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The Cabinet Council held last Saturday was attended by the following Ministers—Lord Palmerston, Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, the Duke of New- castle, Mr. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Elgin, Mr. T. Milner Gibson, and Mr. E. Cardwell.

Lord Clyde retires from the command of the Indian Army at the close of this year. He will be succeeded by General Sir Hugh Rose, who recently acquired distinction in suppressing the rebellion in Central India. General Mansfield will be appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army.—.Daily News.

From a letter read before the British Association, written by Dr. Kirk, and dated September 22, and October 5, 1858, we learn something of the progress of the Livingstone expedition. The expedition was still in the Delta. A war between some tribes and the Portuguese had somewhat obstructed their operations. The bar of the river and the shallowness of its channel had presented difficulties. But on the whole the expedition seems to be getting on pretty well, and they all hoped soon to reach Tete, and clear the Delta before the unhealthy season. Up to the 5th there had been but little sickness.

We have to record an act of munificence and public spirit d a kind not unfrequent in the course of the last great war, but which has seldom been repeated in the memory of this generation. Mr. Charles Morrison, of the firm of Morrison, Dillon, and Co., has offered to equip a largo body of young men in his employ for the London Rifles or the Scottish Volunteer Corps at his own charge. An act so worthy to serve as an example should not pass without honourable mention.—.Daily Penes.

A letter from a correspondent to the Times, who signs himself "Looker-on," explains the late attempt to " bull" the tallow-market by a gigantic operation-

" boon after the close of the navigation last year, contracts began, as usual, to be made for tallow to be delivered the following year on the cus- tomary term of ' August delivery,' with hand money, or all money in ad-

vance. Prices, however, appearing higher than were justified by circum- stances; many foreign export houses of the place gave way to the temptation of selling uncovered, or in blank, hoping before the period of delivery to

cover themselves at more advantageous rates, and one and all allowed them- selves to be drawn into the vortex before their attention was directed to the principal buyer of all their paper tallow,' as we may term it—an unim- portant personage, a common Russian, by name Rjenkow, a man worth, perhaps, 30,000 or 40,000 s.rs. (about 60001.). The notion appeared ri- diculous. What! that fellow buying at such high rates, he must be mad ! Some now refused to sell to him, others did not care. Soon it was whispered that there was something more in the background, and that Rjenkow

was supported by immense capitalists, who had the fullest intention of

buying up all they could get and holding it. Rumour gradually merged into certainty, a company had been formed in Moscow and here, supported by considerable (some said unlimited) capital, for the express purpose of monopolizing the market. Rjenkow was their tool and agent, and our friends the sellers in blank, or bears' (as the conventional appellation is), by degrees opened their eyes to see the hull,' whom they so despised, with all their contracts in his clutches ; the alarm spread, and brought sleepless nights and careworn faces. But better make sure of a certain loss at pre- sent than have an unlimited one in prospect, and on this argument many of the bears' acted, with the exception of some bolder spirits, who pre- ferred awaiting the issue, and meeting the day of execution, August 31, with an unshrinking front. It is painful to know that ninny really steady and first-rate houses have been players in the game, but I will not mention names. Suffice it, that the cash-box of each feels the wounds so recently inflicted, and teaches its possessor a lesson which it may be hoped will never be forgotten. Let us pass on to August. Two grand problems are to be solved, Will the "bull" be able to pay for and receive the 55,000 casks he has bought ? ' and, when he has paid for them, What will he do with them ? ' To the superficial observer things have been going on much as usual till now. The same quantity of tallow, or even more, has been shipped off during June and July, notwithstanding the high prices. How this came to pass is best known to the shippers themselves ; probably they had sold beforehand in London, and were assisted by low freights and exchange. It has, however, kept the Londoners pretty quiet, by making them think that after all the tallow would come over as usual, and thus ad- mirably answered the purpose of the speculator, by enabling him to buy paper tallow there as well as here, and strengthen himself in this manner on both sides of the water. But it is August now, and the speculators are going to work in good earnest. Prices have gone too high to admit of ex- portation, the only buyers are needy bears,' and Rjenkow has coolly ware- housed 15,000 to 20,000 casks of tallow, which he threatens to keep here for no other purpose than to maintain unnaturally high prices abroad and at home. At the same time by insuring them against fire and depositing the policies with the Commercial Bank he gets cash advances of about 60 per cent. of the value, which answers every purpose of an actual sale, while giving him the entire command of the tallow. These proceedings, however, it seems cannot be continued, the insurance companies having all refused to take any more of the same risk. Rjenkow has settled ' about 10,000 casks —that is, by receiving payment of the differences instead of the actual tallow. Still the greater part of his purchases remain to be disposed of. At this juncture a new and unexpected actor steps on the stage, being no other than the house of Stieglitz and Co. (a firm whose commercial standing and character is so high that any comment of mine is unnecessary), and buys some 10,000 or 15,000 casks at a blow. Let us keep in mind that Stieglitz and Co. are not in the habit of doing regular business in tallow, and could therefore have no previous sales to cover, and look at the price he pays—viz., 58 silver roubles per berkz., which at the exchange of, 35d., and taking charges very moderately, costa upwards of 621. per ton in London, while the price there rules at present from 561. to 571. Now, this transaction does not appear very businesslike. Supposing things to remain as they are, Stieglitz and Co. incur a loss of 20,0001. to 30,0001. for the sake of lending a helping hand to what is at best a most illegitimate undertaking. We might have ventured to hint it wasa i consignment, had not the brokers readily shown us their notes in proof of it being a bone fide purchase, and as such we must therefore receive it. No one for a moment will suppose that Baron Stieglitz intends to throw away 30;0001: The inference, therefore, to be drawn is, thatlfellite presumption amounting to certainty that prices in London are to go-considerably beyond SOL ; nor does this appear to be at all unreasonable,- for it requires no-gieut sdretchef imagination to suppose that on mating the purchase the hnyer received the assurance that the 15,000 to 20000 casks already laid up in store here should, coute qui coute, be positively kept back and not shipped. The whole supply. expected this season will hardly exceed 105,000 casks, so that not more than 85,000 casks would be shipped—a decidedly inadequate exportation."

The semi-successful voiage of the Great Eastern was coincident with the death of its projector—Mr. Ieambard Kingdom Brunel. That gentleman was on the 6th carried from the big ship to his house in Westminster in a state of paralysis from which he never recovered. He died on the 15th, in the 53d year of his age. Mr. Brunel was the son of the constructor of the Thames Tunnel. His name is associated with many great works—the steam-ships Great Western, Great Britain, and Great Eastern ; the Great Western Railway and its branches, the bridge over the Tamar on the Corn- wall railway, the bridge over the Wye at Chepstow, and the Hungerford Suspension Bridge being his most remarkable works in that department.

Dr. Nichol, professor of anatomy in the Glasgow University, died on Monday afternoon from congestion of the brain. His-last public appearance was on the 27th of May, in the City Hall, Glasgow, when he acted as chair- man for M. Kossuth. The professor was born in 1804. His father was a bookseller in Montrose, and Mr. Nichol's first venture in life was as school- master of Dun, in the neighbourhood of that town, when he was only six- teen years of age. He afterwards studied for the church, and was duly licensed as a preacher. Literature and science, _however, soon diverted him into a course more suitable to his faculties. Having obtained a professor- ship from Lord Melbourne's ministry, he distinguished himself by his various popular works on astronomy, The Architecture of the Heavens," "The Solar System," "The Planetary System," "The Planet Neptune," &c. ; and by his lectures on the same class of subjects, he was the first to make the public familiar with what is called the " Nebular Hypothesis."

Colonel Thomas Wildman, a distinguished Peninsular and Waterloo officer' but better known to a new generation as the courteous proprietor of Newstead Abbey, died on Tuesday.

Sir James Stephen, formerly Under-Secretary for the Colonies, and Pro- fessor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge, died on the 15th of September, at Coblentz, in the 71st year of his age. Educated at Cam- bridge he became a Chancery barrister in 1812, and in 1813 he became first counsel to the Colonial Department, then counsel to that department and the Board of Trade; next Assistant and finally Under-Secretary to the Colonial Office. He quitted the service in 1847, with the dignity of K.C.B., and in 1849 he was appointed Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, in succession to Mr. William Smyth.

A melancholy accident occurred a few days ago to M. Dufourmantelle, a lithographic artist of some eminence. He was conversing with a friend, when, in a moment of inattention, he placed a small bit of sealing-wax, which he had in his hand, into his mouth, and it got into his throat. The violent exertion which he used to get rid of the obstruction caused him to break a bloodveseel, which caused his death after some hours' suffering.

Mr. George Griswold, of New York, many years largely engaged in the shipping trade with this country, had died aged eighty-two.

Prince Czartoriski and the Princess Czartoriski, eldest daughter of Queen Christina, have arrived at Biarritz.

Signor Verdi has left Turin to pay a visit to Count Cavour, who is at pre- sent at Leri, in the province of Vercelli.

The Tuscan Government has, by a ilecree of the 15th, raised Major- General Garibaldi to the rank of Lieutenant-General.

The Acenir of Nice says that the Duke and Duchess of Malakoff arc ex- pected to arrive there next mouth to remain part of the winter season. Among the fashionable arrivals at the Clarendon Hotel in this pity we are pleased to record that of the Honourable Grantley Berkeley, the celebrated English hunter and sportsman. This gentleman has visited the United States for two purposes, which may yet be called one, seeing how inti- mately they are connected. His first design is to proceed to the West to hunt the elk, the antelope, the buffalo,. and the other animals which hold undisputed possession of our extensive prairies and forests: For this purpose he has brought his hounds, and he intends to enter with spirit into the sport, so that he might find abundant material for his "adventures," which he proposes to send to the Field, the sporting paper of the English metropolis. His next intention is to visit all the Western farms and plantations, and to witness the operations carried on upon them in regard to the care and rearing of stock. There can be no doubt the honourable gentleman will meet with a warm and generous re- ception from the true-hearted and sturdy sons of the West, who will gain a great deal of information from him concerning English sports, in all the branehes of which he is so proficient ; while on his part he will not fail to gather some useful practical lessons from the hardy American sportsmen of that beautiful country. Let the Western sportsmen brighten their rifles and keep their powder dry, for the hunt will soon begin.—Neto York Herald.

All the mammas and bermes in Paris are in a state of considerable excite- ment. A little child has been abstracted from its nurse whilst airing in the garden of the Tuileries. The son of one of the Judges of the Tribunal of the Seine, aged two months, was carried off by a female of about twenty years of age, under the pretence of taking care of it whilst the nurse took a letter to the Rue de la Paix. Ten thousand francs are offered by the agonized father to whomsoever brings back the child safe and sound. The police are actively employed in the search, and the telegraph has announced i the circumstance in every town of France. The female who carried off the child evidently belonged to the higher class of society, and by her seeming fondness for the child had won the heart of the poor woman to whose care it was entrusted.—Post.

spray and foam, the noise of the agitated water resembling the sound of a waterfall. The colour of the revolving column was that of a light gray misty vapour, the lower part almost transparent, which rendered the as- cending and descending aqueous vapour distinctly visible. The circular rapidity was sometimes so great as to be scarcely perceptible, while the white misty-like vapour spurted from the revolving-tube like watery particles from a grind-stone. After travelling about fifteen or twenty miles in as many minutes it dissolved by breaking in the centre, the lower part being dispersed by the current and the other drawn up into the cloud. Phe second was formed from the same cloud and travelled in a similar di- rection, but its onward progress was arrested when nearly abreast of the citadel, by the wind suddenly veering to N.E. Here it remained in a per- pendicular line almost stationary, still retaining its circular motion for about twenty minutes, and with the exception of the crescent form had all the appearance of the former one. It broke twice in the middle and as often re-formed, and finally dissolved like the other." There was a third the lower end of which did not reach the water. During the period of their appearance " large masses of white cloud in the upper strata seemed to be motionless, while the lower clouds were revolving in a contrary direction to the current prevailing below. . . . The morning had been squally, a thunderstorm and heavy rain having swept over the island. The water- spouts were followed by continuous rolling thunder, forked lightning, and rain on the opposite coast until late in the night, but the edoude cleared away from the island, which may acemant.for the barometer having fallen one-tenth. only."

Dr. Edmund Davy, Professor of Agriculture and Agricultural Chemistry to the Royal Dublin Seeiety,.has made some startling statements, conveying the result of his experiments as to the presence of arsenic in crops. He states positively that arsenic as it exists in different artificial manures (such as the superphosphate) will be taken up by plants growing where those manures had been applied ! He found this to be the case with cabbages ; and turnips taken from fields in which superphosphate had been.used gave the most unmistakeable evidence of having been arseniated. The facts thus collected appear to Dr. Davy to have some important bearings, for " though the quantity of arsenic which occurs in such manures is not large when compared with their other constituents, and the proportion of that sub- stance which is thug added to the soil must be still small, still plants may during their growth, as in the case of the alkaline and earthy salts, take up a considerable quantity of this substance, though its proportion in the soil may be but very small. Further, as arsenic is well known to be an accumulating poison, by the continued use of vegetables containing even a minute proportion of arsenic, that substance may collect in the system till its amount may exercise an injurious effect on the health of man and animals."

A decree has been published abolishing slavery in the Island of Java from the 1st October.

The schooner Jenny Lind, Captain Toogaod, from Marseilles to Lynn

put into Lagos Bay, Portugal, on the 1st of September; through stress of weather, and reports that, in coming through the Gut of Gibraltar, fourteen days ago, and while passing Tarifa, she was fired into by. the Spaniards ; the shot struck' the starboard gangway rail, went through both boats, and carried away the port rail. Fortunately no lives were lost.

The mail-packet Express, on her voyage from Jersey to Weymouth, at- tempted a "short cut" and struck on a rock. As she was built in compart- ments, her engines were not injured, and she was run ashore in St. Brelade's

Bay. All the passengers were saved except three, who showed too great an eagerness to get into a boat and were drowned. ifs. Mabb, the chief mate;

is supposed to be responsible for the accident, as be took the ship on an unusual course. The mails were saved, except those intended for Guernsey.

The Beaten ,Tournal reports the capture of Dr. Humphreys, late of Cheltenham, the man who absconded with the wife of one gentleman and the property of others. Humphreys was traced from Canada to Massachus- Bets, and finally caught in Boston.

Madame Lengle, the wife of the Prefect of the Meurthe, was burnt to death the other day at Nancy. A spark flew out of the drawing-room fire, and ignited her dress while she was sitting at a table, writing a letter. The prefect was absent at the time of the and accident. He was sent for by telegraph, but only arrived in time to see his wife a corpse. At the General Post Office there is a letter from Magenta addressed to "Signor Dearest Brother, London." It need hardly be said that the au- thorities have not succeeded in delivering it.

A M. Delave, excited by the feats of Blondin, has been crossing the Genesee falls on a rope. During the performance a man fell over into the river and was killed.

At a meeting in Paris the other day, of the shareholders of the proposed Italian railway by the Simplon, it was stated that upon the completion of the proposed tunnel under the Simplon, the Alps, that formerly took twelve - hours to pass, will be passed over in half an hour. In that short time the traveller will pass from the valley of the Rhone to the valley d'Ossola, and the Lake of Geneva will be only four hours from the Lugo Maggiore.