The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, :dONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2+; 1845

Flowery Pekoe—About 800 Oiests have been sold during
the -week, making the sales of the new crop amount to 2,000
chests, at 40 taels for fair Pekoe with Flowery,.to-94 taels for
fine very flowery. _ _ _ .

Caper—The stock now on hand of plain is about 20,000
ten catty boxes, for which 17 to 20 taels is wanted, and 2,009
half chests at 16 to 18 taels. These prices being too high
for the present state of the market in England, the sales are
very trifling. Scented kinds are in demand, and some
15,000 ten catty boxes of the new crop have been sold at 35
to 40 taels. _ _

Orange Pekoes—Very little doing in plain; in the scented
kinds, which are this year rather above the average quality,
some activity prevails, and 4,000 to 5,000 half chests have
been bought at 53 to 60 taels. For one very fine parcel
64 taels is wanted. These prices show an advance of 7 taels
on last year's rates. _ _

Ning Yong—Sales just now are small, and for the English
market only, but the total quantity settled for amounts to
14,000 half chests, and 10,000 ten catty boxes, at prices
ranging from 23 to 44 taels, being last year's rates.
Old Congou and Souchong.—ln these kinds, purchases of
small extent continue to be made, at 13 taels for good ordi-
nary, to 17 to 70 for but middling, blackish leaf. About
16,000 chests of Congou, and about 2,000 chests Souchong,
remain on hand.
Greens—New teas of the inferior kinds, Taiping, are daily
expected, but the superior sorts will not arrive for six weeks.
The crops are said to be of good average quality and quan-
tity—prices equal to last year's are talked of. Canton sorts
remain at previous quotations—the transactions in them for
the English market supporting prices.
Silk—Nothing doing; the supply of Canton hardly enough
for the native wants. No. 3,290 dots. No one seems dis-
posed to open the market for the Nankeen arrived down, the
prices demanded being so much higher than those ruling in
the north.
Cassia—Want of tonnage prevents transactions. We hear
of a purchase of 1,500 picnic for the American market. No
drug ship loading for England at present.
Camphor—Some has been sent rid Singapore.
Sugar—We hear of nothing doing.
Quicksilver-128 dole. per picul ; no demand.
Vermillion-61 dols. 50 cents. per box ; ditto.
Freights—Several ships have been taken up for London
at 4/. 10s. There is a demand for ships to proceed to Shang-
hae and load ; 5L ss. would be given, besides some freight up.
Exchanges—On London, six months' sight, 4s. 9d. Ac-
cepted Company's bills have receded from 227 to 225, and
are wanted.

Mexican dollars scarce at 3 per cent.
Sycee for duty 6 per cent.

' • SHANGHAE, AUG. E.
Tea—Business in teas and silks continues brisk. The great
run has been upon Moigiug teas, and likewise Hobow kinds.
Pekoes of fair quality are in the market, and some true Nan-
keen green teas I have also appeared. Prices are very
high, the teamen being very extravagant in their demands.
Gunpowder, 60 taels. Hysone, 80 tack.
Silk—Operations in silk have been extensive; fine Tsatlee
is worth 440 dohs., and best Taysaan 360 dols.
Opium—The drug market has given way from 10 dols. to
15 dole., the rates at Woostmg were, for Patna 805 dols. and
for Malwa 825 dole.

Saltpetre—Dull of sale.
Shirtings—Of 70 reed. 3 doll. 20 cents.
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American Drills-2 doll. 90 cents

Woollens are in fair request; an importation of fine broad
cloth, say 70 pieces of Maurine blue, 20 pieces of black,
and 10 pieces of light 'Glue, would bring 3 doll.
Camlets (Englislo are taken at 24 doll. A good assort-
ment would command that price.—China Mail, Aug. 28.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, SUNDAY.--Yesterday morning the Queen
and Prince Albert walked for some time in the pleasure-
grounds within the Castle precincts. On the return of
her Majesty and her Royal Consort their Royal High-
nesses Princes Albert and Augustus of Saxe Cobourg,
Lord Portman, Lord Charles Wellesley, Colonels Bowles
and Wylde, left the Castle on a shooting excursion.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the
Princess Alice, were taken for their early pony and
walking exercise yesterday forenoon. Their Royal
Highnesses were taken a carriage airing in the afternoon.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty and the royal party at the Castle yesterday
afternoon.
The Earl Delawarr took his departure from the Castle
yesterday.
The royal dinner party yesterday included her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Anna Maria Daw-
son, Baroness de Speth, La Marquise d'Harcourt, and Mr.
Wm. Harcourt.
The band of the 2d Regiment of Life Guards was in
attendance during dinner.
. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended and
performed the remainder of the evening in the Castle.
This morning her Majesty and her Royal Consort
took their early exercise in the pleasure-grounds in the
vicinity of the Castle.
The Royal Family were all taken their accustomed
airings this morning
The Queen, Prince Albert, the Ladies and Gentlemen
of the Court, with the domestic household, attended
Divine service this morning in the private chapel of
the Castle. The Hon. and Rey. C. Leslie Courtenay
officiated.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Augustus of Saxe Cohourg attended Divine service to-
day in the Th.man Catholic Chapel, at Clewer.
Madame Ange!et was in waiting en the Princess.
The Duchess of Kent attended Divine service this
morning in the parish church. Her Royal Highness
afterwards visited her Majesty and ler illustrious visitors.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge attended
Divine service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel.
Baron Knes( beck was in waiting on his Royal High-
ness.
_ _

The Duke of Cambridge went on a shooting excur-
sion to Coombe wood on Saturday. His Royal High-
ness honoured the Duke of Somerset with his company
at dinner, at his residence, Wimbledon Park.
Sir John reify had an interview wits► the Earl of
Dalhousie on Saturday, at the office of the Board of
Trade. Sir John also visited Sir Robert Peel.

His Excellency Baron 3Dedel had an interview with
the Earl of Aberdeen last Friday, at the Foreign-
office.
The Bishop of Loudon and Lord Ashley had an inter-
view with Sir Robert Peel on Saturday.

Dispatches from the Cape of Good Hope were re-
ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office. Dispatches
from the Governor of Hong-Kong were received on
Saturday at the Colonial-office.
Lady Peel arrived in town on Saturday afternoon
from Drayton ManOr, Staffordshire.
The accounts of the health of the Viscountess Vil-
liers, received in town on Saturday, were favourable.
• The Duke of Wellington, the I)uke of Rutland, and
-Sir Frederick Trench attended the early service in the
Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. The Rev. Dr.
Wesley preached the sermon. At the daily service, the
prayers were read by the Rev. J. V. Povah, and the les-
sons by the Rev. Dr. Vivian. The sermon was preached
by the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The anthem was, "I will sing
of thy power" (Green). Mr. Turle presided at the organ.
Lord Sheffiild, Ernest Bruce; and G. Paulet, were among
the nobility present.

RAILWAYS.

If any one looked for illumination as to the course
of railway legislation in the next session from Sir
Robert Peel's Tfsmworth speech, he must have been
\wildly disappointed. It
.will not do to leave railway
legislation next session as it has been left hitherto—to
jobbery. Last year the Railway Bins looked formidable,
and the force of circumstances extorted improvements
in the constitution of Conlmittees, for which Mr. Ewart
and other Members had long laboured thanklessly and
in vain. Much was done last session in the way of

improvement, but much less than might have been done,
and should have been done, and must be done, to meet
the infinitely more formidable array of Railway Bills
now waiting for Parliament. The heads of the Govern-
ment—the leaders of parties—kept aloof from the
railway questions: it was left to Lord Granville Somer-
set and the business Members of the House of Corn..
mons, or rather, we should say, to Lord Granville
Somerset, who could always fall back on the strength of
the Government it he could not get his way otherwise.
But a greater head than Lord Granville Somerset's will
be wanted next session. If Sir Robert Peel tries to
shirk railway questions next session, we trust
he will have them forced upon him. The
time is come when it will no longer suffice to
have particular schemes separately adjudicated upon by
Select Committees, however well constituted. The ques-
tion of existing and proposed railway accommodation
must be looked at as a whole ; and Parliament must do

its best to bring all the lights'of statistics and political
economy to bear upon the practical problems—what is
the maximum of additional railway works which Parlia-
ment can now safely authorise, and in what parts of the
United Kingdom is additional railway accommodation
most needed ?' Will Government propose a Committee
to investigate these questions ? We had hoped for some
sign from Sir Robert that he had been looking et the
railway question as a statesman—we had hoped for some
guidance from the Prime Minister for our expectations
of the next session. Ile had an opportunity the other
day, at Tamworth, but the oracle was mute, and never

was sublime mediocrity more full of platitude than,
when spade in hand, in the mighty presence of King
Hudson, he addressed the Trent Valley Directors and
his own loving subjects of Tamworth :
" I have always attempted to reconcile the perform-
ance of tho3e public duties which official station imposes
on me with the duties which I own to my constituents,
and to' the inhabitants of this borough." This is
the key to the past course of the Cabinet as to rail-
way questions. They generally leave them alone.
During the time given by the House of Com:awns
to Railway I3ills they, stay in Downing-street.
But does a Bill come on which interests a Cabinet Mi-
nister's constituency, he is there to ♦ote for it. Had the
Trent Valley Bill had to fight its way through the House
of Commons (it may or may not have done so)—had it
required to have standing orders dispensed with or
vioated in its favour,—Sir Robert would have "reconciled

his public duties with the duties which he owes to his
constitutents and his borough" by being in his place to
vote for the Bill. Mr. Goulburn did about as bare-faced
a piece of jobbing in this way, for a saint, as can be ima
gined, last session. The Cambridge and Lincoln Bill
was thrown over in Committee for a great engineering
mistake: no one dreamt of its trying to rise again. But
lo! the Member for the town of Cambridge is a Govern-
ment underling ; Mr. Manners Sutton, the Member for
the University of Cambridge, is a Cabinet Minister—
Chancellor of the Exchequer. The influence of the two
might command the aid of the Treasury itself for a motion
to reverse all the usual proceedings of the House in favour
of this Bill.• Mr. Goulburn left the finances of the country to
take care of themselves an hour sooner than usual, that
day, to go and vote, ay, speak for this motion. This is
what Sir Robert calls, " reconciling official duties with
those duties which he owes to his constituents and his
borough." It was greatly to the %redit of Lord Gran-
ville Somerset's honesty that he opposed and defeated
this attempted Goulburn job.
Improved as the constitution of Railway-Committees
was in the last session—further improved as it may still
he in the next session—it is, as we have already said,
idle to suppose that a mere repetition in the next session
of the old course of sending Bills, or sets of Bills, after
they have managed to cross the pons asinomus of standing
orders, to separate Committees will be satisfactory. Of
the innumerable railways now asking to be constructed,
there must be a selection, aed a selection made on prin-
ciples. A railway Bill of comparatively small utility--
where the small prospect of traffic has prevented rival
projects, and where landowners' opposition has been
staved off—will pass unopposed, while interested opposi-
tion may defeat another scheme of unrivalled public ad-
vantage on some formal or technical ground. There
must be some mode of comparing the merits of railway
schemes—some scale of utility must be formed. A
Committee appointed to consider the whole • question
may do this—separate Committees never can.
We may forgive something to the gout, and to the
Premier's late mortifying defeat in the Cabinet ; but
still, when a god is brought down from the skies to
turn up the first sod for a railway, one cannot help re-
quiring something more edifying from his divinity,
than a discovery that inns languish, when railroads
carry passengers beyond them, or that railway directors,
to show themselves better than gamblers, must endea-
vour to " combine the greatest degree of velocity in
travelling with the greatest degree of safety to the tra-
vellers." Why, even King Hudson at his side could
have said something newer than this.

The office of Comptroller of the Customs at Dover
having become vacant by the retirement of Mr. Kelsey, the
situation has been filled by the promotion, at a reduced
salary, of Mr. Peake, the first clerk at that port ; and, as
Dover has been reduced from the second to the thir4,class of
ports, advantage has been taken of this opportunity to regu-
late the salaries of the subordinate officers accordingly; the
result of which is,' that no promotion takes place among the
other clerks, and the vacancy occasioned by Mr. Peake's
elevation to the comptrollership willnot be filled up. By this
arrangement a saving to the public of 330/. a year has been
effected.—Observer.

MR. WAGIIORN AND THE INDIAN MAIL.—The
Pr csse has an article by M. Alexis de Valon, upon the at-
tempt of Mr. Waghorn to establish the passage of the Indian
mail yid Trieste, in which it points out the importance of
preserving the transit through France, and at the same time
that it blames the Government for apathy in not establishing
a direct service from Marseilles to 'Alexandria, it vents its
spleen egainst Mr. ll' aghorn. "Let him," it says, "make
his experiments, and let England afford him every possible
assistance, it will turn to the. advantage of France, for should
a new service be established by way of Trieste, what will be
the result? We will annul the convention made by M. de
'ltiontebello in 1840 respecting the passage of the English
post. Once free, we will establish an opposition to the ser-
vice of Trieste, which it could not pssibly compete with,
since our transit would he half as quick again. The English
line of steamers from Marseilles to Alexandria will more-
over by this act be suppressed, and our steamers will resume
their former monopoly. " This reflection is very simple,"
remarks M. de Talon, " and I am astonished that it has
not hitherto been made." As a means of competing with
the EnAlish steamers between Marseilles and Alexandria,
the writer recommends Government to alter the days of
departure from Marseilles from the 4th to the 12th of
each month. " The steamers," he says, " instead of starting
seven days before the English boats,ought to start 24 hours
later, carrying sufficient coal to make the passage without
touching at Malta, so that our vessels, which are faster than
the English upon that line, would arrive in Egypt at the
same time, notwithstanding that they start one day later.
Thus they would be enabled to bring letters, news of the
Bourse, telegraphic dispatches, &c., of a more recent date
than the English boats. Our Government has made an
equally clever choice of the day of aepartdre from Alexandria,
which is the 20th of each month ; this selection no doubt-
has been made lest they might chance to be troubled with
any dispatches or passengers from India, for the Bombay
mail arrives at Alexandria on the 22d, just two days after
the departure of the French steamer."
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT ON LONDON-BRIDGE.--.
Saturday, about noon, the following distressing accident oc-
curred on the centre of London-bridge to a young man
named William Ford, whose friende reside at No. 10, Trafal-
gar-road, Greenwich. It appears that he was an omnibus
conductor, in the service of Mr. Nelson, of Greenwich, The
vehicle left the Spread Eagle, Gracechurch-street, with
several passengers inside, and when they reached the place
above-named, the foot-board on which he was standing gave
way, and his left leg became entangled in the ironwork of
the back part of the carriage, which caused him to be
dragged several feet along the roadway. The foot passen-
gers who witnessed the occurrence, called out to the driver,
but before he could stop the horses, his left leg was fractured
just. above the ankle, and other parts of his person were very
seriously contused. He was carried with all speed to St.
Thomas's Hospital, where he was readily admitted, and
attended to by the house-surgeon. Last evening he was
going on favourably.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT FRESH WHARF, LONDON-
BRIDGE.—Saturday morning an accident, attended with se-
rious consequences, occurred to a man named Richard Dyer,
aged 35 years, a native of Brixham, Devon. It appears that
the unfortunate man was first mate of the schooner Gratitude,
which was moored off the upper side of Fresh Wharf; Lon-
don-bridge. He was engaged with
.several other men in
unshipping a cargo of walnuts, and whilst turning a windlass
for the purpose of getting the bales out of the hold,
the man who had charge of the other handle ran away,
leaving Dyer in charge of the machine, but the pressure be-
came so great that the handle overpowered him, and before
he could get out of the way, it struck him on the left temple,
inflicting a frightful lacerated wound. The force of the blow
knocked him backwards, and before he recovered himself,
the handle caught his left leg, which it fractured just below
the knee. He was picked up in an insensible state, and placed
in a cab and taken with all speed to St. Thomas's Hospital,
where he was placed under the care of Mr. South, the house,
surgeon. He is going on as favourably as possible.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT. BILLINGSGATE MARKET

On Saturday morning, between eight and nine o'clock, a
shocking accident took place in Billingsgate Fish Market to a
man named William Leader, aged fifty, a porter. It seems
that he was engaged by a gentleman to carry two large pads
of fish to an eating- house in the City, and whilst walking along
the lower end of the market he fell to the ground underneath
the load, which was nearly two hundred weight. He was
lifted up and conveyed to a neighbouring surgeon's, but his
injuries were of such a nature that it was found necessary to
obtain a stretcher from the Tower-street station-house, upon
which he was placed, and carried by four City policemen to
the accident •ward of St. Thomas s Hospital, where it was_
found that he had sustained two extensive fractures of the
right leg. He was instantly attended to by Mr. Jackson,
the surgeon, and the poor fellow, who resides in Falcon-
court, White-street, Borough, lies in a very exhausted con-
dition.
THE SEA SERPENT.—The New York correspon-
dent of the Cincinnati Gazette makes the following statement
concerning the bones recently and now exhibited in this city
as those of a sea-serpent :—"I suppose there is little doubt
but that it is all a piece of trickery on a most magnificent
scale. A shut time since Dr. Wyman, of Boston, Professor
of Comparative Anatomy, W&' conversing with Dr. Ly ;11,
the geologist, about it, when they both agreed it was a de-
r eption, but concluded to say nothing about it, till they could
examine it, as Dr. Koch's character was above reproach.
But here a few days ago, Dr. Wyman, who was on his way
to Virginia, stopped to see it. Ile immediately pronounced
it a deception. The backbone he said, is composed of the
vertebrm of several whales carefully fitted to each other,
while the claws are made of certain species of the nautilus.
Dr. Wyman is a thorough anatomist, having spent several
yearii in the best surgical schools of Europe, and hence de-
tected the character of the skeleton before him at a glance,—
American Paper.-

TEXAS.
(From the Houston Telegraph, Oct. 15.)
Several gentlemen have lately arrived from Corpus
Christi, and they represent the health of the United
States troops at that post to be excellent. There are
over three thousand troops now at or near that post,
and scarcely a single soldier is dangerously sick. Great
numbers of strangers from all sections of Texas and
from the United States are congregating at Corpus
Christi. Many of them are dissipated ' • and the grog
Shops are crowded to overflowing. A Mexican, sup-
posed to be a spy, was captured near the camp a short
time since. He had formerly held a commission in the
Mexican army. He was detained a short time in cus-
tody ; but as no fears were entertained that his repre-
sentations could do any harm, he was permitted to
return to the Rio Grande.

The President has promoted Captain nays to the rank
of Major, and Lieutenant Gillespie has been promoted
to the rank of Captain. Two companies of Rangers,
under Captains Price and M.'Culloch, have lately been
organised, and it is probable they will soon be mus-
tered into service on the frontier.

The agents appointed by the Government to conclude
a treaty with the Comanches, met those Indians on the

15th ult., at Torrey's trading house. Pahayuca, Mocha-
chuka, and several others who represented themselves as
principal chiefs of the Comanches, were present at the
council. This, we believe, was the fifth attempt that has
been made by our Government to conclude a formal
treaty with this perfidious tribe ; and the Indians ap-
peared as timid and suspicious as at the first council.
Comparatively few of their warriors attended. When
they first arrived at the trading house they would not be
induced to encamp near the house ; and the Government
agents were compelled to go out and encamp with them
to gain their confidence. They evidently feared that
they were to be punished for the outrages committed
near Austin a few months since. The agents, however,
succeeded in gaining their confidence so far, that at the
close of the council the chiefs came forward and de-
clared that they were now assured that the white men
were the friends of the Comanches, and expressed a de-
termination on their part to maintain a permanent peace
with our settlers. We place little reliance upon their
professions. It is not a little singular that about the
same period this council was held, a party of Mexican
traders from the Rio Grande came into Corpus Christi,
and reported that they had met with a body of two hun-
dred Comanche warriors, who permitted the traders to
pass unmolested, and informed them that they were
going. to Matamoras, agreeably to the invitation of the
Mexican ofiicers,.and that they intended to take part with
the Mexicans against the Americans. It will be remem-
bered that at a former council held with these Indians
they expressed dissatisfaction because the agents of our
Government gave them so few presents. Prhaps they
think by making overtures to the Mexican Government
they can obtain a large quantity of presents, more
valuable than any that they have yet received from
us. There is little probability, however, that they
ever can become the faithful allies of the Mexicans,
for they have been accustomed from their infancy
to look on Mexicans as their natural enemies; and it
would be as difficult for them to act in concert, as for
wolves and deer to dwell harmoniously together. The
military power of this tribe has been long since broken,
and it is a matter of but little consequence whether they
remain at peace or at war with our Government. We
have been not a little amused recently to notice the ex-
aggerated accounts published in the northern papers
respecting the formidable numbers and the prowess of
this perfidious and imbecile tribe. Some of those papers
represent the Comanches as mustering from 15,000 to
20,000 warriors, and as able to cope, man to man, with
the American cavalry. The Comanches, as far back as
1835, could not concentrate at any one point more than
1,300 warriors, and the tribe has been so much reduced
by constant war with the Mexicans and Texians within
the last five years, that they have not been able to
muster more than 400 or 500 warriors in any of their
expeditions. Their warriors are generally armed with
bows and arrows and lances, and are withal so cowardly,
that they are seldom or ever known to attack a force of
the Texians, even when they have the advantage of
numbers of three to one. Two companies of dragoons
could traverse the whole country occupied by the Co-
manches with impunity.
The two tribes, Lipans, and Tonkawas, are preparing
to abandon their late encampments of the tributaries of
the Gaudalope and San Antonio, and intend removing
high up on the Colorado, to occupy a portion of country
lately granted to them by the Comanches. Many of the
warriors of these tribes have intermarried with the
Comanches.

The presence of the United States army on the western
frontier has caused the price of provisions toi adVance to
an unprecedented extent in that section. At the last
accounts, corn was selling at Aransas and Corpus Christi
at one dollar and fifty cents a bushel—sweet potatoes at
the same rate, and very few could be obtained. The
army is stationed at such a distance from our dense set-
tlements, that most of its supplies of provisions will be
brought from New Orleans at a cheaper rate than they
can be procured from any of the settlements of western
Texas. Beef, however, can always be procured in our
western counties at a cheaper rate than it can be obtained
perhaps in any part of the United States. The commis-
saries of the army will have little difficulty in procuring
an abundant supply of beef in any of our western settle-
ments at a cent to a cent and a half a pound—and the
beef from the Rio Grande can doubtless be obtained at a
still lower rate.
(From the Houston Star Oct. 16.)
On the south bank of the St. Gabriel, in Milam
county, about fifteen miles above the confluence of that
river, with the Little river, there are many relics of an
ancient town or village. No houses are standing ; but
the surface of the ground for an extent of several acres,
is strown with stones and large rocks, some of which have
evidently been hewn for building stones. They are
strewn about in such a marine.- as to leave no doubt
that they formerly formed the walls of buildings which
are now destroyed. A large darn formed by these stones
extends nearly across the river, which at this point is
about a hundred feet wide. This dam is sixty feet long
and five or six feet thick. The river has washed away a
portion which formerly connected it with the opposite
bank% A small ditch extends from the river above the
dam along the edge of the hill which skirts the valley
in which the village is situated, and appears to have
been used for the purpose of irrigation. Whether these
ruins were formerly the habitations of Spaniards or of
the aborigines of the country, we have been unable to
ascertain. We consider it quite probable that this place
was formerly occupied as a missionary or mining station
by the Spaniards, shortly after the conquest of Mexico
by Cortez.

for the action of a sound public opinion, in order that the
states may be held to the performance of their duty in sus-
taining and keeping inviolate their public faith. This was
most clearly exhibited in the refusal of European capitalists
to negotiate, a loan with the United States Government at a
period when capital was abundant and the rates of interest
low. The Six per Cent. Stock of the United States went
begging throughout Europe unsuccessfully, notwithstanding
the knowledge that the Government had fulfilled, to the
nicest point of honour, all its public engagements, and that
it stood before the world free from the weight of a single
dollar's debt. It cannot be denied that this was owing en-
tirely to the discredit thrown upon the country by the defal-
cation of the states.

Since that period we think we see a better and a sounder
state of public feeling manifested on this subject, and have
witnessed with a high degree of pleasure the efforts that are
now making by some of the defaulting states to restore their
long-lost integrity. In Indiana the matter has been lately
brought before the citizens, and the report of a public com-
mittee is before us, iu which sound and upright views are
maintained in reference to their state obligations. We re-
joice at these important movements, and feel encouraged to
hope that, ere long, the credit of all the states will be restored,
and their public faith redeemed from the reproach to which
it has so long been subjected.

THEATRICALS IN AMERICA.
(From the New York Herald.)_ _ _

There is no diminution in the success of theatricals in
the United States. Wherever talent is found in a per-
former it is appreciated in a very substantial manner.
The astounding success of De Meyer and Templeton in
this country is a proof of the truth of this.
Leopold De Meyer, the lion pianist of the age, having
concluded a brilliant career at the Park Theatre is about
commencing a series of concerts in this city, at the Ta-
bernacle.

Templeton has exceeded his most sanguine expecta-
tions of success, and after having delighted the New
Yorkers for a fortnight, has gone to Boston, where he
gave his first concert on Monday evening to a large and
fashionable audience.

The Deans, after having fulfilled an engagement in
Baltimore, have now commenced their third engagement
in Philadelphia, where they are drawing crowded
houses. Their next engagement will probably be in
this city.
Miss Delcy and Rophino Lacy 1111 e returned to this
city from Philadelphia, where they gave a series of eight
concerts, with pretty good success, considering the
people were very much engaged in dections and other
affairs of public interest. They gave a concert in Balti-
more, which was numerously and fashionably attended.
They purpose bringing out at the Park, on the 17th inst.,
the new opera of the Bride of Lannnermoor. This
piece has never been performed in this country, and,
according to repute on the other side of the water, it is
one of considerable interest, abounding with beautiful
music.

The Seguins and Mr. Frazer have left Boston and gone
to Philadelphia.
Ole Bull is in Philadelphia. He will return to this
city in time to take passage in the Havre packet of the
6th. Ile has given a concert here which was considered
his last, but many of his friends and admirers are de-
termined that he shall give us another before he leaves.
Mr. Crisp and the American actress, Mrs. Mowatt,
are in Boston.

T. D. Rice is playing his round of negro characters
in Boston.

The Swiss Bell-ringers are on their way to Mexico,