The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-28 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY; ,EVENISG, SEPTEMBER' '2B, 1858

FAREWELL SEASON OF. MR. CHARLES KEAN
AS MANAGER OF THE -
Ip4DY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—
Liu, This THEATRE WILL OPEN on SATURDAY
next, the 2nd October, with the Farce of
DYING FOR LOVE.

To be followed by
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE,
which play will be performed for a Fortnight, and then with-
drawn for the production of Shakspere'a -Historical Tragedy
of KING JOHN,
which will be revived on Monday, 18th October.

THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE
t Under the Management of Miss L. Tyne and Mr. W.
Harrison.

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THIS EVENING, Balfe's ROSE OF CASTILLE : Miss
Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne, Miss M. Prescott ; Mr. Fer-
dinand Glover, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. George Honey, Mr.
Bartleman,'and Mr. W. Harrison.
Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon.
To conclude with a Ballet Divertissement : Mdlles. Zilia
Michelet, Pasquale, and Morlacchi. •

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET,
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING will be performed THE RIVALS
Messrs. Buckstone, Howe, W. Farren, &c. ; Miss Reynolds.
After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE GUADAL-
QUIVER. Perea Nena.
Witk THE KING'S GARDENER.
And JOHN JONES.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING, the New Comedy of EXTREMES ;
or, 31e)i of the Day. Supported by Messrs. Leigh Murray,
Emery, J. Rogers, and Barrett ; Mrs. A. Mellon (late Miss
Woolgar), Mrs. Weston, Miss Kate Saxon.
To conclude with the Ballet of THE RENDEZVOUS, in
which the Lauri Family will appear.
Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-office
open, from 11 to 5 daily.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, MY AUNT'S HUSBAND ; Mr. Swan
borough, Mrs. Selby, Miss Ternan.
After which THE LAST OF THE PIGTAILS ; Messrs.
C. Selby, J. Bland, and J. Clarke, &c.
Followed by THE BONNIE FISH WIFE.
And I'LL WRITE TO THE TIMES.
Commence at 7 o'clock.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERT EVENING.—The following Company
of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections
from all the popalar OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES,
GLEES, DUETS, &c., viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badsey,
Miss Brunell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague,
Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson; Herr F. Jonghmans,
Mr. Renshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio,
It. L Rime, Mr. Badsey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell,
Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Albyn. Mr. John G. Forde and E.
W. Hackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks—Harmonium,
Mr. Courtnay—Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at
7 precisely. Suppers, &e., until 12 o'clock.

NOTICE.—The Proprietor begs respectfully to announce
tnat in the month of October,

A FINE ARTS GALLERY,
now in course of construction, will be thrown open in con.
nexion with the above Hall.

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, SEPT. 28.

THERMOMETER, IN TILE SHADE.
66—highest since noon yesterday.
57—lowest this morning and during the night.
6 9 t h s day at noon.

BauomETER---29.73.
WIND, Easterly ; light, with very dull weather.

THE SUN.

TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 28, 1858.

A SUMMARY of the Chinese Treaty of the 26th
of June last, forwarded to us from the Foreign-
office, appeared in THE SUN of yesterday. Not-
'withstanding the charges that have been preferred
against Lord MALMESBURY of carelessness and
indifference in not publishing the text of the Treaty
even before it was submitted for approval to her
MAJESTY, he gave far more than had ever been
previously conceded. The etiquette being that
such treat!es should not be revealed until the rati-
fications had been duly exchanged, we believe that
information respecting the Treaty of Paris was
much longer kept back than the present, and that
although the interest was far greater than on the
present occasion, and the QUEEN was at Bucking-
ham Palace, in place of enjoying herself in her
remote Highland home, the public have reason
to thank Lord MALMESBURY for the early informa-
tion which he supplied. His conduct in this
respect, as in many others, contrasts very favour-
ably with that of his predecessor. It is impossible
for the most captious opponents of Lord DERBY'S
Administration to deny that many valuable con-
cessions have been made by the Chinese Govern-
ment, far more, indeed, than could reasonably
have been anticipated. And should the obligations
entered into by the Celestials be as fully and fairly
carried out as ours will unquestionably be, we
shall have obtained all that could be desired, viz.,
free access to all parts of the Empire for English
subjects; opportunities for carrying on an exten-
sive and profitable trade; the presence of a resident
representative of Queen VICTORIA at Pekin, who
shall be received on terms of perfect equality by
the Chinese Minister with whom he may be 'placed
These arc, unquestionably,
very important points, and the number of ports
to British vessels will be admitted will be
amply sufficient for the purposes required.

in communication.

The Treaty of Nankin of 1842, which caused the
disgrace and eventually the decapitation of KEYING,
is.no longer to remain a dead letter. It is confirmed
to all intents and purposes, but the supplementary
treaty and general regulations of trade are abro-
gated, and new and more valuable provisions intro-
dUced. Indeed it will scarcely be possible to have
any misinterpretation of clauses so plain and in-
telligible, that he who. runs may read.
The employment of Ambassadors, Ministers, and
other diplomatic agents will abate one of the
greatest nuisances of the Chinese system. The
habitual suppression of unpalatable truths, and of
tho various complaints against -local functionaries,
will iro Tenger be practicable. There will be parties
fully authorised to investigate every question in
which British subjects may be interested,
and whose remonstrances must reach the Em-
peror himself through his responsible Minis-
ter. Such vagaries as those practised by
YETI will be no longer practicable. Any
attempt to disturb amicable relations will call
down summary punishment on the head of the
offender, whoever he may be. The official rank
arid position of the BritiA Consuls, as regards the
local authorities, is determined, so that there can
be no such invasion of their legitimate jurisdiction
as that which occasioned the present difficulty.
The Christian religion, as professed by Protes-
tants and Roman Catholics, is to be tolerated, and
its professors protected. We confess that we do not
quite like any limitation on this point. The term
"Yrotestant " is, however, very extensive, and will
include the various sects of bona
,fide Christians,
who, however they may differ on doctrinal points,
still recognise the great truths of Christianity, and
can be included not only within the spirit, but the
letter of the trcaty.

SARAWAK, we do earnestly believe, is saved to
England. Sir JAMES BROOKE has not lived in
vain. His Excellency's wonderful career is not
going now to prove, after so many years' heroic
struggling, fruitless. The North-west Coast of
Borneo—where this one dauntless Englishman has
built up a colony—has marked out its dimensions,
has organised it, has administered it—will still
remain numbered among our cherished possessions.
Labuan will very speedily, we are convinced—and,
what is more, it will permanently—be placed under
a British Protectorate.

And our reason for being thus sanguine in our
expectations' ? It is simple enough—it may be

readily enough explained. It arises simply from
our recollection that happily at • this moment
there is installed at the Colonial-office, as
Minister of the Crown intrusted with the
care of our colonial empire, a Statesman
who is not the least bit in the world of a red•tapist.
One who is exquisitely sensitive of the national
honour,• A man capable of taking a comprehensive
view of a difficult and complicated subject—and
capable, moreover, of acting boldly and unhesitat-
ingly upon the dictates of his own conviction. An
administrator who can originate and organise—
swiftly, resolutely, unhesitatingly. Otherwise to ex-
press the reason for this new hope of ours in regard
to the happy future of Sarawak—we cannot for
one instant believe that the Creator of British
Columbia will " willingly let die" the patriotic and
imperial project sustained so long, against such
fearful odds, by the genius and the valour—(for
lesser phrases than these would be here in every
way inapplicable)—of this last but not least of our
British Worthies, the creator of Sarawak as a
British Settlement.

Sir EDWARD LYTTON has obviously had more
pressing responsibilities urgently demanding his
attention throughout the brief interval which has
yet elapsed since his first acceptance of
office as Her MAJESTY'S Principal Secretary
of State for the Colonies. Nobly, indeed,
has the new Colonial Minister acquitted himself of
those responsibilities during this brief interval of
little more than a quarter of a year—so laboriously
has he toiled in his own important department that
he has already impressedupon it indelibly the print
of his footsteps as an administrator. Insomuch
that his regime, if it were to terminate to-morrow,
could not very easily be forgotten in connection
with the Colonial Department, the tokens
of its existence, even for these three or
four months, could not very readily be
obliterated. And this entirely because of the
qualities already but just now particularised. Re-
membering what has but so very recently been
accomplished by Sir E. B. LYTTON in the Colonial
department, we cannot for • one instant believe
that he will lightly abandon the interests of Sir
JAMES BROOKE—the cause of Labuan—that settle-
ment of Sarawak—that standing-ground upon the
north-west coast of Borneo! We are full of hope—
because it is no longer a Whig who is in office :
because instead of that it is a man of original genius
who is at the head of the department—a man o
consummate daring, of large views and of rare
enlightenment.
At the same time that we are most hopeful—
now that Sir JAMES BROOKE will have to deal
with Sir EDWARD LYTTON upon this long-vexed
question—we are most earnestly solicitous that no
more time may be wasted in idle day-dreaming
over the possible issues of a great difficult. Fes-
tina legate must no longer be our motto in dealing
with the question of Sarawak, for it has come at
length to be a question (as Sir JAMES
BROOKE, Rajah of Sarawak and Governor
of Labuan, said yesterday at Liverpool)—
" difficult to evade consistently with faith,
and dangerous to delay consistently with honour."
England, in truth, is long since pledged to it. We
are bound in faith. We are bound in honour.
"Remember," says the Rajah solemnly, impressively

—"Remember the British merchants, and British
missionaries, British subjects of every class and
country, with their wives aid families, in reliance
on the faith and justice of their Government, have
embarked their all—life and property-i—in Sara-
wak." Beyond which—it is important that her
MAJESTY'S Ministers should bear in recollection
the fact that Sir JAMES BROOKE has spent
all the fortune he possesses in bringing
Sarawak to its present condition. Surely
after all those long and agonising delays, lie him-
self is constrained to exclaim, " England should
not benefit at my expense, or, in other words,
should not trade on my small capital." " Surely,"
as he adds, " having acquired a valuable province,
she should not repay my poor but very highly-
lauded service by the deprivation of my inheri-
tance !" It is strongly put—but it is the truth—
the simple, actual truth—without one particle of
exaggeration. Justice, honour, faith, all demand
that Sir J. BROOKE'S claim should be satisfied, and
that Sarawak should be placed under the direct
protection of the British Government.

Of the parentage of a Reform Bill, sketched re-
cently by a weekly contemporary, we have no
knowledge whatever : its features are germane to
the Whig style of Reform ; but beyond that we
know nothing, and the Whigs appear, openly at
least, to have made no sign of their intentions. The
draft Bill alluded to may well be the suggestion of
some of the old clique—it is at least not an unsuit-
able feeler for the party. On the other side we have
but the general indications that they do not expect
to get off without having to offer something in the
shape of Reform ; and hence, even Mr. HENLEY
professes to be a believer in " progress." The firmest
old Tories quite understand that their leader, with
all his abilities and influence, can never carry their
party through another Session, much less through
a general election; without he has something to
proffer in the shape of Representative Reform. The
country is quiet, to be sure, and the Whigs are
divided among themselves by the ambition of their
leaders, and the Radicals from both sections of the
Whigs by their more advanced principles; but, at
any moment, the desire of office may unite
the old Whigs and draw from them such engage-
ments with the Radicals as shall decide the latter
to reunite with their old, and, so often, faithless
allies. Of course, should that occur, Tory govern-
ment were at an end. Neither in the present house,
nor in any one that could now be elected, would
anti-Reforming Tories have the shadow of a chance.
The present Government, therefore, if it means to
retain office, must not take a leaf out of Lord PAL-
MERSTON'S book. It must put a reform of the re-
presentation, not only into the QUEEN'S Speech, but
into the shape of a producible bill ; it must have
some such bill as the Liberals of all parties would
not combine to reject by a vote equivalent to a non-
confidence vote ; or it must have a bill which, if
this house will not have it, it may be fairly ex-
pected the country will.

Let us look a moment at the position and objects
of the rival Premiers and their followers. Both

have one object in common to prevent power
passing more than they can help into the hands of
the people, yet to persuade the people not to dis-
trust them; but each desirous to attain this object
so as not to weaken his own p arty, but rather to
strengthen it. We believe neither party fears the
abuse of power by the people so much as it once
did ; but still it is erring on the safe side, as both
the late and the present advisers of her MAJESTY
think, to give power to the people in appearance
only, not in reality. At the same time each wants
to make all actual concessions or changes in such a
manner as to serve their own party purposes.
The Whig Bill, the RUSSELL-ABERDEEN Bill,
especially were conceived in this spirit. The last-
mentioned scarcely lowered the franchise in towns
at all, though it seemed to do so. The middle classes
in towns are the strength of the Whigs—the lower
classes tend too strongly to Radicalism ; hence the
objeet wap to preserve the hopkeeping constituency,

while it looked as if something much wider was
intended, and a £6 rating clause did this cleverly.

The other classes enfranchised "by' the Bill referred

to for the most past possess it already in some
shape. The 13ill also contained the famous minority
clause for large constituencies returning three mem-
bers. These are generallycounty constituencies; their
number was to be increased under the bill : and
the designed effect obviously was to give to the
Whigs, who in most counties are a very large and
respectable minority among the landlords, the third

or minority member. In towns returning three
members, which would be but few, the third mem-
ber would probably be a Tory. The Whigs, in aRy
Reform Bill of their concocting will drive at the

same objects still—to retain power with the

aristocracy, but with the Whig aristocracy. They
will probably be afraid to venture again the dodge

—it deserves no better name—of minority mem-

bers ; but they will rack their brains to the utter-

most to effect the same purpose by other means.
By schedules A and B ; by towns disfranchised
and towns enfranchised ; by counties divided, and
by the manner of their division.

The Tories on the other hand will also drive at
the same general objects. Suppose they should
proffer a low franchise for boroughs they will not
hurt themselves much. They will not lose by that
any borough which they now have, while the
members for those boroughs would be com-
pelled to support them ; they would at the
worst merely get in some places a Radical instead
of a Whig member—no great loss to them—while
their opponents would lose the member. The
Tories, therefore, would lose less, directly, by a very
extended borough franchise than the Whigs, for the
former would only lose, if we may be allowed the
Hibernicism, what they never had. The Whigs,
on the contrary, would often be undone. Of course
the Tories do not wish to catch Radical Tartars
instead of safe Whigs, yet it would injure them but
little politically. Then in regard to the country
boroughs ; if, insteadof much disfranchisement, they
were to propose amalgamation—districts of boroughs
—these, with a- low franchise, would be almost
entirely in the hands of the landlord class. In no
case, we imagine, need the Tories lose much by a
liberal borough franchise, while they would certainly
secure the goodwill for a time, and at the first
election almost certainly, of the class they had
enfranchised.

With the counties it is different. Suppose they
had got rid of the small towns, or got them into
a manageable shape by amalgamation, unless
universal suffrage were adopted the next
Blass to the present one which could be enfran-
chised, does contain many elements of indepen-
dence. The tenant farmer—the serfs of Toryism—
now suffice in most counties to give it the victory.
Were all the independent persons who inhabit ten-
pound houses beyond the limits of a borough pos-
sessed of a vote, they might, in many instances,
turn the scale in favour of the Liberals, even in a
county. Indeed, the Whigs themselves do not like
their now favourite county constituency-, their
tenants-at-will, to be outnumbered by free Eng-
lishmen, Still, Mr. LOCKE KING'S proposal would
work much better for Whiggism than for Toryism.
The Tories will therefore assuredly endeavour to
keep up the county franchise ; and also, like thei r
opponents, they will try so to divide the counties
afresh, and so re-apportion members, that their own
districts shall get more, and those of their op-
ponents fewer members. In this part of any Re-
form Bill there will be, we expect, no end of
Jugglery.

It is time for the country to be thinking of its
work. We believe the aristocracy arc inter man-
tores, not overlooking the question "how to keep
power by means of a Reform Bill." "Politics
next week," we have no objection to—that is, the
work of politics ; but, as the old Germans discussed
grave questions drunk, and acted sober, so shall we
take leave to talk a little about them after our sea-
side strolls, or our mornings among stubbles and
turnips, and come not only fresh to work, but also
with a little notion of what we are to do.

THE CORNISH FISHERIES.—At Mevrgissey the
seines are all put out to pay, and :there is no prospect of
fish. It has been a very dull season. Several large shoals
of pilchards have been seen in St. Ives Bay during the past
week ; but the seines did not take any. The drift boats
have brought in from 5,000 to 15,000 per boat. At Fal-
mouth Very little has been done in the fishery, the weather
having been against it.
HER MAJESTY AND THE THEATRICAL FROFES-
stoN.—Mre lusve heard it whispered, we know not with
what authority, that the most illustrious personage in the
world has had her attention directed to the enforced with-
drawal of Mr. Alfred Wigan's son from a Brighton school,
in consequence of the distaste of the parents of other boys
to their children's association with an actor's son. It has
been stated that the Queen, has herself communicated her
sentiments on the subject to Mr. Wigan, in a kindly and
sympathetic letter, and desired that a copy of the paper in
which the circumstance was first mentioned should be for-
warded to her. Nothing less coidd be expected from one
whose appreciation of theatrical entertainments is as keen
as it is discriminating, and who evinces it by a most com-
mendable regard for the worthiest and most accomplished
of our actors.—Constitutional Press.
CHESS MATCH BETWEEN MR. MORPIIY AND
HERA HARRAVITZ.—This match, now playing at Paris,
verges towards the close. Up to this moment six games
have been played. Herr Harrwitz won the first two, but
his able American antagonist, not at all discomposed by this
defeat, thought it was now time to be up and doing, and
since then has scored every game, and it is generally ex-
pected will win the remaining three. We are sorry to hear
there has been some reason to complain of the conduct of
Herr Harrwitz, who on two occasions failed to meet Mr.
_ _

Morphy at the 'appointed time, to the great disappointment
of the numerous visitors at the :Café de la Regence. Herr
Harrwitz afterwards pleaded indisposition and solicited from
his antagonist a truce, to which Mr. Morphy, with his
usual courtesy, readily agreed. During the contcst the cafe
has presented a scene of great animation, all classes having
flocked to catch a glimpse of the famous American player.
THE POTATO CROPS.—Farmers are now begin-

ning to get up the later kinds of potatoes, and as far as our
inquiries have gone the result is satisfactory, the amount of
the bad being very trifling in comparison with former years.
In some fields the marks of the disease are hardly percep-
tible, the tubers being clear and perfect as in the olden time
—these, however, are isolated cases, but it is certain that,
up to the present time, the potato is less injured than it has
ever been at the same period since the destructive ravager
made his unwelcome appearance. The late heavy rains
may have an injurious effect, and It would be premature to
judge of thelater kinds still in the ground; but as far as the
getting up has hitherto proceeded, the grower has no
reason for dissatisfaction. We have now before us a splen-
did sample of the Blue Farmer, many of which weigh
a pound and a-half each, and the general run of the crop,
which yielded five strikes to the rood, N..e:,,h from six ounces
to a-pound, the quality being equal to the produce. At pre-
sent they appear perfectly sound, but here and there one
may be found with the fatal speck upon it. Some time ago
we read in an agricultural work a method of stopping the
progress of the disease, which is very easily tried, and as it
appears feasible we would recommend, where the bad turn
up in any quantity, a trial of its efficiency. Heat a boiler
of water to scalding heat, and dip the tubers in, a basket-
ful! at a time. Let them get perfectly dry, and store them
in the usual way. Sound potatoes (not seedlings, of course)
served in this manner will keep till a late period in the
season. As it destroys the germinating principle, there is
no sprouting in the spring.—Bioninghani Daily Past.
Is THE ATLANTIC CABLE SEVERED ?—The
public sentiment, there is no concealing it, is greatly dis-
quieted about the Atlantic Telegraph. The latest evidence
of vitality that has reached us was furnished on the Ist inst.
in the despatch read by Mr. Cyrus W. Field at the Crystal
Palace. That despatch, dated upon the same day at Valen-
tia, stated that the directors were on their way thither to
open the line to the publie. Ten days have elapsed without
further tidings. For seven of them the operators on this side
confess that they have had no communication from Ire-
land and although they represent the insulation as re-
maining perfect we are left at a loss to know how they
ascertain the fact in the absence of intercourse. Mr. Field
comes to the rescue by stating that it is probable a contem-
plated change in the shore end at Valentia is the cause of
suspension • but as he owns to having had no later infor-
mation than that given to the crowd at the celebration,
and as that, so far from indicating such reason for
delay, announced the immediate opening of the line, with-
out further changes or experiments, we cannot avoid a
suspicion that some more serious causes have inter-
vened. Has the cable parted ? In traversing that wide
reach of 2,000 miles, how many a profound valley is that
slender cord suspended across, like the land wire between
its posts ? How many a rocky summit may it not rest upon,
swinging and wearing in currents and waves, in respe.t to
which, after all assertions and pretended soundings of in-
vestigators, we really know nothing? How many thousands
of submarine casualties may it not be exposed to, of which
we have no idea or possbility of information ? It must be
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LATEST NEWS.

INDIA AND CHINA.

The following telegram from Mr. Acting-Agent
and Consul-General Green, dated Corfu, 27th
Sept., 1858, 4 p.m., was received at the Foreign-
office, yesterday, at 9 p.m.:—
" ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. 23, 1858.
"The Bengal steamer arrived at Suez yesterday;
she brings Calcutta mails, &c.
" The Nubia had an accident to her machinery
after she left Madras, and having reached Ceylon
returned to Calcutta with the passengers, &c.
Transferred from the Bengal, the steamer from
Bombay arrived at Suez this morning. Dates—
Bombay, 7th inst.; Aden, 17th inst. Both Cal-
cutta and Bombay mails go forward by the Sal-

sette to-morrow.
" The fugitive rebels from Gwalior, after being
defeated on the 14th August, by General Roberts,
retreated towards Chumbul. They left some 700
killed on the field; our loss was very trifling.
" The fort of Pocurce, after 30 hours' shelling,
surrendered to General Napier on the 24th of
August.

" Sir Hope Grant's force is still in the neigh-
bourhood of Sultanpore, but its movements are im-
peded by the rains.
" A brilliant victory was lately gained by 550 of
the police over about 4,000 rebels.
"Three of the *algal Sepoy Reghnents have
been re-armed.
"The Punjaub is tranquil, as are also the Presi-
dencies of Bombay and Madras.
"From China, there is [no?] news of any impor-
tant interest.
" Corfu, Sept. 27, 1858, 4 p.m."

NAPOLEON AND THE CZAR.
Prince Napoleon left Paris Yesterday by special
train for Warsaw, accompanied by several officers
of his household. He is expected back on the
sth or 6th of next month. A less important in-
cident occurring when politics are in a lull—
when the Court is far away at the sea-side—
when our most distinguished politicians are rus-
ticating—and when no scandals of any note ars
abroad—would excite curiosity among the news-
mongers of the Bourse and the boulevards.
Military manoeuvres on a large scale are to be
executed, under the eye of the Czar himself, on
the plains of Warsaw, and the Prince who
stands in such close relation to the Imperial
Throne must not miss the opportunity of witnessing
as a friend the simulated war which he saw in
reality and, as a foe, in the Crimea. Some believe
that the journey of his Imperial Highness is simply
an act of courtesy in the name of the Emperor, his
cousin. Had the Czar been at Brussels, or Turin,
or Berne, or London, or Madrid, it might be under-
stood, but Warsaw is rather distant from Paris.
Then we are 'told of matrimonial views, of which
Prince Napoleon is the object, and for which the
Czar's influence is most desirable, and most poten-
tial where German princes and princesses are to be
matched. On the other hand, it is rumoured
that the Prince is gone to Warsaw to invite
his Russian Majesty to pay a visit to Paris.
It is said that when the Emperor Alexander
received a similar invitation last year, he softened
his answer on that occasion by hinting that he
might visit France on some future day. Every
one knows the anxiety of the Emperor of the
French to see foreign Sovereigns at his Court.
It is perhaps one of the weak points in his cha-
racter. It would seem that he is hardly considered
a bona fide monarch until this craving be satisfied ;
and the presence of the Emperor of All the Russias
in the capital of the French Empire, dwelling
under the same roof, and partaking of his bread
and his salt, would be a triumph to his vanity. To
overcome any repugnance of the Muscovite Auto-
crat to figuring at the Tuileries would be a great
point gained. We were but half satisfied with the
flying visit of the Grand Duke Constantine, who
no doubt thought it an act of condescension on his
part to come even alone. What a triumph, then,
if the Czar, and especially the Czarina, accepted an
invitation from his bon ami and frere ! Whether
Prince Napoleon is really entrusted with such a
mission I do not affirm, though I should not be sur-
prised if he was..-..Faris Correspondent of the
Times (Second Edition.)

MADRID, SEPT. 2/.

In Spain the elections absorb almost entirely the
attention of the public, and active preparations arc
now making by all parties.
A Royal decree fixes the elections for the 31st of
October.

The garrison of Madrid is 15,000 strong.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY.
M. Duchene de BellecOurt will leave on the 3d of
October, for China, with the treaty ratified by the
Emperor. After the exchange of ratifications has
taken place, Baron Gros will return direct to
France, and Admiral Rigault de Genouilly will
proceed on his expedition to Cochin China.
BOURSE, September 27, Two o'Clock.—The mar-
ket has been buoyant, and prices in advance on
Saturday's quotations. Threes have been done at
73f. 35c. and 73f. 40c., and are now at -73 f. 35c. ;
Mobilier varied from 975 E to 982 f. 50c. ; Austrian,
680E.t0 683 f. 75c. ; Lyons, 987 f. 50c., to 992 f. 60e.
Eastern, 755 f. to 760 f.; Northern, 997 f. 50c. to
I,ooof. ; Southern, 610 f. to 612 f. 50c. ; and Orleans,
1,440 f. to 1,442 f. 50c; The following were the last
quotations :

4f per Cents. 96
Do. end month ..

3 per Cents. " 73 25
Do. end month.... 73 40
Bank Shares—. ... 3100

Credit Mo 980
Do, Account 990

Crddit Fonder -- --
Belgian 41
Piedmonteso (5)
Roman 921
Austrian
Spanish Threes - --
Home Debt

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern . 997 60 .. 1000
New ditto. 835 845
Lyons and Mediterranean BBB 75 890
New ditto
Geneva
Midi
Western
Eastern ........
Grand Central
Sardinian ..
Austrian...

670 .. 665 --
610 -.-. 612 60
647 50 .. 647 50
750 755 -

460 --
680 -

--
465 -
••
•• 683 75

Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 20c.; money,
25f. 171 c. ; three months, paper, 25f. 21c. ; money, 25f,

NAPLES.
A letter from Naples, dated Sept. 22, gives a
despatch from the King's Minister to Prince Pe-
trulla, Neapolitan Minister at Vienna, in reply to
inquiries from Count Buol relative to " pretended
secret negotiations with the courts of St. James's
and the Tuileries."

" The King, our august master, has never dero-
gated from his duty for anybody or anything, in any
circumstances. Constrained, contrary to his will,
by force and violence, to submit to acts against
which reason, justice, and law protest, he may have
been ;but these acts will never have the sanction of
his conscience, andhis Majesty will always consider
them as an outrage to his sacred person, against
which he has no means of meting. The heart of
his Majesty knows not forgetfulness.
" His Majesty was profoundly wounded when
France and England, without reason, contrary to
international law and for causes which were in
reality only pretexts, withdrew their ministers
from his court. Having been thus offended, and

the offence not having been mitigated by the sub-
sequent conduct of the two powers, his Sicilian
Majesty would consider himself humiliated in his
own eyes, in the eyes of his subjects, and of Europe,
if he took any steps to bring about a reconciliation.
" When the representatives of the two courts re-
sided here, all the movements of the Government
were watched, scanned, and measured, and each
independent act of his sovereignty was subjected to
an investigation as annoying as it was wounding.
Since the Government has been freed from
this interference and unjustifiable control, its
movements have been more free, more rapid, and
the happy subjects of his Majesty have reaped the
benefits of the change. . . . All that passed,
all that was said at Cherbourg on this subject, in
no ways affects us ; for nothing has been done or
said at our suggestion, but probably as a result of
the desire expressed at the Court of England by
the powers friendly to our sovereign, and princi-
pally by Prussia and Bavaria.
" This does not imply, however, that a reconcilia-
tion with the two European powers would not be
very agreeable to us ; but as it was not the king
who caused this rupture, so it will not be by the
king that the first steps towards reconciliation are
taken.

(Signed)

SERVIA.

" CARAFFA."

A letter from Belgrade says :—" In order to give
satisfaction to the English consul, the Porte agreed
to withdraw the garrison of this place and to sub-
stitute another in its stead.
_But a considerable
sum was necessary to liquidate debts due to the
soldiers and inhabitants, and even for the transport
of the troops; and Osman Pacha, the governor,
had not the necessary funds at his disposal. He
made application for money by telegraph to
Constantinople, but as it would take too much
time to forward it, the Turkish. Government
directed him to request the Prince of S ervia to
advance the necessary sum, on the security of
the half year's tribute of 4,000,000 piastres, pay-
able in some months' time. The Prince, although
possessing sums of money to the amount required,
managed to obtain from the Senate, which he has
filled with creatures of his own, a refusal of the
Pacha's request. Nevertheless, several senators
vehemently opposed itself against the Prince.
Directions were then sent to Osman Pacha to borrow
a million and a half of piastres from M. Mischa,
head of the popular party,'one of the richest of the
Servian proprietors. He lent the sum very willingly,
and when it arrived at Belgrade every one was
loud in his praise."
A letter from Belgrade, in the Zeit of Berlin,
says :--" M. Garachanin, Minister of the Interior,
who governs in conjunction with the President of
the:Senate, has constrained the Prince, under the
threat of the resignation of the whole Ministry, to
consent to a general assembly of the people, called
Skuptchina. A commission, composed of the Presi-
dent of the Senate, four Senators, and four Minis-
ters has been constituted to determine the mode
of election, the place and the date of the meet-
ing, and the subjects to be discussed. It is thought
that the meeting will be held in September at
Belgrade. There is no reason to fear that the
assembly would be a stormy one, which would
cause danger, as everybody in such an assembly is
armed."

A Vienna letter of the 22d, in the .Breslau
Gazette, says :--" The Austrian Gazette was
seized yesterday for an article ralative to the
Governmental question of Prussia. It is very
seldom that the Vienna journals are seized, because
before they are worked off in a general way they
communicate the proof sheets of each number to
the police, and the editors are thus able to remove
any passages which may be pointed out as ob-
jectionable. The seizure which has now taken
place is doubtless, therefore, by order of the superior
authorities."

THE THEATRES.

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