The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-14 00:00:00

that the peril extends to Millionaires, when
the danger of general confusion becomes imminent,
then, but not sooner, is there to be Government
interference. It is a presumptuous notion, that
those who have excited the storm can arrest it at
the exact moment they think desirable, even say
to the advancing torrent, " thus far shalt thou go
and no further !" They may however reckon
without their host, and provoke a terrible retribu-
tion. We therefore call for immediate action,
otherwise the Tritons may be involved in one com-
mon destruction with the minnows, the Levia-
thans swept away in the same flood with the
Am3)l fry, that they were destroying.
Mr. HAMER STANSPELD, the consistent, ener-
getic, and indefatigable monetary reformer,
to whose admirable views we have so
frequently directed public attention, has for-
warded a communication, which will be found
in another part of our impression, and to
which we earnestly direct public attention. If
there is to be any interference—and we do not
see how it can be avoided—it would be well, to
make it effectual, to adopt a plan that might be
regarded as a permanent adjustment of the cur-
rency, so as to avoid at all times and under
all circumstances the evils of continuous and
exhausting drains of gold. We should
obtain temporary relief from all additional
issue of notes according to the present system ;
but to render it permanent and immediate these
notes should be of the smaller denominations,
which would liberate an equal amount of sove-
reigns, and render them available for the general
benefit, not merely.of England, but of other na-
tions. It is the plan suggested ten years since by
Mr. JAMES WILSON, and against which no reason-
able argument can be urged. It would give in •
stant relief to the country. The following draft
of a petition has been prepared by Mr. STANSPELD,
and it is well worthy of being adopted by every
currency reformer, who should adopt measures to
have it extensively signed in his immediate neigh-
bourhood. It is as follows
‘‘ TO TEES QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

" We, the undersigned bankers, merchants, and other
liege subjects of the realm, considering that the present
foreign drain of gold most seriously deranges the domestic
currency, thereby paralysing trade, throwing the indus-
trious classes out of employment, depreciating property,
and increasing unnecessarily the burdens of the war, most
humbly pray that your Majesty will be graciously pleased,
with a view to counteract these evils, by Order in Council,
to empower the Bank of England, until the sense of Par-
liament can be taken, to issue one pound notes to serve as
substitutes for sovereigns whenever the Bank rate of dis-
count shall exceed five per cent., on depositing Govern-
ment Stocks for two-thirds and gold for the remaining one-
third of the amount of such issues as a guarantee for the
convertibility of the notes, and on paying interest at the
rate of four per cent. to the Exchequer for the benefit of
the State, on the two-thirds of which they would have the
beneficial use, or on such other terms as to your Majesty
shall seem fit. —And your petitioners will ever pray, la."
After Parliament has assembled it might be
provided that the Exchequer bills, authorised for
the public service, should be issued in small deno-
minations of 11., 21., or 31., and that they should,
as was formerly the case, be receivable in pay-
ment of duties and taxes, and every public liabi-
lity. Thus would a circulating medium be ob-
tained, "inconvertible," but perfectly unobjection-
able. We need only say in addition, "If 'twere
done well, 'twere well it were done quickly."

In our impression of yesterday we published
the telegram which had just been received at the
East India House from Mr. G. F. EDMONBTONE,
Secretary to the Government of India. It is in
many respects a clear and satisfactory doclarnen+,
' contrasting strongly with the Government tele-
grams. There is, however, an extraordinary and
what we cannot help regarding as a significant
reticence. Sir COLIN CAMPBELL, the new
Commander-in-Chief, is not once mentioned.
The slightest allusion is not made to his
plans or intentions—to the orders he may
have given, or what he means to do I
whether he is about to join the troops before
Delhi or elsewhere in the field, or to issue his
orders from head-quarters at a safe distance from
the scene of action—a course that would not be
very agreeable to the gallant Highlander. This
seems to confirm, to a certain extent, the rumours
respecting differences between the Commander-in-
Chief and the Governor-General and his Council.
Had it been otherwise the name of Sir COLIN
CAMPBELL would not have been passed over suit
silentio.

There was intelligence from the Garrison at
Lucknow to the 2d September. The men were
at that time in good spirits, and sufficiently pro-
vided with food. They bad previously repulsed
a determined assault, and disabled the only heavy
guns belonging to the assailants. They had been
told to hold out to the last eiLtremity, and it was
confidently anticipated that they would be re-
leased about the middle of September. This is
indeed glad tidings, which will give ease to many
afflicted hearts, of those who had friends or rela-
tives amongst the defenders of the position, or the
fugitives who sought refuge aLd protection at their
hands. As we have already explained, it was
famine only that was to be apprehended. With
sufficient food and ammunition they could hold
their own against any force which the rebels could
bring against them. The gallant FlivELocK was still
recruiting the exhausted energies of his troops,
at Cawnpore, exhausted from a succession of vic-
tories over tenfold their numbers. The 90th
Regiment, and about half the Fusiliers, and a
9-pounder battery, in all 1,270 men, were at
Allahabad on the 3d or 4th. Six hundred in--
fantry, with the battery, were at cnce pushed on,
and HAVELOCK would be prepared fur immediate
action when the remainder arrived under Sir
JAMES OUTRAN, which was expected to be on the
11th or 12th September, so that we may hope t
hear by the next mail that Llicknow has been
preserved.

Bundlecund chiefs also continue to behave well ;
likewise the NIZAM's Government and the Raj-
pootam native chiefs.

,On the whole the tidings, although chiefly a
repetition of what we had already heard,:are very
gratifying ; and but for the mysterious silence
respecting Sir COLIN CAMPBELL, the entire docu-
ment would be exceedingly satisfactory. A short
Lime must, however, dispel our doubts under
that head, and enable us to judge more fully as
to the real state of affairs at head-quarters between
Lord CANNING, who has not, and the Gallant
General who so entirely possesses, the confidence
of the English people. Let Lord CANNING be
recalled at once.

A popular interlude has recently received a
frightful pendant in this horrible tragedy of
The Woman with the Carpet Bag. The
mysterious obscurity still enveloping the whole
of this appalling transaction is suggestive, we
conceive, upon the instant, of one or two very
serious reflections. It is suggestive in tho first
place, of the immediate necessity of offering with-
out further delay a reward of One or Two Hun-
dred Guineas to any one who will throw light
upon the atrocity. It is suggestive, in the next
place, of the various courses obviously open al-
ready to the agents of the Police with a view to
the prosecution of a searching and systematic in-
vestigation.

Acting in obedience to the dictates of mere corn- '
mon-sense, we presume that the Authorities
have long since adventured upon the majority of
these courses without waiting to have them
pointed out by the sagacity of observers purely
and avowedly unprofessional. The Detectives,
we may rest satisfied, seldom, if ever, require
extraneous promptings. Their cunning is a sort
of instinct—and that instinct of theirs is uncon-
sciously but unerringly regulated by experience.
Nevertheless—recognizing all this, conscious of
all this, we cannot but think that advantage may
(just by the faintest possibility) be derived from
an enumeration of the plans Common Sense pre-
sumes to have been already adopted with a view
to the rapid carrying out of this appalling
investigation.
As to the Identification of the Victim—lt is
manifest at once that a very large "circle" might be
rapidly contracted to a mere " point," by taking,
for instance, a file of the Times fur the last three
or four months, and instituting, upon a systema-
tic plan, a regular series of inquiries in regard to
certain addresses given in the second column of
the first page of advertisements upon the broad-
sheet of our contemporary. Advertisers for the
missing person should be communicated with di-
rectly and personally, and whenever the missing
individual proved to be a male adult, a minute
description ought to be obtained of
his age, character, and appearance.
Whenever these chanced to tally with the
presumed victim, it being then clearly understjod,
when the person was last seen, where, by whom,
and under what circumstances. Numerous other
sources of information of a like kind, open to view
of course elsewhere : but this one—as a source
patent to the whole world—might be specified as
affording the most vivid and instantaneous

The temptation of " Rewards," again, applied
comprehensively, as already suggested to the
whole crime, might, in regard to some of its
details, be not injudiciously divided and sub-
divided. For example : A Hundred Guineas
or so being held out as a bribe to any inform-
ant giving a clue to the detection of
the murderers—a few pounds might be
proferred to whomsover might throw light upon
the purchase of that loathsome carpet-bag. The
cabman, again, might surely be discovered
through the medium of the same golden agency
wisely employed by the wizards of Scotland-yard.
The cabman or man who conveyed that hideous
freight to the neighbourhood of Waterloo Bridge,
under the charge of that dreadful elderly
woman—short and stout—with the grey hair,
and the gruff voice, who did the tall-taker out
of a halfpenny when taking those awful mutilated
remains in a
,carpet-bag, at midnight, to lower
them over the parapet into the river, then run.
ning down swiftly with a strong ebb-tide for the
sea, under the starlight ! Darkness then en-
veloped the crime—darkness still envelopes it ;
but that darkness we do believe may yet be dis-
sipated. We cannot believe that the unknown
miscreants can escape detection, as was the case
most miserably some years ago with the
destroyers of Eliza Grim wood. With all
these clues lying about, we cannot believe it,
—clues waiting only to be followed up with
sagacity—the cab ; thS carpet-bag ; the female-
ruffian in the black silk mantle and the drab
satin bonnet ; her burly male companion ; the
brown paper parcel yet undiscovered—supposed to
have contained the missing head, hands, ant
feet of the -Victim, though it may yet possibly
have contained nothing more than additional
clothes, together with the implements of destruc-
tion.

110 W TO MITIGATE THE ACTION OP 1. HE
INDIAN MUTINY AND TILE AMERICAN
FINANCIAL PANIC ON OOR MON EY MARKET.

TO THE EDITOR OF THIS SUN.

SlR,—Allow me to call your attention to a remedy
for the many evils arising from drair. of gold, suggested
in the inclosed form of a petition, and to appeal to you
to exert your powerful influence at this critical period
t 3 obtain by an Order in Council such an amelioration
of our restrictive Monetary System as will avert some of
the baneful effects of the Act of 1844. The principles of
that Act are now under Parliamentary consideration,
and the evidence already published is overwhelmingly
condemnatory of its restrictions. Still, as the late Bank
Committee reported the evidence to be incomplete and
recommended the reappointment of a Committee next
session, it is obvious that no Legislative action can
take place upon their report until the year 1859.
In the mean time the interest of all other classes
will continue to be sacrificed under the operation
of the Act of 1844 to the money class---for as Mr.
Chapman (of the firm of Overend, Gurney, and Co.),
stated in his evidence before the committee, capitalists
do avail themselves at these crises of the power their
c-)mmand of notes gives them to reduce the Bank Re-
s2rve of gold, to make enormous profits out of the ruin
of the people who fall victims to them. This plan is
suggested not for a mere temporary relief, but with a
view of establishing permanently a mode of adjusting
our currency so as to avoid at all tones the evils of drains
of gold.

By adopting it, the few millions of gold abstracted
for India and America may be replaced without any
disturbance of our money market, and the reflux which
in the cqurse of time must take plane, as gold like
water finds its level, will cause the sovereigns to find
their way again into the service of the retail trade,
as it would no longer suit the Bank to pay 4 per cent.
for the use of the notes when its rate of discount had
fallen below 5 per cent, from the influx of gold.—l am,
air, your obedt. servant,

11A4E11, STANSFELD.
The Grange, Burley, Ailey,
Oct, 12, 1557.

Beyond all this—as from the very outset it
has been perfectly obvious that the crime was in
all probability perpetrated in one of those foul
dens known as houses of ill-fame--we presume
that the police have all this while (ever since the
first discovery of the carpet-bag) had their eyes
fixed upon those villainous haunts with unwiuk-
ing vigilance. Every den of this description in
the metropolis is known to the police notoriously.
Why not take means, under the terrible circum-
stances of this case, for not merely watching
them, but for subjecting each in turn to the most
minute and searching examination I The cha-
racter of this nameless grey-headed woman is
sufficiently obvious : it is that manifestly of the
Mother Mandrake of Farquhar.
Since the above was in type a reward has bean
offered—two hundred pounds for the appreheu-
:i•n of the murderer, and one hundred pounds
for the supposed woman with the carpet-bag.

HAYMARKET THEATRE?.

The revival of the " Love Chase" last night afforded
Miss Amy Sedgwick an opportunity of presenting her-
self to the London public in a new character totally
different from that in which she first courted metropoli-
tan applause. As Neighbour Constance she more than
fulfilled the promise implied by her performance of
Pauline, gaily flinging oft those fetters that seemed to
check her in. her more serious impersonation, and
allowing full scope to a fund of native spirit and vivacity
the existence of which was rather to be guessed than
demonstrated before the exhibition of last night. If the
laugh with which she entered upon the stage had not the
musical ring of Mrs. Nisbett, it was hearty, free, and
uncontrolled, and was, moreover, an earnest f the
vigour with which she delineated throughout the most
vigorous of stage beauties. Through the whole repre-
sentation there was nothing done by halves. She was
thoroughly jocund, thoroughly vexed as occasion served,
laughed with all her might and cried with all her might ;
in short, was just the person to terrify a father into
getting rid of her, and frightening a lover into making
her his partner 'or life. That Miss Sedgwick was a
completely discliplined artist was shown by her Pauline.
The question whether there was genuine spirit and feel-
ing at the foundation of the training is now answered in
the affirmative.

Although Miss Sedgwick was the moat intereatinv,
object of the evening, the revival must not be clarii.e
with those huddled-up exhibitions that frequently take
place for the sake of a single "star," the general oast
showing a determination to produce as efficient a repre-
sentation of the lively comedy as the state of histrionic
art will allow. Mrs. Marston, an excellent actress,
little known at the West-end, had apparently been
engaged for the express purpose of playing the Widow
Green, and depicted that buxom dame with a degree of
unction and evergreen luxuriousness that has not been
seen since the days of the late inimitable Mrs. Glover,
and she had a suitable lover in the hearty, self-satisfied
Sir William Fondlove, personated by Mr. Chippendale.
The responsibilities of Wildrake were well met by Mr.
Howe, who with a great 'deal of humour rendered espe-
cially prominent the sulky surprise consequent on the
abortive attempts of the would-be town gallant to dazzle
the vivacious and clear-sighted Constance. The stout
young squire felt that he'had done his best to be agree-
able, and that it was all of no avail ; so he had a perfect
right to be as sulky arid stupid as he pleased. The
serious interest, which is the weakest in the piece, was
sustained by 'Mr. W. Farien and Miss Carciliue White,
who did their beat with the unthankful characters' of
Master Willer and Lydia:
The audience, which was very numerous, evinced the
highest satisfaction at the comedy, which, performed as
it was, came out with exceeding freshness. A call for
everybody concerned, and a spedial bouquet for Miss
Sedgwick, were the final signs of approval.

TIIE MAYOR'S OYSTER FEAST AT COLCHESTER---Tha
annual Corporation banquet, at which real " nal.ives '
form the staple article of consumption, is likely to be on
an even more hospitable scale than has celebrated the
close of the former mayoralties of Henry Wolton, Esq.,
as his worship intends sending out between 300 and 400
invitations to the corporation and his ?fiends, to attend
bis fea-t at the Town-hall on S 30th instant.—
Essex Herald.
Snow made its first appear . i het week on the
mountains near Geneva, the crest is- 4 isiTura almost as
high as the Col de la Faucille, le I ' ! covered with a
which, !s.: sseer, again disap-
peared Fiiburg are at
t
present covered with snow.
M
garbed cboeaftoirnagniogfhtw.hiTteh,e
raoutitaii4
NEW AND TERRIELE WAR ENGINE.—We are in pos-
session of information that a more zestructive shell than
any ever before known, has been invented by Mr.
Martin, of West Ham, in E„,,.
It has had four
Government trials at Woolwich, and each was fearful y
satisfactory. Nothing can survive the fire it kindles,
and no amount of water, it was proved, can pet them
out. Delhi could not stand a day against it, neither
could Sebastopol. It was known then, but nevetthele,e
not adopted. There were routine, red tape, and circum-
locution offices in its way. Our brave countrymen may
perish by thousands, and their wives and children like-
wise, rather than any change, without patronage, shall
take place,. Martin is only a man of genies, and men
of genius are seldom men of iofluenee. The cry still is
__‘. Take care of Dewb."—Carde Times.
The fex-hnnting world has lost one of its principal
masters in Earl Fitzwilliam, whese stud and kennel
have had no superior fur many years past. The former
was full of the blood of Amadie, Don Quixote, and
Cervantes; and for a mare by the last-named horse his
lordship refused 1,000 guineas in the hunting-field. The
earl latterly went very seldom into hie kennel, and, in
fact, during his twenty-four seasons as master, he has
left everything to his celebrated huntsman, Tom
Sebright, who is just entering on his thirty-ixth season
at Milton, and is whipped into by a son of George
Carter, and a grandson of Dick Christian. It is
rumoured that Milton and the Northamptonshire pro-
perty are left to the Hon. George Fitzwilliam, who
wil', no doubt, in that case become the master of the
hounds.

THE EAST INDIA liousE.--LA statement just circu-
lated that the India-house are in want of more money,
and that the Bank have notified to the Government their
inability to furnish it, is wholly erroneous. The Lelia
Company at this moment would be willing to lend
money, the greater part of the recent credit opened at
the Bank being unemployed. For future wants they
still hold a large reserve of stock and Exchequer-bilk,
and there is no reason to doubt that the expectation held
out of their financial position being such as to enable
them to provide for all wants until the meeting of
Parliament will be fully realized. Of course, if the
1 teal Government were to announce the necessity of a
large sum of specie being sent to Calcutta, an emergency
wceld then be presented which would call for special
action ; but it is believed that no such intimation has
yet been received, and that in the absence of exceptional
circumstances of this kind there wid be nothing to
disturb the calculations originally made.--Times.
COLLIERY EXPLOSION NICE BLAdiCBURN.—CO:inIIT-
TAL OF THE UNDERLOOKER.—An incitieat was held on
Monday at Oewaldtwi3tle, near Blackburn, on the
bodies of two boys who were killed by an explosion of
fire damp, which took place on Thursday in a pit of one
of illesFrs. SiMpson and Young's Collieries, Duckworth.
hall. The pit had been worked for about three years,
and the men had been in the habit of using naked candles,
Up to last week there had been no sign of fire-lamp,
A day or two before the accident a seam in the reef
was pined out to the underlooker, whose duty it wait
retrned
to repott this to the manager. This was not done.
hadaouf beenhopinion
a tnyts hto afhtni theteng. Ie c , and underlooker,returned
a William Hol en ,
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aT''veerdji"crtyofvyeBg manslaughter
Paces OF GOLD.--The quotation of gold at Paris is
about 5 per mills premium, and the short exchange on '
London is 25.25 per 1/ e:erliug. Oil comparing these
rates with the English
Mint price of 3/ 17s. 101 d. per
ounce for standard gold it appears that gel I is nearly
2-10ths per can'. dearer in Paris than in London. By
advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 424,i per
mark, and the short Exchange on Landon is 13.31 per
1/. sterling. S'atidatel geld- at the English Mint price
is therefore about 5 lthhe per cent. dearer in Hamburg
than in London. Tue ciurse of e7iehange at New York
on London f,,r bills at 60days' sight, is about 1001 per
cent., which, when cotnpared with the Mint par between
the two count ties, shows that the exchange is against
Eeglactl, and would admit of geld being sent from Eng
land without los,.

It was calculated that by the middle of the
month 15,000 would be before Delhi, with a new
siege train from Ferozepore. The complete vic-
tory by General NICHOLSON, already mentioned,
in which he took twelve guns with all the am-
munition, equipage, and baggage of the enemy,
'Thtoen areDu on their
keofNewcastle and Lady Susan Pelham
way to Clamber Park, from a visit-
on the 25th of August, was confirmed. It was
ingC tour in Scotland. A distinguished circle of visittis
further stated that the troops were in good health will shortly assemble at Clamber.of
nmil-on arrived a' her
ra
and spirits, the wounded doing well, and supplieslies The
s Dowager
Portman-square, a few days since, frau
abundant. Easton Park, Suffolk.
The Duke of Wellington left town yesterday for
The accounts from Agra are also satisfactory.
Stathfieldsaye, Writs. The Duchess remains at Apsley
All were still in the Fort, and the general House.
health good. The defeat of the insurgents The Srl3
enjamin Hall has left London for Elinburgh.
Marchioness Dowager of Queensberry has arrived
by an expedition from the Fort was at Farrances Hotel, Belgravia, from Kinnaount, Dum-
referred to, but the party Nfas not sufficiently
friTeshBe
hire. Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde leave
strong to occupy Allyghur. The Goorkas, who town to-day for Portumna Ca,.tle, county Galway.
marched from Goruckpore with the civil officers
tanisiciespCoaurnet,lasts
sWtraawldbefrayvenialindTwMi,,r..keGn.hVam.,llsaurr.-
couFri
of the native States, had occupied Azimghur at.d 1 rounded by a se!ent circle of friends.
Jounpore. It was said that the mutineers
CIL
The Earl and Countess of Durhamcome to town to-
of the Gwalior Contingent, with thirty guns, were Lofrd and dy Burenersh joined the family c'rele at
kept in check by &mu, who may thus prove Apthorpe, a few days since, from a tour of visits. The
liii fidelity to the British cause.
fecTuhyetrPanuncijuaiul.b aLnardgCellse ' noble lord and her ladyship are expeited in town to
nmo o v.
vSilletisehjadStbaeteens
swenetretoptehir-3 I The Prince de Joinville left arnstantinople on the 30th
. ult., on his way to the Crimea, via A
telegraphic despatch from Milan announces that
Odessa.
camp before Delhi, other levies were being raised the Milan and Venice Railway was inaugurated on• the
to supply their place. The 26th Native Infantry,
1 12th.
who had murdered their commanding officers on the i Lordi
yto n R o
Hiskeb y 1
oleft liii p m
wil return to town in a few tlg u e House yesterday for
l
30th July and broke away from the cantonment, 1 daygs.
had been actively pursued, and either destroyed 01. According to the account given by perso Ines arrlyad
from Stuttgardr, Paris is likely to be visite' ntxt spring
captured and executed. Scarcely a man escaped, by the Emperor and Empress of Russia.
The successor of GHOLAB SIGH is a staunch and Saxe-Coburg-Gothac:LheenDtintehinsfwifewithtr
ehildraennd h"lieve P;rirniuv'esds
faithful adherent of the British cause, The at Brussels from Euglend,

THE INDIAN MAILS.

VALI:J.O3MA LIVINGS IN THE CHURCH VACANT.—
The demise a few days sine, in the 79th year of his age,
of the Rev. Matthew Irving, D.D., one ut the chaplains
in ordinary to the Queen, vacates the vicarag,, of Stur-
rninstar Marshall, near Wiinb:)rne, in the county of
Dorset and diocese of Salisbury, with the chapelries of
Lytchett Minster, Corte Mullen, and Hainworthy an-
nexad, to which he was instituted in 1822. The living
is worth about 1,000/. per annum, and is in the patrou-
age of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College, Wind-
sor. The rev, gentleman has been a canon residentiary
of Rochester o.l,hedral since 1824, and has also held the
perpetual curacy of Chatham, Kent (of the annual value
of nearly 600/ and in the gift of the Dean and Chapter
of Rochester Cathedral) for a perio:l of 20 years.

TILE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVIEN ENG, OCTOBER:g 14, 1 8-5 V sit'

LATEST NEWS.

MARSEILLES, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
The Valetta has come in with the Calcutta
mails.

The French steamer with Bombay M iil is ex-
pected momentarily.
There is no China mail.
No news beyond that already known.
There was no improvement in the markets up
to the 26th of August.
The stock of indigo was cleared out.
Of silk there was an increasing stock of piece
goods, but nothing doing.

The same may be said of cotton. The prices
of saltpetre and rum had risen.
Exchange, 2-32-.
The Bengal Bank has refused to discount Com-
pany's 5 per cent. paper at 12 per cent., and the
4 per cent. at 24 per cent., owing to want of
specie and confidence.
The general tone of the mass of news is more
satisfactory.

HEALTH OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, TUESDAY.
The reports of the health of the King received
from Potsdam continue favourable.

The _grew Zeitung says that since yesterday the
physicians entertain hopes of a re-establishment of
the royal health, though the danger is net yet
entirely passed.

The latest intelligence of the health of the
King of Prussia, received by telegraph, is as fol-
lows :

"BERLIN, OCT. 13.

" The King had sleep at intervals during the
day ; the sleep was short, but tranquil. The
attacks of congestion of the brain have not re-
occurred this morning."

The subjoined is from Le Nerd of yesterday:—
COLOGNE, MONDAY, 2 p.m.

A slight amelioration took place yesterday in
the King's state, but it is not of a nature to en-
courage hopes of his recovery. According to the
opinion of his physicians, his Majesty may linger
for some time, but the fatal issue of the attack
does not, unhappily, appear to them doubtful.
Another despatch says :
The received opinion among our medical men is
that his Majesty is suffering under incipient
softening of the brain, and that the fatal issue of
the attack i 3 certain, though it is difficult to tBl
how long the physicians may support life.

It is reported that tho Council of Ministers,
foreseeing this, have already been discussing mat-
ters that will be contingent on a regency.
A letter from Berlin, of the 9th, in the Patrie,
gives some account of tho origin of the present
illness of the King :
His Majesty, who was to have accompanied the Em-
peror of Russia in his journey to Stuttgart, left Pots-
dam with him, accompanied by several princes of the
royal family. During the journey from Potsdam to
Berlin the Emperor and two of the princes, in order to
pass the time, smoked, according to Russian custom,
some very strong tobacco, the narcotic qualities of which
appear to have. produced a very great effect on the
King. His Majesty fell asleep, and to the great
astonishment of his travelling companions did not
awake when the train stopped at the station at
Berlin. M. SoLesolein, the first physician to the king
was immediately sent for, and he declared that
his Majesty could. not continue his journey. On being
-conveyed back to Potsdam the King remained for 24
'hours in a heavylethargic sleep. Bleeding was resorted,
to, but -it produced but little effect. Without aban-
doning the hope that his Majesty's life may be saved,
the public, and particularly the persons who are more
directly inter. fitted, occupy themselves beforehand
with the eventuality of a change in the occupant of the
throne. As the King has no children, his brother, ac-
cording to the constitution, is the heir presumptive to
the throne. The Prince of Prussia is the same who
went to compliment the Emperor Napoleon during his
passage lately through,the Prussian territory. The
Prince of Prussia, who married the Princess Augusta of
Saxe-Weimar, is sixty years of age, lie has two chil-
dren, the elder of whom, Prince Frederick William, has
just been affianced to the Princess Victoria of England,
and the other, the Princess Louisa, was last year mar-
ried to the Grand Duke of Baden.

The following letter from Berlin, in the Ether-
fell Gazette, distinctly contradicts the reported
visit of the Emperor Napoleon 111. to that capital :
—" According to the most authentic information,
we can state positively that the Court of Berlin
has not received any intimation of the visit of the
Emperor Napoleon, nor was any mention of such
an event made either in the conversation between
the Emperor and the Prince of Prussia, or in the
autograph letter brought from the Emperor to the
King by Prince Murat."

A letter from Vienna, in the Bourse Gazette of
Berlin,
says The conference 'which has lately
taken place at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs be-
tween the Baron de Bourqueney and Count
Werner had for object the Sardinian question, and
we learn that the resumption of diplomatic rela-
tions between the courts of Turin and Vienna
may be shortly exi,ected."

The following very singular statement appears
in a letter from Cmstantiziople of the 3d, ad-
dressed to the Trieste Gazette :—" The English
and Austrian ambassadors have thought proper
to demand from the Turkish Government the
annulment of the second elections in the Prin-
cipalities, in the same manner that the former
ones had been annulled. This proceeding has
produced a considerable sensation, although it
has not yet been officially made known."

'a;4l

PRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.
The Emperor yesterdty recAved the letter by
which the Emperor of Austria announced to his Ma-
jesty the marriage of the Archduke Ferdinand, his
brother, to the Princess Charlotte of Belgium ;
also the letter which accredited the Duke de
Rivas as ambassador extraordinary and ple-
nipotentiary of the Duchess Regent of
Parma ; the reply of the Grand Duke
of Tuscany to the letters of recall of the Prince de
la Tour d'Auvergne, who lately filled the post of
French Minister at Florence, and the reply of the
Elector of He-se to the letters of recall of M. de
Montherot, lately envoy extraordinary at Cassel.
All the French diplomatic agents who are at
present on leave of absence have been ordered to
return to their posts by the end of the present
month.

The council-general of the Rink of France, at
iti sitting of yesterday, decided that from to-day
(Tuesday) the -two of discount on commercial bills,
and the intereit on advances on public securities,
shall be raised to 01- per cent.
BOURSE, Oct. 13.—The following were the last
quotations :
Cash. fr. End of 3onth.
44 per Cents • 9O 75 —fr. ---:.
3 per Cents GC) 70 66 70
hank Shares 9,855 Credit Foucier —
Credit Mobilier 750 -- ktoulan ... - -
Do. A,ocou nt 752 50 Austrian
Bahian 4t — Spanish Throes —
rieamontese (5) • 903 Homo Debt . 371

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RAILWAYS-FOB C.lBll.
tr. c. t• e.
Orleans 1,32 -, Western
Northern - - Strasburg -
Lyons and lied B'7.— New Ditto
New Ditto... .....„ 815 Grand Central
Geneva
Midi - LB2l -- Austrian Cum.

amounted to 500 persons, proceeded cn the 19th
to Bayandir, on the southern frontier. On the 26th
it reached Anni, where there are some remarkable
ruins of early Christianity. On the 30th it ar-
rived at Hadjabayram, at the junction of the Arpa-
chay and Araxes, and had to remain there four
days to settle a disputed point. On the 10th July
the commission reached Imam-Aziz-Sinei. On the
11th it went to the Lake of Balouk Gueul, which
it ordered to be ceded entirely to Turkey though
part of it was claimed by Russia. Following the
rivers which take their source in this lake, the
commission descended towards the valley of Baya-
zid, and reached Mousson, where it visited the en-
virons to examine the military road which is
crossed by the frontier. On this road it ordered a
column to be erected to indicate the frontier. At
Koudjak Guetchit, where the commission next ar-
rived, the remains of a magnificent canal, cut,
by the old Kings of Armenia, were found. At
Arsab, which it reached on the 21st, it found
some abandoned huts —the Kurdes to whom
they belonged having, as usual in the summer,
gone to the mountains with their flocks ; these
people are called Yezidi, and adore the Genius of
Fvil. Passing by the foot of Mount Ararat and
the Lake of Tchenguel, the commission reached
Tchenguel, where a battle was, in the war of
1828, fought between the Turks and Russians, and
where the bones of the slain are still lying; it
caused a column to be erected there. On the 23d
it reached Amarat, on the Araxes, and on the 29th
went to Etchmiazin. On the 30th it reached
Etivan, and on the 3d August Tiflis. At the latter
place, Prince Bariatinski, governor-general of
Georgia, entertained the commission. On the 9th
the commission left Tiflis, and on the 11th reached
Gumari. Thence it proceeded to follow the northern
frontier by Alkalkalaki, Havet, Akiska, Bastoma,
Bagdad (in Imeritia), angisghaare, Kourilah, Ver-
sik, and it then reached Usurguete, in the Gouriel.
In this latter tewn the commission spent some days
in comparing mass, and it decided that the river
Tar olok should be the limit between the two States.
On the 17th the Russian members of the commis-
sion left for Kutais. The English, French, and
[Ottoman members proceeded by Chekvetil (Saint
Nicholas) to Tchwrukson, where, on the 21st and
93d, they embarked for Constantinople. The re-
sult of the labours of the commission will be sub-
mitted to the Congress of Paris. The greatest
cordiality prevailed between the members of the
commission from the beginning to the end of their
operations."

THE FRONTIEI COMMISSION.
We have already announced the termination of
the labours Of the international commissions
charged with the regulation of the Turco-Russian
frontiers in Asia, and the return of sonic of its
members to Constantinople. Tho following is a
brief account of the Fabour,s of that coinmision
:
"The members assembled on the 14th June at
Gumri (Alexandropol,l, and, after an exchange of
mutual civilities, elected M. Pelissier, the senior Ab3ut 80,000/. Russian gold coin was received yes-
member, president. On the 19th the colmnission, terday front St. Pctersbur4h, of which (30,0001. or
which, with an escort of Cossacks and attendants, 70,000/, has been taken for the Continent.