. Now, it was proved to the satisfaction
of the Jury and the Court that from the year after
the election the rent had always been paid with the
ten per cent. deduction. The very clerk who
kept the account was summoned by the baronet to
prove that the reduction began before the election,
and was meant for a short time only ; but the
ledger itself proved that the reduction commenced
the year after the election, that is, in 1853, and con-
tinued till the very last year. The widow could
justly demand £6B 18s. which she had once paid,
and the costs, but she brought her action of
" excessive distress," for £5O only, because of the
present absurd limitation of the County Court juris-
diction to that amount. The evidence of the widow'
of WILLIAM THOMAS, the landlord's bribing agent'
of the clerk called by the landlord, and of the
brother of the widow, who had paid the rent for
the widow, was conclusive.

To rebut this evidence there was literally nothing
but the oath of Sir JOSEPH SAS LE GRAVES SAWLE,
Baronet and Magistrate, that " what Mr. THOMAS
had sworn to was all false—wholly false. He had
never made the promise ; THOMAS never referred to
the bargain or promise after 1852," and so forth.
Yet on cross-examination he admitted almost every-
thing THOMAS had sworn to—others he could not
recollect—it might be so or not—he could not say
whether he had had a conversation in that room
with THOMAS about the vote or not ; nor, though
he could recollect so accurately particulars about
the election six years ago, could he recollect par-
ticulars, not convenient to his ease, about the
distress for rent only three months since !
The Judge, in summing up, expressed his doubts
as to " the probability of a gentleman, in Sir
JOSEPH'S position—a Baronet, and an enlightened
magistrate of the county, putting himself in the
power of his tenant THOMAS to make such disclo-
sures," but he was compelled to state that in the
conflict of evidence the tenant had given his evi-
dence more clearly than the landlord. The jury ,to
a verdict for the widow, added their belief that the
baronet and magistrate, and gentleman " had made
the promise, but that his memory had failed him."

We are sure, after this lesson, that the baronet
and magistrate is an ardent friend to the Ballot, if
he were not before. Had secret voting but been
the law of the land in 1852, Sir JOSEPH'S memory
would not have been at fault about promises to
tenants, and tenants would not have adjusted votes
to rents. We should probably never have heard
or written a word about Sir JOSEPH, and the non
mi ricordo landlord would have vegetated and been
gathered to his fathers in East Cornwall, unnoticed
by the press—the metropolitan press at least. We
need not point the tale with a moral about the
Ballot. Lord J. RUSSELL and Lord BROUGHAM,
too, arc very much concerned lest it should teach
the intimidated tenant to lie. We have it on the
verdict of a jury that the want of the Ballot has led
a baronet, landlord, and magistrate to swear to un-
truths through failure of landlord memory.

LATEST NEWS.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR IN CHELTENHAM.—*-
Lord and Lady Chelmsford, with the Hon. Captain Thesiger,
and the Hon. Miss Thesiger, arrived in Cheltenham on
Saturday last from Malvern, on a visit to Lord de Saumarez,
at Montpellier Lodge. On Tuesday he lunched at Southam,
the seat of the Right Hon. the Earl of Ellenborough, and
in a few days will, we understand, proceed to London to
take leave of his son, an officer in the Enniskillen Dragoons,
who is about to start for India.--Cheltenham Examiner.

NEW AUSTRIAN LOAN.

VIENNA, SEPT. 9.

A new loan is spoken of as about to be raised by
the Austrian Government. The house of Roths-
child, it is said, are to be the contractors.

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY.

A Paris letter in the Independance of Brussels
says :—Prince Napoleon has obtained in favour of
Algeria the application of a principle which, joined
to the limitation of military powers already de-
creed, will exercise a favourable influence on the
Government. All the ports of the coast are to be
declared entirely free. The Prince-Minister ap-
pears not to have succeeded in his liberal and intel-
ligent views without a conflict with the Minister of
Finance and the Board of Customs, whose views
are protectionist."
The Siecle, after publishing the fresh circular
of M. Leon Chevreau, the Prefect of the Sarthe,
appends to it the following remark :—" We are
perhaps mistaken, but it appears to us that
this circular differs radically from the former
one, which had justly awakened the susceptibilities
of all the friends of liberty of conscience."

~
The Moniteur publishes the following monthly
debtor and creditor account of the bank of France,
made up to Thursday. The corresponding figures
of last month are added :

DEBTOR.

Miss Burdett Coutts and Lord and Lady Sinclair
are among the visitors at the favourite northern watering-
place, Blackpool.

Sept.

Aug.

P. C.
P. C.
Capital of the Bank 91,250,000 0 91,250,000 0
Ditto, New
profits in addition toqapi-

tal (Art. 8, Law of 'line
9, 1857) 1,513,467 77 '1,573,467 77
Reserve of the Bank 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
New Reserve
Ditto in landed property 4,000,000 0 4,000,000 0
Notes in circulation 645,329,125 0 636,640,075 0
Bank-notes to order 6,041,667 94 5,714,790 40
Receipts payable at sight 6,376,565 0 6,426,004 0
Treasury account current

credit-or
Sundry accounts current 156,658,262 21 150,279,600 2
Ditto with branch banks 31,441,166 0 34,535,894 0
Dividends payable. 4007,143 25 1,617,32.5 25
Discts. sundry interests 1,607,255 55 1,728,457 45
Commission on deposits 3,991,702 21 2,776,236 19
Re-discounted the last six
months
Surplus of paid-up bills 19,397 80 15,759 0
Sundries

Total 1,199,924,587 39 1,183,996,993 93

CREDITOR.

Sept.

Aug.

F. C. F. C.
Cash in hand
Cash in the branch banks, 336,469,295 0 296,576,123 0
Commercial bills overdue. 309,178 38 398,299 18
Commercial bills dis-
counted, not yet due 170,592,694 39 181,101,992 66
Do. in the branch banks
Advanced on deposit of
bullion.
Do. by the branch banks
Do. on French public secu-
rities
Do. by the branch banks 8,984,950 0 9,202,650 0
Do. on railway securities 40,890,308 0 39,823,100 0
Do. by the branch banks 20,204,204 0 20,155,004 0
Do .on Cr&lit Foncier Scrip 470,000 0 369,800 0
Do. on branch banks Scrip 138,100 0 133,200 0
Do. to the State on agree-
ment of June 30, 1848 45,000,000 0 45,000,000 0
Govern. stock reserved 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
Do. disposable
New shares, not settled
Hotel and /urn. of Bank
Landed property of branch
banks 6,377,922 0 6,276,595 0
Expenses of management 840,415 23 533,935 66
Sundries

1,037,300 0 1,007,300 0
1,654,800 0 1,504,400 0

Total 1,199,924,587 39 1,183,996,993 93
Certified by the Governor of the Bank of France.
DE GERMINY.

BOURSE, Sept. 9.—The market has been flat in
Rente, but railway shares have been firm. Threes
have been done at 72fr. 25c. and 72fr. 30e. ; Mobi-
lier varied from 875 fr. to 882 fr. 50c. ; Orleans,
1,390 fr. ; Lyons, 830 fr. to 842 fr. 50c.; Eastern,
740 fr. to 745 fr. ; Northern, 950 fr. to 962 fr. 50c.;
and Southern, 5951 r. to 5921 r. 50c.
At half-past three the following were the quota-
tions :

41 per Cents. .... 96 Credit Foncier 660
Do. end month .. —.— Belgian 41 lOO 25
3 per Cents. 72 25 Piedmontese (5)
Do. end month.... 72 45 Roman 92
Bank Shares
Credit Mobilier .. 890 Spanish Threes
Do. Account ..... 890 Home Debt 4O

STEAM VESSELS.—A return moved for by Mr.
Baring, M.P., gives a list of 1,785 steam vessels, of 408,702
tons, as registered in the United Kingdom on or before New
Year's-day, 1858. Full particulars of the dimensions and
power of each vessel are given. •
The Manchester Guardian announces the sus-
pension of the firm of Pardoe, Hoomans, and Co., carpet
manufacturers, of Kidderminster, with liabilities reported
at £BO,OOO to £lOO,OOO. The assets, consisting of trade
buildings, plant, &c., are stated to be large.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE IRONSTONE.--There is more
ironstone now being sent out of this county than was ever
previously known, and this fact seems to indicate an im-
provement in the iron trade. Large quantities of stone are
daily being sent from the Gayton Stone Works to Wales
and Staffordshire, and it seems somewhat singular that just
as the mineral treasures of Staffordshire are showing indi-
cations of exhaustion this immense tract of ironstone in
Northamptonshire is being developed. We are informed
that the finest description of pig iron is made from this ore.
CITY OF LONDON TRADESMEN'S SOCIETY.-011
Thursday evening this society held its annual festival at
the Royal Pavilion Hotel, North Woolwich, Mr. Dearsly in
the chair. After the usual loyal toasts, Mr. Beard, in an
appropriate speech, proposed the health of the chairman,
who, in his reply, briefly adverted to the prosperous condi-
tion of the society. The health of the visitors was
then proposed, and responded to by Mr. Beard. The com-
pany was numerous and the dinner super-excellent, and the
vocal portion of the entertainment—supplied by Messrs.
Gower, Williams, Mackney, and Hitchfielu—by no means.
inferior to the general goodness of the arrangements. The
company, which was numerous, broke up at a late hour.
OBSTRUCTION ON A RAILWAY.—On the 31st ult.
two pieces of timber and an iron bar were found placed
across the rails on the Oxfoid, Worcester, and Wolver-
hampton line, near Evesham. They were evidently placed
there for the purpose of throwing the train off the rails.
We (Worcestershire Chronicle) hope the dastardly ruffians
will be caught and severely punished. We understand a
large reward is offered for their apprehension.
THE LlON.—Gerard, the lion-killer, in an article
in the Journal des Chasseurs, calculates that there are now
60 lions in the subdivision of Bona, in Algeria, and that
from 1856 to 1857 the number of oxen and sheep destroyed
by them was about 10,000.
GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—Her Majesty's
theEim 9th.gra tiin'osnt.,Ctohmempiaspsihonneers,
75c0htaLe,retdo 3saTislted a
fir.omay
softeuthniaoinopn.,
NreeawdySofuorththNeVarlecese,patiton£lo4f9psa.
s6dge.npegerrsstoan-
ttuontefaodrulSyt,dntoeY'be
such day as the commissioners may fix between the 18th
and 25th of October. They have also given notice of their
intention to receive orders next Thursday, the 16th inst.,
for a ship to proceed to Adelaide, South Australia, to be
ready to sail any day between the 24th and 30th of October.
THE BLUECOAT BOYS DRILLED.—A conside-
rable number of the scholars under tuition at Christ's Hos-
pital, near Newgate-street, were subjected yesterday to the
exercise of "drill" under the direction and instruction of a
celebrated Crimean non-commissioned officer, specially
selected for that purpose by his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge, president of the establishment. The boys
showed great aptitude in their attempts at marching, coun-
termarching, slow and quick step, and other military
evolutions, though it was quite evident that they were
much retarded in their evolutions by their clumsily-formed
and heavy shoes, which still bear the uncouth form of the
time of Edward VI., while the yellow petticoat and
the blue overcoat of the same period, still worn by
them, proved to be so inconvenient that they
were obliged to fasten up these out-of-date gar-
ments before they could commence their exercises. There
is no doubt, if these "drills" continue, that an undress suit
witness the
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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1858.

THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY EVENING.

The Royal mail steamer Teviot, Capt. Woolward,
has arrived. She left Alexandria August 26, and
Malta the 30th. She had to stop three hours off
Cape Trafalgar to repair engines. She experienced
fine weather up to Cape St. Vincent, where she en-
countered a dense fog, and stopped one hour. Fresh
breeze to Lisbon, and then stopped five hours by
another thick fog ; thence to Finisterre, strong
head winds ; across the Bay, fresh northerly winds
with heavy north-westerly swell. The Teviot
brings 56 passengers, including Captain Plunket,
stipendiary magistrate, Captain Dye, Captain
Simons, Dr. Hasch, from Sydney, Dr. and Mrs.
Wilson, from Melbourne. She has £51,900 in
specie, plate, and jewellery value £1,370, 528
packages of gum, and 23 bags of elephants' tusks,
30 bales of flax, and sundries.

Passed the British brigThessalia, off Pantellaria,
on the 31st ult., steering westward; the screw
steamer African, off Galita, on the Ist inst. steering
eastward ; the British brig Asia, off Gibraltar ; on
the 4th, steering westward, an English screw
steamer, showing 3d distinguishing pennant and
2,714, of Cape Trafalgar, on the 4th, steering east-
ward.

The mails, consisting of nearly 400 boxes, were
in charge of Mr. Nash, of the General Post-office,
by whom, with an assistant, the whole were sorted
on board. In consequence of the hour at which the
Teviot arrived, the correspondence from the west
of England will be despatched direct for this place
at 11.30 p.m., instead of going to London, thus
affording another satisfactory evidence of the saving
there is effected in the delivery of letters by this new
scheme. The letters for the North of England will
be sent by early train, at 6 a.m., and the London
portion of the mails being sorted to postal districts
will in no way interfere with the general delivery
in the metropolis. The success of the plan is thus
clearly proved, and it might be advantageously fol-
lowed on other ocean mail routes, where the close
arrivals of steamers to their sailings render it de-
sirable that every means should be taken to secure
an answer by the return mails.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1858.