The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-23 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1858

TEATR E-R OY AL, DRUR Y-L A NE.t
Under the Management of Miss L. Fyne and Mr. W.
Harrison.
THIS EVENING, Balfe's celebrated Opera, THE ROSE
OF CASTILLE : Characters by Miss Louisa Pyne Miss
Susan Pyne Miss M. Prescott, Mr. Geo. Honey, 3lr. Bartle-
man, Mr. F. Glover, Mr. A. St. Albyn, and Mr. W. Harrison.
Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon.
To conclude with a new Ballet Divertissement, LA FLEUR
D'AMOUR : Mesdlles. L. Michelet, Morlacchi, and ragluale.

I) 0 YAI, PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
L Under the Managemtnt of Mr. Charles Kean.
T lIIS EVENING will be presented Shakspere's Play of
KING JOHN..
King John, Mr. C. Kean—Constance, Mrs. C. Kean.
Preceded by the Farce of
AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING (LAST NIGHT), EXTREMES; 01,
Yen of the Day. Supported by Messrs. IL Vandenhoff,
Entery J. Rogers, T. G. Shore, and Barrett; Miss Wool-
gar, firs. Weston, Miss Kate Saxon.
An Address by Mr. Edmund Falconer.
BETSY BAKER, Mr. and Mrs. Keeley.
Song, Mrs. Howard Paul.
Tek conclude with the Ballet of the RENDEZVOUS. The
Lauri Family.
Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-office
open from 11 to 5 daily.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET,
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING will be performed LONDON ASSI.T.
BANUE : Mr. and Mrs. C. Matthews, itc.
HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR.
JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON.
And SHOCKING EVENTS.

Commence at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, THE LAST OF THE PIGTAILS;
Nessra.C. Selby, J. Bland, J. Clarke, &c.
After which THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE.
Followed by THE BONNIE FISII WIFE.
And MY AUNT'S HUSBAND ; Mr. Svranborough, Mrs,
Selby, Miss Ternan.
Commence at 7 o'clock.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.
Sole Lessee, Mr. William Cooke.
The New Tarif:
Dress Circle, 3s. ; Upper Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, is. ; Galleries, 6d.
Great and Extraordinary Sensation produced by ths new and
brilliant Decorations—Splendid Act Drop—Magnificent
Chandelier—Appropriate Scenery.
During- the week the new and successful drama of
THE BATTLE OF BOTHWELL BRIG.
With THE SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, comprising the
evolutions and equitations of the first Professors in the world
and their unequalled Stud of Horses.
To conclude with THE POST OF HONOUR.
No fee for booking.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERT EVENING.—The following Company
of Vocalists are engned for the performance of Selections
from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES,
GLEES, MITTS, &c., viz.:—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badsey,
Miss Brunell, Miss nay Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague,
Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ; Herr F. Jonolimans,
Mr. Renshaw, S Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio,
E. L Hiroo, Mr. Badsey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell,
Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Albyn. 3lr. John G. Forde, Mr. E.
Taylor, and E. W. Mackney, Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks
—Harmonium, Mr. Courtnay -Director, llerr F. Jonghmans.
Commence at 7 precisely. Suppers, &c., until 12 o'clock.
NOTICE.—The Proprietor begs respectfully to announce
tnat
TIIE FINE ARTS GALLERY,
ROW in course of construction, will be thrown open on
Wednesday next.

THE WENTHER.—SuN OFFICE, Ocr. 22.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
59—highest since noon yesterday.
48—lowest this morning and during the night.
58—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.10.
WIND, Easterly ; light, with dull weather.

THE SUN.

SATURDAY. OCTOBER 23, 1858.

The Manchester Atheneum meeting on Thurs-
day evening was the epitome, in its way, of all the
oratorical assemblies we have recently had the pri-
vilege of reporting. It was in furtheranee of the
advance movement, It was for the promstion of
social science generally—for the development of
the self-education of the masses—for their moral
improvement, their intellectural elevation, and the
amelioration of their condition, physical and mental,
by the diffusion more and more widely, among all
classes, of that knowledge whici is at once the
pioneer and the handmaid of Civilisation.
One of the most amiable and respected of all
the great Whig nobles was in the chair—Lord
STANLEY of ALDERLE Y. And on his right hand
was seated, incomparably the most distinguished
among them all—Lord JOHN RUSSELL. Both of
these person4ages spoke, as befitted them, in their
character of Whig noblemen—in terms expressive
of abstract sympathy with the more generous
aspirings of the population.

Professor AYTOUN followed in a vague but ear-
nest speech, during the delivery of which he in-
sisted so strongly upon the advisability of
poets reading their own poetry in public—ac-
cording to the custom of the old heroic times
--that we suppose Sir WALTER'S Lay of the Last
Minstrel ought to be regarded henceforth as an
anachronism. For surely Mr. AYTOUN cannot,
with any degree of consistency, do otherwise, after
all he has said, than begin wandering over the
country, giving a series of readings of his popular
" Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers." Can we not
now quote against him, until he satisfies our curi-
osity in this way—" It is only through the human
voice that poetry of the highest kind can have its
most perfect and highest exponent." Besides, we
cannot but remember with lively satisfaction the
assurance given a few years since by Professor
ATTOtiN, of his own peculiar powers in this way,

when he delivered his brilliant course of lectures
on Poets and Poetry. Let him, therefore, as speedily
as may be, prove true to his own argument. Did
he not distinctly utter these very words on Thursday ?
" CHARLES DICKENS, reading his 'Christmas Carol'
and Chimes' is an example"—a remark greeted with
cordial applause on Thursday evening at the Man-
chester Athenaeum. Is it so? Then follow it—last of
the Scottish Minstrels ! celebrant of the Duke of
Montrose ! bright-eyed Bon Gualtier ! T. Percy
Jones ! or whatever else may be the alias in
poetic literature ! We warrant the " Spasmodic
Tragedy" would elicit in one of those readings many
a hearty and wholesome burst of laughter—that
the famous " Ballads" would set the gravest table
in a roar as surely as ever did the voice and waggeries
of Yorick—that beyond all this the "Lays" would win
yet wider admiration by the audible sound of their
thrilling music. We put it to Professor ATTOUN.
Let him follow himself the "example" he so wisely
admires—that of one who, besides being the
greatest humourist, is also beyond a doubt the most
incomparable elocutionist of his generation.
After the pleasant speech of Professor AYTOUN
came a delightful harangue from another great
wit and wag; an "honourable" and a " judge"—a
capital judge of fun—to wit the immortal SAMUEL
SLICK of Slickville, otherwise the Hon.
Mr. Justice HALIBURTON. It was surely worth
a journey all the way down to Manchester
if only to hear SAM SLICK'S most Slicklike delinea-
tion of our own Sleepy Hollow down at West-
minster. " There is a place," said SAM, "in Lon-
don net put down in the show books to be seen by
a stranger, but which," said he, nevertheless, " is
well worth visiting. It is called Downing-street,
and contains the Government offices." Then fol-
lows a description as literally true and real as the
most faultless specimen of photography. Quoth
SAMUEL SLICK—" Here are a number of old build-
ings tottering and propped up. The front is
what was formerly the lawn, but is now
covered with bricks and rubbish, the
whole being fenced in with rough boards.
Rare," mtimuc.
ct the apeaker, "you will find

hem so drowsy that you can hardly keep your

own eyes open. Almost everybody in that place
is fast asleep. (Laughter.) The very sentries
there have orders from the Horse Guards to keep
in perpetual motion, or otherwise they would drop
asleep. (Continued laughter.) You have heard a
great deal about chloroform, and the surgical opera-
tions performed upon patients under its influence.

I venture to assert that if a man were taken to
Downing-street he would sleep so soundly that
his leg might be cut off before he awoke."
(Renewed laughter.) It is a most humorous de-
scription, true to the life—with just a trifle of
exaggeration about it to give it piquancy ! Yet,
somehow or other, surely the grand official worthies
down in that " Sleepy Hollow" must latterly have
roused from their customary state of somnolency.
Otherwise how have they contrived—as they hare
contrived—to get through so much work in the way
of destruction, construction, innovation, disorga.nisa-
ion—calling a new colony like British Columbia
into existence—remodelling the whole government
of Hindostan, and so on through the various de-
partments ? Yet was SAM SLICK'S description so
true to the past, that it proved a hit that told
amazingly even in the presence of the Noble Lord
who has himself filled so many of the great offices
of State, one after another—been in turn Prime
Minister, Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary,
Colonial Secretary, President of the Council, Pay-
master of the Forces, &c., &c., &c. Lord JOHN
smiled—SAM SLICK talked—Downing-street was
visibly before the audience—and there were roams
of laughter within the walls of the Manchester
Athenteum. Subsequently three other notabilities
spoke. Sir JAMES BROOKE, the Rajah of Sarawak,
—Mr. MONCKTON MILNES, author of "Palm
Leaves," and M.P. for Pontefract—and Mr. GEORGE
CRUIKSHANK, the celebrated caricaturist. The
Rajah put some home-truths to the conscience of
his hearers very effectively. The poetical M.P.
quoted a noble couplet from—" somewhere"—
" Two things I ever tremble while I scan,
The stars of heaven and the mind of man."

The delightful artist—of course—advocated the
cause of temperance. Altogether the meeting on
Thursday, at the Manchester Athenaeum, was one
in every way worthy of being borne in remem•
brance.

A new Royal Warrant has just been issued, con-
taining new regulations for the promotion and pay
of officers in the Army and Ordnance. Hencefor-
ward there may be Field-Marshals ad libitum,
or, in other words, the rank is to be given with-
out reference to seniority ! In one respect the
principle is a good one. The nati•n does not
►ant a numerous body of decrepid men far
beyond the power of rendering any further
active service in high position. It would not, how-
ever, desire that the feelings of a meritoriiU
officer, one who had greatly distinguished himself
in his day, should be in any degree aggrieved, and
it would scarcely withhold a harmless feather from
his cap. Nor would it refuse any honourto the dar-
ing and gallant soldier, who, like Lord CLYDE, has
fairly and nobly earned it on the tented field. It
is only the danger of jobbing that is regarded.
We know that there was no difficulty in the
way of promoting the Iron Duke, or Lord RAGLAN,
to the highest rank in their profession, although
they were elevated over the heads of many senior
officers. There are, therefore, adequate precedents
for bestowing even the " Baton" on one who had
justly and fairly deserved it.
We are, however, to have a fixed establishment
of General Officers, and that on a tolerably exten-
sive scale, viz.:--

For the Guards and the Line

For the Artillery .4 . . . . . . ,

For the Engineers

Generals
Lieut.-Generals . , 80
Major-Generals
Generals
Lieut.-Generals 10
Major-Generals 16
Generals
Lieut. Generals
Major-Generals 8

Now, what eon be the possible necessity for so
numerous a body ? More than 300 Generals to
command about a hundred thousand troops. The
tenth part of the number cannot by any possibility
be on active service at the same time, and making
every proportionate allowance for those placed
entirely hors de combat, not one in five of those
able and willing to work can find occupa-
tion. We have already on many occasions had
reason to prefer similar complaints respecting the
number of Admirals flourishing on the Navy List.
Many of these had virtually retired for a series of
years before their promotion. !But still we are
apparently to fill up a number more than three times
what could be required under any possible cir-
cumstances, even if the most sanguinary war had
been raging, and the very existence of Great Bri-
tain were menaced on the very element: over
which she once claimed unrivalled supremacy.
The fact was that Admirals and Generals were
CT eated for extraordinary services in war time ; but
in place of allowing the number to be gradually

reduced, they were kept up in the "piping times
of peace" to the same extent, and every new emer-
gency enhances the list until they may gradually
become " thick as leaves in Vallambrosa," or we
may be able to find a General or two almost
in every boarding house, as, it has been
said, is frequently the case on the other
side of the Atlantic. When a real sharp contest
commences, there are ,but yew of the " fixed esta-
blishment" of generals en the; spot. It :is the
colonels in actual service who have to encounter
the danger and toil, and responsibility. They are
necessarily entrusted with higher rank, and it
would be an outrage on every principle of justice
to deprive them of the rank won in the face of the
enemy, ex necessitate rei. Would HAVELOCK or
WILSON, NICHOLSON, NEILL, or PENNY (it is not
from want of many meritorious candidates that we
do not swell the list) have showed more daring
valour, combined. with prudent strategy, had
they already been amongst the elite on the
fixed establishment ? Far from it. It would
have virtually shelved them for the remainder of
their natural lives, unless they had sufficient inte-
rest to get important and lucrative appointments.
We shall not at present say more respecting the
new warrant. The fixed number of more than
300 generals, which must always be kept filled up
according to seniority, while, as in justice and
equity it ought to be, every man may be promoted
for meritorious conduct, is quite sufficient for one
day. There are, however, other points worthy
of notice, to which we shall refer in due course.

Our national defences seem to be the topic of
half our speakers, of our members of Parliament
especially. Wherever an honourable member meets
his constituents, whether at an agricultural meet-
ing or in a town-hall, he shows his generosity and
patriotism by enlarging on what he will do—in
voting the nation's money he means—towards mak-
ing us all secure. We are, of course, much obliged to
our representatives; only, we should like much better
promises to do their utmost that the prodigious sum
of three-and-twenty millions per annum should be
applied more to the purpose. We find it difficult
to believe that such an enormous amount of money
would not, if honestly and skilfully used, make every
accessible part of our coast impregnable; or, what is
better, keep in efficiency a navy which would defy
all the ships of Europe to land an army on our
coasts. Those continual " sales of old stores,"
and the pexterly hemlizg " cellumus,",on, the

receipt side of the nal ional revenue balance-sheet,
only remind us that • we are wasting large sums
continually in impr- ra dent purchases. Whoever
attends these sales in :ariably finds a considerable
quantity of goods ai id articles which have never
been used at all, whi eh are oki stores only because
some change of fas hion—something frequently
merely affecting appef trance—has antiquated them

We are not about, however, to take up the motto
just now that econor Ay is our best defence. Suffice
it, that all will age :ce in the desirableness of having
all our resources in the most available state ; so,
that in the eve•at of a sudden war, we might be
able to make use of them at the shortest notice.
For this purpeose, as it strikes us, we might have
one element of defensive warfare in a much more
advanced state by very simple means. We refer to
skill in nzarizsntanship. The rifle,is working quite
as great an alteration in the character of our in-
fantry as steam in that of our navy. It is making
such rapid progress in both the accuracy and range
of the weapon, that it is hardly possible to say
what will bo its deadly power in the course of a
few years. In proportion, however, to the neces-
sary extent ,of its adoption will be the necessity of
long training. A good shot is not made in a day.
As the ride, indeed, in this matter, " the boy is
father to the man." The acquisition of a steady
hand, and a correct, unblenching eye, is best begun
in youth ; at least the attempt to master the rifle
should be made as early as possible. For, while
some have an almost intuitive skill in the use of a
gun, with the majority accuracy of aim is matter of
careful and long practice.
What we want, then, is a good supply of men
who at any moment possess that first requisite of
a modern soldier—that he shall be able to kill his
enemy five hundred or a thousand yards off. The
soldier generally, the rifleman especially, is a
killing machine, but a machine whose efficacy
depends on something which mechanism cannot
give. The efficient marksman is the unit of the
force—and it will be destructive in proportion to
the perfection of each individual unit. No ability in
command, no personal courage, will, in the private,
compensate for the want of power to kill at long
distances, should the enemy but possess it in tolerable

perfection. A bawl of brave men may otherwise

fall before a few first-rate riflemen, just as the heavy-
armed Spartans fell before the light-armed troops
at Corinth, while utterly unable to help themselves
against adversaries too nimble or too distant for
them to reach. The drill of an ordinary soldier is,
we are told, a matter soon acquired ; if, therefore,
he have acquired previously the skill with his wea-
pon which would at once make him formidable
anywhere, it is plain that it might expedite pro-
digiously our means for calling forth an army on
an emergency.

Now, what hinders our young men from being
drilled, we might say throughout the kingdom, in the
use of the rifle ? Voluntary rifle corps we cordially
approve of, but they involve too much expense to
the individual. We want some method by which
our youth, all over the country, shall be taught the
manly amusement of rifle shooting. We should
think it would be very popular, and we are only
suggesting it as a perfectly voluntary thing. Our
manufacturing youth would surely delight in sum-
mer time to withdraw to the suburbs of their
smoky towns, and spend an hour or two in such an
exercise. Our agricultural lads would, we imagine,
relish it equally. They covet the gun from child-
hood—they frequently, much to the squire's an-
noyance, use a fowling-piece for such ignoble game
as game-laws do leave them ; and generally
they acquire, from their practice in ploughing,
great correctness of sight. The man who will take
a furrow across a field for half a mile if need were,
and hardly deviate an inch from the straight line,
must have already one important element of a first-
rate marksman.

Would it not then be possible to furnish to a large
number of towns and villages in the kingdom some
few dozen rifles each, and the requisite ammunition,
with a soldier also, to start the lads at least, and,
where the thing was popular, to remain and become
a regular trainer for that neighbourhood ? The
beginning might perhaps be made with towns and
villages near the coast. The parish authorities
could be interested, and sometimes a half holiday
asked of their masters for the volunteers to
practise on a winter's afternoon. The expense
would be inconsiderable. The rifles and equipments
could remain in custody of some one, perhaps a
superannuated soldier, paid to take charge of them
and keep them clean. Those which were
not the newest and best pattern would serve
equally well for this purpose ; they would at any
rate be better thus used than sold for an "old song"
as "old stores," and it would be easy, at no great
cost, to stimulate emulation by small prizes. Even
five shillings and a medal would go some way in
districts where thirty shillings is considered an
enviable prize for many years' service.

If it be thought worth while to train mercantile
sailors to naval gunnery, who merely learn it and
leave, in the hope that they may be found of
greater service, and more ready to join a man-of-war
if wanted, will not the same principle apply to rifle
practice ? Will not the young man who believes
that he can already beat half the redcoats, or
greencoats, in the most important point of all, be
more ready to enlist into a regiment ? He will
feel that the great difficulty has been overcome, and
that if he can touch the bull's eye pretty frequently
he is pretty sure to take a creditable position at
once with his new comrades. It would, indeed, be
quite practicable for an old sergeant to teach the
young fellows the elements of drill, and all the arts
of the deer stalker, when a sufficient number were
collected to make it worth while. In olden times
our renowned archers, we are told, acquired their
skill by local practice as civilians ; and that they
were thus found ready with the grand essential in
the hour of need. Why cannot the same principle
be applied now ?
It is obvious, besides, that a peasantry and a
body of operatives, masters of the rifle practice,
would, with hardly any drilling, be a most
formidable annoyance to an invading army. In a
country like ours, abounding with hedges and
ditches, no sentinel, no officer, hardly any small
advanced bodies, would be safe at all. If the pea-
santry's blood were stirred by, as it would be, the
mere fact of an invasion by Frenchmen and Rus-
sians, woe to the man who ventured far from the
main body and the artillery; woe to those who
marched, and to those who were even encamping
at the hour of twilight ; woe to those who stirred
at moonlight, and woe to those who were ill
acquainted with the country, at the hands of those
who knew every hill and dale of it, if a thick fog
came on. In the revolution of 1848 the marksmen
among the workmen were most dangerous of all to
the regular soldiers whenever they came in contact
with them ; they would not be less formidable, if
Englishmen fighting against wanton invaders, than
were Frenchmen and Prussians when fighting
against domestic despotism. Were England a land
of practised riflemen we believe the HYENES and
MARICOURTS, who are so valiant against editors,
would think twice before they asked again to be
led to the sack of London.

We understand that the Channel Fleet has been
ordered to Lisbon.

LATEST NEWS.

FRANCE AND PORTUGAL.

LISBON, FRIDAY, 4 P.M.
It is asserted that our Government has acceded
;o the demands of France.

The following telvgrams were received at Mr.

Reuter's office :

BERLIN, OCT. 22, EVENING.

The First Chamber, in its sitting of this day, has
rejected by 80 votes against 76, a motion made by
Count Arnim-Boitzenburg, Prof. Stahl, Zander,
and their supporters, to send an address to the
King and the Prince Regent.

BERLIN, FRIDAY EVENING.

In the sitting of the Select Committee of both
Chambers, the resolution has been accepted to
recommend to both Chambers the necessity of re-
cognising the Regency.

The report of the committee will be printed and
delivered to the members to-day.

Monday next there will be a united sitting of
both Chambers.

AMERICA.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING.

The Hudson steamer, belonging to the North
German Lloyd's, Captain G. Wenke, which left
New York on the afternoon of the 9th, put in here
this morning to coal, and will proceed on to Bremen
immediately.
She has 120 passengers and 750 tons of cargo.
Her news is anticipated by the City of Wash-
ington.

She had strong easterly gales during the voyage.

The Hudson spoke the British brig Eagle, in lat.
47 47 N., long. 44 57 W., bound E., on the 15th
inst. ; and off Start Point, on the 22d, the Bremen
barque Virginia, bound E.—all well.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Malta, from Alexandria, passed Hurst at 9.50.
She brings the heavy portion of the Bombay
mail.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY.

It appears that the report of the assassination of
the consuls at Tetuan was disseminated extensively
at Tangiers, Ceuta, Melilla, and in other places on
the coast of Barbary, and even at Gibraltar. The
way in which it reached Paris seems to be this :
The Spanish Governor of Ceuta, on hearing it, sent
a small vessel to the little French port of Nemours
to announce the rumour. The Military 'com-
mander there transmitted the news to the authori-
ties at Tlemcen, and from that place it was sent
to Oran, from Oran to Algiers, and from Algiers,
by General MacMahon, to Paris. What gave rise
to the rumour was that two Italians were mur-
dered near Tetuan for the sake of robbery. It was
M. de Castillon, consul-general of France, who
ascertained the falsity of the rumour by going to
Tetuan. The Minister of Marine, on receiving the
news, made preparations for fitting out a number
of gunboats for Tetuan, but before appointing the
commander he resolved to await details.

" The Marquis de Turgot, who will shortly
set out for Berne, -where he has been appointed
Minister, will," says the Paris correspondent
of the Nord, "receive very energetic instructions
relative to the refusal of the canton of Geneva to
execute the orders of the Federal Government
relative to the refugees."
The Nord has commenced the publication of the
protocols of the Conference of Paris on the Danu-
bian Principalities ; but after the details of the
proceedings which were given whilst the Con-
ference was sitting, and the publication of the
convention agreed to, these documents possess but
little interest.

BOURSE, Oct. 22.—The market has been rather
unsettled to-day. Threes, after hiving been done
at 73f., 10c. and 72f. 90c., are now at 73f. ; Mo-
bilier varied from 890 f. to 905 f. ; Austrian, 657 f.
50c. to 660 f. ; Orleans, 1,347 f. 50c. to 1,350 f. ;
Lyons, 870 f. to 872 f. 50e. ; Southern, 565 f. to
567 f. 50c. ; and Eastern, 720 f. to 722 f. 50c. The
market continued heavy to the close, when the
'following were the quotations :-
4t per Cents. .... 95 45 Credit Foneier.,. a 650
Do. end month .. 95 75 Belgian 41
3 per Cents
Do. end month 72 95 Roman 93 50
Bank Shares. 3125 --Austrian
Credit Mobilier .. 895 Spanish Times
42 25 Do. Account ..... Homo Debt

British tars) spread the news of his arrival
among the English mechanics on the railroad
works. The whole city, ever agog to see new
faces, had an opportunity of admiring the beauty
and yacht costume of the bride and the horseman-
ship
of the bridegroom. His lordship was fortunate
in finding in the partner of one of the principal
banking houses a man after his own tastes, and
under his auspices went over the Queen's mag-
nificent stables and the horse barracks. He was
accompanied to the latter by the Inspector of
Cavalry, General Zabala. Lady Cardigan, who
showed even a greater degree of veterinary lore
than his Lordship, accompanied her husband to
the barracks, raised the horses' legs to examine
the method of shoeing practised here, and criti-
cised the whole concern with great freedom, to
the great amusement of some of the officers who
were as familiar with the language of Shakspeare
as herself. His lordship was struck with the
beauty of the cavalry carbine, and has taken one
to show the Duke of Cambridge. He did not
seem to profess any great admiration of the horses,
which, though in good condition, were not of a
kind to remind him of those which furnished the
charge at Balaklava, but they are as patient of
hunger and thirst and as enduring of hardship and
fatigue as their swarthy riders. A feeling of great
disappointment was experienced in military circles
at the English general's going away so soon."

A letter from Belgrade of the 14th states that
the resignation offered by the Ministry to the
Prince of Servia had been accepted, but that it had
not been possible to form a new Cabinet, no senator
being willing to resign his right of voting in the
Senate by becoming a Minister, and there being
no other person of sufficient political notoriety to
name. The Prince had requested M. de Gara-
chanin to resume the Presidency of the Council,
but the latter had declined.

Prince de Lieven, adjutant of the Emperor of
Russia, arrived at Vienna on the 17th on his way
to Italy. He is not believed to be charged with
any official mission.

The Opinione of Turin announces the arrival of
the Grand Duchess Helena of Russia and her con-
sort, the Prince of Mecklenburg, at Genoa. It adds
that they passed through Coira, in order to avoid
the Austrian States.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY.

About noon today the Liverpool, New York, and
Philadelphia screw steam-ship City of Washing-
ton, Capt. Petrie, arrived in the Mersey with the
United States mails. The City of Washington left
New York at noon on the 9th, and has brought
besides the mails 230 cabin and 75 steerage passen-
gers, and 591,242 dollars in specie on freight.
On the 12th inst. the City of Washington passed
a steamer bound west, supposed to be the Africa.
The British war-steamer Valorous, which at-
tended the Agamemnon while laying the Atlantic
cable, i,i hourly expected at New York, she being
detained to convey Sir William Gore Ouseley to
Central America, where he goes to attend to duties
connected with his mission.

The Secretary of State has notified the New
Granadian Minister of the determination of the
United States Government not to permit the ob-
struction of the Isthmus route to the Pacific on any
consideration, neither will it allow of tonnage dues
or a tax on the transportation of passengers and
mails ; and that in pursuance of this resolution
vessels of war have been ordered to the Isthmus.
The right of New Granada to refuse the United
States Government a naval rendezvous and coal-
ing station in the Bay of Panama is conceded by
Mr. Cass, but he considers such a refusal as
impolitic and illiberal; more especially as Spain
at Mahon, and Sardinia at Spezzia, had granted
similar privileges. The rumour that the United
States were negotiating a secret treaty with Russia
is said to be without foundation.

Mr. Reed, Minister to China, says in his official
despatches, received at Washington on the Bth,
that after he signed the treaty he made a :provi-
sional arrangement with the Commissioner for the
readjustment of the claims of American citizens
arising out of the difficulties at Canton, by which
portions of the duties at Shanghai, Foo-Chow, and
Canton arc to be appropriated to that end. He
intended to visit during the summer months such
of the ports of Japan as might be accessible, and
return to the United States by way of Bombay in
November or December next.

Judge Bowlin, Commissioner to Paraguay, and
Commander Page, captain of the fleet on the Para-
guay expedition, left Washington on the afternoon
of the 7th for New York. Commodore Shubrick
would receive his instructions immediately, and it
was expected he would sail in the Sabine, carrying
the commission, by the 13th.
The following is the last New York news respect-
ing the Atlantic cable :

" Trinity Bay, Oct. 8, 1858.
" Peter Cooper, Esq., New York.
"There has been no change whatever in the electrical
indications. "DE SAUTY.

At Savannah, on the 7th, the interments were
only three, including one from yellow fever.
An extraordinary case of counterfeiting the bills
of the Turkish Bank has been discovered at New
York. A Mrs. Sevesti arrived at Syra a short time
since, on her way from Liverpool to Constantinople.
Upon the examination of her trunks by the officer
of the customs, it was ascertained that they had
false bottoms, between which were concealed spuri-
ous notes on the Turkish Bank to an immense value.
Steps were then taken to find out where the bills
were printed, and the investigation finally resulted
in tracing their manufacture to New York. The
case was disposed of on the Bth. Mr. Harrison,
who printed the bills for Madame Sevesti, was
honourably discharged after he had made his ex-
planation of the facts of the case. Having no know-
ledge of the Turkish language, he supposed the
matter he printed to be merely labels with Chinese
characters upon them, and to be used in Eastern
commerce. The plates and " caimes" were delivered
up to the proper authorities by Mr. Harrison.
At Waterbury, Vermont, a fire broke out on the
Bth, in the store of Wells and Arms, which was
destroyed, together with five stores, the hotel and
stable, the town-hall, the building occupied by the
bank, a dwelling-house, and four barns. A large
quantity of flour was also consumed. Some of the
sufferers saved a portion of their stock and furni-
ture. Loss estimated at 25,000 dols. ; insured for
12.000 dols.
Snow has fallen in several portions of the Union.
At Syracuse there was a slight fall on the Bth. At
Hornell's-vill, New York, on the previous night,
the ground was covered with snow to the depth of
three inches. The storm, commencing at the lakes,
extended east along the Erie Railroad as far as the
Great Bend, and snow fell at almost all the inter-
mediate places.
Advices from Oswego of the Bth state that a
strong gale of wind sprung up the previous after-
noon, and a heavy sea was rolling all night and
that morning. The schooner Osprey, of Buffalo,
with a cargo of wheat from Racine, was driven
against the east pier, carrying away her spars, and
sank immediately. The captain's wife and child
and the mate were washed overboard and drowned.

Several vessels arrived the previous night, and
on the Bth, more or less damaged, and great fears
are entertained for the safety of those now out.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, OCT. 9.
There is a little more inquiry for money among business
men, and the regular offerings at the leading banks
show a slight increase, although without any visible
effect upon the rate of int9rest. On call, capital is
still very abundant, and borrowers whose good faith
and security are undoubted receive daily more offers of
money at even very low rates than they care to employ.
We quote—Loans on call, stock securities, 3c. to 4c. per
annum ; ditto, other good securities, 4c. to 6c. ; prime en-
dorsed bills, 60 to 90 days, 4c. to sc. ; ditto, four to six
months, 41c. to 6c. ; first class single signature, ss. to 7c. ;
other good bills, 7c. to Bc.; names less known, Bc. to 10c.
Foreign exchange is moderately active, and is more freely
offered, probablyin view of the increased business in cotton.
Bills at 60 days on London are quoted at 1091 to 1091 for
commercial, 1094 to 110 for bankers, the latter an extreme
rate.

The stock market is again buoyant to-day for nearly
everything on the list except Pacific Mail S. S. stock and
Panama, both of which have experienced a further decline,
the former closing at the First Board at 1001 against 1021
last evening, and the latter at 1161 against 1181 last even-
ing, the decline owing to the premature reports in circula-
tion in regard to the formation of a new line via Nicaragua,
by means of the Collins' boats. New York Central Stock
advanced + ; Erie, 1 ; Reading, I ; Michigan Southern,
guaranteed stack, ; Galena, k ; Toledo, k; and Rock
Island, At the Second Board, there was a further gene-
ral improvement and unusual activity. Even Pacific Mail
recovered the morning decline, closing at 102.

THE YIELD Or GOLD IN AUSTRALIA.—From the
first discovery of the gold-fields in Victoria up to the end
of last year, the government escorts had brought down to
Melbourne 11,457,472 ounces of gold the value of which is
estimated at £45,830,000. During the above period the
total amount of revenue derived from the gold-fields, in-
clusive of the export duty, was nearly three millions
sterling, out of which about £1,583,000, had been expended
in making and repairing roads from Melbourne to the
Tarim gold-Aoldik,

LAUNCH OF THE EDGAR, 91, SCREW-FRIGATE
AT WOOLWICH, THIS DAY.

The interesting ceremony of launching .this magnificent
specimen of naval architecture took place this day in the
presence of a very large assemblage. In order to accom-
modate the immense number of visitors who usually at-
tend Woolwich Dockyard whenever an event of such pecu-
liar interest to Englishmen takes place, great preparations
had been made, under the able directions of the Commo-
dore Superintendent, and the result was most satisfactory.
SThe plan usually adopted to enable the visitors to
witness a launch was to erect booths on both sides
of the building-shed, but on the present occasion
a platform was erected at the head of the noble
vessel, sufficient for the accommodation of nearly a
thousand persons, admission to which was only to be had
by ticket. In order to afford those who were not so fortu-
nate as to procure the " little bits of pasteboard," as the
tickets:were called, a large space was set apart, under the
bow of the ship, where an excellent view was to be obtained.
On the port side of the Edgar another gallery was erected
for the " special " visitors—in the upper seats of which
the band of the Royal Marines were placed.

Until a short time before the launch the arrival of visitors
continued, and at one o'clock the dockyard, the opposite
bank of the river, and the river itself presented a scene of
the greatest animation. Colour flying, bands playing, and
sailors cheering, all combined to produce a coup d'ceil of
great magnificence.

Shortly before two o'clock the excitement reached its cul-
minating point, on its being known that operations for
launching had commenced. The ceremony of christening
having been gone through, the dog-shores were knocked
away, and the " good ship Edgar" glided into the Thames
amidst the cheers of the spectators.
The Edgar was laid down immediately after the launch
of the Agamemnon from the same slip, in 1854, and has been
constructed under the superintendence of Mr. W. M. Rice,
master shipwright, and Mr. J. P. Peake, assistant master
shipwright at this yard. Her armament of 51 guns is as
follows :—On the upper deck—one 68-pounder pivot gun,
95 cwt.. and 10 feet long ; 22 32-pounders, 45 cwt., 9 feet
6 inch guns. On the main decl4---34 32-pounders, 58 cwt.,
9 feet 6 inch guns ; and on the lower deck 7-34 8-pounders,
45 cwt., 9 feet guns. Her burden in tons is 3,004, and her
crew will consist of 800 men. The following are her dimen-
sions :

Ft. In.
Length between perpendiculars
Length of keel for tonnage
Breadth, extreme
Breadth, for tonnage 64 7
Breadth moulded
Depth in hold
The Edgar will be towed on Monday to Sheerness, to be
fitted with her boilers and screw machinery.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.--(THIS DAY.)

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Prendergast, Q.C.)
IMPORTANT CASE OF BREACH OF CONTRACT--HUNT V.

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