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GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.--
CHANNEL ISLANDS.--Tickets to Jersey and Guernsey,
via Weymouth, are now issued at the Paddington Station, enabling
passengers to break the journey at Chippenham, Dorchester, or
Weymouth.

Fares, Rail and Boat :-31a. and 21a.
Further particulars can be obtained on application at the Corn-
piny's Oakes.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-CHEAP
EXCURSIONS.
On Saturday, the 3d October, a train will leave Paddington, at
GM p.m., for Bath and Bristol, returning on Monday, October sth,
at 632 p m. Fares, there and back:—Bath, 11s. and ss. 6d.;
Bristol, 14s. and 63. 61.
On_ Sunday, October 4th, a train will leave Paddington at 7.45
a.m., fcr Oxford, Banbury, Leamington, Warwick, and Birmingham,
returning the same evening at 7 o'clock, or at 12.20 p in. on the I
following duty. Fares, there and back :—Oxford, 6s. 6d. and 4s. ;
Banbury, Bs. and ss. ; Leamington and Warwick, 10s. 6d. and 6s. , •
Birmingham, 12s. and 7s.
On Saturday, the 10th October, a train will leava Paddington at
3.0 p.m., for Chippenham, Trowbridge, and Westbury (Fares 9s.
and Sc.),Frome and Yeovil (Fares 10s. and 63.), Weymouth and
Dorchester (Fares, 12e. and 88.), returning on Tuesday, the 1::th
October, from Weymouth at 11.30 a.m.
On Sunday, October 11th, a train will leave Paddington at 7.45
a.m. for Bath and Bristol, returning the same evening at 6.30 p.m.
Faro, there and back:—Bath, Ils. and ss. 6d.; Bristol, 14s. and
Gs. 6d._

For flirther particulars of return, Stc., see handbills, to be obtained
at any of the Company's offices.

FUND for the RELIEF of the SUFFERERS
by the MUTINY in INDIA.
SUBSCRIPTIONS continue to be received daily by the Right
Ilan. the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house ; by the Bank of Eng-
land and all its branches; by the London Joint Stock Banks and
their branches ; by all the private Bankers in the Metropolis ; and
by the Provincial Bank of Ireland and National Bank, and at their
branches.

The Committee meet daily at the Mansion-house, at 3 o'clock
_precisely. 11. B. HENDER3ON Lleut.-Col., Hon. Sec.
DAVID FORREST, Secretary
Mansion-house, Sept. 12, 1857:

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSITIL tNCE ASSOCIATION.

A Vacancy in the Direction having been declared by resolution of
the Board, notice is hereby given that a SPECIAL GENES tL
MEETING of Members will be held at the London Tavern, on
WEDNESDAY, the 28th of October, next, at 6 p.m. precisely, for
he purpose of electing a director to fill the said vacancy.
Any member duly qualified intending to offer himself or to pro-
pose any other member as a candidate for election must, in confor-
mity with the rules.of the association, give notice in writing, ad-
dressed to the Chairman of the Association, at least twenty-one days
previous to the day of meeting.
By Order of the Board.
WILLIAM THOMAS LINFORD, Secy.
15, Moorgate-street, London, Sept. 9, 1857.
Mem,-ers are particularly requested to produce the numbers of
their policies at the meeting.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSURANCE ASS OCI A TION.—Es tabllshed 1840.

TariTzEs.

Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
I Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. Baron L.N. cis Rothschlld,M.P.

All Cluses may insure in this Association, which is on the mutual
priuciple. and from its steady and progressive increase offers perfect
security.

Policies effected in 1855 —424, for £82,350
. 1856-730, for 108.280
Invested capital ................ 94,300
Annual income 27,000
The Third Division of Profits will take place at the end of the pre.
sant year.

WILLIAM THOMAS LINFORD, Secretary.
THE BENEVOLENT FUND in connection with the abeve offers
special advantages to clerks becoming members.
JOHN ABEL SMITH, Esq., M.P., Treasurer.
15, Moorgate-street, September 1,1857.

GENTLEMEN.—GEO. HOBSON begs to
Li
call the attention of the rrsblic to his New Stock of Autumnal
Goods, consisting of West of England mixed and plain beaver cloths,
Scotch and Heather Twist Doeskins, Cashmere and Toilanetto
Waistcoatings, of the first makers, at price; most moierate for Best
Goods.—GEORGE HOBSON, 57, Lombard-street.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.—Lessee, Mr.
Dillon.—Under the joint management of
Miss LOUISA PYNE and Mr. W. HARRISON.—Open for
an OPERA SEASON of THREE MONTHS, with the fol-
lowing' Distinguished Artistes :—Madame Caradori, Miss Co-
relli, Miss Susan Pyne, Miss Marian Prescott, Miss Cuthbert,
Mrs. Manley, and Miss Louisa Ppm ; Mr. Augustus
Braliam, Mr. A. St. Allyn, Mr. Edmunds, Mr. Hamilton
Braham, Mr. Ferdinand Glover, Mr.' Bernard, Mr. Kerby,
Mr. Wallworth, Mr, G. Honey, Mr. Weiss, and Mr, W, Harrison.
Conductor, XT. Alfred Mellon. The Orchestra selected
from the Royal Italian Opera, Jullien's Band, and the Orches-
tral Union. The Chorus selected entirely from the Royal
Italian Opera. Stage Manager, Mr. E. Stirling, Assistant
Acting Manager, Mr. William Brough. Ballet Master, Mr.
Frampton. Chorus Master, Mr. G. Smythson.
THIS EVENING, MONDAY, Auber's opera of THE
CROWN DIAMONDS.
Aft-r which, SOMEBODY ELSE.
Private Boxes, £2 12s. 6d., £2 25., and £1 11s. 6d. ;
Stalls, 6s. ; Dress Circle, ss. ; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.;
Gallery, le.—The Box Office is now open daily, from 11 to
4, under the direction of Mr. Chatterton, jun.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with
Sheridan's corned/ of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Sir
Peter Teazle' Mr. Chippendale; Sir Benjamin Backbite, Mr.
Buckstone ; Joseph Surface, Mr. Howe; Charles Surface (3d
time), Mr. W. Ferran ; Moses, Mr. Clark ; Sir Oliver, Mr.
Rogers ; Crabtree, Mr. Compton; Lady Teazle, Mrs. Cathe-
rine Sinclair (her sth appearance in that character in this
country) ; Lady Sneerwell, Mrs. Poynter ; Maaia, Miss Emma
King • and Mrs. Candour, Miss Talbot.
After which, A CURE FOR LOVE.
To conclude with THE SWISS COTTAGE.
Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the
• evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.)
First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d
Drees Boxes 5 0 Dress Boxes 3 0
Upper Boxes .. 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0
itk
ower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery . 0 6
Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery.

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Lessee—Air. Ben. Webster.
Was EVENING, will be performed the home-made
Extravaganza, DOMESTIC ECONOMY, Mr. Wright and
Miss Arden.
After which, Douglas Jerrold's drama of BLACK-EYED
SUSAN. William, Mr. T. P. Cooke ; Blue Pater. Mr. Paul
Bedford Gnatbrain, Mr. Wright ; Black-eyed Susan, Miss
Miss Arden.
To conclude with " FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN THE
SEVEN DIALS."

TRAND THEATRE.—Lessee, Mr. T. Payne.
kJ —THIS EVENING will be performed
A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. Mr. J. Kinloch and
Miss Harriet Gordon.
A CHEAP EXCURSION.
After which, the highly successful and original burlesque,
written by Leicester Buckingham, entitled LA TRAVIATA;
sr, THE LADY CAMELEON. Miss Craven, Miss Victor,
Mr. E. Charles, Mr. G. Bolton, Mr. J. Howard, and Mr. J.
Clarke.

Followed by BA'',TIELOR'S BUTTONS. Miss M. A
Vie'or and Mr. Clarke.

Commence at Seven. Stalls, 35.; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls.;
Gallery 6d. ; Private Boxes, 1/. ls.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. Robson and Emden.
THIS EVENING, will be performed the new drama of
THE LIGHTHOUSE.
After which, the comedietta, entitled A SUBTERFUGE
Mrs, Stirling, Mr. G. Vining, aid Mr. G. Murray.
To conclude with the original Extravaganza, by Robert
B. Brough, Esq., called MASANIELLO. Messrs. Rob-
-ou, Cooke, Danvers, &c. ; Misses Swanborough, Thiriwall,
Hughes, Bromley, and Mrs. Melfont.
Commence at half-past Seven.

D OYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick.
THIS EVENING, will be performed AMBITION : or,
The Throne and the Tomb. Messrs. Creswick, W. Smith,
Vollaire, B. Potter, Jackson, Belm,,re ; Miss Webster, Miss
M. Elmira°, Miss Johnstone.
Followed by OUR TRAVIATA. The Blighted One, Mr.
Widdicomb.
To conclude with THE QUIET FAMILY. Mr. Vollaire,
Mr. Widdicomb, and Miss Chalmers.

CIANTERBURY HALL, Weatminster-road.-
- -OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
uriompany of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
Jections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS,
CRORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, 40., viz.: Mrs. Palmze, Miss
soott, Kiss Brunel!, Mrs. Lo Jenne, Miss Leslie, and
lifacianie Marietta; Herr F. Jongbmans, R. Grover, T. Far-
rant, S. .Tonee, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri, Senor An-
tonin, E. L. 'lime, and Mr. St. Albyn ; Master Corri; Messrs
gam. Collins, and E. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr Cecil
Ricks; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F.
20nifhnlans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Sap-
lP•l%► v.vatil twelve o'clock.—Signor PICCO will perform,
" bst-Pagt Eight and half-past Ten, every Evening.

• man WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TP.113 DAY—Morn., 32 min. aft. 8 —Even., 20 min aft. 9
"iso-ifoutoW—Morn. 6 min. aft. 10—Even. 50 min. aft. 10

rnat WEATHER —SUN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 28.
TIIIIIIEOMETIN, IN THE. SHADE.
62--highest since noon yesteday.
Nlowest this morning and during the night
GL —this day at noon.
BatitoxitTEn, 29.85--falling.
WIND, B;Vir. ; llgh with dull cloudy weather.

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LONDON, MONDAY, SEPT. 28, 1857.

We may now look forward every hour for

fresh information from India. Telegrams are
expected that will tell us the proceedings before
.Delhi, at Lucknow, Agra, and at {VD pore. We
:41141 know whether we have fresh massacres to
!dePlerre, fresh degradation to avenge—whether
mw i 1 required reinforcements have arrived, or
Vuether red-tapism has again deeply injured the
- emus of British supremacy in the East !—whether
the gallant acts of HAVELOCK aid hi 3 worthy
collaborateurs have been neutralised by the civi-
-I:ain3 at headquarters, who persuaded L')rd CAN-
• NING not to accept the aid tendered from
brepaul? A slight turn in the balance may be of
vast importance at the present moment, and the
nolination of the scale must naturally b© a

matter of deep interest to every true-hearted
Englishman.

Whatever may be the real opinions of continen-
tal journalists, we cannot entertain the slightest
doubt or hesitation as to the result, when
without preparation of any kind we were enabled
to guard the chief seats of Government, to pre-
vent the permanent success of the mutineers, and
to drive them to a single point ; when our troops
have been enabled to gain victories against odds
of even ten to one, we may form some conception
of what will occur when 30,000 additional men
are added to the Indian forces. 30,000 trained
and disciplined Englishmen, all animated with an
unflinching resolution to avenge the fearful wrongs
inflicted on their countrywomen, will not be thrown
away. When HAVELOCK, now a has
achieved so much with less that 2,000, what will
far more than the number ten times told be cap-
able of achieving ?
We must not beimpatient. We must not suppose
that so fearful a difficulty can be at once overcome.
Every nerve must be strained. Every energy
exerted to crush the insurrection. Bnt we can
do it, and we will do it. The Anglo-
Jadian Empire will still survive, despite the
,*gloomy vaticinations of our very good-natured
friends, who fancy that we may be degraded into
a third-rate power, exercising no greater influence
on the affairs of Europe than Spain, or Portugal,
or Belgium. " The wish may be farther to the
thought," but it will not be the sooner accom-
plished on that account. England will still hold
its own, despite the conspiracies of crowned
despots or the treachery of faithless servants.
Our present duty—the primary, the indispen-
sable duty—is to crush the rebellion, to eradicate
it root and branch, and restore peace and tran-
quillity in the country. We must act vigorously
and decisively—must display zeal, energy, and
determination. There must be no puling senti-
mentality, no morbid refinement, in dealing with
murderers, and far worse than murderers.
NEMESIS is not to be fettered in the present in-
stance by red-tapist restrictions. There must be an
ample, a bitter expiation. The watchword has gone
forth, and our soldiers would lose heart if the
sword of vengeance were glued to the scabbard.

But the exertions must be worthy of the cause.
It is not by words that we must reconquer the
Indian empire, and restore the prestige of England.
Every person authorised or competent to lend a
hand in the struggle must do his duty. From
the Premier to the eligible recruit there must be
no flinching. Each man must act in his appointed
station. The statesman must find pecuniary
means—the young man " thews and sinews.
Routine must for once be disregarded. There
must be a display of enthusiasm at the top as
well as at the bottom of the social scale. It is
not merely the agricultural labourer, or even
the young linen-draper, that is to act chi-
valrously—to devote his life to the cause.
Every man can make a sacrifice, secundurn, status
et faeultates, according to his power, whatever
it may be. But we may naturally look for the
earliest demonstrations in the legitimate quarters.

General HAVELOCK has been nominated a
K.C.8., and some half-dozen of his gallant com-
panions C.Bs. But is that sufficient ? We fear
that the voice of public opinion will pronounce a
very different verdict. No man has recently so
greatly elevated the English name as HAVELOCK.
But, like the gallant NAPIER, the hero of Meanee
and Hyderabad, he has not as yet at least received
anything like an adequate recognition of his services.
The 1001. a-year pension simply excited ridicule.
It was an insult rather than. a reward, and ought
to be rejected. with 'corn. Heir will those who
are enduring toils and dangers receive the intelli-
gence that CHAMBERLAIN and NICHOLSON, WIL-
SON, NEILL, and VAN COIIETLAND are made COLLl-
panzons or the Bath (1) for services worthy of
Peerages. The gentlemen of England " who live
at home at ease" ought to show a more fitting
appreciation of gallant deedri.'• As we have
already stated, every one of those heroes
is looked up to by a number of ad-
mirers,
.all participating in the struggle, and
regarding their leaders as their representatives.
It is not the leader merely that is slighted, but
his whole battalion. Every fighting man feels
the insult, and many capable of doughty deeds
will be paralysed by the thought that a brilliant
effort has been compensated by so inadequate a
reward. If we look for brilliant service we should
give a fair and adequate recognition.

Fully believing, with all native Indians them-
selves, that the Mutiny must and will be crushed
in no long time, it is most important for the
British public to prepare itself by obtaining ade-
quate information, for the serious questions which
will immediately follow. We must indeed keep
alive the military energies of our Administration,
but we would impress upon all ENGLISHMEN, that
a grave responsibility now lies upon them. Better
far that we should at once abdicate our rule in
India than conduct it as we lave done. The
grand fault has been that constituencies have
neither known nor cared anything about India ;
it has been left to the Company and the Cabinet
of the day, and has been used by each for its own
purposes. In India, therefore, jobbery and pa-
tronage have had full scope—administrative vis
inertice has been almost insuparable ; and the
circumlocution work between the two Boards
has surpassed anything which fiction dares ven-
ture on. The constituencies alone can change all
this. They are the ultimate, the really sovereign
power in this country. What they only will must
be done. If they feel as they ought to feel that
their representatives ought to understand fairly
the affairs of our Indian empire, candidates, and
members of Parliament who hope to remain mem-
bers, will at least read up and qualify. An In-
diah debate will no longer be a bore. A Double
G ova lament will no longer disgrace our Adminis-
tration. An Indian Secretary, of somewhat dif-
ferent capacity to our CHARLES WOODS and
VERDANT SMITHS, will be demanded to face a
critical House of Commons ; and, we must add,
that men of the METCALFE, or at least of the
ELGIN qualifications, will be demanded for the
office of Governor-General. A respectable poli-
tical head to the office of which Mr. ROWLAND
HILL is the real bead, will not be deemed the
man to govern a population six times as large as
that of the British isles.

Indeed the strongest of all reasons with thou-
sands of our electors will soon make its appeal to
Lhern, unless they awake to their duty. India
cannot be held by the sword alone, except at an
enormous expense. European troops in such a
climate must entail an enormous expense, they
require
so much attendance, and the invalid list
will alwayp, be so
large, that it is hardly possible
t) comput3 the. Cost of keeping India by a veiy
large force of British bayonet s. The Brahmins
and Mussulmen cannot be trusted to any great
Extent again in the Bengal Presidency at least, nor
will it be safo to enlist very largely from any
class of natives again. We must chiefly rely on
such a European force as can be afforded, and 0,
an administration of justice and of general G -

vernment, which will wake the natives indisposed
to disturb it. Hitherto this has not been the

case. Much more just, no doubt, is our rule than
that of any conqueror who has preceded us ; but
the social and police evils of India are enormous,
and the present generation, unacquainted with the
far worse past, judge only by the present, which
they so painfully feel, and decide against us. Tu
send out the proper number of troops and supplies
is tolerably straightforward work. To reform our
administration is a task fur more thought, and de-
manding unflinching honesty. The interest of the
whole Indian "covenanted service," and the Count
of Directors especially, and still worse their pride,
are utterly antagonistic to the needed reforms.
Yet the extent of reform accomplished will indi-
cate the extent to which we can dispense with the
bayonet. Assuming that we shall never place
native soldiers again in a position to repeat the
mutiny of 1857, we can disarm the community at
large only by making it their interest to keep
quiet.
We are not now about to enter on the whole
question of Indian Reform ; but the above
remarks were suggested to us by reading
a pamphlet by Mr. HYDE CLARKE, en
titled, " Colonisation, Defence, and Railways
in our Indian Empire," in which the writer dig
cusses with great copiousness and fulness of infor-
mation one branch of the improvements needed
in India. Of course Mr. CLARKE' s chief objec►,
from his known connection with it, is to show the
advantages of the " Hill Railway system" gene-
rally, and specially of the " Northern Bengal Rail-
way." For the details of this railway system,
we refer the reader to Mr. CLARKE'S pamphlet,
only premising that it has no resemblance what-
ever to a prospectus, but is filled with the most
varied and interesting information on the dis-
trict of which it treats. Few of our readers
would imagine that on a spot which could, by
railway, be reached in ten or twelve hours from
Calcutta, is to be found a district and a town
where Europeans could, indeed do in great num-
bers, live in comfort, and in a climate not inferior
to many parts of Europe ; where there is ice in
winter, and an atmosphere not unlike that of our
Devonshire and Cornwall.

On the slopes of the Himalaya, in the small
province of Sikim, between Nepaul and Bhotan,
is situated the comparatively modern and almost
European town of Darjeeling, the nearest sana-
torium to the capital. To this place, and to
Simla, in the far north-west, Mr. CLARKE would
construct branches from the great trunk line, the
"East Indian Railway," which is to run along
the whole valley of the Ganges. His chief idea
is to adapt India to European colonisation, ly
rendering it easy for inhabitants of the temperate
zone to reside there. In all the Presidencies
there are spots very well adapted to the consti-
tutions of Europeans, where they could reside a
large part of their time, and yet administer the
government or attend to their commercial affairs
with ease, provided communications were but
more rapid and easy.
Mr. H. CLARKE contends that, by thus locating
to a great extent, and for a great part of the
year, the British population in these sanatoriums,
our Government, our army, and our commercial
men would reside in the tropics without the evils
generally incident to health in a tropical climate.
They would probably become acclimatized gra-
dually. At Darjeeling, children, who must gene-
rally be sent home from other parts of India,
thrive vigorously ; and one of the greatest trials to
residents in the East, that of parting with their
families, might be avoided. The Commercial
benefits of railways to India we need hardly ad-
vert to ; they are, however, admirably developed
by Mr. CLARKE. Their military uses are suffi-
ciently obvious also. Even in the case of a
mutiny, when parts of them might be pulled up,
they could soon be restored, and, at the worst,
nvuiu 014U140/1 a march materially. They would,
in fact, quadruple the efficiency of our army.
Every reader interested in India (and who is
not just now ?) should consult Mr. CLARKE'S
pages for himself.

GREAT WESTERN AND BRENTFORD
RAILWAY.

LATEST NEWS

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

THE MUTINIES IN INDIA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.)

R3ar-Admiral at Malta, to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, London.

Received through the Admiralty, 12.45 p.tr
6 p.m., Sept. 25, 1857.

The Pottinger arrived at Suez yesterday, with
dates from Bombay, .31st August ; Aden, 11th

September.

The latest dates from Dalhi, tha 12th of Aug.

when that city was still iu possesion of the rebels ;

but au attack was expected to be made shortly,
as General Nicholson was within a day's march
with considerable reinforcements. Gen. Havelock's
force has retired towards Cawnpore, being unable

to reach Lucknow. A second advance was made
on the 4th of August the General was again

obliged to retard for reinforcements.
During these movements several actions were
fought with the enemy, who were invariably de-
feated, and lost many guns..
The 26th Native Infantry mutinied at Lahore
on the 20th of July, and murdered the com-
manding officer, Major Spencer ; but the muti-
neers were wholly destroyed.
Maharajah. Goolab Singh died at Cashmere
on 2d August. The 12th Bombay Native
Infantry at Musserabad have been disarmed, us
the men exhibited symptoms of disaffection.
Most of the remaining Regiments of the Bengal
Army have been disarmed. • The Bth
Madras Cavalry refused to proceed to Bengal, and
was immediately disarmed. The mutiny in the
27th Bombay Native Infantry, at Colapoor, has
been suppress:A. The remainder of her Ma-
jesty's 33d Regiment has arrived at Bombay
from the Mauritius. Central India is tranquil,
all being reported quiet at Magosa, Saugor, and
J übbul poor.

A part of Jouspoor Legion had mutinied at
Mount Aboo, but no mischief was clone at the

station.

This intelligence received from Acting Consul-
General Green at Alexandria, dated 20th instant,
for the Earl of Clarendon.
(Signed) M. STOPFORD, Rear-Admiral.
Cagliari, 27th September, '7 50. a.m.
(Signed) CONSUL CRAIG.

THE IMPERIAL MEETING AT
STUTTGARDT.

STUTTGARDT, SErT. 27.

The Empress of Russia and the Queen of Greeco
arrived here last night. Prince Luitpold of
Bavaria is expected to-day.

The Prince of Prussia came to meet the Em-
peror Napoleon in Baden.
The Emperors Alexander and Napoleon leave
Stuttgart to-morrow evening for Darmstadt, and
very probably the latter will accompany the
former to Weimar, and there meet the Emperor
of Austria and the King of Saxony.

STUTTGART, SEPT. 25.

The Emperor Louis .Napoleon arrived here this
afternoon at a quarter to five, after having kept all
Stuttgart on the tenter-hooks and tip-toes of ex-
pectation for a full hour and a half. The French
Minister here, as well as Count de Moutessuny, the
French Minister at Frankfort, together with several
of the Wurtemberg Ministers of State, and
Adjutants of the King, went out this morn-
ing by railway to meet the Emperor at the
frontier station of Bruchsal. During the fore-
noon, while all the world was talking and
thinking exclusively of the French Emperor, the
Russian Czar was driving about the town to pay
visits to his relations in a simple barouch and a pair
of horses, with his brother-in-law, the Prince
Alexander of Hesse, seated at his right hand, and
by this contrivance he passed everywhere unrecog-
nised by the people, which is the more feasible, as
at a little distance his round fur cap can hardly be
distinguished from the bearskin caps of the Wur-
tamberg feldjagere. The Emperor of Russia was
received yesterday as one of the family at an in-
significant railway station outside of the town with-
out any guard of honour or fuss of any sort being
made with him, the King's private carriage ev©n
being used on the Occasion ; but the Emperor Louis
Napoleon has been received to-day at the terminus
here in the town with all possible state and cere-
mony. Not only was the main station kept
stictly reserved for the members of the Court, but
also the street leading from the station to the Palace
was lined with infanty and Lancers ; this latter re-
giment very singularly, however, displayed at its
head an Imperial eagle with the N, being a stan-
dard it took from troops under the command of

the uncle in 1814, and was now paraded so judi-
ciously before the eyes of the-nephew in 1857.
An eye-witness of the interesting ceremony that
took place at the terminus enables me to inform
your readers and future historians of the impor-
tant fact, that the Emperor Louis Napoleon,
on alighting from the railway carriage; twice em-
braced the King of Wurtemberg, who was wait-
ing to receive him. This, doubtless, formed part of

the French programme of the ceremonies, but it
certainly would not have been introduced of his
own accord by the King, who is an extremely
cold, reserved, undemonstrative person. On this
occasion all the members-of the Royal family were
p!esent en grande tenue, with state carriage and
servants in gold liveries, but, unfortunately, as the
carriages were not open, probably on account of the
scorching heat and the dust, the carriages and the
e?.rvauts were all that the patient public got to ace
after two hours' waiting.
The troops had hardly drawn off, after the cortege
of carriages cniveying the Emperor and his suite
to the Palace had passed by, when a feldjuger
rode rapidly through the garden by the side of the
Palace, and had hardly time to clear a space

through the crowd when the Emperor of Russia
dr )vc, up in a carriag3 and pair with his brother-
in-law, the Prince of Hesse, and followed by a

adjirant. My letter of ye3terday has t 'ld
you that the two Emperors would dine to-day with
their re3pective hosts separitely, and meet for the
first time this evening at the entertainment given
by the Crown Prince, and it may be that this is
true still ; but if it be otherwise, and the Emperor
of Russia has come to dino with the King and his
Imperial guest, I should bo disposed to believe,
fiOLll the excellence of my authority for the former
version, that Lis Ru9aian Majasty has unexpect-
«lly deviated from the arrangements that writ-

infyrined members of the Courtbelicved yesterday
t > b 3 still valid. It is impossible also that the
visit is only one of formal greeting. and a mark of
attention to the French Emperor ; on the other
hand a much more surprising deviation from the
intendtd programme, which I have been enabled
already to announce to you by telegraph, consists
in the approaching arrival of the Empress of Rust,ii,,
which is now expected to talce place to-morrow. It
is also a novelty in the arrangements, that it should
have been decided at length that the Prince of

Prussia shall come hither to greet the Emperor
Louis Napoleon in the name of the King, his
brother, for it had hitherto been understood that
he would pay his respects to the French Emperor
in his h iracter of Military Governor of the Rhenish
Provinces only, when the latter should touch upon
Prussian territory on his return homewards.
The reasons that were hither-o supposed to have
deterred the Empress of Russia from accompany-
ing the Emperor hither, were stated generally to be
questions of etiquette, a phrase which says nothing
of itself, and leaves everything to be guessed ; at
any rate, they were certainly not political, and,
with reference to her husband's wishes and interests,
not very politic. She was assumed to have taken it
very much amiss that the Emperor Louis Napoleon
should have decided to fix the meeting to take place
at Stuttgart, rather than at the Court of her brother,
the Grand Duke of Hesse, with whom she has been
staying hitherto. She was also supposed to object to
meeting two persons who make so little scruple
of admitting that they are parvenus, as the
Emperor and Empress of the French do. Those
still closer initiated in the intimate gossip of the
Grand-Ducal Court of Hesse ascribed her unwil-
lingness to accompany the Emperor to other causes.
Whichever, if any of them, may have been the cor-
rect reason, her scruples have at length been over-
come, and she is to arrive to-morrow. The Queen
of the Netherlands (daughter of the King of Wur-
temberg by his first wife) with her son, Prince
Alexander, Prince Augustus of Wurtemberg, who
has just received the commond of the Third
Prussian Army Corps, and the Grand-Duchess
Helena, the sister of Prince Frederick of Wur-
temberg, have arrived here, on a visit to this
Court, together with many smaller personages.
Prince Gortschakoff, who accompanied the Emperor
Ithheryesterclay, has had apartments assigned him
in the King's old Palace. Count Nesselrode and
Count Kisseleff have been obliged to put up with
ordinary hotel accommodation, for the Crown
Prince's villa at Berg, where the Emperor is stay-
ing, is much to small to house any more than those
who belong to the immediate family circle.
In consequence of the Empress's approaching ar-
rival, as it is understood, the ball that was to have
been given to-night by the Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs in honour of the distinguished diplomates now
here, Gortschakoff, Nesselrocle, Kisseleff, and Wa-
lewski, has been put off till to-morrow.
At 8 o'clock this evening the King and la's Im-
per:al guest drove out to the soiree given by the
Crown Prince in his villa at Berg, which was bril-
liantly illuminated on the outside in a manner well
fitted to show off to advantage the architectural
beauties of the building. Tee road winding up to
it in a serpentine line around the mountain on which
it is situate, was lighted by a row of Chinese lan-
terns along each side, and all along the tortuous
windings of the road leading through the royal
park towards the Crown Prince's villa there were
cable-like torches placed at intervals, and flaring an
uncertain lurid light from high iron cressets on the
foliage of the trees and the groups that surrounded
them. In the royal park it was pleasing enough
to see the brilliant equipapes dashing along through
the cons'antly alternating darkness and light, and
then to distinguish their lamps winding up the
mountain at Berg between the double row of many-
coloured lamps ; but the whole illumination of the
Crown Prince's villa was outshone and eclipsed by
a sheet of lights that was spread down one side
of the mounta:n, where a garden for public resort
and amusement Las lately been opened in connex-
ion with a very extensive bathing estabishment
supplied by a most plentiful mineral spring.
Here not only did the buildings of the esta-
blishment form an extensive frame-work for the
lights, but every terrace cut along the face of the
declivity, and every path laid out over the side of
the mountain, was marked by rows of lights ; every
grass plat was studded with artificial glow-worms,
and the clusters of trees were turned to account as
supports for festoons of lamps and Chinese lanterns.
With the addition of Bengal lights, Roman
candles, and rockets let off occasionally to light
up for an instant the surrounding masses of moun-
tains looming in the distance, the scene was
highly effective at a distance, but a near inspec-
tion brought to view thousands of forms flitting
about the gardens that were neither forms of light
bne",4-j,
and moreover introduced the olfactories to a
mixed odour from the fat burning in
the myriads of lamps, Wurtemberg tobacco,
and wretched beer, that was far from perfume.
This fearful consumption of tallow and fat in com-
bustion was got up regardless of expense by the
proprietor, who is the Crown Prince's head gar-
dener, in honour of the meeting of so many
crowned heads at the elegant villa that overlooks
the establishment, and accordingly the front of the
building, bore in brilliant transparency the initials
W.A.N.K.—King Williain of Wurtemberg, Em-
perors Alexander and Napoleon, and Crown
Prince Karl.

Yesterday evening the King and Queen of Wur-
temberg, with the Queen of the Netherlands, occu-
pied a proscenium box at the performance of the
French company now here; the Emperor Alexander
was present in the opposite box with the Crown
Prince and Princess. Here, again, the Emperor
Alexander figured only as a private guest related to
the royal family ; the State loge in the middle of
the first tier was not used, but will next Sunday
contain the whole party from both palaces, on
which occasion Balfe's opera of the " Bohemian
Girl" is to be played as a gala performance under
Kucken's direction. After the play was over yes-
terday evening the Emperor of Russia drove for
some time about the town in an open carriage.

FRANCE.
• PARIS, SUNDAY.

Advices from Toulon st4to that the Requin
State steamer, after having been handsomely fitted
up, has proceeded to Marseilles, to be placed at
the orders of Prince Napoleon, who is about to
make an excursion to the East, and particularly to
the holy places at Jerusalem.
BOURSE, Sept. 26.—The following ware the last
quotations :
-

Cash. fr. End of month.
41 per Cents ••I 9l 30 —fr. —l.
3 per Cents 63 -- 68 25
Bank Shares 2,810 —. Credit Fonder
Credit Mobilier 915 Roman ...
Do. Account 920 Austrian
Belgian 4
Piedmontese (5) 9O s--- Home Dobt -

birthday. Before his departure the King signed
a rescript authorising the Council of Ministers to
take measures to prevent the spread of choler?.
The malady, however, is beginning to lose its in-
tensity, and no new case has taken place during
the last few days. The small port of Korsoer, of
which the population is only 2,000, has had 228
cases, of which 132 were fatal. In several pacts of
the kingdom, however, dysentery is making nume-
rous victims."

The King of Holland has selected from the list
of names sent in, Baron Van Golstein to be presi-
dent of the Second Chamber of the States-General.

The Madrid journals of the 22d contain no poli-
tical news. The Prince of Orange had taken leave
of the Queen, and left for Valencia. Her Majesty
conferred on him the Grand Cross of the Order of
Charles 111.

The Corriere Mercantile, of Genoa, of the 24th,
announces that a certain number of refugees have
been ordered out of Piedmont.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The freight ship Damietta arrived at Woolwich
on Saturday from the docks to embark stores and
ammunition for Simon's Town. The freight ship
Albion commenced shipping military stores on Sa-
turday from Woolwich Arsenal for Jamaica, and
the Margaret Thompson for Bermuda, the Britan-
nia for Gibraltar, the Madras for Sierra Leone,
and the Isabella Blyth for the. Mauritius. The
above-named vessels are in the London and Vic-
toria docks. The troop transport Southampton is
ordered down to Gravesend, and will embark on
the sth proximo a company of the 7th Dragoon
Guards for India, together with ammunition and
stores from Woolwich.

The hired screw steamship Ireland, with 14 offi-
cers and 300 rank and file of the 98th regiment,
from Portsmouth for the East Indiea, was off Ply-
mouth it noon on Friday, all well.
The screw steam frigate Chesapeake, 51, Capt.
Rundle B. Watson, from Portsmouth, arrived at
Plymouth Sound on Friday, and was appointed to
sail on Sunday for the East Indies.
The screw steam sloop Conflict, 8, Commander
Courtenay, went out of Plymouth Sound on
Thursday afternoon, and made a satisfactory trial
of her engines. _ _ _

The screw steamer Doris,32, having received
her engines, was undockei at Keyham, on Thurs-
day.
The Brazilian Corvette Imperial Marinheiro, 16,
Captain Torris e Alvin, from Algiers, September
3d, and Gibralter, 15th, entered Plymouth Sound
yesterday morning. She has been cruising in the
Mediterranean, and after inspecting Plymouth
will visit Portsmouth and all the other first-class
ports.

Osr Portsmouth correspondent reports a desire
on the part of the officers and men of the fleet to
contribute one day's pay each towards the fund for
the relief of the sufferers by the mutinies in India,
a desire most laudable and honourable to all con-
cerned, and one which will realize a handsome
addition to the fund.

The gear for the nix sail of the line ordered to be
prepared, as reported by our Portsmouth cor-
respondent some time since, is nearly complete.
The ships thus believed to be intended for the
Channel fleet next year are the following

Guns. Horse power.
Duke of Wellington ... ... 131 700
Marlborough ... 131 800
Royal Sovereign ... 131 800
Victor Emmanuel ... ... 91 600
Ca3qtr ... 91 400
Hannibal ••• 91 450
These, it is believed, will be the chief members of
any channel squadron commissioned, and the
necessity for recruiting in the navy has became as
necessary as in the army, for the Chesapeake left
on Thursday without her full complement, and the
Ganges, 84, flagship of Rear-Admiral Baynes,
C. 8., for the Pacific command, is hors de combat
at Spithead from the same cause. Men won't
enter, and boys are not very likely to be picked up
if the 2/. for their outfits is insisted upon as
necessary to insure entry if found otherwise quali-
fied.

The Diadem, 32, Ctiptain Moorsom, C. 8., has
got nearly her complement, and among them some
very good seamen.
The recruiting sergeant may ba seen and the
fife and drum heard in the town and outskirts of
Portsmouth at almost every hour of the day. The
Artillery seems the most successful corps.

THE GOTERNMENT AT CALCUTTA AND THE
INTERIM COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

MEMOBANDVM.

C:Aeutta, June 22, 1857.
I beg to submit the following observations regarding
my Hann poQitinn

2. If the present disturbances were confined to a par-
ticular locality, and we had an arfy in band and under
control, a few concise general observations would answer
every purpose.

3. As it is, however, we have no native army, and
the very limited European force available must operate
on many distinct and separate points, each body under
its own commandant, the whole being, properly, subject
to the general control and guidance of the commander-
in-chief.

4. I think the commander-in-chief can most efficiently,
and assuredly most expeditiously, control and direct all
general military arrangements and movements now,
and the reorganisation and regeneration of the army
hereafter, if he hag the advantage of, being in personal
communication with the head of the government, if he
learns the views of government with respect to the in-
susuerabie questions which must constantly arise, and,
which is highly important, if he is made acquainted with
the mass of intelligence which may be expected to reach
the Government from every quarter of this empire.
5. If the commandet-in-chief is at the seat of Gdvern-
went he can readily direct and guide the military
arrangements of every description of the whole army ;
if he attaches himself to one of the small isolated bodies
of troops moving about the country, he can only dir, ct
its proceedings, and the general conduct of matters con-
nected with the entire army must be altogether neglected
and put aside for the time. -
6. I also may observe that it is quite impossible to
conduct the multifarious duties of this large army with-
out a numerous staff and extensive office establishMent,
requiring, when moving about the country, a complete
regiment as an escort, and a large amount of carriage
for their transport, neither the one nor the other of
which can be supplied under present circumstances.
7. On the whole, therefore, I entertain a decided
opinion that the duties of the commander•in-chief can be
most efficiently and.most usefully discharged at the seat
of Government. But if the Governor-General in Coun-
cil thinks otherwise, and considers that my presence at
some other point would be more beneficial to the public
service, I am prepared to start at once for any destha;
tion to which it may be desired I amid repair.
• PATRICK GRANT, Lieutenant-General,
C ammander-in-Cnief.

MINUTE BY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OP INDIA IN

COUNCIL.

I agree with Lieut -General Sir P. Grant that the
duties of the Commander-in-Chief can at present be mcst
efficiently and usefully discharged at the•seat of Govern-
ment.

I think that this will continue to be the case—cer-
tainly until a larger European force shall Lave been
collected in the north-western provinces, and probably
as long as the ferment amongst the native troops and
the people continues to be so widely spread as it is at
present, leaving it uncertain where the next violent out-
burst may take place
I am of opinion, however, that, as soon as the course
of events,shall tend to allay the genetatdisquiet, and to
show to what points our force should be mainly ei
rected, with the view of crushing; the heart of the rebel-
lion, it will be proper that his excellency should con-
sider anew the question of his movements.
His excellency's experience and high authority will
then, in all probability, be most usefully employed in the
disturbed districts, or their neighbourhood.
Fur the present there will be the greatest advantage
in his Excel ency remaining at the seat of government.
June 22, 1857. CANNING.
I think so too. Till we see our way more clearly, his
Excellency's authority will be most usefully exercised at
the Presidency. J. DORIN.
June 22, 1857.
I concur in the above remark by Mr. Dorin. There
is, I think, much force and truth in the fourth and fifth
paragraphs of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief's
memorandum of this date. J. Low.
June 22, 1857.
I quite agree. J. P. GRANT.
June 23, 1857.

_
I also 0,-,neur entirely.
June 23, 1857.

B. PEACOCK,

THE SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA TO THE

DEPUTY ADJUTANT-GENERAL OF THE ARMY,

Fort William, June 23, 1857.
Sir,—ln continuation of my letter of the 20th instan',
and with referanca to a memorandum by the acting
commander-in-chief, dated 22d instant, I am directed to
acquaint you for the information of Sir Patrick Grant,
K 0.8 , that the Governor-General in Council concurs
with his t xeellercy that the duties of the commander-
in chief can at present be most efficiently discharged at
the seat of Government.
2. When the ct urse of events shall tend to allay the
general casquiet, and to show to what points our force
shoull be mainly directed, with the view of crushing the
hcat t of the rebellion, it will, in the opinion of his Lord-
ship in Council, be proper for his excellency to o..insider
anew the question of his movements.
3. His excellency's experience and high authority will
then, in all probability, be most usefully employed in
the disturbed districts or their neighbourhood.
4. For present, the Governor-General in Council
thinks there will be the greatest advantage in his ex-
c:3llency remaining at , the seat of Government..—
I am &C-
-it. J. H. BIRCH, Colonel.

AMERICA.

THE ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.
The Asia, British and North American royal mail
steamship, Captain Lott, arrived to-day from New
York with four days' later intelligence. Her ad-
vices are to the 16th inst. She brought 50 passen-
gers and $55,000 iu specie. She passed a steamer
bound west on the 19th, and the Cunard steamship
Jura, for Newfoundland, on the 22d inst.
The Baltic, hence, arrived at New York on the
14th, and the Persia on the 15th.

The Secretary to the 'Treasury has rendered an
important decision in reference to the duty upon
flannels, announcing that in future 19 instead of 24
per cent. would be charged.
Mrs. Cuningham, concerned in the Burden
affair, has been admitted to bail.

A despatch from Kansas reports the organisa-
tion of a new State Convention,
We have late advices fiom Texas.

The Houston Telegraph states that cotton picking
was actively progressing, and that more cotton
would be raised this year iu Texas than in any:
previous year. It also states that the sugar crop
will not be over three-quarters of the usual average.
California advices to the 20th of August have
been received by way of New Orleans. There is
no news of interest from Mexico ; and from Ha-
vann a there is lat_=r news, but it is unimportant.
The crops in Cuba promised an abundant yield,
and the health of the island is described as satis-
factory.