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FRANCE. 
{From our own Correspondent.) 
Paris, Thursday, Oct. 26. 
The anxiety for news from Sebastopol continues most 
intense among all ranks. The last intelligence by the mail 
from Constantinople disappointed everybody, by the seem- 
ing dilatory nature of the proceedings, which, however un- 
avoidable, contrasts terribly with the feverish impatience of 
the public. The Emperor and Empress were to have gone 
to Compifcgne, and honoured the British Ambassador and 
Lady Cowley with a visit at their villa at Chantilly, on 
Sunday last ; before which date the previous despatches had 
assured his Majesty he would be in possession of decisive 
intelligence. However, none arrived. The preparations 
were countermanded at the last hour, and an apology sent 
by telegraph. Their Majesties remain at St. Cloud until 
news arrive. 
An attempt has been made here to get up a public meet- 
ing, to raise something of a subscription among the pleasure- 
seeking English in Parks, fur the relief of the wounded, and 
the widows aud orphans of their brave countrymen who fell 
on the bauks of the Alma. But, to their disgrace be it 
recorded, this proposal was received with Buch lukewarm- 
ness by those whose wealth and social rank would have 
insured the success of the subscription, that the project of 
the meeting was abandoned. Subscription lists have, it is 
true, been opened at Galignani's, through whose paper a 
brief, well-conceived appeal to the English residents on the 
'Continent was made in behalf of the sufferers ; but, though 
that took place a week ago, no list of subscribers has yet 
appeared. This absence of every feeling of patriotism and 
charity is positively revolting, considering the many English- 
men residing at Paris, and other parts of France, including 
nobility, from marquises down to baronets and gentlemen, 
many of them possessing immense fortunes. This pitiful 
meanness ought really to be punished by the exposure of 
their names. Some of these unworthy sons of fortune, it is 
painful to observe, bear hereditary claims to the respect of 
their countrymen — that is to say, their ancestors left them 
distinguished names, which their present possessors are 
doing all they can to hurry to oblivion. We shall see, how- 
i£Teu, how the subscription list stands when it is made 
piibhe • and, if it turn out as meagre and shabby as I fear it 
is likely to be, there will be a malicious consolation in send- 
ing you over a list of the names and titles of the wealthy 
non-subscribers to the “ English Patriotic Fund in Paris," 
for the edification of the readers of The Field. 
The Palais de Justice, at once our Westminster Hall and 
liiucolu’s Inn, has this week been chiefly occupied by mat- 
ters theatrical. The “ rigours of the law" were called down 
on two celebrated artistes, Mdlle. Rachel and Mdlle. Cruvelli. 
The great tragedian — -so fickle in her tastes, so changeful in 
her opinions — refused to act in a character which she had 
formally accepted and rehearsed — that of Medea, in a 
tragedy of that name, composed at her own suggestions by 
M. Legoune, a well known collaborator of M. Scribe. 
It was hardly to be expected that even an old and inti- 
mate friend like M. L could saci’ifice his time, trouble, 
and reputation, and submit to the caprice of “ la Demoi- 
selle Felix," as she is designated in the forensic language of 
the Parisian bar. A numerous audience of idlers congre- 
grated within the preciucts of the court, in the hopes that 
Rachel herself might attend to explain personally the causes 
of her autipathy for the luckless Medea. They were de- 
ceived in their expectations, yet a treat was reserved them in 
compensation, the “ motives" of the fair artiste being set 
forth with a torrent of epigrammatic sallies by her counsel, 
the celebrated Chaix-d'Est-Auge. But the case was hope- 
less ; notwithstanding the talent and skill of the defence, 
the judgment was not for a single moment doubtful, and the 
court condemned Mdlle. Rachel to resume the rehearsals of 
Medea on the earliest day which could be fixed, and subse- 
quently perform in it, or pay the author an indemnity of 
200 francs (£8) for every day's delay for the space of two 
months. Her friends hope she will retrieve herself in this 
affair by playing the part with a good grace, and make the 
iuost of it. 
The other action brings us back to Mdlle. Cruvelli, the 
hurricane of small talk and avalanche of suppositions 
caused by whose flight are far from having yet subsided. 
The tribunal has condemned the fair artiste to pay 20,000 
francs (£800) damages to the Grand Opera, and, besides, an 
indemnity of 1,000 francs (£40) for every day’s delay until 
-she resumes her engagement. You are aware that, iu conse- 
quence of the abruptness of her disappearance, the money 
Bad to be returned at the doors, and, as often occurs in such 
•cases, considerably more money was returned than was taken, 
many of the audience admitted gratis, by orders, or, as they 
call them here, billets de fwveur, quietly pocketing what they 
had never disbursed. The official pretext of the flight of the 
cantatric, is gravely stated to be her annoyance on seeing her 
name printed on the affidie iu the same kind of small type 
as those of Mdlle Poiu3ot, Mons. Gueymard, and other 
second or thud rates, on whom now rest the fortunes of the 
house. On this subject the following story is related : — At 
the moment when the performance ought to have commenced, 
ithe absence of the t!*vi aynu^a . — being placed beyond 
•question, half-a-dozen officials wore dispatched, in hot haste, 
to La Cruvelli’s lodgings. One inmate alone was found — 
a German valet-dc-chamorc — whose knowledge of French was 
limited to four words, taught him for the nonce. 
To all questions put by the Ministerial myrmi- 
dons, he returned, with imperturbable gravity, one 
answer, “ Matainc partis, grosses Icttres." The real cause, as 
I intimated last week, is a dashing young fellow, Baron 
Vigier ; aud it is now asserted, on the " best authority," that 
ttho ex-Dina has become " Madame la Baronne.” In the 
meantime the absence of La Cruvelli is telling with fatal 
effect on the interests of the Grand Opera in more ways than 
one. Besides a considerable diminution in the nightly 
receipts, M. Verdi has withdrawn his opera, declaring, that 
to produce it with the present company, would be to sacri- 
fice it, as, with the best dispositions in the world, they were 
completely unequal to its execution ; aud, for similar reasons, 
Meyerbeer has refused to bring forward his “ Africaine." 
All these reverses may, however^it is hoped, be of service 
in compelling Government to abandon their nefarious 
scheme of turning a theatre of this importance into a toy 
to solace the leisure of lews excellences the Ministers. 
The post, or bureau, of an “ agent-de-chuuge ” — angliee, 
stockbroker— was sold in Paris, on Thursday last, fur the 
sum of £48,000 (or 1,200,000 francs), a figure which will 
give your readers some idea of the development which the 
business of stock-jobbing has experienced within the lust 
THE FIELD. 
few weeks in Paris. These places, it may not be unneces- 
sary to mention, are here strictly limited by law to a small 
number ; aud this restriction it is which makes them so 
valuable. Notwithstanding the extreme rigidity with which 
this regulation is ostensibly acted upon, means have been 
found to set the law at defiance, and these offices or 
“ charges " us they aro here called, ore, with few exceptions, in 
the bauds of a number of partners, who do business 
nominally, as clerks to the principal ; iu reality, on their own 
account. The “quarts," and “ huiti> mes" d' agent-de-change — 
partners holding a fourth or eighth part of the busiucss — 
have long been recognised iu the moneyed world of Paris ; 
but we have now douziemes, sei: times, aud even vingt- 
quatr nines — i.c. twelve, sixteen, or twenty-four parties, who 
club their little fortunes together to purchase a “charge” 
Nor must these ringt-quatrinnes bo despised — for, in these 
days of speculation, eveu the twenty -fourth part of the yearly 
profits of an agent de change yields a very handsome income. 
As for a huitiime, he iuvariably Bports his cab, and has a 
villa ; while a quart rauks among Nabobs of “ La Bourse,” 
can afford to patronise the arts and artistes and have a 
vested interest in the Jigurantcs of the ballet. As for the 
few who reign with “ undivided sway,” they are the 
millionaires of Parisian finance, who, iu concurrence with 
the great capitalists in troublous times, “ ride the whirl- 
wind aud direct the storm," often lnakiug colossal fortunes 
from the very events that bring down ruin upon thousands. 
Our Exhibition programmes are coming out in immense 
force. Some of the articles are threatening enough — one 
ingenious Belgian exhibits a piano, which is to be perfect, 
and is to cost less than Jive pounds (120 francs). Oare Us 
oreilles / 
THE OVERLAND MAIL. 
{By Submarine and Euivpcan Telojraph). 
Trieste, Wednesday 
The Steamer Bombay arrived at 10J a. in. 
Alexandria, Oct. 20. 
The Candia leaves Alexandria this day with the India and 
China mails, and advices from Calcutta of the 18th Septem- 
ber ; Madras, 24th September ; Slianghae, 26th August ; 
Canton, 9th September; Hong Kong, 11th September; 
Singapore, 18th September ; Bombay, 28th September. 
In China much (Usseusiou among the rebels. 
The Biege of Canton continues with great distress. No 
trade noted for shipment. 
The rebels still hold Shanghae. 
The American clipper Comet arrived at Hong Kong, from 
Liverpool, in eighty-four days. 
Marseilles, Thursday. 
The Valetta arrived here with the Indian Mail at half-past 
six this morning. 
ANNEXATION OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. 
New York, Tuesday, Oct. 10. 
The Northern Light, which arrived at this port on Sun- 
day evening (the 8th), brings us news from California up to 
the 10th of September. The State election had just come 
off, resulting in another defeat of the Presidential party iu 
San Francisco. Where it was scarcely dreamed that the 
“ Know-Nothings" existed at all, they swept the board. So 
profoundly secret were all their manoeuvres conducted, that 
the public knew nothing of their intentions, of their candi- 
dates, until the morning of the election. Before night, the 
blow had been struck, and all their candidates were triumph- 
antly elected. We have satisfactory confirmation from the 
Sandwich Islands of the negotiation of the treaty for their 
annexation to the United States. The proposal of annex- 
ation came originally from the islands. General Pierce 
received it with favour, aud a special messenger was dis- 
patched with the reply to the American commissioner. 
When the matter was laid before the council of state it was 
approved by every member except Prince Alexander, the 
heir apparent, and Paki, a high chief. The stipulations of 
the treaty of annexation were definitively arranged. The 
treaty itself was duly signed, and is now in the hands of 
the American President, awaiting the meeting of Con- 
gress, for the ratification of the Senate. It is premature to 
speak of the consequences which will atteud the annexation 
of the Sandwich Islands to the United States. 
Almost the only opposition that will be raised against it 
will spring from one or two causes : first, it is well known 
that many of the leading politicians of the south will favour 
the measure, because they believe that slavery may be intro- 
duced into those islands ; and if there is the slightest pro- 
bability of it, it is certain that a large majority of the people 
of the United States would never give their consent to the 
annexation. A large number, too, of our wisest and best 
rneu contemplate with serious apprehension the establish- 
ment of a precedent which would thus be established, of 
annexing territories and states out of North America. The 
whole spirit of our government and history is opposed to 
what is known as the colonial system of Great Britain ; but 
if the Sandwich Islands can, by universal consent, be ad- 
mitted to our Union, without slavery, probably all opposi- 
tion on other grounds would be futile. The annexation 
party has from the beginning always been triumphant. It 
was so in the case of Louisiana, whose purchase from Franco 
doubled the area'of the republic ; in that of Florida, which 
gave us that, peninsula ; in the case of Texas, which involved 
a war with Mexico. It will be so iu the future. Those politi 
clans who are the warmest advocates of the spread of the 
republic will go heartily for the annexation of the Sandwich 
Islands, chiefly as they would afford us a most important 
half-way-house on our road to Japan, whose annexation our 
manifest-destiny statesmen even now regard as highly pro- 
bable. The immense influence which the possession of 
those islands would put forth upon our commerce iu the 
Pacific can hardly be exaggerated. It may not be too much 
to say that, in an important sense, it transfers to our bauds 
the Commercial Sceptre of the Pacific Ocean. Your readers, 
therefore, may not be astonished, within twelve or eighteen 
months, to learn that the Sandwich Islands have been ad- 
mitted as a sovereign state into the Union, or to see his 
Majesty, the late King, take his seat in the United States 
Senate. This would almost realise the Utopia of the wildest 
republican fancy. At all events, the monarehs of Europe 
must not complain, after they have converted so many re- 
publics into kingdoms, if we should begin to transform 
kingdoms into republics . — Special Correspondent of the Daily 
Nt W3, 
AUSTRAL1ANA. 
ARRIVAL OF THE RED JACKET AT LIVERPOOL. 
The clipper-ship Red Jacket, Captain Reid, arrived in the 
Mersey on Sunday week with advices from Melbourne to 
the 1st of August, having accomplished the trip home in 
1019 
734 days, notwithstanding her having lost some time in iho 
ice. It is the quiokest passage on record. She made the 
ruu out from the Rock Light to the anchorage at Melbourne 
iu 694 days, and has completed the voyage out and home in 
5 months and 1 1 days — this being the most extraordinary 
performance over recorded. 
She brings 44,9434 ounces of gold, aud 28,270 sovereigns. 
Tho Lightning arrived at Port Phillip Heads on the 31at 
of July. 
The Carpentaria and Albatross, from this port, the Otilia 
and Medina, from London, and the Cairngorm, from the 
Clyde, had arrived at Melbourne. 
The John Bunks was intouded to leave for London the 
same day as tho Red Jacket, and the Frances Henty and the 
Ballarat at an early date. 
Mr. Smith O’Brien had been presented with a cup of Vic* 
tom gold, tho proceeds of a public subscription. 
It had been resolved, by tho committee appointed, to 
make a house-to-houso collection for the relief of the fami- 
lies of soldiers who had been dispatched to the war in the 
East. 
The fitting of a large restaurant with gas excited some 
interest. 
The escorts for tho week had brought down 88,327 
ouucos of gold. 
Hobart-town advices of tho 25th state that iu tho Legislo* 
tiye Council, ou the 25th of July, several messages were re- 
ceived from tho Executive and rend a firet time. £82,000 
had been subscribed for a Hobart-town Gas Company. The 
Lieutenant-Governor had noticed that, under directions from 
the Secretary of State, male aud female ticket-of-kave holders 
would be required to serve with good conduct only half tho 
period tor which they would have had to serve under pre- 
vious regulations for a recommendation for a conditional 
pardon, It is also notified that, under the instructions 
above referred to, pass-holders who have no ofi'unce recorded 
against them .since their arrival in the oolony, will be allowed 
a further deduction of one-fourth of the diminished period 
of service for a tiokot-of-leave. 
There were only about 100 men at the Mount William 
diggings, in the place of 700 to 1,000 formerly. Provisions 
were exceedingly dear, and £15 had been paid for a bag of 
flour. 
Gold remaiuod at £4 per ounce, aud stock was decreasing 
in oonsequeuoo of the principal bauks purchasing at tho 
diggings. 
Exchanges. — Bauks draw on England at 5 por cent, dis- 
count., and negotiated draughts against produce or gold at 
3 per cent, discount ; local bills at 7 per cent, for 95 days, 
M*d s l"-' 1 ’ cent, for longer dates. Rates of interest on over- 
drawn accounts, at all banks, 10 per cent. 
There was little change iu the labour-market, beyond the 
fact that tho continued influx of omigmuN Imd kept up a 
good supply of male and female servants. Wages hud ex- 
perienced a slight decline. 
Sydney, July 13. — Awaiting the nous of decided opera- 
tions at the seat of war in Eastern Europe, financial and 
commercial operations, both iu Sydney and Melbourne, are 
unusually depressed. The only spirited transactions appear 
to bo iu lands, which, when offered for sale by the Govern- 
ment or by private holders, readily obtain high prices. 
Lands in the vicinity of the railway between Sydney and 
Paramatta may be valued at from £350 to £500 per acre. 
Tho Empire says : — “ Trade is depressed. Our markets are 
so overstocked, aud the rates of discount ore so high, being 
6, 7, and 8 per cent, for bills according to currency, that 
there is an entire absence of speculation. Goods are being 
sold by auction at prices which must prove ruinous to the 
exporter. An impression prevailed that decisive news of a 
declaration of war would have an immediate effect upon 
prices, but it failed to do so. If anything, prices aro lower 
now than they were before the arrival of that intelligence." 
PRICE OF GOLD. 
per oi. per o*. 
£ •. d . U. d. 
New South Woles, July 13 3 17 0 to 3 17 3 
Ovens 3 111 fl — 1 0 0 
Port Phillip 3 19 6—4 0 0 
Geelong, July 7 4 2 0—0 0 0 
ANOTHER ARRIVAL. — EXTRAORDINARY PASSAGE OF THE 
LIGHTNING. 
The clipper ship Lightning, Captain J. N. Forbes, which 
reached Liverpool on Monday Oct. 23, has accomplished ono 
of the finest passages recorded in the history of navigation, 
having made the run from Melbourne to Liverpool in 
sixty-three days. The Lightning sailed from Liverpool on 
the l lth May, thus performing the voyage in upwards of 
three days less time than the Red Jacket, notwithstanding 
that she was at anchor in Hobson’s Bay for a period of five 
days more than that vessel. Her run from the Mersey to 
the Equator occupied twenty-five days, aud from the 
parallel of the Capo to Port Phillip Heads thirty days ; 
indeed, such was the nature of the winds, that the top- 
gallant-sails never had occasion to be furled during the entire 
passage, neither was there occasion to reef tho top-sails. 
With the exception of five days, when the ship logged 332, 
348, 300, 31 1, aud 329 knots respectively per day, no extra- 
ordinary distances wore logged. Cape Otway Light was made 
on the night of the 29th July; Port Phillip Heads on the 
30th ; aud she cast anchor, ns above stated, in Hobson's Bay, 
on tho 31st, her run having occupied seventy -seven and ahulf 
days mean time. Ou the 20th of Aug. tho mails and passen- 
gers being embarked, and everything ready for sea, the 
anchor was hove up, and the Lightning was taken iu tow by 
the Bteamcr Washington as far os the Heads, which she passed 
at 4 p.m., a smart north-west 'breeze blowing atthe time, and 
by noon of the ‘21st 268 miles were logged, Swan Island Light, 
Banks's Straits, having been passed at 11 a.m. On the 24th, 
at 4 a.m., passed a huge ship, supposed to be the Mermaid, 
which sailed two days previously foy Liverpool ; and nt 
10 p.m., same day, passed the Auckland Islands. From 
thence to the 28th, when the ship was iu lat. 57.20, south 
long. 164 W., fresh westerly aud south-westerly breezes 
were experienced, aud the ship went nobly along, seldom 
logging less than 14, aud frequently 184 and 19 knots per 
hour. At 11 p.m. on the 28th, whilst under a heavy press 
of canvas, a violent squall from south-west caught tho ship, 
and carried away the foretopmast studdingsail-boom, the 
foretop, forctopgaUnnt, and foreroyal yards, and blowing all 
the sails to pieces, and the ship was obliged to go under 
easy canvas for tho succeeding f»ur days, until the yards aud 
sails had been replaced. From the 1st to the 8th of 
September fine westerly winds w ere experienced, aud the 
ship averaged close upon 300 miles per day, as per log. Ou 
the 8th, at 3 a.m., Cape Horn bore north-west distant 50 
miles, beiug a ruu of only nineteen days meau time from Port 
Phillip Heads, by far tho fastest ever recorded cither under 
