The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-01 00:00:00

FAREWELL SEASON OF MR. CHARLES KEAN
AS MANAGER OF THE
pOY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
AA, 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's Historical Tragedy
of KING JOAN,
'which will be revived on Monday, 18th October.

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

Harrison.

THIS EVENLNG, 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. Zilla
Michelet, Pasquale, and Morlacchi.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING will be performed THE RIVALS.
After which, THE DAUGHTER OF TIIE GUADAL•
QUIVER. Peres Nene.
With THE KING'S GARDENER.
And JOIIN JONES.

Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING, the New Comedy of EXTREMES ;
on, !flex of the Day. Supported by Messrs. Leigh. Murray,
Emery, J. Rogers, and Barrett ; Mrs. A. Mellon (late Miss
Woolgar), Mrs. Weston, Miss Kate Saxon.

After which the Ballet of THE RENDEZVOUS, in which
the Lauri Family will appear.
Doors open at half-past 8, 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.

CANTFRBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The following Company
of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections
from all theyopnlar OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES,
GLEES, DSETS, &c., viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badsey,
Miss Brunell, Miss Its Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague,
Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ; Herr F. Jonpthmans,
Mr. Hsnshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio,
E. 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, &c., until 12 o'clock.
NOTICE.—The Proprietor begs respectfully to announce
tnat in the month of October,

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

THE WEATHEIt.-SUN OFFICE, OCT. 1.

TUERMOMETER, IN THE SIIADE.

68—highest since noon yesterday.
55—lowest this morning and during the night.
67—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.02.
Wtwe, South-West ; strong breeze, and flue.

THE SUN.

FRIDAY. OCTOBER 1, 1856.

The Revenue Returns for the financial year, half-
year, and quarter, which terminated yesterday,
are once more bcfore us, and we may say that they
are quite as good as could reasonably have been
anticipated. It is true that there has been a great
diminution in the national income—that our
receipts during the past year have been in round
terms six millions (X 6,017,162) less than in the
preceding one—the receipts having been during
that which has just terminated £65,161,499, while
those of the former were 171,178,661.
The falling off is, however, fully and
satisfactorily accounted for. Wo have had
fortunately but £w extraordintry demands
during 1857-8, and, consequently, the chan-
cellor Or the Exchequer has been enabled
to deal liberally with the tax-paying community ;
and even a portion of the outlay that has taken
place will be recouped by the Chinese indemnity.
It must be borne in mind that the war 9d. was
struck off, and that it is only within the present
year that the tax-paying community have ex-
perienced the full benefit of the alteration. A fur-
ther reduction was effected last session by the
munificence of Mr. DISRAELI ; but the effects
thereof will only be perceptible next year, when
the people are no longer tortured by the financial
screw or the stringent applications of the tax-

gatherers.
The Customs have improved within the year,
and considering that the first quarter was marked
by a financial crisis of an extraordinary character
—that only £5,590,018 were received, against
£6,232,175 in the corresponding quarter of 1856--

we must be agreeably surprised to find an increase
on the year of more than £366,000, or a thousand
pounds a day in round terms. The improvements
on the half-year and quarter are, however, far
more satisfactory. On the half-year it is £363,727,
while on the quarter it is no less than £634,037.
When we consider that this is the test of our com-
mercial relations with other nations, we must con-
gratulate ourselves on the satisfactory state of
affairs proved to exist by the most unexceptionable
evidence, viz., that of facts and figures.
In the Excise there is an increase on the year of
£212,000, but a decrease on the half-year and quar-
ter—on the former of £94,000, and on the latter of
£213,000. This is the more to be regretted, as the
returns under that head are generally regarded as
indicating the degree of comfort and prosperity
enjoyed by the labouring population. It, however,
to a great extent may be satisfactorily accounted
for. There has been a postponement of the collec-
tion of the hop duties, and an alteration of, that of
the spirit duties. Other influences, which gave
additional facilities to the contributors to the
revenue in these departments, have also been in
operation, and, on the whole, there is no reason
for forming an unfavourable opinion in consequence
of the diminution in the domestic taxes on homely
comforts.

In Stamps there are improvements on the year,
half year, and quarter, of £382,120, £312,624, and
£78,745 respectively. The latter may, in a great
degree, be ascribed to the tax on cheques intro-
duced in the last budget, which seems fully to
verify the calculations of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer.

In the Assessed Taxes there is an increase on the
year of £37,013, but a decrease of £16,000 on the
half-year, and of £lB,OOO on the quarter. This,
however, mainly depends on the stringency of the
collection, and does not materially indicate the
general prosperity of the people.

The great changes are in the Property and In-
come-tax, but fortunately they are not produced by
any failure of resources, but in the most legitimate
and satisfactory manner—by the reduction of
taxation. Not only the war 9d. but an addi-
tional 2d. have been relinquished. The latter has
as yet scarcely come into practical operation,
but the full benefit of the former is now expe-
rienced ; and inasmuch as each penny in the pound
was estimated to produce £1,000,000 sterling to
the Exchequer, we must be well pleased to find
that the loss on the year is but £7,900,399, or
nearly £1,100,000 less than might have been anti-
cipated, while that on the half-year is £3,733,490,
and on the quarter £2,477,537. The loss on the
year is, however, made up to the extent of nearly
£2,000,000, that of the hgf-year to more thail

£1,000,000, and t At of the quarter to nearly
£750,000, from of ...!r• sources.

In the mincl branches the accounts are very
satisfactory. the Post-office is steadily improving.
The increase o the year is £95,000, n the half-
year £105,000,) and on the quarter £ 5,000. These
are proofs of the efficiency of the administration
in this import Liat department.
In the Cr "n Lands there are trifling alterations
scarcely w :thy of notice, inasmuch as they have
not in am/of the periods amounted to £715.
In th' Miscellaneous the improvement is very
considr able : on the year, £791,496 ; on the half-
year, £341,840 ; and, on the quarter, £262,252.
Thi ..s, however, an exceptional item ; and, as the
sale of old stores forms an important element in the
calculation, it is one that cannot be taken into ac-
count as in any way representing the welfare or
prosperity of the nation.
On the whole, we have every reason to be
pleased with the national balance-sheet, which
furnishes another powerful proof of the elasticity
of the national resources.

What an extremely terrible thing for Ministers!
The British Quarterly Review is actually against
her MAJESTY'S Government. A long, cynical
diatribe against the present Cabinet in the num-
ber of this contemporary just issued from the press,
is prefaced with the remark, that " Never was
there an epoch in which it was so necessary for
the Liberal Party to unite their energies, to con-
centrate their efforts, and make a move in the right
direction." Meaning, of course, obviously, that
even now the poor turned-out -Whigs, like the poor
frozen-out gardeners at Christmas-time, are begin-
ning already to experience rather distressingly
the pangS of hunger, hunger after the loaves and
fishes of office, after the fleshpots of the Egypt
of power, and aro consequently prepared,
with a brazen effrontery, to make their old;
old appeal ad )nisericonliam. Thereupon, having
blown the rallying bugle note for the benefit of the
discomfited and scattered Opposition, the British
begins in real earnest its laboured onslaught upon
the various members of the present Administration.
After this, of course, the next announcement to
be looked for in the journals of the day will be the
intimation that the_Earl of DERBY has frankly ten-
dered to his SOVEREIGN the collective resignation
of the present Government. Surely there is no
alternotive before Ministers! The British Quarterly
is against them, calls them piebald, kaleidoscopic,
and all sorts of other odd little adjectives of the like
complimentary description. Therefore, as an
obvious and unavoidable necessity, Ministers have
no other course before them but that, literally, of

being—resigned.

It is sufficiently amusing to remember, at
the same time, that this heterogeneous Cabinet,
this Ministry composed of the mere odds and ends
of party, this incongruous Administration, repre-
senting " every shade of opinion within the limits
of the constitution"—that is to say, at least, as it is
described to be by the British Quarterly—is really
and truly, is notoriously, glaringly, undeniably,
formed from and supported by the one only com-
pact, united, and considerable party within the
walls of the Imperial Legislature.
It is if possible still more entertaining to the
mere unimpassioned observer of events to note that

the disingenuous publicist who can so very
flagrantly distort the facts of the case to suit party
purposes, and to rekindle, if possible, the extin-

guished hopes of the Whig opposition—rather pre-

posterously follows up its recommendation of reunion
and reconcentration among the Liberals generally
by 'Urccting, on behalf of the ey-Vilthters. the
grossest taunts against the most important of all
the sections of true reformers in the House of Com-
mons—in other words, by personally insulting the

chief of that notable little phalanx, seated upon
the back bench&s to the left of Mr. SPEAKER,
immediately below the gangway. "We would
suggest," says the British Quarterly (so concilia-
tory, this !) " we would suggest to the democratic
section of this body (i.e., of the Liberal party gene-
rally) the expediency of not requiring too much
condescension at the hands of their great Whig
colleagues, as the price of their adhesion." Too
much condescension, forsooth !--surely, than this,
nothing could well be more singularly im-
pertinent. Mr. GIBSON and Mr. BRIGHT

are coolly informed, as though they were
lacqueys in the vestibule of the drawing-rooms at
Cambridge House, that they really must not look
for " too much condescension at the hands of their
Great Whig colleagues"—those high and mighty
Don Magnificos ! And as if the impertinence was
not sufficiently explicit, the Whig reviewer con-
tinues—becoming pertly humorous under the ex-
hilarating influence of the following agreeable
little hypothesis :—" Becanse the right honourable
member for Ashton-under-Lyne, when he chooses
to head a deputation, is n'Ot ushered by the under-
secretary with obsequious bowings into the cham-
ber of the principal; or because the Honourable
Member for Birmingham is not occasionally feted
at Cambridge House ; or because couriers are not
continually kept running between his town resi-
dence and the Foreign-office with copies of im-
portant despaches, we see no reason why the Whigs
should be publicly lectured on the want of proper
decorum and refined manners." What a brilliant
prospect does not this open up to the Liberal party
of a general and permanent reconciliation.
The next thing after Lord DERBY'S resignation
—which will of course be given in not later than
to-morrow—will be (equally of course) the forma
tion of a sort of political Happy Family Cabinet, eom
posed harmoniously of Whigs and Manchesterites,

What is become of all the ghosts ? We used to
hear much talk about such things in the days of our
childhood. Churchyards had not then quite lost
their reputation as domiciles of shadowy forms of
the departed, and certain rooms in old houses, and
now and then a whole house itself, were believed
to be haunted, much, sometimes, to the prejudice
of the landlords' pockets. JOHN WESLEY saw, or
his disciples saw, ghosts by the score, and most of
the old ladies of our acquaintance,and sexagenarians
of the other sex, too, know of persons who had seen
some form'of a deceased person, or had received some
audible message from him ; but really, now, we
do not know where to find a ghost-seer, or a per-
son who indubitably knows of one. In this scepti-
cal age, this material age, this age which imprisons
and enslaves steam itself to its service, and even
binds the lightning by its wires, and compels it
to be a messenger of sordid and earthly things—in
such an age as this no ghost can live. Only a day
or two ago we read of a poor woman driven from
her house by a ghost which could play all
sorts of pranks with the chairs in her
bed-room, and even untie the sailor's knots
which bound them ; yet, forsooth, the police are
set to work to find out the ghost ! and, we are
gravely told, " it is hoped they will succeed!"
Police succeed in pouncing on a ghost ! detectives
detect a sprite ! We wish them joy of their task.
Indeed, all the invisible world, the spirit world,
which so often, to the undoubting, clothed itself in
white, and became visible to our optics, now seems
to have taken a nobler cue—they " rap it into us"
nova and rap it into the believing pretty well too ;

we must suppose, then, that ghosts have at last re-
solved to deal with our ears exclusively, and that
spirit-rapping is the substitute for spirit-seeing.
A good substitute, too, since the spirits, we believe,
rap to order of the rappists, while in the old style
the spirits did not always come from the vasty deep
when we did call them.

Or is it that another kind of ghosts have driven
the old sort off the stage ? In this hard, unsparing
age of change, misnamed, some say, Reform, many
have been the deaths of mighty entities of the ages
gone by, and their bodies being hardly inter-
red yet, their disconsolate, and, in truth, some-
what formidable shadows, still wander about
on this side the dark river, and the
inexorable ferryman declines to ferry them to their
last home. Well may the hnmbler private spectres
retire before those which now ever and anon flit
before the public gaze. Minds full of Parliamentary
Reform and Commercial Reform, of Law Reform
and Prison Reform, of Sanitary Reform and Sewers
Reform, of Church Reform and State Reform, of
Reform of all the great and glorious institutions of
our forefathers—minds full of these great imagina-
tions have no organs to discover the old vulgar
ghosts. They are haunted by the ghosts of old
feudal customs, of long lingering Protection, of
Protestant ascendancy in Ireland, of Anglican
Popery here, and of all the shapes and forms which
Bigotry, Monopoly, Aristocracy once wore on earth.
It was supposed by the many, at the time, that
the Reform Bill of 1832 had buried Toryism for
ever ; yet ever since its shade, Conservatism, has
followed and warned and frightened many, and,
by its mysterious noise, almost made us believe
that the new house we have lived in for a quarter
of a century or more was like to tumble about our
ears. And, now that Conservatism hardly owns
its name, " Progress," " well considered progress,"
or, as Mr. HENLEY has it, " one-foot-at-a-time pro-
gress," rattles all the possible danger of Reform
about our ears, till we are compelled to acknow-
ledge that the shade of old Toryism has not
got quietly into Hades yet. Nor do we know who
is the politician that can lay the restless spirit of it.
As to the ecclesiastical ghosts, their name is
almost legion. Stir which way you like they will
make you hear. There are ghosts Episcopal; ghost s
Presbyterian, ghosts Papal, ghosts of the Establish-
ment, and ghosts of Dissent—ghosts which rise out
of cathedral endowments, out of church rates, out of
Regium Donum, out ofpoor curates, out of spiritual
destitution, and out of rich bishoprics and incum-
bencies—you can hardly move without meeting
some uneasy spirit, wailing and deploring that its
life and vigour are gone. When the monks and
friars of all colours, as MILTON describes them,
covered the face of the land, thoy did at least keen
the old sort of ghosts in some kind of order, but
now that they and the monks are vanished both,
and that a profane toleration first, and a yet pro-
faner cry of religious equality now, has half mur-
dered the churches by law established, there is no
rest for us. Not a session of Parliament passes
that bishops and a few other peers, or Dissenting,
Catholic, and Quaker members in the Commons do
not disquiet the spirits of our venerable ecclesi-
astical institutions, and almost kill with fright
many a SPOONER and a NEWDEGATE, a MARL-
BOROUGH and aSHAFTESBURY.
For ourselves we must confess that these latter
kind of ghosts have as little terror for us as those
of the old sort. The squeaking and jibing of the
trembling ghosts of dead notions and habits of
thinking can only make us: smile. Our age is quite
as unsparing in scrutinizing its old institutions as
it is in experimenting on and ransacking the facts
and laws of nature itself. The old bodies eis,nofg.etih. things
uans doft,thise "giernitesriNatthioknh; ‘til'i'e'yl‘nl;:tkl:contelit to have
served their turn, and allow us to believe that we
can best arrange for ourselves. We have got rid
of witchcraft and evil spirits, and spirits of all
sorts, and, incredulous, we only send the policeman
to settle any visions which may trouble a weak
mind here and there. We do the same in sub-
stance with all who would terrify us by appari-
tions from the good old boroughmongering, Church-
and-King, and Protection-to-native-industry times
We mean to go on renovating and rebuilding, and
getting rid of rats, and ivy and owls, and ghosts,
from wing after wing of the edifice, until, indeed,
the ghosts of the past would not know the old
haunted chamber if they came to it.

IMPROVEMENT OF GALWAY HARBOUR. The
government are about to send three gentlemen, experienced
in engineering and maritime matters, to Galway, who will
report to the government upon the state of the harbour and
roadstead, and who will also inquire as to what works may
be necessary for rendering that port safe and commodious.
Freeman's Journal.
RUMOURED ACCIDENT TO THE STEAMSHIP PRO-
PELLER.--Yesterday (Thursday) a telegram was posted in
the Liverpool Exchange News-room, to the effect that a
letter had been received in Dublin from Galway, in which
it was stated that the steam-ship Propellor was run a-
, ground to prevent her sinking.
We have to record the demise on Saturday last
of John Egmont Brooman, Esq., Paymaster of H.M. S.
Cornwallis, stationed at Hull. This officer has seen service
in all parts of the world ; amongst others in New Zealand,
on the coast of Africa, in Ansten's expedition to the Arctic
Regions in search of Sir John Franklin, and during the late
war was under fire in the Baltic and in the Black Sea, for
which the Arctic, Baltic, and Black Sea medals wore
awarded to him. Mr. Brooman dies deservedly lamented by
his brother officers in the service, as well as by his bereaved
widow, his aged mother, and by a large circle of relatives
and friends. His gentlemanly and honourable bearing and
kindness of heart, added to a well-stored mind, made him a
kind friend and delightful companion. He secured the
esteem and affection of all with whom ho was brought in
contact.

MIDDLESEX REGISTRATION. Yesterday Mr.
Shadwell, the revising barrister, held hia Court at the New
Globe Tavern, Mile-end, to revise the list of voters in the
several parishes at the east end of the metropolis. In the
parish of St. Mary's, Whitechapel, a Mr. Newin was ob-
jected to as having claimed in respect of a "part freehold."
Mr. Shadwell declared that he did not know what was

meant by a " part freehold." The agent stated that Mr.
Newin claimed on the Bridgwater estate, and his part free-
hold was situated on it. The claim was amended and
allowed to remain on the register. The other business was
to correct the register, and the officers of the various
parishes attended and assisted the learned gentleman in
making a correct list of voters.
ELECTION OF MEDICAL OFFICERS IN ST. PAN-
cnes.—Yesterday a contest for the appointment of district
parochial medical officers took place m St. Pancras. Out
of the candidates six were reported by a committee of the
vestry as eligible for election. However, notwithstanding
the candidates had been carefully examined and interrogated
by the committee, they were called before the full bench,
and passed through the same ordeal again. One member
of the vestry, a Mr. Fisher, made himself conspicuous in
his examination into the qualifications of the candidates by
askin6, " Where do you live ?" and " How long have you
lived m the parish ?" A great deal of time was wasted in
this way, and at length the candidates went to a ballot, the
result as reported by the scrutineers being as follows :
Haynes? 61; Slight, 18 ; Dalton, 6 ; Rawlings, 6 ; Naggs,
4; Davis, 1. Mr. Haynes was therefore declared duly
elected. A Mrs. Hoffman was at the same time elected
female superintendent of the lunatic department in the
workhouse, against which appointment Mr. Farrer handed
in a protest numerously signed, it being urged that other
candidates had not had an opportunity to attend by due
notice being given them of the time the election would take
place.

SUICIDE OF A GENTLEMAN UPON A RAILWAY.—
During the last week the family of Mr. Gerard B. Smith,
Warwick-square, Belgravia, and proprietor of the well-
known Pimlico Wheel Works, have been thrown into the
utmost state of affliction in consequence of the said gentle-
man putting a period to his existence by throwing himself
before a railway train at Wandsworth. An inquest was
held at the Wandsworth Union-house, before Mr. Carter,
coroner for West Surrey, and a most respectable jury, when
the evidence went to show that the deceased had been in a
low desponding state of mind for some time past, for which
no cause could be assigned, as he was in affluence ; nor did
it come out that any domestic annoyance had preyed upon
his mind, or that any hereditary mania had ever existed in
the family. He was connected with many scientific socie-
ties, and had within the last few months laid out a large
capital in mercantile transactions, which had resulted to his
advantage. He left his residence with the intention, as he
stated, of going upon business in the country, and was not
heard of again until the sad intelligence reached his family
of his dreadful and melancholy death. Evidence was
brought to prove that the deceased deliberately threw him-
self across the tramroad when the Hampton Court train was
approaching the Wandsworth station, and before the driver
of the engine could stop the train the whole of the car-
riages went over him, causing instantaneous death and
mutilating his body in a most frightful manner. A long
discussion took place as to the deceased's state of mind, of
which the jury were eventually satisfied, and accordingly
returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity." The deceased
has left a widow and young family to lament premature
and awful death,

LATEST

'NEWS.

AUSTRALIA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MORNING.
The Sultana arrived in the Mersey this morning
with 40,500 ounces of gold on freight. She sailed
the 24th of June,

HAMBURG, SEPT. 29.

The Invincible steamer, coming from Cronstadt
with a full cargo, foundered at sea near Hochland.
The crew and passengers were saved, and have
arrived at Stockholm.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY.

The Moniteur of this day states that the Emperor
of Russia has given a distinguished reception to
Prince Napoleon, and that the Emperor accom-
panied the Prince back to his residence.
PARIS, THURSDAY.
Lord Stratford de Redcliffe was to have been
received by the Sultan on the 25th ult.
The Chief Minister of Persia and his two sons
have been dismissed, and are under surveillance.
King Otho of Greece will embark on the 10th of
October for Venice.

The Emperor, the Empress, and the Prince Im-
perial left Biarritz on Wednesday at half-past
twelve, and arrived at lordeaux at six in the even-
ing. Their Majesties again left Bordeaux at eight,
and arrived at St. Chud yesterday morning at
seven o'clock. Their Nlajesties and the Prince
Imperial are in the enjoyment of excellent health.
A letter from Suez, of the 16th, announces the
arrival of the ' Egyptian,- frigate Gabari from
Jeddah, with 'lsmail Pacha and 36 prisoners who
were concerned in the massacre in the latter place ;
these prisoners were to be conveyed to Con-
stantinople.

One of the principal journals of Berne, La
Suisse, publishes the following note, which is con-
sidered an official communication :—" For some
time past the Paris correspondents of the Swiss,
Belgian, and German journals seem to have formed
a conspiracy for the propagation of a report to
the effect that serious differences exist between
the Federal Council and_ the French Govern-
ment. They assert that the latter reproaches the
Federal Council with a want of energy in the
case of certain cantons, too little inclined to submit
to the requisitions of France in the matter of re-
fugees and passports ; that notes have recently
been exchanged on this subject between Berne and
Paris ; that the Marquis de Turgot is to occupy
himself energetically with these affairs immediately
after his arrival, &c. They have even gone so far
as to say that the French Government had recently
addressed a renewed communication of a very
pressing nature to the Federal Council respecting
the residence of some refugees at Geneva, and that
M. Kern, who has just passed some time in Swit-
zerland, has set out again for Paris with special
instructions on this point. We are in a position
to affirm that these allegations are perfectly
erroneous. M. Kern arrived in Switzerland on
private business of his own ; and though he has
seen during his stay the members of the Federal
Council, his intercourse with it has had little or
nothing to do with politics. The renewed com-
munication of the French Government respecting
the refugees at Geneva is a fiction. Since the
federal decree relating to this subject, no new com-
plaint has been made, and this affair has not even
been mentioned between the two Governments.
These latter have not exchanged any note on any
subject whatsoever for several months back, and it
may be affirmed, in a general way, that the rela-
tions between France and Switzerland have never
been on so easy a footing."
PARIS BOURSE, Sept. 30, Two o'Clock.—There
has been a struggle to-day on the part of sellers to
bring down prices, but without effect, and the
option was done at 73f. 30c. on the Threes, which
varied from 73f. 20c. to 73f. 35c. Mobilier have
been done at 967 f. 50c. to 975 f. ; Austrian, 667 f.
50c. to 671 f. 25c. ; Orleans, 1,425 f. to 1,427 f. 50c. ;
Lyons, 882 f. 50c. to 885 f. ; Southern, 597 f. 50e. to
602 f. 50c. ; Northern, 985 f. to 990 f. ; and Eastern,
745 f. to 747 f. 50c; The following were the last
quotations :

41 per Cents. 96
Do. end month 96 40
3 per Cents
Do. end month 73 40
Bank Shares 3lOO
Credit Mobilier
Do. Account! 982 50

Cr6dit Fonder 660
Belgian 4/ . look
Piedmonteso (5) 92
Roman 93
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern
New ditto. 836 25 .. 835
Lyons and Mediterranean BB5 .. 883 75
New ditto
Geneva
Midi
Western
Eastern
Grand Central
Sardinian. 465 .. 460 -
Austrian 670 .. 671 50
Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 20c. ; money,
25f. 150. ; three months, paper, 25f. 21c. ; money, 25f.

- - -
650 - 657 50
601 25 .. 601 25
642 50 .. 642 50
745 - .. 748 75

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