The Express. — London, England, 1857-11-24 00:00:00

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The effect will be this - Ac the tideless the boded barges, wit► many thotwand tots" is them, U required, will rim sin and the elect of the choir, bring taken up on the tido meads Mg, a pullunt whoa will be brought to beer on the autism had greet ship In the direction of the Mew, by the lowering of the barges sad direction of the cleans, with as isernenie power, and while thls e•tion is ping ou let the hydraulics pressure be applied as already amassed, on the other rids of the Valid or wean end I believe the mighty refs& Ira reach the maw in wkly. Of mares, should the semi show say Mohan to run off when once it Is nested, the thick gear le reedy, sad should it be halted to an bar down slowly, the Nene mums or the scam of the tide se' to sills tad 'pia med. 1 bswe W ialared lato any detail., sa if any plan of thin Wore be id 11911141, thl zanies of Brunel, John Soott linarell, nreamlbleat 'senate. for the fall carrying out dwelt Tsar phi tills mars in your elamas will oblige, yews, ke., GEORGE NASMYTH, C.E. 16A, The Tins% Eassiagtes-pork, Nev. 23. Tnt LOW DOW PROTIDENT 1N01T1177709.—Th. pri.cipo lawings-bank, the Lanes Pm*lst Innitu. don, Id mita:as Ly • rip . e . rt& bare the follow ing entwfactore r•valta of the d serial 'my completed set kriday het, the h hmt :—The total of the withdrawals ln the year, compound (that &monies to 293,884/., • al• that of the maigits, events, mad wimple Catered fresco government Ye bees 367. 3 384 The timber of noougu closed, iselsdung these of depositor. deceased, tun Leos me; the nambee of sew seciannte opened. 6,148. no tent nosolxv swit-ounta Do wpm 1. 48,938. Thie Institution, thavoLve, which ander the fevesure of the panic Of 1817 showed • dwermeo of 397 in the amber of •cenentia nod of 117.16 In as lanced capital, bee come thmagh the p... 1 coos cab • diminutkei of tat 38.1i6t. of as capital neck, and an mind Morass of 126 in It. awn ber of aer'eil ...my . . The Vann* of the balances and scropcanil interest due in dep.itoni as thla 876.6284.. while the Wit'. funded capital in the mend/ of the Corv,itsinoner. he Itedl• lion of the National Don. rertmB•d by their • tlioal t. per, IS 850,8281., showing ; ittellor of 5,0001. ut elm' of all babilltima LITERATURE. ILLUSTRATED OIFT BOOKS. That the month before Christmas is to witness the production of a certain number of volumes brought out in the highest style of art appears now to have become a recognised fact with certain of the most enterprising of our publishers, and one with which no amount of national trouble is allowed to interfere. During the two winters of the Russian war it was imagined that the rage for these gorgeous books, then bat in its infancy, would have been summarily stilted by the gloom and depression :generally pre valent; but the contrary proved to be the case. The public purchased freely, even eagerly ; and now, when we are in the midst of a commercial crisis, the WAR, of these works is is great as ever, and will be, it is reckoned, fully as successful. This is a matter of twofold congratulation. First, as evidencing commercial success; for it must be recollected that these books do not stand in the same category with the illustrated editions of Mr. Rogers' " taly" and " Poems"—works produced at the e of a wealthy man, content in tie realisation o is refined ideas, and careless of a remunerative return; but they are literally pure commercial speculations, in vestments in literary taste, artistic talent, and public appreciation, instead of in consols, mines, or other tangible securities. Secondly, their large sale shows that the excellence of the English school of art — fur nearly all these illustrated works are entirely national in design and execution—is be ginning to be recognised and understood — that school the followers of which, while lack ing the severe and dignified earnestness of their Outman and the elaborated highly-coloured senti mentalism of their French contemporaries, have shown themselves capable of producing wood illus tration' to letter-press, which for natural truth, force, and energy, for freshness and veriety, and for skilled and graceful rendering of rural beauty, are quite unequalled in the world. We have already noticed two of this year's issue of these books—the illustrated editions of Poe's and Bryant's poems; and now the first one we take up is a gorgeous volume, the mere arrangement of the blue and gold binding of which is grateful to the artistic entitled The Home fictions portrayed by the Poets. Selected and Edited by CHARLES MACKAY. Em bellished with one hundred engravings drawn by eminent artists, ant engraved by the brothers Dalziel. London : Rutledge and Co. Love—with its joys and sorrows, its hopes and fears, its struggles and triumphs—is the passion which Dr. Mackay has cheese for the subject of his volume, and his selection of poetic examples has been on the whole judleiouly made. On such matters individual tastes do and will differ, and we might have suggested the omission of several pieces which Dr. Mackay has inserted, and the insertion of several which he has omitted. He has given us but one specimen of laegfellow's—for instance, " The Two Angels ;" and in a volume the subject of which is professedly the tender passion, and which contain selections from Tennyson, we might expect to find " The Miller's Wife " or " The Gardener's Daughter," and we might have thought that every extract from the Laureatevru worthy of illustration. These, however, are but slight shortcomings ; and, taken as a whole, the book reflects great credit on the editor's taste and judgment. The engravings are, p p e o r s t r i e r,a more beautiful than any that have yet sp end the drawings have been executed by those artists whose names stand in the highest rank es book illustrator,. Mesas. Millais, rickersgill, Gilbert, Topliam, and Absolon are amongst the prin cipal figure-draughtsmen. Mr. Millais contributes two drawings, the first of which, illustrating the old song of "There's use luck about the house, is not particularly striking; the second design, to " The Border Widow," exhibits great power and origi nality, and is much the lAMB in treatment,.posseseing the same merits and defects as the illustration by this artist to Coleridge's " Genevieve," in Messrs. Root ledge's last Christmas book. Mr. Gilbert, hardness and mannerism notwith standing, is most excellent. We have scarcely ever seen him to better advantage than in the medieval bit, showing the "Last Minstrel" pledg ing the Duchess who had "cheered the Child of Song," or in the highly . poetical design of " Angels' Visits." Mr. Pickersgiil's " Hero and Leander" is finely conceived; and the figure of the dead " Orient" is an admirable piece of drawing, though the grim old gentleman who is weeping by her side scarcely realises our notion of her lover. Mr. Tophem has a very pretty design to the "Irish Emigrant;" but we object utterly to Mr. Absolou's figure contribu tions to the volume, as they are either affectedly theatrical or grotesquely commonplace. Mr. Tee niers dashing medieval cavalcade in " Fair Ines" is admirable, only to be surpassed in firm and correct drawing by the figure of his one grim solitary hone man is the " Braes of Yarrow ;" while Mr. George Thomas'e group of " Careless Sailors ever cheery, including him who " heaves a sigh and toasts his Nancy,' is the trust bit of character delineation in the volume, and is perfectly Hogarthian in its fide lity to nature. When we come to the landscape illustrations, and have to criticise Mr. BirketFoster, we scarcely know what to say without repeating what we said last week, and what everybody who has ever studied this gentleman's productions must echo—that in their peculiar line there is nothing at all to compare with them in the annals of modern art. In facility, light ness, and . grace—in freedom from imitation or even eilf-repetinee, which invariably eventuates into mannerism—in extraordinary elaboration of detail, and in power of rendering English landscapes in all their rural beauty, Mr. Foster has no superior —if, indeed, he have an equal—among those gentlemen who dabble in pigment, and write R.A. after their respective names. After Mr. Foster ranks Mr. 8. Read, who, in his illustration to Happy love" and " I think on thee," comes very near to what Mr. Foster did some years ago ; and then comes Mr. Dodgsou with many exquisite designs, but who, if he had read " Maud," would have avoided the mite take of making a seventeenth century lover call her into the garden. Mr. Harrison Weir manifests great improvement this year, more especially in his design of a tract of barren upland covered with sheep (page 193); and it is needless to say that Mr.lhincan ts the best artist that could be found for such a subject as " The Shipwreck." Taken altogether,the illustrations, engraving, and general appearance of " Home Affections" are more bustiful and more thoroughly artistic than any we have yet seen, and we have little doubt of its proving the favourite gift-book of the season. Poetry and Pictures from Thomas Moore, with Illustrations on wood. London : Longmam. A volume of a similar description to the fore going, except that the poetical selections are all from " him who in all names could tickle the town," and that the illustrations, from being printed on plain instead of tinted paper, do not show to such advantage. The pencils of nearly all the same artists have been employed upon it. We have Mr. Birkst Foster's views of sweet Innisfullen, and " that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet." We have Mr. George Thomas's soldiers and sailors. Mr. Mancan's ships, Mr. Pickersgill's lovers, and Mr. Topham's pretty girls all Jo cap). But in addition to this, we have some excellent designs from a stranger—an American artist, Mr. Jasper Cropeey—who, if we mistake not, is likely to make a name in this country. He poseemme a clever mind and a ready hand, and some of his national bits— such as the Dismal Swamp, the wreck on the coast of " Cold and pitiless Labrador," and the falls of the Mohawk river—are specially fresh and vigo rous. The volume is also adorned with numerous graceful and poetical vignettes from the facile pen cil of Mr. Hacker. The Shipwreck. A Poem. By WILLIAM FAL comm. Illustrated by BIBLES Fosraa. Adam and C. Black, Edinburgh. The illustrations of this well-known poem are en tirely from tho hand of Birket Foster, and fully sustain his reputation. The Prime* of Prato ; or, Lays of Bethlehem.' Selected from the British Poets. Illustrated. London: Seeley, Jacksom, and Halliday, Fleet street. This, u its name imports, is a selection of reli gious poems, but the subjects scarcely afford scope for such illustrations as have been deigned for them. Mr. Foster's landscapes, and Mr. Lomb Stock's figures, are the meet worthy of notice. Picture Fables. Drawn by Orro SPZIETEII. London : Rutledge. A charming book for children. There is an im mense amount of comic power in the drawing of the animals, and the German fables have been closely translated into euy verse. FINE ARTS. At the shop of Mr. Boone, 04, Strand, ere now exhibiting some vary curious pictures of the King of Delhi, the principal pUIIOIIII of his household, and the chief pieces of Interest In the kingdom. The likenesses see said to be mask being the work of Mohammed Ismael Khan, the ported( painter to the king. As works of art alone they are intern& from the delicacy of their execution and their cadet The beet specimen of the new set of c.hrocoo-lithography which we have yet see is at preseet on view at Messrs. Rowney's, In Rathticerplace. It Is s eery of that cele brated picture of Tenses, "Ulysses defying Polyphemuu" which is now In the Vernon Gallery. Thirty-one different odours have been used In the setemplishment of the work, sod the result, on the whole, is vary suoceesful, presenting an array of those gorgeous Tureereeque tintings which we despaired of ever seeing successfully imitated. One of the most curious of new inventions is that of ea _ _ _ imperishable ceiling ornament" by Mr. Lawrence, who from leather produom rosettes and other ornamental conk* pieces In gold, white, or oak, which he warrants not to split or chip, end to be impervious to ell atmospheric ioduenoe, at half the met of the ordlner7 mkt =chi or pleater of Parts. EGYPTIAN HALL. The re-appearance of Mr. Albert Smith at this time of year is now looked upon as a matter of course. The brighter iris is not mace regular In its spring-tide champ wet upon the burnished dove, than the autumnal renova tion of stalls and carpeting*, and the redeooration of the rooms at the Egyptian Hall. Ur. Smith has chosen a good period of year for his annual return ;he arrives whoa people ham bad enough of foreign tours and owner homes, end sea-side wijeurnings, and on their return Is town went some amusement to prevent them from utteely soocarobing to the misery engendered by the damp muggy weather amusement not to be found at the nimiew of society, which have not commenced, or at the theatres, where the managers ars dragging on with old plays seed ridtaries krcee until atria: me with its pantomimes Weil bring them full exchequers. Mr. Smith's entertainment, thee, matt agreeably filla this void; it is universal in its applise klity to the tastes of his wares (for the mast strait-laced ' dowager from Clepbans end the noisiest washes is the Household Brigade each lad ports of It which they oan appreciate) ; its satin is mid and general, never descending t•to permeably or ?inhume ; itemise:. tame shows it to be • literary prodoctke, soil net • mere collection of songs and mimicries strums together by the slenderest thread of narra tive, al, too ohm the ems ; and finally, the deariptions are delivered by the eye-wither of the linen described, and le • mom where every comfort ha been studied, and where the mere appearance of the company in the stall, is each as not to be matched at any other place in London but the opera or the French Playa The Ascent of Mont Blanc having beooma as mammon ea the pamage of Holborn- hill, the verbal description of it was last year omitted, the dioremic representation forming a pic torial entr'esete between the two parte of the lecture. The same plan has been pursued this gray the first part of the enter tainment taking the traveller up the Rhine, through the Berneac Oberland, by Zurich, the Right, the Lake of Lucerne, the lungfrau, the Great St. Bernard and Geneva, on to Chamouni. The second Fart le, however, the great attraction, ea it la entirely devoted to Naples and the adjacent points of interest, which were visited by Mr. smith in September, when he wee lucky enough to witness the eruption of Vesurig, which for three montha W bets giving forth grumbling warnings, and burst forth two days after his arrival. The Italian views are among Mr. Beverley's linen productions. He has caught that blue un clouded sky, that deep clear water, and even that hot dry atmosphere which are all coo characteristic. There are two mopeds of Naga; one, a general view from the height of Panilippo, and the other the Santa Luria, ogef the principal Uwirowedues, thronged with Ids and piety ; there an the reined "house of the tragic poet" at Pompeii, the rules of Psalm, celebrated se • haunt far brigands, the blue grotto at Capri (e little theatrical gehapt), a scene representing • party of travellers secendiag Vesuvius, and, finally, the erup tion itself. Mr. Beverley is now so well known to the public that comment on his productions le enpeollosus ; it will suf fice to say that while at the Etriptian Hall he hae not the scope for any grit theatrical effect., his palms are always more ;closely painted, and Waked in • more polished and artistic manner. . . The lecture Wolf is, if anything, more entertaining than ever. TM Ant portion Is rattled through at reckless speed. We Wye Leedoq emu the Chinned, sr* whirled to Cologne and up the Rhine, me the model of a diligence, and have the receipt of its confection explained to am ; drink • glue if champagne at Epernay, meet Brown at Bak, meet ell the queer people at the hotel on the Righl Rolm ; recognise Mr. Parker and are introduoed to anew epodes of girldom, " the Prancer " (a capital skettb) ; have our belief in Tell shattered, see the Jungfran and the St. Bernard Convent, and, smiting at Genres, listen to a mint admirable medley song desaiptive of " Brown on his travels," without one break or stop. The wood part Is more wince., end somewhat instructive, though the lesson is conveyed in a pleasant manner. The general features of Italian life and scenery are grephirally and quaintly described; the story of the distraction of Peempell le briefly touched upon, and a very interesting seamat is given of its prevent state. The amount of the mast d Vesurins fe also told with much humour. In this seemed part Mr. Smith intrednose • most cleverly-written and semi-classic song, abounding in quotations from the Eton Latin grammar, strung together in most musical verse, end winds up with the general gossip on everything, as contained la Gehl/mixes Ifewriger. Besides the characters we have already named, we renew our acquaintance with Baby Simmons and her sister Florence, who has married • curate, the Rev. &Minnie Blandy, and are delighted to find that that clearest of narrators, the Austrian Lloyds' Engi neer, Is picked up at Sorrento; that be is styli en ill-used lover, and that he details his was in • more wearying and more unintelligible form than ever. Mr. Smith met with on enthusiastic reeeption, wu oon dandy cheered throughout the program of the lecture, and was loudly recalled at the end of each part; he is apparently in excellent health and spirits, sad, judging from the Met ermemlo• of last night's performance, there is no reason why the plums of travelling life should not be lectured on by hies, and relished by the public. for years to come. There Is a novelty, we observe, In the second part of the printed programme, which Ss in verse. LIABILITY OF CLKROT TO COUNTY RATES.— Owing re some wsoertninty es to the legal liability of the established clergy to pay prison and yolks easessmenis, sod such like public burdens. the county of Perth lest year held a case baron conned, which was given very decidedly la favour of their liability. This his Woos been confirmed by the result of a memorial on the subject on the put ef the ' clergy themselves to the Demo of Faculty, who hes also diva en opinion to therm., ffect. We helloes It we only in thee, er Your osuntiee In Scotltted that sastnpeisa was ever {Wised, sad the question will now be rot:linters& as set at net Ex emption front poor'irratse on the part of theleaddlabed clergy stands upon d iterent Founds, and hr been decided in they favour bye finding in the Roused Loeds ea sppril.—Mior ivriA /mill Zip**. THE DRAMA. OLYMPIC. What trill they soy of Bromptoo ? is the title of • new comedietta by Mr. Stirling Coyne, brought out at the Olympic last night, and evidently written to afford Mr. Robson scope fur the exhibition of his peculiar and era besot farcical power. The scone opens at Cosy Lodge, Brunton, where Mr. Samuel Todd (Mr. Reboil) end Mrs. Todd (Miss Wyndham) are on the eve of departure on a six months' continental tour. While they are busy in packing up—groat care being bestowed on the safe 'towage of • certain concertina, on which Mr. Todd, by • three months' devotion to the Meru/out, has sue- ended la accomplishing the fleet three notes of "My Mary Lao," but Is invariably brought up at the fourth—Mr. Croke (Mr. O. Cooke) calls to wish them • pleasant journey, and by stories of avalanches and brigands IMMO Mr. Todd to such • frame of nand that, though he le " Doti° the least frightened," he finds It necessary, after his wife's retirement for the night, to soothe his nerves with a cigar prepared with opium, brought from abroad by his friend, Captain Creates. While smoking this at his desk, where he Is adding • codicil to his will, the opium overcomes him, his head drops, and he falls asleep, and vanishes from the eyes of the audience, which now look upon an apartment in a brigand's castle in Italy, with a most romantic moonlight view through the window, at which the beigand's niece, Marietta (Mee Manton), is awaiting the orrice other uncle. While she le so eogaged, the first three notes of "My Mary Ann" see heard, and Mr. Todd eaten, in mourning fur Mrs. Todd, whom he believes to have been drowned in the Gulf of Genoa three months ago, since which be has been wandering about Italy, " with a broken heart and a carcertino to match." He hen just seeped from the beyond rude and his men, one of whom he has wounded in the 'Wilder by the quite accidental discharge of his pistol ; and ow leaning where he is, revels on hiseletto—with whom obsess, notwithstanding the late Mrs. Todd, he is mock doom—to hide him. Mrs. Todd—who is, of course, not died, having toes saved by • brave manor—then enters. She else his fallen in with the brigands, who, coming up at the owertmtdogat her eaniegge, have kindly taken charge of Iterhigpie,and dbrietsd her to the castle. The compassionate Marietta, miter setting supper on the table, fastens a rope ladder to the window, that her visitor may escape. The brigands enter, sod eheconotals herself. Jamie, perceiving the ladder, and rapper laid for two, taxes his niece with re ceicieg a lover. ?dentine the enamoured Mr. Todd's meant up the ladder prepared for his wife's escape is announced by the fire three notes of "My Mary Ann." By Jecopo's orden Marietta entertains Mr. Todd, whom henow recognises se the c ourageous traveller who so coolly brought downcast` has band that morning. While Mr. Todd is enjoying his supper amazingly Jacopo takes Marietta's place opposite him, sad suddenly confronts the astonished and trembling little man, whom spoonful of croup is suspended at his lips end whose fear is increased to something like delirium by the throe of instant death by a very large pistol, if he refuses to marry Marietta and join the band. After screwing his courauto the sticking point by the thought of what they would soy at Brampton, if he should sumeed in bringing home " • live brigandesa," be feebly cements, but is directly &tanned, thrown into a state of staggering horror by Marietta and her lover Orimbeldi, one of the bead, assuring him that if he doss marry her they will immediately despatch him—the one by poison end the other by steel. The dreaded ceremony lase no sooner taken place than Mrs. Todd swears Ocotillos to the now distracted Todd, te rageoaeh him with his infidelity to her memory. Amidst the coehmitm esteem of " soldiers" Is raised, the brigand fires the este, end every one disappears but the now frantic Todd, who can find no way of esoape from the flames which as seen Ada( all round him, sod which rapidly and unsooormtably give place to the room at Brampton, where Mr. Todd, who has been asleep all night at his desk, is awakened by his wife from dreams engendered by Mr. Croker's stories and " that nasty opium cigar." It may be readily Imagined what a number of situations are afforded by • piece like this for the display of Mr. Reborn's unrivalled representation of uncontroUeble and quaking fear, betraying itself beneath desperate and smiling attempts at setfepoesealios. At the fall of the certain Mr. Robson was loudly called for, and announced the repetition of What wilt they say et Brewton I every evening until farther notice. SURREY. A leading incident in theciri I war—the escape of Queen ilenriette—forms the groundwork of the Wife's Beverage, a play which was for the first time performed at the, Surrey yesterday evening. The drams had every fair play in the way of dresses end scenery, both being new and splendid, end at the end of the second sod third erta seemed to promite triumphant meow, the two leading p:rformera being on both moutons celled before the curtain. But the fourth finished with an explosion, which filled the home with movie, and thereby accelerated the ordinary rash oat of the Surrey pit to their customary refreshment. It was not, while we remained, announced for repetition, but Bs inalsio merits, and the general appleuee with which it had been remind throughout, would warrant us in manning that the omtstrion was accidental, and that The rifle Receive is destined to • reasonably long rue. ASTLET'f!. Historical events, provided theT are in themselves interesting, seem to dosses • matenal for dramatic pnr poem more congenial to the taste of transportoe audieuees than the meat ingenious efforts of the imagination. Those which are best adapted for stage purposes are obviously such se relate to the vicissitudes of wsr and thematic( the battle field—first, becaues they afford the greatest variety of Inci dent, the moat telling eituatione, and the most hazardous ex. Oohs ; and, secondly, because, provided they sr contempt , MOM+ with the proem+ time, Of nearly so, everybody is more or lees f .miliar with them. Ilene* the extraordinary =ocean whichtheplay-wright eversionsof theconfle tabetween British power in India in its earlier days and Hyder Ali, the storming of Seringspetam and the defeat and (leather Tippoo gait—sad coming neater home the Battle of Waterloo, and more recently the Crimean campaign—have commended at the theatres south of the Theme., and more erpecially at finery'', which tree peculiar capatelitiee in its numerous and well.rraiaed stud for the representation of military evo lutions. The mutiny of the Bengal army, and the sangui nary murder. andthsexciting occurrence. whieh her marked the preemie of the struggle from the first outbreak until the capture of Delhi, which may be regarded as the end of the first sot of the political drama, have her seised upon by our anterpriaing managers on the other eide of the water ae the sobiset of novelties, whieh even in the dull Thep before Cturstmee they hope fill their honer., and keep financial perm from their doors. The Astley's var ies of " the stoning and capture of Delhi" presents us with all the main feature. of the war, as far sa yet known. We have the distribution of the chapattis cakes and the lore dowse—the outbreak at Barrackpore, end ahootiog of the European Olken the MONO* at Cawnpors, bet, with a pardonable stage departure from truth, softened down into little more than • frustrated attempt, r rewirds the murder of the women and children the defeat of Naas ftalrib, who Rpme is the dramatic east u the Rajah of Shifter; and, Willy, the blowing op of the pre, the aerelt, and the final capture of Delhi. There ts no attempt at • pies, the incidents being strung together in order, but like a series of acted instead of written deepatches, with certain comic interpolations permits lug to the eccentricities of Irish onrporals—whoes humour it Is to discard " brown Besa," whether in the shape of Dirket or rine, end to encounter with the ever-triumphant ehillelal whole regiments of th mutinous Serno armed to the teeth—Gaelic sergeants, who, ough hire as lions, In fighting against terra and rebel lion And strict discipline not redly resonant with Illghland wetter in a country where mosquitos are apt to take somewhat unwarrantable liberties—and "own cm reepondente," who combine the duties of photographier, newspaper reporter., volunteer soldiers, aid pliant motet. tors of no end of Fermented maidens. There Is an *lr eton to the unsuccessful interference of Mr. Cornmisoloner Grout to save the murderous &mop' who were condemned to death by the military autboritler-and the manner in which it was received by the audience proves that as for as the }requesters of Astley's are concerned there is no very great sympathy with the commiaerter. The sormery is for the most part new and appropriate, and err of the groupings, more particularly thole where the various wool of the military service are displayed together, are eacertegly good; the settee, especially the emote per, which were tilled by Mr. W. C. Adams, Mr. Lloyd, Mr. M. W. Cooke, jun., and Miss M. Darcy, was effective; and judging from the applauas with which it was frequently greeted it may be said that to the p•trons of Astiere this .smut Of the program of the war IS far as it has gone is iminently satisfactory. Boma iIItaINOTON MUSEUIL—During the week ending Nov. 22, the 'Aguas bays been se follow. Monday, Tneeday, s ad Saturday ( fr ee dove), 2,611 ;on Monday and Tuesday (Me evenings), 6,107 ; on the time elniente days (adodadott to the public, 6d.). 481; sae seedwite . eveaia g (Wednesday), 164 ; total, 5,94. BLOWING UP THE CASHMERE GATE AT DELHI. The following is an extract of a report, dated Sopterkber 17, from Colonel Baird Smith to Major °metal Wilson : " Par. 13. The gallantry with which the explosion party desperate ate Lie d u u t ry of w t :lowi lio n w g e rip Lua the CB‘ikeidashinere' performed-g ate,inbrot e d daylight, will, I feel sure, be held to justify me in making special mention of it. The party was composed, in addition to the two officers named, of the following : Sergeants John Smith and A. S. Carmichael, and Cor poral Burgess, Sappers and Miners; Bugler Hawthorne, her Majesty's 52nd, 14 native sappers and miners, 10 Ponjeub ditto, musters covered by the fire of her Majesty's 60th Rifles. The party sdvanced at the double towards the Ciatimera-gate—Liwatenant Home, with Sergeants Smith and Carmichael, and Hairnets: Meteor, all the sappers lead ing and carrying the powder begs, followed by Lieutenant Selkeld, Corporal Burgess, and • portion of the remainder of the party. The advanced party reached the gateway unhurt, end found that part of the drawbridge had been destroyed ; but passing across the precarious footway supplied by the remaining beams, they proceeded to lodge their powder begs against the gate. The wicket was open, and through it the enemy kept up a heavy Are upon them. Sergeant Car michael was killed while laying his powder bag, Ilavildsr Mahor being at the same time wounded. The powder being laid, the advanced party slipped down into the ditch to allow the firing party, under Lieutenant (Wield, to perform Its duty. While endeavouring to ire the charge Lientenant Selkeld was shot through the arm and leg, end handed over the slow match to Corporal Bur gess, who fell mor t a lly wounded just as he had successfully accomplished the onerous duty. Havildar Tilleh Sing, of the Sikhs, wee wounded, and Raruloll Sepey, of the same corps, was killed during this part of the opera tion. The demolition being most sucessda4 Lieutenant Home, happily not wounded, caused the bagka to sound the regimental call of the 52nd, as the signal for the advent:big columns. Fearing that amid the noise of the assault the sounds might not be beard, he had the call repeated three times, when the troops advancod and carried the gateway r with complete success. I feel mean that a simple statement' of this devoted and glorious deed will suffice to stamp it as one of the noblest on record in military history. The perfect soccer contributed most materially to the brilliant result of the day, and Lieutenants Home end fialkeld, with their gal lout subordinate Europeans and natives, will, I doubt not, r receive the rewerda which valour before the enemy so dia ls ! giddied aa theirs hes entitled them to." THE BUIE OP TRADE'S RS WARD FOR SER. MB AT SEA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. OD Saturday last, a meeting of the Local Marine Board was held at the Seie Home, lie the Plor pose of awarding silver medal' from the Board of Trade to Lewis Whitetway, meter, and John Canna Beer. chief caw of the ship, Denim Brunch* of Liverpool, far their gallantry and humanity in rescuing a portion of the crew of the barque Walton Munster, of Wlaitehaven, which was wrecked on • reef near the port of Chanetal, in the Pacific, on the 27th June last. The their was occupied by Piz. B. R. GRAVES. Captain Whitewsy was unavoidably absent, but his chief officer, Mr. Boor, was in attendaace to receive the teatinioniele. The Ca.uneux in presenting the medal to Mr. Beer, said—ln seecedann with the request of the Board of Trade, we have met here to-day to convey to you the high sews their lordships entertain of your gallantry and humanity. You will find on the medals whkh are about to be presented to you their opinions recorded ; and when you will have passed away, these medals, I hem no doubt, will remind your children that their father possemed high attributes of British seamen. Considering the close rela tionship which exiets between the Board of Trade end the shipping of this country, it is scarcely to be wondered that their lordahipe rococo to themselves the privilege of select ing those persons who particularly distinguish themselves in the preaervatioli of their fellow men from shipwreck, for bestowing on them ouch marks of their approbation. , although it is the province of her Majeety's consuls over the world to beneath to the Perelgs-otace every cams of humanity or dletinguialted gallantry, it I. the province of tho Board of Trade to deal with these came on their own motile when they come before them. This board hes lien—l may my too often—the painful duty of sitting in condemnation of races, but which could only be regarded as exceptional, of masters and mates of British shipping, ter the indulgence in that vice which, above all others, tends to disqualify them from com mand. It rote them of their means of livelihood, and deprives them of the confidence of their owners, who naturally look to them as the safeguards of their interests; and ultimately the indulgence in this vies tends to br' die credit in the eyes of foreign nations on the bigh sta ndi ng of British mantanship. But, happily, there seems to be &change, and these exceptions are becoming more exceptional, if I may judge from the proceeding of this board, and during the last six month' we have not had a single instance of drunkenness investigated, while during those six months we have been made the medium of presenting decorations to mix British oMeers. Taking the previous six months, flied that we had only two presentations and tea investigations for drunkenness. Therefore I think that we are correct in hoping that in a short time the few exceptions colt be rem indeed. It is not the duty of this board to draw comparisons between the merits of cases which come for presentation before them, but in conveying these medals to you they may perhaps indulge In giving utterance to an opinion that if there is one ease more than another which calls for the highest approbation of the board, it is the rase we are now considering. It appease that the ship Walton Munster left the harbour of Chaneral on the 27th of Jane last. Your vessel, the Denis Brundrit, and the Hamburg barque Helene, were both loading in the same harbour, and witneesed the departure of the Walton Mancester. In the afternoon you weer able to me from the mulles& that the Walton Muenster emu on the rocks. Lowering your boats, Captain Whitewey took command of one, and yourself (Mr. Beer) took command of the other, Captain Boston, of the Helene, sending out his boat at the Name time. They found the mewl on the rocks, and that peculiar roll of the Pacific wee breaking heavily over her. They approached the Walton Hun easter, but finding it impoesible to keep their boats aloog side, they were compelled to withdraw outside the roll of the serf. The crew of the Walton Muneaster, left to their own resources, launched their longboat, and 11 of them, with the captain's wife, embarked, and endeavoured to mach the boats of the Helene an d the Denis Brandrit. The Helen's boat dashed in and succeeded in rescuing four of the crew from a watery grave, leaving the other 'even unfeetunatedy to perish, it being impoicible to save them. Night came on, and it being impoesible to do more, the boats returned to the ships, the men exprossing their intention to renew their efforts in the morning. At daylight on the fol lowing =orphan Mr. Beer, the second mate, and three other men, proceeded in the pinnace to the rescue. of them poor fellows who bad been left on the rocks. They found the surf as heavy as lefties; but notwithstanding this they re solved, if possible, to reams the men. No goner, how ever, had the boat reached the ship than she was cipsised, and the second mate and the three men were unfortunately drowned. Mr. Baer remained for two boars and three quarters in the water, and ultimately he woe picked up in a state of inssimibility by the boats of a Spanish vessel. The captain of the Walton Munaurter then launched a ref', and four of the survivors allowed themselves to float from the vessel. The captain of the Denis Brundrit, who had been watching the proceedinge, seeing the men on the raft, instantly got into his boat, sod succeeded in ream ing the captain of the Walton Muncaeter, and four of the mew, being et the Limo in total ignorance of the fate of Mr. Beer and his crew. Such conduct as this deserves very pro perly the strong approbation of there board, and I am quite sure that in expressing it as I have done the man at large will fully approve of what we ace doing. I regret very much that Captain Whitey:ay is compelled to be absent to-day, but in a letter which I have received from him he has expressed Ma acknowledgments. I have now to hand you this medial, and I beg yen to convey to Captain Whiteway this other medal, with the best wishes of this board. Mr. ISZER.,ID accepting the medals, briefly returned his Pitmen thanks for the testimonial which had been presented to him. He said he should always consider It Me duty to risk his life on behalf of his brother mailers as long as he was obliged to follow the sec te (i=e) The proceedings then SALMON Poacitugo.—We (Berwick Advertiser) have hoard that on Monday sight list the superintendent of the Tweed police mired, at the station of the North British Railway in this town, • hamper, containing • quantity of ont-ofmearran since and trout, which, from the without upon It, eras pretty well tranderetood to be on Its way to the Paris flab market. To eve some idea how extensively the eyetemn of pomattog must be married on, it may be men tioned that, since the sat-totting closed on the Tweed, there have been daily essleals of salmon anti trout in the Paris flab mark end Weals are IA eo common in other rime, there is de doubt that moat, If not ell, of these flratt are from the . Between the sth and 17th days of the pm peat month so fewer Cheat 30 tease and 64 baskets of outmf reawm fish had beenireceived et that market, and such • wholesale destruction of spawning Bah meet be Tel i O l Ol4OOO to tits intimate of the river proprietor?. TEE IVOLI7,I2HAMPTOY 421.1) STAPPORDSIIIR, B.dNI. (Faux ova OWN CORIUMPONDRRTJ WOLVERHAMPTON, iforrosr ETINING. A meeting of the shareholders in this bank was held this morning, at the Swan Hotel ; Mr. A. HORDSRiff the chairman of the board of directors, presided. Mr. Joan Leto it, stipendiary magistrate for the dirt aim, moved the following resolution: "That this mac_ fin approves of the proposal of the directors to carry on the bank sceoeding to the scheme submitted; and is willing to pledge Itself to carry it out subject to the modification and approval of a committee of shareholders; and in learning the inten tions and feelings of the credited." ' Mr. T. Bovrole, in seconding the resolution, said it was framed on the princip.e that the ahareholders were disposed to 00-perate far the purpose of carrying on the bank. If they h ad a call of 51. a share, he hoped not only to get IC paid up, but that they would get another Si. voluntrogy paid up by many of the shareholders upon a reasonable rate of interest. Mr. Bolton remarked on the evils and expense whirl would attend a wind u . He was not disposed (be raid) to recommend it under the tteg i anatwn Act; and under the Bankruptcy iltot it would be by an assignee, who wee ill• fitted to administer the affairs of such an estate without great km. (Hear , bear.) Being In the position they were, be celled upon the shareholders to meet the difficulty manfully ; not to shirt the responsibility they lied incurred to their cre ditoes, even if ruin were the oonsegnenes. The re solution as moved was carried unanimously. Mr. Lids then moved the following resolution : " That the following gentlemen be appointed a committee of share tta4vith per ow to add to their number, aDd with power st a sib-mmmittes of soca smaller number of their mem as they think et tweet with the director Mr. W. H. Sparrow Mr. Bolton, Mr. PAnr, Mr. E. Dixon, Mr. Wood, Yr. Lerili, Mr. Hill, Mr. C. Elwell, Mr. Fleming, and Yr. Wynn.'' In moving this resolution , ldr.Leigb said A was net to be expected that the creditors should pledge them selves to say particular course of proceeding until the shareholders had taken some definite stops seta the future comas of actke. He had no doubt that the shareholders would make an immediate call of 61. per share, and that many of them would pay another IL voluntarily. Whatever was does, however, must be done promptly,. or It would be mans; and to do it successfully some portion of the hur tles must be borne by the depositors. Mr. R. DixoN seconded the resolution, which wee carried Xr. boon then moved the following so the third and fourth resolutions : " The, the directors take no step of importance without the concurrence of the sub-committee of aboreholders." " That the committee of shareholders have power to adopt the proposal of the directors without reporting toe general mastingof the shareholders." Mr. Kerrne seconded the resolution, remarking on the insportent difference between theigst offer of the directors to rain 50,0001., and their preseef promsal to raise 100,0001. He hoped that no di ffi culty would arias in the way of ad justing emitters, and that the bank would again be re-opened. Mr. LEIGH repeated that in his opinion everything de pended ron the forbearance of the creditors. Kr. WOOD suggested that a voluntary amount should be rased es a guarantee fund, which might continue for two rein. MT. BOLTON remarked that pending the carrying out of serangements care should be taken not to allow actions to be proceeded with against the bank without the consult of the _ The resolution was then put end carried, aa was also the following : " That this meeting is glad to find that a temporary com mittee of depositors and creditors has been appointed to confer with the directors, and treats that the towing to-morrow will elect a permanent oommittee to act it. the spirit of the above resolution." The meeting then adjourned until five o'clock, in order that a meeting of the committee might in the meanwhile be held. The moss:Lags had been of a moat satisfactory character t• the utmoet unanimity prevails amongst the shareholders, and it is believed that the forbearance and co . operation of the creditors will be obtained. A call upon the shareholders just now will be peculiarly burthensome, and no doubt there are many parties who would be unable to pay it; but as matters stand it is felt tlaat it would be the Est for the interests of all parties thaten arrangement of this kind should be made, end the bank be re-opened for business immediately. In the event of the proposed arrangements being carried into operation it is most likely the mall depositors will be paid' oif immediately, and that 6s. in the pound will be paid at once to the other creditors. The adjourned meeting of the diareholdera took place this afternoon, but was further adjourned until after the meeting of the creditors to-morreer, es upon the receive by that body very much depends as to the future. The directors have, it is understood, made a call of 51. per share, payable by the 27th of February. In the event of Me bank being re-opened and ranted on as contemplated, the share registry is tope closed for two years. MEETINGS Or CREDITORS AT GLASGOW.—By the statements submitted to recent meetings of creditors the following dedidendes, liabilities over assets, are shown : John Monteith and Co„ liabilities in emote of the assets, 430,00131.; D. and 3. Macdonald, ditto. 334,00 W. ,• Godfrey, Pattisos, and Co., ditto, 240,0001. • William Santh and Co., ditto, 104,0001.; J. Inches Robertion and Co., ditto, 76,000/. Total, 1,182,4441. It a r ise from this is statement that on the banbuuptie own mho 1,180,00 W. have been bet the creditors of five homes.— laspow Daily Moil. TFIE RUSSIAN PRISONERS AT LEWES. The kindness extended to the officers detained at Lewes as pri soners, on parole, during the late Russian war, appear. to have nude a strong and luting impression on some of our compulsory ;meets at that period. We bare been favoured with the eight of • letter from one of them officers, Lieu tenant Hook, addressed to Mr. William Figg, containing warm expressions of kind feeling towards the inhabi tants of Lewes, and speaking with grateful remembrance of the houitality extended by them towards the " pri soners." The writer, who dates from St. Petersburg, Zarekoje Selo, 25th Oct. 1857 (i. e. 6th Nov. English style) says :—" Since I left England sad arrived to my Father land have I been in very good healt, sad have spend my time very &reside among my family and my friends. Since lest Man (March) have I been in Zarekoje Selo, in the model regiment, when I get spotlit/Dent for 18 moots to be in formed in a new exereice, and after it time I will go back to my regiment in Finland where !hops to get a company and hope to be promoted to kapten. If you wish to know exaething shoat my comrades, so can I inform you that Alexander Dalin and Bolling is very well and mill In our old regiment, Lk-Colonel Ondin boa got a rue meat in Rands, and also Nkolaus Dalin has got appointment in a shsrpahoth battalion in Ru s e s, and Blum with their fanlike, are also la good beak ; Blum has left the service be muse he is very well off. Olivier Orotenfelt is still in the Finlander service. Omer is a oftiott ins tharpshoth regi ment in Ramis since a year see. Akerman still in a mai taire hospital in Abo, but, poor fellow, be has lost him wife. And if yea will do me the favour to write to me, shell I feel most grateful; but pray let me know of all my friends, who you do know, I know in Lewes and its neighbourhood. I ears Mitlys you, my dear Mr. Firm that my departure from Lewes ham been much regretted, and I have Lome, with all my Mends I left there, often in my memory. Never schen I forget the time of my captivite whermader I was misted with nothing but the vested kindness and hospitality; therefore receive otos more my deer Muds, my wannest thenks, and I AM only sorry that lat not able to explain all that my heart feels. Yon mad smear me, if you most gems to what I wisched to eights is this letter, but I have forgotten much of the berate, because I have no much time to study it, r i er i me to meek it with. And now farewell, my dear Yr. Mu; pray make my compliments to every one of my Meade who remember me in Lewes.—l have the honour to remain, your ever obliged, G Entine }lgoe." It will be seen by the above that Lieutenant Hook made no little acquaintance with the Englieh language during Ills sojourn here, and that he need scarcely ham apologised for having "forgotten much" of it. Indeed, comideriag his statement that he has "no much time to study it, and no me to speak it with," the whole style of the letter bespeaks • proficiency in the writer highly creditable to his pewees u a linguist. Lieutenant Rook wu distinguished during his residence here for his gentlemanly manners and mutable, unassuming disposition—a disposition which the entire tenor 'tithe letter in question fully corroborate , . Our Lewes readers will be gratified to find their kind reception of the Russian—or, more strictly, Finland—officers has been thus tally appreciated.—dusess Adcertiser. SINGULAR CASE or Dnowrnso.—Recently in St. John, N. 8., on a dark night, a wen walked of one of the wharves in that city, when the tide was out. He greped his way along in mod, but instead of taking a enune which would extricate himself from his implement predicament, he wandered up among the piles beneath the wharf, where, of course, be became more bewildered than ever. The rising tide made him conscious of Ms danger, and by shouts sod noise he we. enabled to attract the attention of persons rim ing in the viciaite, but too Ism for sacomr. As the tide rose, he climbed M the top ef the pile', and ugh thro a stuall aperture in the wharf aufUent to admit one of iarm, be mut enabled tn inform them of h ad tit His position and feelinp can be imagined, when the water was every tno meet rising around him, and be could net be extricated. He shook bends with his friends, passed through the bole all the mosey and valuabke he had at Ids person, and just as the ester was closing over him, after giving some directions con cerning hie family, he bid his friends good bye, and the gurgling water beeetth summed that all was over. His body wee recovered when the tide receded. Could a few car penter, with their axes not have been promptly on the spot to cutups, sufficient portion of the wharf to let theme& through P —Casiedien paper.