The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-10 00:00:00

THE " GREAT SOCIAL EVIL."

It is a noticeable fact that, at the time our jour-
nals at home are discussing more frequently than
usual " the great social evil" of our large cities,
the same sad topic is exciting precisely the same
attention and leading to the same remedial sugges-
tions at Melbourne. Public meetings have been
held in the colony, and the deputations have had
interviews with the Governor, with a view to the
adoption of means for the repression of vice. The
Argus states that female prostitution prevails
throughout the Australian colonies " to a frightful
extent."
"It has been proposed here (says the Aryus) to
establish a Female Home for the accommodation of
virtuous young women, both on their first arrival in the
colony and during their intervals of non-employment.
But any measures of protection wo can devise here will
be of little avail if the morality of our female immigra.
tion be undermined before it reaches our shores. And
it did not require the positive evidence adduced at the
Melbourne meeting to establish the fact which many
previou • s revelations had made notorious, that young
female immigrants coming to these shores are subject to
a succession of demoralising iuffuences, lasting through
the whole currency of their voyage ; that they are ex-
posed, in the vast majority of cases, to a systematic
loaonnd-
spiracy to corrupt them ; and that it is less than a
miracle; for a young girl, sent'out to these distant shores
without matronly protection during the voyage, to
here the same incorrupt, pure-minded being that she
was when she left her mother's roof.

"All female emigration for the future ought to
partake of a family character. If households cannot
come out to Australia undivided, it is at least essential
that no daughter of a family should be allowed
to leave the shelter of the rooftree for this distant
voyage without being placed under the protecting
surveillance of some person of her own sex, of
character and discretion. We should not acquit
our eonaciencal if we did not impress this matter upon
the earnest and anxious consideration of all persons in
England Maooiated with schemes of female emigration

• NEW SOUTH WALES. ,ca
SYDNEr, Jan. 12.--In the Money 44.-o,:lheW.
considerable stringency stilt prevails, 04:1:142;j47
proapeet at present of augmenting, but
a partial alteration has taken place in th 03-1)1L
interest. Two of the banks .the ,Oriental,*nd
English, Scottish, and Australian—charge 7 per
cent. an bills discpuneed, haying 90 days to run,
while the old institutions maintain the old rate of
6 per cent. Exchange ou London. ranges from
to 1 per dent discount for purchasing hills. Drafts
issued at per cent. premium: Usanee, .60-clay's
sight.
It is understood that Mr. Henry Fisher, wine
merchant, of this city, will shortly file Me schedule.
His .liabilities are said to. exceed 120,0001. The
firm of Purkis and Laisabert, auctioneers of some
standing, is repotted to be involved with Fisher by
endorsements on bills for nearly half this amount,
and will not be able to work through. Another
firm of a similar nature, but smaller, is also talked
of as being likely to suspend. Otherwise our trad-
ing circle is in a sound and healthy state.
The political world is fully occupied with the
approaching general election—a dissolution of the
Assembly having taken place last month in con-
sequence of the ministerial defeat on the Assess-
ment on Stock Bill, and numerous candidates for
legislative honours are busy in the field. Alta ars.
Cowper, Campbell, Wilshire, and Dailey, Mr. G.
Thornton, ex-mayor, and a Mr. Fowler, parlia-
meutary reporter, are canvassing for the city. Two
members of the ministry, Mr. Jones, Colonial Trea-
surer, and Mr. Murray, Secretary for Lands and
Works, have resigned. The first vacancy has
been filled by Mr. R. Campbell, but the Land Da-
psrtment is still without a head.
The Sydney Exchange was formally opened on
the 30th ult., by the Governor-General. 'Change
hour is fixed at 2 p.m. to 2.30 p.m., and the attend-
ance has been good.
The weather has been intensely hot for some time
Past. On Christmas Eve a hat wind prevailed,
during which the thermometer stood at 104 dogs.
in the shade, and 143 degs. in a spot exposed to
the sun and wind. This last resembled the biast
from a furnace, and literally scorched the faces
of those whom business compelled to go abroad.
The announcement that the Panama line is not
to be estsblished creates great dissatisfaction, not
unmixed with just indignation. -Indeed this:colony
has the strongest reason to complain of the shame-
ful Way in-which it has been treated in the matter
of steam postal communication.
However, we are determined to have the Panama
route ; and if no English company will undertake
it, perhaps our Transpacific cousins may be tempted
by a liberal subsidy to run a steamer monthly to
the Isthmus. With regard to the Suez line, it is
now quite clear that. if the present company does not
improve in its arrangements and performances, this
colony will cease to be a party to the contract.

In the Sydney Morning _Herald of January 9, we
read :—" The first responsible parliament of New
South Wales is dissolved. It was an utter impossi-
bility for the ministry successfully to carry on the
government. Their Land Bill, the cardinal mea-
sure in the minds of the people at present, they
were compelled to withdraw, while the new Assess-
ment Bill, on which they depended for a large
amount of revenue, was defeated by a majority of
two. The division was followed by an adjournment,
subsequently by the prorogation of the assembly,
and finally by its dissolution. This step, though
it did not take the country by surprise, has created
no small amount of complaint against the ministry.
First, because it was with reason believed that the
dissolution might well have stood over until the
Electoral Bill was passed ; and second, because
the several measures of urgency, such as the
Municipalities Bill and the District Courts
Bill, which were so advanced in their stages
through the legislature, that they. might without
any inconvenience have been completed before
the legislature was dissolved. The abrupt manner
too, in which the assembly was dismissed, without
a word of excuse or apology from the minister,
created great dissatisfaction.

Tho excitement now is as to the result of the new
elections, which will commence next week and ter-
minate about the end of February.
On Wednesday the new Exchange was opened—
a great event in the annals of the colony. This
ceremony was performed by S,r William Denison,
at noon. His excellency was attended by the prin-
cipal officers of the executive, and there was a large
and brilliant assemblage of ladies and gentlemen,
with the customary guard of honour outside. Such
members of the consular body as the committee had
selected by invitation to assist at this ceremony
were also present. There were addresses from the
Exchange Company and from the Chamber of Com-
merce, with a suitable reply from his excellency.
There wero also addresses, and very able ones,
from the consuls of France and the United States
—the former on behalf of the foreign consuls as a
bodY, and the latter in the name of his own great
and prosperous nation, with which our commercial
relations are so much more extensive than with any
other. Both gentlemen dwelt upon the importance
of the occasion, upon the great political influence
of commerce, and upon the necessity of such a
liberal system of finance as would promote its
growth. The electric telegraphs, which have their
termini in the Exchange-building, were also opened
on the same occasion.

SYDNEY LABOUR MARKET.
PZIDAY, January 8.
As we anticipated, the advent of the new year has
improved the general prospects and dema❑d in the la.
bour market of this colony. Agricultural occupations
are being steadily pursued, and, through the wool market
in London offering so good a sale for pastoral produce,
settlers appears to be turning their attention to sheep in
preference to cattle. This morning I received an advice
from a gentleman who is about to turn five of his cattle
stations into sheep runs ; and from the quantity of
cattle now going overland to the Melbourne side, men
for that (Inployment, have been, and are still in favour,
at from 203. to 40s. per week. The current requirements
coinprire, amongst others, married couples, without
families, or with growing boys ; single men as agricultu•
ral labourers; useful young men, and light-weigit lads ;
and we anticipated a heavy demand within the next
month for pastoral hands for the northern and southern
districts. Young men are in casual request for grooming,
gardening, cutting wood, clearing, and if handy at tools
so much the better ; team drivers ; and during the past
month the supply of female servants Las been utterly
inadequate to the demand. There are many other parties
who come to these colonies, strung you❑g men, ~,ho have
been brought up to no business, but some of whom being
versatile in their habits, can turn their hands to anything,
and eventually succeed well.
OLIVER STAIYES,
British and Foreign Labour Agent.

maintained by the British Government. Lord
MA LMESEVRY oould not expose himself to the
storm of indignation that would be excited by
any vacillation on such a point. We earnestly
desire that the French alliance should
remain unbroken. We recognise all the evils
that would 'arise from any interruption of
amicable relations. But far better endure them,
were they ten times more formidable, than yield
to such unwarrantable assumptions. It is the
Piedmontese Government that must, in the first
instance, answer for the safety of our countryman.
Should he be tried by the Sardinian law, for an
offence committed in Sardinia, we shall be enabled
to judge how far the proceedings can be justified.
But should he be given up to another State, the
Cabinet of Turin must render a stringent account,
and also the authorities to whom he his been im-
properly given up. We may bear many things
with patience, but certainly anything affecting the
life or liberty of one of our fellow-citizens can-
not be included in the number.

The extraordinary revelations as to the manage-
ment of some Joint-stock Banks have proved the
necessity of some speedy and efficient alteration of
the law in respect thereto. Mr. FIEIDLAM'S Bill
for the introduction of the principle of limited
liability, was received with considerable favour by
the House of Commons, and, we 'aelieve, that if
judiciously carried out, it would be beneficial to
all parties, as well to the community at large
as to the shareholders in these important and
valuable institutions.
Under the existing law few persons of large
means are willing to encounter the responsibi-
lity of becoming shareholders, for not only will
they be subjected to the expense and annoyance
of the winding up, but they must answer to the
last shilling, and even with their persons, for mis-
management
in which they did not in any degree
participate. It is all very well to protect inno-
cent depositors, and innocent creditors, but
the interests of innocent shareholders should
be equally looked to. At present persons con-
sider that there is not the slightest necessity
for caution if they find the names of per•
sons of known wealth and substance on the
list of shareholders. They know that as the law
stands they can go against these parties, and are
satisfied, although the management may justly be
be censured. Thinking that they themselves are
safe, they are quite willing to dispense with im-
pertinent interrogatories.
But the person who, having a few spare hundreds
or thouslnds, is willing to invest them in concerns
that may be exceedingly beneficial to the entire
neighbourhood, is placed in a very different posi-
tion. He 113 ay not only lose his entire stake which
he was willing to risk, but even tenfold or a
hundredfold the amount. He may be
reduced from affluence to poverty, and
all his prospects in life blighted, because
he has laid out a little superfluous cash in trying
to promote the welfare and prosperity of the
neighbourhood in which he resides. Let fraulu-
lent directors be punished with the utmost rigour
of the law; but surely those who are their inno-
cent dupes, and who have no share in the mis-
management, should be let down easily.
We are happy to find that a movement amongst
shareholders has at length been inau,guratei,
which, although deferred even to the eleventh
hour, must, if properly followed up, be produc-
tive of the best results. A circular has been
issued from the Chamber of Commerce at New-
castle-upon-Tyne, and extensively circulated
amongst the shareholders of Joint Stock Banks,
which places the question on a just foundation.
A. Committee has been formed of influential per-
sons "for the purpose of endeavouring to obtain
) from the Legislature such an amendment of the
winding-up principle, whether voluntary or com-
pulsory, as may be calculated to prevent that
anxiety, suspense, and suffering to which persons
are necessarily exposed under the present system
—a system which not only makes
them accountable for all they possess, but
renders their future earnings liable for the debts
of the defunct Bank—a state of things which (as
truly stated) places an innocent shareholder in a
worse position than a bankrupt ! "
All that is required is that proper attention
should be bestowed on the subject. But there
must be the pressure from without—the tem-
perate but energetic agitation, without which
no great results can be accomplished. There
are many interested, and many prejudiced par-
ties. But they could not withstand an earnest
demand founded on truth and justice. There is
nothing so beneficial to a nation as the extension
of banking capital, but that is virtually pre vented
by the vast responsibility incurred by the share-
holders, and which prudent men will be very un-
willing to undertake. Let us then by all legiti-
mate means strive to achieve this great desideratum
and procure an alteration of the law founded on
justice and equity, and conducive to the wel fare
and prosperity of all classes of the community.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1858.

Th• demand of the French Government for the
surrender of Mr. Efonaz, an English subject, ar-
rested at Genoa, is aiother instance of its organised
attack on the right of sanctuary. As it has been
unable to induce the British Parliament to sanc-
tion ita untenable demands, it is desirous of as-
sailing England in the person of one of its citizens.
The truckling of the PALMERSTON Government,
the placidity with which a mendacious and vapour-
ing despatch was permitted to remain unanswered,
induced them to believe that anything would be
submitted to, and that we would swallow our
leek with exemplary submission, and be prepared
to turn the other cheek to the smiter.

At present Sardinia is required t) enact the
part of "whipping boy," to sustain the buffets
that it is not as yet deemed quite safe to adminis-
ter to England, and to create a greater impres-
sion, it is an English subject that is to be vic-
timised. Mr. HODGE is a gentleman of ildepen-
dent means, who had, in consequence of a severe
pulmonary attack, gone to Nice, and from thence
to Genoa for the benefit of a milder climate than
could be obtained at home. Unfortunately, he
had become acquainted with ORSINI in this coun-
try and obtained letters of introduction from
him to some Italian friends. That
appears to have been " the head and front of his
offending." He might possibly have used an
Englishman's privilege of freedom of speech, and
expressed his opinions unreservedly in his diary.
There was, however, no particle of evidence to
show that he was concerned in the attempt of the
14th of January, or that even in England he
had joined in the conspiracy against Louis NAPO-
LSON.

DRURY LANE THEATRE.

MR. E. T. SMITH'S BENEFIT.

The great gala night of the season, the lessee's benefit,
is fixed for Friday the 19th, on which occasion it is his
intention to place before his patrons an entertainment of
the most brilliant and extraordinary character. Ho N-
ever gratif3ing such an event may be, we think the
simple announcement of the night set apart for Mr.
Smith's benefit would of itself be more than sufficient to
insure an immense attendance of those anxious to testify
their approbation of the spirited manner in which (fortu-
nately for the shareholders and rentors) he has carried
on this great national theatre. Mr. Smith is celebrated
for doing extraordinary things, but his grand annual
benefit entertainment will, it is said, eclipse all his former
efforts.

LYCEUM THEATRZ.—This evening Mr. Toole, the
talented low comedian at this theatre, takes his benefit,
and for the occasion he has selected a very excellent list
of entertainments. Amongst the many attractions we
find an adapted drama, "The Artist of Florence,"
which will be presented for the first time, and in which
Mr. C. Dillon, and Miss Woolgar will sustain the lead-
ing parts. It will be followed by three farces, viz.,
"The Birthplace of Podgers" (a new one) " Double
Dummy," and " Oar Clerks." Mr. Toole appears in
each of the above, so the lovers of fun and good humour
will have nothing to desire. Mr. Toole's merits as an
actor will ensure him an overflowing audience.
Mre. Seymour, of the Haymarket, and late manageress
of the St. James's Theatre, has just organised a little
troupe for the purpose of producing the pieces of Mr.
Charles Reade (the popular author of "Never Too Late
to Mend ") in the provinces. In the list of the com-
pany we perceive the names of Shaliers, Hurletone,
Sterling, Robertson, ; Mesdames Barratt, Balmer,
Burton,
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official
residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Down-
ing-street. The Ministers present were—the Earl of
Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury,
the Earl of Hardwicke, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli,
Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbnry, Lord
Stanley, Gen. Peel, Sir J. Pakington, the Earl of Ellen-
h,rough, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord J.
Manners. The Council sat two hours and a half.
fTTmeeEDdE_iaancrbbluerasgsnhdo: Sutherland and Lord Ronald Leveson
Gower arrived at Stafford House, on Monday night,
fro4l:isk,algatuhde
Countess
Countess of Craven and the Ladies
-raven have returned to their mansionin Charles•street,
i the Countsan
GorfeSklton, at Croxteth
have returned to town,
visiting
m. (pow.) of Ellesmere, at
'slr. eViirhnittroT:er ("I"tiahaat the Queen h
Keeper of the 'Porinve,oY Lt4oredepouf,ashnie aTdreeacbsuuri;e,
aBof
The post is alwayel heTV't
Treasury. On the last act iOne 01 jet (!gn Ca
4t
in office it was fi'led by the Marquis'a 13'4: 0 the
We are informed that Sir Gere%ree,vbri°B3: tieing
tion of going abroad, but will attendto has no inters
parliamentary
duties until the end of the session.
The mail steamer Malabar, to sail on the 11th to the
East, will take
fortou 163,9001.. in silver for Bombay, and
1,4381, in gold Ala.

Ind yet this gentleman has been arrested in
the Sardinian territory on the requisition of the
French police, and not merely his extradition,
but his surrender to the French detectives
is demanded, on the ground that he is
an assassin, amenable to a charge of mur-
der. And it is possible that but for
the interference of the British Envoy, he would
have been given up to take his trial in France for
an offence, which if it occurred at all was perpe-
trated in Great Britain.

Therei is no principle of international law better
1A led than that a citizen
he
remainse iind,,,
.. . . of any countr
owes allegiance,l protection of the flag to which
y
unless he violates the law of
the State in which
Itth is not
even alleged.
alatilixeli:ll:afentlarnaiallit
dinian law,
t e 1
in Piedmont or in En,r'll'aeturil(l,/rIY be tried
of the French Government - --" demandl
Is therefore
preposterouq, and if once conceded,
it i''
impossible to say to what lengths the extraordi-
nary and novel doctrine might be carried. Th
next claim would be that we should surrender
our own subjects to be tried before French
bunals if they incurred the suspicion of the French
Police. Perhaps it way be asked if Mr. ALLSOP
were arrested that his trial might take place at

Paris.
We believe that the honour of England and
the safety of British citizens will be effectually

Vat SUN,,
_LONDON! WE-DNESDAr EVENING

GENERAL REFORM.

(FROM 4 CORRESPONDENT.)

After the Ballot, we conceive that the re-distri-
bution of the Electoral Districts, is incomparably
the most essential reform now required in our
Parliamentary system.

First of all the Ballot. Then the re-distri-
bution of the Electoral Districts. Afterwards the
progressive extension of the Franchise. And, only
when those beneficent changes have been seen to,
the simultaneous arrival at some satisfactory deci-
sion as to the duration of Parliaments, and as to
the continuance or removal of the Property
Qualification.

There may be discussions as to the latter pre.
jects, but as to the three first there ought not,
among liberal reformers of all colours and classes,
of all sects and parties—there ought not, we
distinctly assert, upon those three first branches
of Parliamentary Reform to be one moment's
hesitation.

Though the immediate and total removal of the
Property Qualification appears to us to be a move-
ment most advisable under all considerations—
we are ready to allow that other reformers may
have some very admissible reasons for arriving at
a different conclusion. We are ready to have
those reasons discussed with all possible coolness
and deliberation. We should like to hear all the
pros and cons upon the subject debated as slowly
as you please, as cautiously, as jealously as you
please, during the course of the present session of
the Legislature.

It is perfectly reasonable also to suppose there
may be a rational diversity of opinion among
Reformers as to the long "vexed question" about
the most advisable time for the duration of Par-
liaments. Let us again, upon this point, compare
notes carefully with one another ; so that, if pos-
sible, some wholesome result may be arrived at.
And here it certainly does appear to us strange,
all things considered, that no medium course has
ever been dreamt of with a view to the solution of
this problem of the Duration of Parliaments.
There are the advocates of the septennial, and
there are theladvocates of triennial Parliaments !
Nobody appears to have ever had the faintest
notion of suggesting that the difference should be
split ; and that, instead of either of the extremes,
we should decide upon selecting the juste
the common sense middle course of having in
future Quintennial Parliaments ! Why it is that
we should at all times only entertain the project
of seven years on the one hand, or of three years
on the other--putting aside fourth, fifth, and
sixth under a mysterious and. inexorable taboo—
has never been explained : would be rather diffi-
cult, we opine, of explanation. Common sense
tells us that this kind of proceeding is,
after all, very preposterous. Particularly
when the average duration of Parliaments,
according to the present system, has been
actually neither three years, nor yet seven years,
but precisely the very time we have specified,
namely, five years ! Suggesting to one that it
might not, after all, be so very absurd to talk
seriously about a project of Quintennial Parlia-
ments.*

Nevertheless, upon this point, as upon the one
immediately before-specified, we are free to admit
that there may still be room for a good deal of
reasonable discussion.

But, in regard to the three leading reforms in
our Parliamentary system, we maintain there in
absolutely no room at all among rational re-
formers for any further discussion whatsoeTor.

The more advanced reformers of our day have
long since come to the conclusion that not only is
the Ballot essential, but that it is the First EAsteu-
tial„ Mr. BERKELEY is no longer among the
advtitttes of reform in England, the Leader of a
Forlorn Hope. The Liberal constituencies, far
and wide, are unanimously in favour of the im-
provement of which he has been so long the
foremost champion. The advocates of the
Ballot throughout the constituencies are
counted now, not by hundreds or by thousands,
but by hundreds of thousands. They none of
them maintain it to be what their deriders scoff
at them for doing—a sort of political panacea
which is to put an end for ever and a day to all
possible ills in the political system. We, who
insist upon the necessity of the Ballot, do so
simply because we believe it would be the most
effectual preventive of bribery, humanly speaking,
that could be imagined. We demand the ballot
solely in order that, under its protection--a pro-
tection not disdained by high broil and honourable
gentlemen in our West-end Clubs—in order that,
under its protection, voting may henceforth be
in reality what it is at present only in name—
Free. The Suffrage without the Ballot, as at pre-
sent, we do from our heart believe to be a veritable
curse to many an honest shopkeeper. We believe
it to be not a political boon, or a social advantage,
but—in the strictest and the most literal meaning
of the words—a mockery, a delusion, and a
snare. Therefore it is that all the more advanced
reformers amongst us have long ago come to the
deliberate conclusion that the first and most im-
portant of all reforms is that expressed in that
single magic dissyllable the BALLOT.

L &TEST NEWS.

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

[3y ELECTRIC TELE4RAPIII

PLYMOUTH., TUESDAY NIGHT.

The Royal Mail steamer Norman, Capt. Boxer,
from the Cape of Good Hope, has arrived, with
dates to 29th January.

All continues quiet on the frontier. The Cape
Parliament was summoned for the 10th March,
when the first session will be closed, and will be
followed by a general election for the House of
Assembly and the election of 7 members out of the
15 forming the Council.

Th© 60th and 85th regiments, accompanied by
General Jackson, are preparing to leave for India.
The financial difficulties of England and America
have not sensibly affected commerce at the Cape.
Wool, first quality, is. 6d. to is. Bd. per lb. Mar-
kets dull.

The subscription for India amounts to upwards
of 4,000/.

The steam-ship Simoom, from Calcutta January
27, was the only vessel of war in Simon's Bay.
The screw steam transport Leopold, with artillery,
under command of Colonel Montressor, arrived on
the 25th, and was expected to sail on the 2d of
February, for India.

The steamer Golden Fleece, 32 days from Cal-
cutta, was appointed to sail for :England on the
30th of January.
The mail steamer Phoebe arrived on the 21st
of January, and would bring home the February

The screw steamer General Williams, from Ply-
month, arrived January 25.

The hired transport -Melons, with naval invalids
from China, was in Simon's Bay.

FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.
The Moniteur contains the following account of
the outbreak at Chalons, which we announced in
our late edition last evening :
" At Chalon-sur•Saone on Saturday night, to-
wards the hour of nine o'clock, a body of about
40 men suddenly made their appearance and rushed
on a little post of infantry, which they surprised.
They then proceeded to the railway station with
cries of ' Vive la Republique ! The republic has
been proclaimed at Paris I The republic is every-
where ! Inhabitants of Chalons, to arms !' The
station-master, who had formerly been in the
army, at once collected the men belonging to
the railway, and repulsed the rioters. From
the railway, they went to the bridge over the
Saone, the head of which they took possession
of, iu order to prevent any one from going to give
the alarm at the barracks. The officers of the garri-
son, who had hastened to the sub-prefecture to
obtain some information relative to the rumours
already in circulation, forced the passage, sword
in hand. Shortly after, the troops arrived, the sole
appearance of whom was sufficient to cause the
illegal assemblage to disperse. Before midnight, the
15 principal offenders were in the hands of justice."
The Moniteur states that travellers coming into
France from abroad must, on every journey, have
their passports visa-ed by a diplomatic agent, or at
the French consulate. In order that no fresh ex-
pense shall be imposed on travellers by this regu-
lation, the Minister of Foreign Affairs has decided
that the charge for the visa shall only be made for
the first journey, and that all the others required
during the year for which the passport is valid shall
be delivered gratuitously. It may be as well to
mention on this occasion that the tariffs in force
allow the embassies and the consulates to grant
passports gratuitously to poor persons, and to re-
duce the usual charge to persons who cannot afford
to pay the full amount."
It was reported that every difficulty had been
removed by the, English and French cabinets rela-
tive to the refugee question.

The despatch from Lord Malmesbury has been
comtnunicited by Lord Cowley to Count Walewski.
The Moniteur says :—Tho manager of the
Drapeau, found guilty by the jury of insult
(offense) towards his Majesty the Emperor, has
been condemned to thirteen months' imprisonment,
and 1,200 francs damages."
The following telegraphic despatches have been
received here :

"ST. PETERSBURG, March Bth.—The Emperor has
instituted a central committee for the question of the
emancipation of the peasants. This committee, which
will be pr?sided over by the Emperor himself, is com-
posed of 13 councillors of the empire, among whom are
the Grand Duke Constantine, Prince Orloff, and Count
Bludoff. The cold continues very severe
;• the whole
country is covered with snow."
" BEENE, March Bth.—The federal commissioners
recommend the dissolution of the Italian Mutual Benefit
Associaton, and that its foreign members should either
be sent away to their respective countries or be ap-
pointed to a fixed residence. It likewise suggests that
all the French refugees should be placed at the disposal
of the Federal Council to receive a fixed residence."
B.oultsE, March 9.—The following were the
quotations :

Immediately after the Ballot ought to be de-
manded and obtained the concession from the
Legislature of a new, a rational, and a comprehen-
sive distribution of the electoral districts.
The existing apportionment of constituencies
is, in truth, something perfectly ridiculous.
There are some little trumpery boroughs
still returning, as they have, time out of mind,
continued to return, two members to the Com-
mons House of Parliament ! And there are, in
contrast to these snug little places, enormous
towns like Birmingham also returning, only two
representatives—or, still worse than that, if pos-
sible, wonderfully populous clusters of towns, such
as Chelsea, Brompton, Kensington, and all that
vast and densely peopled district of the metropolis,
returning no member at all ! Anomalies like
these, we maintain, don't admit of any argument
fur a single instant. Facts like these—point
blank—repel all denial and opposition. The evil
here is so monstrous and so manifest that we say—
Nextto theß illot should c)ina this re-distribution
of the Electoral Districts. Afterwards arising the
necessity, the instant necessity for the extension
of the franchise—an extension to be at once as
large as can bo reasonably and safely adventured
upon ; yet not to end there, but to be subsequently
Progressive !

Here we do honestly believe is the right and
rational Programme of Reform for 1838. It is
the Programme of the more advanced and
enlightened reformers. Aud any thing less than
this will be regarded by the liberal constituencies
as a delusion.

[" Our Correspondent is in error as to Quintennial Par.
iamentsnever having been suggested before.—ED. San.]

93 25

per Cents
Do. end month
3 per Cent. ..... 69 35
Do. end month
Bank Shsras .. • 3050
Credit Mobilier 852 50
Do. Accouat B5O

Credit Fotteier
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Roman B9
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RAIL'
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Northern ......... 947 A
New Ditto.. ............. 785
Lyon and Moditeran. 817 A
New Ditto. ........... ..• 78.31
Geneva .............. 660

Mn. STAPLETON, M.P.—This gentleman has addressed
the eleotors of Berwick on his recent trial in connection
with iatemoßt...:,,iltiae.hlr,..ozß:chollk Conspiracy. He says that,
thinking the honour of a member of Parliament ought
(.4,,,en,,a/QiPerhape, attaching to be moat dear to his constituents, he has thought it
tneurttbent to lay before them the ob=ervations on his
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THE REFUGEE QUESTION.
The following, according to the Band of Berne,
is a correct analysis of the despatch of Count
\Valewski, da'ed. Jan. 20, to the French Charge
d'Affaires on the refugee question, and which was
communicated by the latter to the Federal Coun-
cil :

direoted the French legation to
The count begins by saying that on a previous
point out to the Federal Gained the mauceuvres
occasion he had
which the refugees in Switzerland, especially those
in the canton of Genera, notoriously practice, and
to the French minister, nothing but
to demand their removal from the French frontier.
dAe ryclea°tordil3gor evasive replies could be obtained, and
he is accordingly forced to renew his injunctions to
the legation. The complaints of the French go-
vernment, he says, particulary relate, nut so much
to the French refugees, as to those rom different
parts of Italy. The•minister refers to the events
:At Genoa and --.9horn on the 14th of Jan-
uary, and says that they prove that the Italian
refugees are specially distinguished by demagogical
perversity. The Federal Government is bound to
send those dangerous men into the interior. That
Government would violate the conditions of Helve-
extent of its privileges, if it were to think that to
invoke
uttrhaitY: and would deceive itself as to the
..1
t reutralit in order to relieve itself
from giving satisfaction to France would suffice.
y
To tolerate more or less formally, even by silence
and inaction, that men enjoying an asylum should
make an abusive use of that asylum to attack
France by plots or publications is to fail in the
duties of neutrality. The legation is therefore re-
quested to insist with the Federal Council on mea-
sures being adopted without delay for removing
into the interior, far from the frontiers, refugees
who may be pointed out as taking part in crimi-
nal acts,
and particularly those who aro organised
into a society in the canton of Geneva. The
F ench Government, it is added, cannot allow
the Fe leral Council to invoke as an excuse the
indifferance or ill will of the cantonal authorities.
Tho despatch concludes in these terms, which
are believed to bo alm.::st textual :—' In case the
federal government should not take the necessary
means for satisfying the demands of France, it
would incur a grave responsibility, amid must
only blame itself for the consequences which its
determination may occasion.'

The delegates of the States of Germany whosecon-
tingents form the 10th corps of the Federal army
assembled at Hanover last week to make
the Ilecessary arrangements for the grand
wanceuvres which are to take place on the
12th September at Nordstemmen. The contin-
gent of the Duchy of Holstein forms part of that
c,)rp.,q, but the King of Denmark did not cause

MARCH 10, Its-il.

himself to be represented, so that the contingent
will not take part in the manoeuvres,

A letter from Kalisch, in the Austrian Gazette,
says :—(c As an instance of the small number of
troops at present in the kingdom of Poland, it may
be stated that the important fortress of I wangorod
one of the first strongholds of the kingdom is only
garrisoned by a single battalion of infantry."

This morning a wardmote was held at the Guildhall
Coffee-house, King-street, Cheapside, for the election of
a fit and proper person to be Alderman of the Ward of
Cheap, in the room and stead of Mr. R. H. Kennedy,
reigned in consequence of his conviction of conspiracy
as one of the Royal British Bank directors. The Lord
Mayor, Sir R. W. Cirden, M.P., presided. There was
a very full attendance, and the contest is expected to
be a severe one. The candidates for the honour of re-
presenting the ward in the Court of aldermen are Mr.
Sheriff Allen, Mr. James Causton, wholesale stationer,
and Mr. Cockerell, the extensive coal merchant.
the latter gentleman, finding he had no chance,
has resigned. The supporters of the other two gentle-
men are so evenly balanced that at present it is doubtful
to predict which will be the successful candidate.

The 'Vienna journals state that Sir Hamilton
Seymour has received an official intimation that
the English cabinet has no intention of replacing
him at the Austrian court.

Advices from Vienna announce that the depar-
ture of Baron de Budberg from that capital is fixed
for the 15th inst., and that M. Knorring will
direct the affairs of the embassy until the arrival of
M. de Balabine, the new Russian representative.

The Second Chamber of Baden has just adopted
unanimously the bill presented by the Government
for the execution of the German monetary conven-
tion of the 24th Feb., 1857. The same bill had
been previously adopted by the First Chamber.

It may be remembered that when the Prince
Royal of Sweden was nominated Regent, in conse-
quence of the illness of the King, a member of the
order of nobles proposed that an additional allow-
ance of 100,000 rixdalers (nearly 200,000 f.) should
be made to H.R.H., but the motion was rejected
by a large majority. Last week a similar proposi-
tion was again brought forward, but it was rejected
by 85 votes to 36.

Baron Dujardin, Belgian envoy to the Germanic
Confederation and to the court of Bavaria, has been
recalled, and appointed minister at the Hague.

TIM EAST INDIA COMPANY.

(From the Times)

It is now quite clear that the differences which
shook the walls of Parliament on the subject of
the Government of India have narrowed them-
selves into a very small point indeed. Discus-
sion, truth, and publicity have done their usual
work, and all that remains to settle seems to be
the manner in which the Indian Council shall be
chosen. The new era is, in fact, inaugurated, and
the East India Company only holds office until its
successor shall be appointed. A change is also, we
may presume, impending over the Government
of India in India ; not an organic change, but one
which in an absolute Asiatic monarchy is often
more momentous—a change in the person of the
resident Sovereign. It is not likely that Lord
Canning, conscious as we believe him to be of high
desert in a most trying situation, of having main-
tained calmness and presence of mind in the midst
of a community frantic with the most exaggerated
apprehension, and of having remembered the dic-
tates of justice when all around him were crying for
indiscriminate slaughter and extermination, should
be willing to retain office under the Tory Ministry.
They gave when in opposition, or thought it neces-
sary to appear to give, implicit credence to all the
wretched and groundless figments of the Calcutta
agitators, and did all they could to embitter a
situation already more than sufficiently onerous
and distressing. It is not likely, then, that Lord
Canning should continue to serve under Lord Ellen-
borough, and it therefore behoves the Government
and the country to turn their attention to the
choice of a successor.

No light task lies before him. The storm, indeed,
has passed, but the ocean of Indian politics must
long heave with a heavy and dangerous groundswell.
A revolt, however completely crushed and severely
punished, never leaves the contending parties
exactly in the same relative position as it fonnd
(hem. Fear cannot be altogether soothed, hatred
cannot be extirpated although it can be silenced,
the conqueror cannot at once forget his triumph
in the duties of a ruler, nor reeover by an
effort of his will that confidence and sense
of security which fatal realities have so
rudely but so effectually dissipated. There is
danger that in the process of reorganisation, and
the readjustment of relations, old landmarks
should be lost sight of, and changes introduced
more rapidly and more recklessly than circum-
stances demand. No one will be competent to
deal with such a state of things who is not tho-
roughly acquainted with the circumstances of India
before the outbreak, and able to compare the new
requirements of our altered position with the tradi-
tions which it has displaced. The next Governor-
General ought not to be an experiment. Re ought
to be a man tried, tested, and approved in the very
scenes and conjunctures amid which he is to
act. He ought to bear a name respected and
feared by the natives of India, and inspiring the
military and civil services with confidcnu, admira-
tion, and esteem. He ought—but why multiply
abstract conditions of excellence and fitness when
we find them all united in one man, whose name
every one must at once anticipate'? Of the two
gifted brothers to whom we owe the preservation
of India one has been swept away by the torrent
that is just subsiding, but the other—and we be-
lieve the abler—is still left us ; and we think it
would be absolute madness if, in the event of a
vacancy in the Government of India, any consi-
deration were allowed to outweigh the claims of
Sir John Lawrence. It would be faint praise in-
deed to call him an able civil administrator, for he
and his brother may claim to be the inventors of
a new system of policy, though rough and simple
to European eyes, is admirably adapted for the
people for whom it has been devised. The best
tribute to the merits of the government of the
Punjab is that Lord Canning and his Council have
felt that they can do nothing better for the popu-
lation of the ancient seat of the Mogul monarchy
than transfer them to the order of things devised
for the coercion and pacification of rude and semi
barbarous tribes lately ranged against us in deadly
conflict.

The precept for summoning the wardmote having
been read by the ward clerk,
The LOBO MAYOR addressed the electors on the object
of their assembling, and bespoke a patient hearing for
all the electors who wished to address the meeting.
Mr. WHITE, jun., proposed Mr. Sheriff Allen as a
fit and proper person to represent the ward, and he did
AO from a conviction that that gentleman was well quali-
fied, both by head and heart, to perform the onerous
duties to which he aspired. (Hear, hear.) He impressed
to the Lord Mayor and the gentleman who might be
elected the necessity of the Court of Aldermen taking
into their consideration the state of the dwellings for the
labouring classes. He considered corporations held
their properties for the benefit of the community, &c.,
and he knew of no better mode in which a portion of
the princely income of the Corporation of Llndon could
be expended than in improving the dwellings of the
labouring classes.
Mr. SURR, jun., seconded the nomination of Mr.
Sheriff Allen. They were called on to select between
two gentlemen, one comparatively a stranger to the ward,
and as Mr. Sheriff Allen was a gentleman of gradual
political progress rather than sudden changes, and a
gentleman who had much leisure on his hands, he
thought him the most fitting man to fill the present
vacancy. It had been objected to Mr. Sheriff Allen
that he had not been a member of the Common Council,
but some of their best aldermen had not been members
of the Council, and he instanced the case of the present
Lord Mayor. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. JOHN HALL proposed Mr. Causton as a fit
and proper person to fill the office of alderman of the
ward. Mr. Causton had risen to his present position by
his own merits, and those were the men to be trusted
with the discharge of public duties. That gentleman
had served the City 10 years in the Common Council,
and he thought that a great advantage. Mr. Causton
had been tried, and found an honest man, and
he (Mr. Hall) bore testimony to the admirable
manner in which Mr. Sheriff Allen had so far
discharged the eneroua duties of Sheriff with
satisfaction to the City. He con lemned the introduction
of the question of " lodging-houses" or the support of
charitable institutions, but he must say that if Mr.
Causton were elected he would be found a willing and
liberal supporter of all the charitable institutions of the
City. (Hear, hear.)

Mr. Du PEE seconded the nomination of Mr. Causton
from the belief that that gentleman had a prior claim to
their suffrages over Mr. Sheriff Allen. They shoull
jadge of a man by his antecedent, and if they did so
they would not fail to appreciate the consistent and
straightforward conduct of Mr. Causton. Past services
gave a better guarantee than untried pledges ; but
whilst he must admit the disadvantage to Mr. Causton
of being opposed,by Mr. Sheriff Allen against whom he
(Mr. Du Pre) nor any other person could 'say a word
(hear, hear.)—he called upon the electors to ♦indicate
the principle of honorary tried men instead of com-
parative strangers. Mr. Causton had been a liberal
supporter of the City charities.

Mr. JOHN BENNETT addressed the meeting on behalf
of Mr. Cockerell.

A show of hands was then taken, which was largely
in favour of Mr. Sheriff Allen, and declared accordingly
by the Lord Mayor.
A poll was then demanded en behalf of Mr. Causton.
The Lord Mayor appointed to-morrow for taking the
poll, between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock.

On the military part of Sir John Lawrence's
career it is less necessary to dilate, for circum-
stances have given it a prominence and a celebrity
more proportioned to its merits. The same intui-
tive sagacity which enabled Chatham to see in the
Highland clans no longer the terror, but the firm
support of the British Crown, taught Lawrence
to rely on the Sikhs, and to extract from their
enmity to the natives of Hindostan a succour
against the unexampled treason of our trusted
and pampered Bengal Army. He not only put
down rebellion with a high hand and inflexible
will, but was able to supply the wants of the
North-Western Provinces. He found them armies,
leaders of inestimable value, artillery, and, last and
most wonderful of all, he supplied the army of Delhi
with artillerymen, whom he raised from among the
very men who had pointed against us the cannon of
Sobraon and Gbojerat. What if appointments were
really made with a view to the public interest alone,
could possibly be urged against the elevation of Sir
John Lawrence to the post of Governor-General,
or, rather, the elevation of the post of Governor-
General by placing it in the hands of Sir John
Lawrence ? If rank be the desideratum, rank can
be easily supplied. It is easy to make Sir John
Lawrence into a lord, but not by any means so easy
to make a lord into a Sir John Lawrence.
We should not permit ourselves to doubt as
to the probability of the selection of Sir John
Lawrence Were it not for the announcement
which appeared some time ago—apparently on
good .authority---that it was the intention of
the Government, in the very probable event of
the resignation of Lord Canning to confer the office
of Governor-General on Lord Stanley. Now, of
Lord Stanley we would speak with every respect.
He is a very advanced Liberal, is actuated, we
doubt not, by the best intentions, possesses good
abi▪ lities, which he has cultivated by much travel
abroad and much studyat home, but as an adminis-
trator, he is wholly untried, and there are reasons
in the speculative and philosophical turn of .his
mind which may lead us to doubt whether
he may deal with details with the same
faci▪ lity with which he can manipulate principles.
A
At any rate, we trust that it will not be on India,
in its present critical state, that he will for the first
time try his power of administration. Lord Stanley
has undoubtedly made a very heavy sacrifice in
compliance with the wishes of his father, and laid
the Tory Government under weighty obligations,
by consenting to act with men with whom
he has no feeling and no principle in common.
By all means let these obligations be suitably.
acknowledged. Let Lord Stanley have any-
thing he likes, except the Government of India,
to the exclusion of the man who, above all others,
is most fitted for the task. The Government, we
understand, announce that they have prepared a
bill which shall render jobbing with Indian patron-
age absolutely impossible. We hope all things
from professions so I iagnificent, but may, perhaps,
be permitted to suggest that there is no abuse of
Indian patronage which it is so importaht to pre-
vent as jobbing the appointment of Goveinor-
General.

It is Paid that the Sultan has informed the representa-
tives of foreign powers that they will not in future be
received by him, except on the introduction of his
Mit,iAter of IThreign Affairs, according to the usage of
other European courts, and that, moreover, notice must
be given some days previous at the Porte, in order that
his highness's pleasure may be taken on the interview.

ELECTION OF ALDERMAN FOR THE
WARD OF CHEAP. GREENOCK.--The weather continued cold and
stormy all Sunday, and about 4 o'clock in the
afternoon of that day snow began to fall lightly,
and as the frost also continued, in the course of a
few hours there was a depth of about four inches
on the ground. On Monday the frost and wind
still continued, and a light, dry, crispy scow fell at
intervals during the day. There were certainly
clouds of that valued commodity March dust
flying about ; but, unlike the usual March
dust, it consisted of fine snow, looking like
pulverised chalk, or like flour. Indeed the
wintery aspect of March, as compared with former
times, is everywhere a subject of remark. The
gale has raged strongly in the Channel, and we may
look for bad news from along:the coast. A number
of vessels are said to be on shore along the s.mth
coast, and accounts from the sea-board are looked
for with some anxiety.—Ayr, March S.—About
four o'clock yesterday afternoon snow began to
fall rather heavily, and it continued almost without
intermission till about 9 o'clock, when the atmo-
sphere again became clear. In most places the
snow would be about a foot in depth, while in other
places where it was drifted by the wind, it would
be double that depth. To-day it has been a source
of great amusement to the boys, who have made
snow-balling a nuisance to all who are walking the
streets ; woe betide the unfortunate who has any
peculiarity about him, for he is certain to have a
whole legion of well-armed urchins after him. The
police have done all in their power to put down the
r prehensible practice, but they can't be every-
where. At Kilmarnock—Since the present month
set in the weather has been rigorous, and Saturday
was one of the coldest days experienced this season.
From the N., and in the afternoon from the N. W., a
cold dry wind blew with cutting keenness. During
the night so intense was the frost that the rivers
were frozen over, and on stagnant pools the ice was
half an inch in thickness. On Sabbatt, afternoon
the wind calmed—the sky, previously clear, was
overcast, and snow began to descend in close hard
flakes. It continued far into night, and yesterday
morning the earth was covered with snow to a
depth of six inches. Although this snowfall—ta
which we have had noshing equal to it for some
time—will obstruct out-dour labour, it will be
greatly to the advantsge of the young wheat
brairds, which are now effectually covered and pro-
tected from the frosts overnight, and the sunshine
during the day, which have of late affected them EO
detrimentally.—North British Daily /V/cti/.

THE fVEATHER IN SCOTLAND,

THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF
SCOTLAAD.

A meeting of this body took place yesterday
afternoon in its hall, Sir A. Campbell of Barcaldine,
in the chair. The following communications were
read :--1. "Notes of some curiosities of old Scotch
tenures and investitures." By Cosmo Innes, Esq.,
F.S.A. Scotland. In this instructive paper Mr.
'lines pointed out the necessity which must always
have existed of giving symbolical possession in the
transfer of objects, such as land, which did not
admit of removal and possession as in the
case of moveable property. fie alluded to the early
legend of the possession of lona having been com-
pleted by the interment of Oran, one of St. Co-
lumba's disciples, and the grant of lands by Hungus,
King of the Picts, to St. Andrews, in 820, when
the king offered up a turf of the ceded territory
upon the altar. 2. " Notices of the family of
King James I. of Scotland," communicated in a
letter from Mr. Jatnes Riddell, Advocate, F.S.A.,
Scotland, to Mr. Laing, with some additional re-
marks. By David Laing, Esq., F.S.A., Scotland.
These valuable notices furnished some corrections,
and much curious information, relating to the
family of James 1., gleaned from various sources
by Mr. Riddell and Mr. Laing. 3. " Notice of
bronze relics found in the Isle of Skye." By
John Alexander Smith, M.D., F.S.A. Scotland.
In this paper Dr. Smith gave an account of some
interesting antiquities belonging to Lord Mac-
donald. They consisted of a bronze leaf-shaped
sword, two bronze spear-heads, and a remarkable
pin of bronze. The latter is upwards of 10 inches
in length, with a hollow socket at the top, as if
for the purpose of holding a stone or other orna-
ment. These relics were all found together in a
moss in the Isle of Skye, about four miles from
Armadale Castle. Besides these Dr. Smith
described a bronze spur, chased and jewelled,
which was found in draining the loch at
Monkstadt, in the north of Skye, about 30 years
ago. It appeared that several chessmen, carved in
ivory, were also found in this loch. Dr. Smith ex-
hibited accurate sketches of the bronze relics, as
well as of a snuff-horn mounted in silver, with an
agate lid, which was formerly the property of the
celebrated Flora Macdonald. Mr. Stuart adverted
to the value of Dr. Smith's communication as tend-
ing to illustrate the fact of the considerable popula-
tion as well as the state of art in the Western
Islands at early and middle-aged periods.--
Scotsman.

A SEeOND ALICE GRAY. •

At the Wolverhampton Police-court, on Satur-
day, Martha Sunderland, good looking and of
respectable appearance, 18 years of age was charged
witti obtaining goods under false pretences. The
particulars are as follow:—The prisoner, on Christ-
mas-eve, went to the Railway Guard public-house,
kept by Mr. Fox, in Piper's-row, Wolverhampton,
and got lodgings until she could obtain a situation,
stating that Mr. Leigh, the stipendiary magis-
trate, was her guardian, and held 1,3001. of her
property until she was 20 years of age, and
when she was 23 years old she was to receive
2,0001. from the same gentleman. She continuo
boarding and lodging at prosecutor's house until
very recently, stating that she would pay him out
of the money she should receive from Mr.
Leigh. She had been to him for 51. on account,
but he only gave her 21. ; that was about a fort-
night after lodging there. On returning to her
lodgings she met a woman named Davies, to
whom she lent the 21., as reported to the prose-
cutor. The Other 31. she said Mr. Leigh pro-
mised to give her in a very few days. She subse-
quently received the other 31. as stated by her, and
lent the whole of the money to a Mrs. Hughes, from
whom she was to receive 10s. interest. Prosecutor
believed her statements, and she remained at his
house about ten weeks altogether. About the
middle of January she wished the landlord to
write to London to know if the will was all safe,
The
address whether the houses were all occupied.
address she gave was "E. Hill, Whitepark, Lon-
don." Prosecutor accordingly wrote to the party,
and in a few days the same letter was returned
from the Dead Letter-office, and the prisoner re-
ceived it, and sent it back to the Post-office, stating
that it was not for Mr. Fox. About that time, the
prosecutor becoming somewhat suspicious, the pri-
soner stated that she had seen Mr.
Leigh, who
had received a communication from London.
Shortly afterwards Mr. Fox received a letter pur-
porting to come from Mr. Hill, aLd 'addressed
to Mr. Leigh. This was enclosed to Mr. Fox
with another note from Mr. Leigh. Mr. Fox
then wrote a letter to Mr. Leigh, respecting the
girl's mode of conduct, of which he disapproved.
Mr. Fox received a letter back from the
Dead Letter-office, and began to suspect the girl.
He requested him to go with her to Mr. Leigh, but
she refused, and left the house altogether, and had
not been seen for some days. Mr. Leigh, the sti-
pendiary magistrate, who was in court, stated. that
on the 24th Feb. last he received a lettez, which ho
marked " B," and opened it and read it ; but think-
ing there was some mistake on the part of a Mr. Fox
ho returned to the post- office, supposing at the same
time that there might be another Mr. Leigh at
Tettenhall. The further hearing of the case was
adjourned until Saturday next. All the letters
were said to have been forged. It was stated that
she had been in the employ of Mr. Dehane and Mr.
Fry, and was sent away under very singular cir-
c urns tances.—Birminglium Post.

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.. Dit: LIVINGSTONE,-0 wing to the boisterous state
of the weather Dr. Livingetone was unable to sail
from Liverpool yesterday (Tuesday), and his departure
will be delayed till• the gales which have been raging
in the Irish Channel have abated. The weather et
Liverpool has been very severe for some days Past,
with constant storms of hail, rain, and snow, and a
strong cutting wind from the north-west, which bee
abElexartENbsignrhE
rendered the traffic across the Mersey very disagree'
water. yesterday
OF BANIC-NOTES•
information was given at, the Detective-o—ffiTee,
ScAlatid-yard, Whitthsll, of an extensive robbery from
the residence of a lady named Davis, Melinapce,. d
John'e-wood, consisting of seven 10/. Bank of E I
! 3 04e , gionl y
notes, Nos. 45,903, 727319, Aug. 5, 1857 June- "s
1857 .
6, 1857 ; 76,500, Aug. 5, 1857 ; 19,645,
85,8
All
stoerrdeaayt
49;444, Jar. 8, 1858 ; and 49,956, Jen' 8' 1 .f
gold
have "C. D," written on the back. A quantity o _
aid silver, besides jewellery, was likewise stolen.
t.AO
handsome reward is offered for the apprehension of b
offenders. the Welsh
THE EIRE AT WYNNSTAY.--At a meeting of
Charity School, yesterday, Vii a tki a
passed, which must be very gratifying to
it.
C. Alex-
Wynn :—" Resolved, that the treasurer, Bsi.r
catkin
ander Wood, be requested to convey to
ression
Williams Wynn and Lady Williams Wynn an exp
of the oit.Te
the fo lowing ressoliurtion was
for the late disastrous, fire which lies caused ,
~
1. ~ill,, t 2 L"'
gencral regret felt by the members of tihethceotcutetstrue,
two 4,1 Wyui,stay arid its content,, ,i,i v:, , , ~,
family—a family ti whom chic institution is soh di:ode:pi;
indebted for munificent contributions Oroug
generations."

MONEY MARKET

A JD
C'O7,IIVIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE',

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday there
was less animation, and prices slightly declined.
The sales were estimated at from 2,000 to 3,000
bales. The Railway Share Market closed steadily,
and the values of all the leading stocks improved.
There is still a moderate demand for discouut
accommodation, but a general complaint is still
made of the continued inactivity of business.
Although it remains in a quiet state, symptoms of
improvement are nevertheless manifested, and had
it not been for the uneasiness produced by political
events a further amendment would in all proba-
bility have been experienced. The commer-
cial advices from India and America are quite as
favourable as could have been expected, a partial
recovery having taken place in both countries.
In the United States money had become exceed-
ingly abundant and easy, but the return of confi-
dence, after the severe crisis of last autumn, must
necessarily be very gradual ; and, although few
transactions are now concluded, when compared
with Reiner periods, there is some satisfaction in
knowing that they are all of a bona fide character,
and untainted by any speculative toudenoy. In
India, the success which has attended the sup-
pression of the revolt appears to have reassured
the public mind there, and the import markets,
which have for some months remained in a stag-
nant state, again exhibit some signs of ameliora-
tion. From Australia the intelligence is less en-
couraging, and no improvement in that direction can
be anticipated until the excessive stocks of merchan-
dise in MelbourneandSydney are diminished. It the
accounts from the two former places, however,
continue to report a steady improvement, they will
produce a favourable influence upon commercial
affairs here, especially if money remains easy. The
utmost caution is observed in all transactions, and
the mercantile public, it is hoped, will take warn-
ing from the past and henceforward shun the per-
nicious system of credit which, during the
late panic, was proved to have been almost
universally adopted. When political affairs
have settled down into a quieter state, and it is
seen that the members of the new administration
are fit for the situations to which they have been
elevated, there is every reason to expect that a
general improvement will be observable in most
departments of trade.
The remittances to the E ,st by the Malabar
amount to 163,3381., viz., 163,9001. to Bombay,
and 1,4381. to Alexandria.
A further arrival of gold was announced yeeter-
day, viz., 95,61)1., by the Sea Breeze, from Vic-
toria.

The marketfor English seem ities has been firm to-
clay, but business is dull. A few purcha: es have been

rialde which have caused a slight further advance,

and in the other departments of the Stock Exchange
there has been increased buoyancy. Consols have
been 97 to 97i for money, and ni for account.
The Government broker ha 3 bought 14,0001. Con-

Cols for the Savings Banks. Exchequer Bills are

39a. to 425. prem. ; the Bonds are 100 to 1001 ; and
India ditto 275; to 30s. prem.
In the Foreign stock Market business is quiet,
and prices are all firmer. Turkish 6 per Cents. are
101 i, 102 ; ditto 4 per Cents., 104 ; Mexican 3
Per Cents., ,20k ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 45/ ;
Spanish 3 per Cents., 441 ; Ditto Deferred, 26g ;

had Venezuela 4i per Cents., 334-.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred 13,inds, 52 614 ; Mexi-
ean, 20 20,E ; Peruvian 4i per Cents, 80 81 ; Ditto
3 per Cents., 56 57 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents.; 45
" ; Russian 5 per Cents., 109 111 ; Ditto 41 per
Cents., 99 101 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 441 2 ; Ditto
Deferred, 26k t.
The transactions reported in the Railway Share
Market to-day have been of a rather limited char-
acter, and in most instances at a decline of about
per cent. on yesterday's current quota-
tions. Great Western, LancasL ire and Yorkshire,
Brighton, and South Western, declined ss. ;
Last Lancashire, Midland, and North Eastern (Bet,
Wick), Ms.; and Manchester, Sheffield. and Lin-
et,...°ln, 15s. North British improved Ss., South
Wales 10s., and Caledonian 11. The Foreign and
eolonia; undertakings have been very inactive.
Grand Trunk of Canada declined 11. ; East Indian

improved as., Paris and Lyons 55., and Southern
°f France ss.
Por Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
Mere was scarcely any inquiry, and little alteration
!°olc place in prices. London and Westminster
'lt Proved I.os. Canada Land declined about 2/.
North of Europe Steam, ss. ; and Peninsular and
oriental Steam advanced ss.

RrtIVISIE FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE ( ,C,1,01;...
(From the Official ListA
4 ~ Busineco. Inv,.
1 ver Cent. Consols Annuities 96 i 4 7i 7:
ILits Bonds. £l000
ditto, under £lOllO 27 p
vitsole for Account
E1c,,,,-.;,,,,, lits.'%,d
81000
£soo
is ~
~. .....
, Exchequer Bonds. 1 :5‘,, --1. po Cmi; lOOl
, N'kkieitS OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
-`exican .4 per Cent ........ -
1, b‘tto Account
°rtuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con, IS4I
Ditto 18:)3, 3 per Cent 4si
Ditto Account
13r1 nish rinl.ute, 3 per ant
Ditto Account
hitt° New Deferred, 3 per Can;. -
ft, Ditto Account
wurkiab !,onds, par ,ent
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, ; per Cant.
I)itto Account lO4
Venezuela Bonds, 4i per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.

TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, money
Ditto, Acsount

The Sea Breeze has arrived from Australia with
48,910 ounces of gold, valued at 95,6401.
1,4 e Nord appears to give credence t.) a report that
• Drouyn de Lhuys is to suet-ed Count WalewEki
12 Minister of Foreign Affairs in France, and that M.
do Persigny is to be Minister of the Ibterior.
The Royal Bank of Ireland has declared a dividend
of 3 per cent., with a bonus of 3 per cent. (both free
°f inennie tax), on the past hdf-year's business may b.
4Perved, is equal to a dividend of 12 per cent. per

The Paris Moniteur publishes a fresh list, filling save-
IN columns, of places from which addresses of congratti-
-444,ti0n have been sent to the Emperor. At the head of
the list stands that from the Lord Mayor, alderman, and
principal inhabitants of the city of Dublin.
NEW INDIAN I3ISHOPRIC.—The go vt-rning body of the
Societyl, for the propagation of the Go,pel iu Foreign
Zfarts, have addressed a memorial to the new Premier,
aYing that his lordship will be pleased to advise her
sJeaty to erect an additional bishopric in India for the
north-western provinces ; and, further, to take such
the as may be required for obtaining from Parliament
"hecessary authority for erecting that see.
.n
13•OTAL BRITISII BANK.—Yesierday Mr. Harding, the
Ificial manager of the Court of Chancery, with Mr.
'.'aklater representing the esta;e in bankruptcy, and
41easra. Sharpe, Field, and Jackson, solicitors for the
various shareholders, attended before Vice-Chancellor
.kindersley, in chambers, for the purpose of further pro-
ceeding with proposals of compromise under the Winding
bP Act. Mr. Harding submitted 82 new cams, which
*ere approved of by the Vice-Chancellor, making a total
of 158 cases of compromise now approved of under the
%4drninietration by the official manager of this estate,
her investigating with great care and labour the
circumstances of the parties, and which led to the
"elusion that amicable arrangement would prove more
ltvantageous to all parties than protracted litigation.
bge aggregate amount of compromises thus dealt with,
the present time is about 100,0001, and it is un-
leratood that there is a large number still ender consi-
etlltio It decided, on the application of Mr.
11. was
„„litkla,ter, that the dividend a'iout to be declared by the
Zulciar manager might be declared only on debts that
been proved both in bankruptcy and Chancery, so
at the assignees might have ao opportunity of inveti•
all other claims. T:-e la,t day for receiving
sc'oft in bankruptcy is the 19th in-f.
TR
-The R..ya,
41. a MAILS. —SOUTHAMPTON, 1.11,-(- •
to.ll,Company's steam ship Avon, Captain Revert, left
fyjl viay with the usual Brazil and River Plate mails, a
22 ~eargo, specie of the value of 12,255/,, jewellery value
fou"Oln., and 78 passengere, among whom are Capt. Bal-
let:Land Lieu,. Hanmer. The steam ship Prince, which
tai on on Saturday for the West Indies, has been de-
%,;,e,d off Portland by the violence of the w6ather. The
ey,""Vestern Company's steam ship Express, which
rill to and fr,ra the Channel I-4:ands,
at,„, a squall last night which snapped off her foreina:4
el the ri With the deck, carrying away the sail and a portion
gging.

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