The Express. — London, England, 1855-03-23 00:00:00

OP TIM DAMP 11111111.) PA2IB, TmosanAT Bumph. The CbstsCastilians{ in the worse of as erased wsrlike article, says : Aeserdiai is the latelligeees hem Vilna., the dimensional tbe Cotheesee Uwe set yet weeded beyeel W nut of tbe her aureate.; bet es fee es sea be laded hem tie' primitive iestreettese of Prime deetebakelt, sod from the .sass. Mid by Qs Realm plealpeteatiethe la the pre- Imam esevereetteee whisk preeeded the filial epeeist; tbe etietietiees, it nay be *pied that the swims CS &ties wt l erasese• with the qualm ell the owed ger f esseee, Bemis leterreetiss tits hoe moieties et the Danube le s reeteleted sad glassier,' plejedidel ems he Gems. latesesta. (nor nue The latest news on the subject of the Conferences ruches u from London, but u it is agreed as all hands that the diplomatists have determined before all things to keep their secret, that news is UMW 'wily altogether ecojecturaL The Bourse was tolerably firm throughout the day. The Rents left off at 69fr. Sc.. with a rise of 20e., sad railways improved from lk. to 3k. Bank of Franco rose 6fr. Yesterday evening politicians were considerably purled by the following telegraphic despatch which reads the. in Galortaitt's translation : Loathes. Much 21. The Globe of this seising ssys "We have tam requested M state that the Haag of Prussia was aesideatally ' @Waded bens partisiseMeg ' a the Coufereasss at Vines." the Fnoch papers (the Delpate excepted) pub lish the suss despatch, the hingiog words in French being accidentellement reels; de la participation." Hen; was a piece of news of a startling description, aid calculated to exercise an enormous influence upon the situation. "It must be true," said , numbers on the Little Bourse yesterday and this morning, "for' it appears in a ministerial Landon paper, and is eel- daftly a communication either from the English Mialetry or the Prussian Embassy.' Since Prussia was excluded from the Conferences by an accident, it is abundantly clear that she will join them at the first opportunity. Lord Lyndnurst's . speech, it was thought, had awakened the King of Prussia to • sense of his danger, and, informed by telegraph of the learned baron's withering sarcasms, he must hays, immediately ordered his minister in London to executes right about face movement. The old hands were not, however, inclined to risk their money on the faith of the despatch. Still, although the exact, meaning was not apparent, nobody doubted that , there must be something in it. Everything German is very commonly obscure, and therefore there was nothing astonishing in the want of precision in the news. The Assembler appends • note to say that to "a certain extent" the despatch appears unintelligible. The Pays professes not to understand it at all, but the other journals publish it without comment. I perceive, by the Globe, arrived this afternoon, that the paragraph was what in French is called a "charge," and in English a" sell." The well known parliamentary phrase "shut out from a divi sion," jokingly applied to the King of Prussia, was a stumbling block to the French correspondent who forwarded the despatch, and now this canard will go the round of all the newspapers in the world, will affect more or less every Bourse in Europe, and if the departure of mail packets should happen to suit, en that the news may precede the explanation, will pro duce • great effect in the eastern and western hemi spheres. I bear that Marshal St. Arnaud's family are pre paring an answer to the Brawns pamphlet, in so far as the mi'itary reputation of the late oommander is attacked by that publication. They are prepared, it is said, to show that the Marshal's plan of marching upon Sebastopol immrdiately after the victory of the Alma was thoroughly practical, and that the Russians themselves were equally astonished and delighted that it was not carried into execution. Prince Meat chikoff is said to have written to a friend :—" How could they suppose that I had collected 60,000 men on the heights of Alma without withdrawing the garrison from Sebastopol ?" The interstice intended, by Mar shal St. Arnaud's friends, to be drawn is that the allied armies might have pushed on and stormed the place with comparatively little opposition. Some curious private letters of the Marshal's, addressed to his family, are likely to be published. One story in connection with this subject is, that when, after the battle of the Alma, the French commandir proposed immediately to follow up the victory, Lord Raglan demanded at all events a delay of two days to rest the troops. " Two day., my lord ; you are asking of me half my life." The state of Marshal St. Ar naud's health was doubtless • very bad reason for undertaking • rash military operatic•, but the say ing attributed to him illustrates very forcibly the certainty he felt that his end was at band, and his burning desire to illustrate his dying momeate by some great exploit. Had his life been protracted but by the space of a few hours there is every reason to believe that a desperate attempt to enter Sebastopol from the north side would have been made. Whether is case of imc cols the place mold have been held by a force es unprovided with the commonest necessaries as our armies were at that time, is a speculative question which Ido not enter into. But this remark is ob vious, that if Mentehikoff expected the allies to march upon the place, and withdrew his army into the open field, instead of restoring the troops he had abstracted from it, he must have calculated that we should have tumbled into a trap. THE NEW CZARS DECLARATION OP POLICY. The followlag is the addrom delivered by the Em peror Aleseador 11. to the dipleatotie soaps oa the 7di, a reassary el width Me already mewed la the Daily Near: " I ea persuaded, goatlenan, that all year aura feel einem sorrow at the saisfatuae whin has Wallet as. I have already melted prone of it from 41 sides; they have greatly mend is, and I stated yesterday to the mlaisteres of Prune sad Amen low meek I appreelated them. I solemnly declare here before yes, patinas. that I roman faithful to all the seatimeate of lay father, en that I will persevere la the Ine of pentad prime/des whisk served as a rale to ray male, the Hamer Alemader, an to my father. rams primiplis en these of the Holy Allan,. But if that Allan. se Inger exists, it is eertaialy sot the Walt of my father. His hatentleas were always upright sad loyal, and, if esseatly they were misunderstood by some persons, I do set doubt that God an history will do hi. jade*. I a. reedy to seetribete to a good anderstaadiag ea the seaditioas whin he wonted. Like his, I desire pease, and wish to see the evils of war tenanted ; bat if the enfernese whin are alma te epee at Views do mot lead to a result heseerable lee us, then gesdaihien, at the heed of my faithful Rena, I will softest with the jehole Radio, an I will perish Boner than yield. As to my per. easel anima for your average (We the &near ad dreamed Berea do !recibir, Manor of Prussia), they lan sot varied. I ham never doubted of the fraternal affection and friimdship whisk his Moja*" the Hag always had for my father, and I told you yesterday how palate! I am to him for it. lam deeply aessible of the Wad words wbich the Ilesperor has awn to be treassaitted to me oa this eaasion. (This was addressed to Coast Bsterhasy, Mimic ter of Austria.) His Majesty mesa doubt of the sneers affeetioa whin my father entertaiaed for his at an *pooh, whisk he himself has mailed by the order of the day ad dressed to his army. Be Wad isemb, gentlemea, to com municate my worts to your respective marts." l A GOOD SOLDIER. The following is the copy of a letter addressed to the hissed Hospita6Bergeaat Tarley, 191$ Regieteet, by tin saroese of tbO earn Sergeant Turley died lately fa semaspanos of fatigue sad exposure before Sebastopol, sad the Inter bean testiany to his hisb *hamster sad saleable services. The letter is silks hoonieble to the writer, and tr kin whose merits it records. !. To Mr. Simon Clarke, Mklow. "Camp, above Sebastopol, 26th February, 1855. " lad that Hospital-ge►geaat Turley, 19th /Logi meat, lately sent yes a sues of mosey, that you might give it to hie mat, Mrs. Ward, midis( seer Attlee,. I write now to ask you to perform the melancholy task of informing her of his death. He died es the 24th instant, sad wee buried yesterday is the revise near to our camp. The commanding sad every other officer of the regiment off duty followed his remains to the grave, and a great proportion of the sea-coramissiossed alders and privates. This tribute of respect is a sufficient proof of the estimation to which Sergeant Turley was held ►y the officers of the regiment in which he served, as well u by his comrades ; and it will, doubtless, ►e a wares of coseolatioa to his relatives to know that he was so much esteemed by them . " I ass desirous that yen would ales express to his nas tiness my own feelings of eiteeedieg regret at his loos. I had served with Sergeant Turley for some years past, to the West lodise sad in North America ; and ever deco the return of the regiment to Beglaad, in 1661, I have had ►im constantly ander my immediate observation in the hospital. During this period, I have feverishly known him to be a painstaking upright soldier, cad heard of one instance in which he wee charged with as act of moral or military asiscorultest. He displayed particular activity, and, in several instances, great personal cottage, while acting as sergeant of military polies in Canada. He showed marked moral courage as hospital sergeant daring the prevalence of cholera is Salmis, and was aneusing is kindness and st amina to kis ask and dying seenowles. His tioasteat eau- Noe, ►y day and night, and ezpoure, especially daring the animus which has prevailed daring the last two swaths, weskesed his constitution very ammiderably ; sad to this debility, more than to any distinct malady, I attribute his death. I have lost in hire a very able as•istant is the hospital duties; and the rsgimest has lost a valuable non• sommissitused siker, who outset be easily replaced. "A short time slam, in coojeactioa with the captain of his company, I recommended him for the 201. annuity, or for the medal and gratuity, given by a recent royal warrant for distinguished service in the field. The commanding officer coasidered, however, that these grants applied only to gallant canon In action with the enemy, otherwise. I have ao doubt, his nag service and exeellint character would have procured fee him one of these marks of dbtioction. "I shall forward to your care a watch, which he moally were, by the first opportunity I sea find. Hie other effects will be alcioaated for in the anal way. .. Pieme to communicate the *patents of this letter to Sergeant Tarley's relatives—my I condole with thous on 1 their law, and that I had hoped he would have hems spared to return home tome as a support sad comfort to the. after the term of his military &orrice had expired.—Believe me, yours obediently, .' Twouaa Loiroxonn, Surgeon,l9th Best." ARRIVAL OF THE BLACKWALL FROM PLYMOUTH, MAioz 22 The splendid passenger-ship Blackwell, belonging to Mesas. Omen, London, MlCerlie muter, arrived ►en this afternoon from Australia, having left Mel bourne Heads 4th January. Sho has on freight about 60,000 ounces of gold dust and a cargo of wool, and 160 pusenpn, many of whom have been successful at the diggings. Her news has been anticipated by that of the steamer Argo, which left Melbourne on the 9:h January. it appears that the death of the Csir wits known la Sebutopol to the 6th, earlier than at Constantinople. A letter from Vienne, in the Ategsbarg Owens, states that Prieto limelokiksff wee ill at &spheres poi when he rossiwid Wellies= of the Emperor Nicholas's deeth, and that the seeder whielomeght it immediately/ left that plate for Z Bebeslel, to imenntualtate the news to Dear. ral Osten-Saeken the tiro Wend Dubin. The latter Immediately left ter 11. Pidenbt, however, without havis_g drat seat tale oath of to writios to ,the sew Empmae,tesia the sot declaring that the paha of sispii hal Wham Me oath also. The Tim battalions of the Imperial Guard reviewed on I last semmemil of tho Imam direetiog that the Tuba, by the Emperor, and numbering needy 10,000 detested of flehashipal shall essays his thanks, was ma, march to-morrow (Saturday) for Marseilles ea their immatookated to the garage to the square before the way to the East. Embarkations at that port for the Zest dwarfs with great waefeellTi ew 110 M. sontinse with great activity. The steamer City of Man- 817114011 Aram, JAN. 2.--Premain kr an arear sheet« tailed we the 30112, hayloft/ ea board the let baneqq mee t , reeeete g by Chseyal Urvibib be the gewsien g o f of the Imperial Guard, with its oaken. a fletwillowial of lbe Booms Ayres, have led to • treaty. white has boss gem artillerymen of the 4.h Regiment, and 300 hones, of which * tet t b y mutua l Tot tyb ot i oa . n o two y a w n have woo d 269 belonged to the Ent battery of the Guard. This vessel to m ots to the Ag o q w pesters to the bemire, will probably mesh friemimalt m sight UM. The Ohne , , to abstain Ira military armaments ; undue, to with. sea hawing yet age elle n'lsiette 0114 6 1 , will sot be able draw the Weeps from the positions Walt they boll te pea to sea helm IleseafaY• 'Meeks (says the Owewiee la realms for maul bestilithe lastly. to meet di ,Merseilles) to the kindness of her Intelligent captain, we, t o the ea m aag mom stmsasrsYsa .tang Mr. Catalog, cad of the amateur, Sir George Alestaader, the p a t t e d gul oo hbo ridged by go t punt sepaili., ear saltless will Bad in that egliendld vessel of the g o m o s, tin apemen Amiens do sow Amsetime Cateelm7 swear comfort they ehh *MI for I the Ewald do' Omer« 17rquisa ompas, megostese, to senime ell gam elf partniest, attended to Dr. Daher, terse sada to be le. alma to the goverment of Bangs Ames, to send swop Meef• The willetheent Pahl °m en war to leave os lee immediately f rom the motlemme maim of Beata Ifl 20th fee the Bast. Omer« ossameader the a n lb w s d wn. t h o o l ee k put ; a lb s w oo d.. of t h e B oso m 10th Dt,saos of OM VONA Alm Malr._.(keweel. Armes Slithery , sod all otiose Wielded, who Ma Cwarambee eflake Finn bettlyt• eg maseemes bag in the army oeverthdoes ha« Naively excited We M. Jona_ , gad soma other Misers, wen to Oahe leimmied ft. n o a t a. A ma d ei , oos . Crl.in the Breed, wadi MAW Miles 34 hams sag kajaaaa, appsoom m a i p aast i oga d b y a 0 12 • 4 41 of beetle and fmemMeef coats. The Mum Imam Wean anioded as dm 10th 'sly, 1863, with packet lipiemee smiled oa the 20th, direst he Conetmath Frain% wiebnik sad the Vaud Statue , rospeetiag the he. weak, ha on hoard • somber of Ala" Mime Miele eaves Oahe Perms sod Maw sire,,. their 4th e g 24 12 4 4 bat" ... 7 m el d itvbssiw yer ihe PoIITOGAL AND Baurta.—There is now a of the Wilms" 1110 nee • Tb o b o y otomboy Mega wessamoisatios lestaes IMbes sod Me de Juba% City of Baldest., of w Ltverpeei oem pq , M welsh a t e li ds =111•11 ..._ 01 Piallpine MOW steamer Doane Maria. City of Maashester lamas, and la essagooga Natal emPr itensi lla her outward voyage 811 to the Brasile. Ilhe Clostor, were impeded at Manias feemiagisoLl Thalia ...,...."•••"7"'e two have in tow the clippers Tisendeeepana Lams -431:2.11rAda.4" at saini6 Pao est ne At ermes et h ee gr ooro lm c hi rs oomo g th e" The Sardinian steamer Vittorio Botaisassio, 02.000 MK ibsmsee torss h o t. Liam and pia slo built in Lauda by Messrs Mare and Co., is to «meg at "'.__.,__•••••• least 1.100 bones awl 1,600 men. Two Walla hamodes «mum is siewasolla with the Dimas Maria. of artillery, dgetimi for the Crimes, are iespeehd at Mah Loss Of TIM SSTs GAZELLE, or SCILLT.—AIis issi3es. dews from Moms, Nam" to the 12th Yebraary, mow The Fred use, hat received as aperient oddities by ties mot the Goma% affelifier w re o esi t aad. ble arse frees gL the launch of the Meek, at Cherbourg, es this 20th. Jew Oohs esi 1111.1110% wen totally lest The Annie le a wiolhy rival of the Nspoleolli Om the lutthet at stater deemmeee wlr ms : eadiaa a of which sh e has hem built. Ins with isspromasati. She ail dem), lest i a small poetise of to send. a aa. strew mad " "IL Ber "lll" .wee ma. TIM STIIIIII Or Low VZIXON'II COLLIIIII.--• 1118" Nd i t he "111.674/1 la e llnal Nav y as latest, 11111 Thestrike a ye the Manama Zaseafwer) still goolkash ago whaisall all NO huallipOlMlL 0. the 18th MO Mem Tb etwi . into fidg mot i on d o tty. o g wbb• viola« memele,Velle, of 400 hesapower,was laimehed liadea „th o u s ee b bo b o od u eri o loOkoil is. • low of • mimesis bag Mama to their hut them it so a TDB MANCHISTEIt rosr-orric•—•oorragsad•nt imams goespost Of Oho gabs gala m es& lea" 61 w the Kaahester post-ollte is con at by Ii illneliky of Sc, t elsewhere. aeleibmados imam are adjusting Ulf 'kiss to immiragatim of the ?malaise of so *a the support of the reethente, aerm hey of )(escheat« ter hoe of perquisites, coasequiet lathy bier the oninnaill ef whoa have bega awed with male Memo limas of the am arnogemesti. their ANN* TBB FRENCH ARMY AND NAVY. HT' P.ll. NTAIIIP DUTY ON NEWSPAPERS. --•- A =Win et einrevssisel e Named by circular and advathementy wee bell last grainy at Si. Manlies t's% Laug.aere. The asestag wee warned ter 7 o'clock, bat It was sa beer lase bellre the ebarmes, 11r. WILD. scesuppiliod by twe Mask. esisedad the platfor m . At the rearmannent a the pereelags there were met fifty per - sees la the ball. 7b• Otiblizar oseassessil by todayibbse we As treat May latish bed taken_ gins, and engemied one sempriee that gene lama bed rat Wen taken by dm lisle ha a wars wild' a esamfally ellhael their rderer He ma sow. et Ide Mends hit QM lon era was a question which so meray embed the Interest of all tenaseted with the news retie. In this it appears they had been mistaken bear.) Judgiap from the thinser of the atteudenee, it award that the Interest was not sea as had been antici pated. They, therefore, labored under greatdisadratages ; mmedilly as they bad not got a espy of the bill. 11. der these dereastemae, he would propose an adjournment, If that senaeaset the &embalm et the runny. (.. No. no)." The beam el the liesellmg wee that they should proceed. The newspaper tem wee a !aleatory tee, yielding 400,0001. a peer, and gra, lhe advantage of a fete transit by the per, yet is is peeprell le larder a bill hr which the govereasa weeN lea 1 1 10.000 1 . a year; ask if the esseiry was Is a psalm as lb. present time to sawilice OM large urinal et revease. (Hear, hear.) If they had an emeassped pries without security to the government, leb• whe es be reopusulltle for libel ? (Rear, hear.) If the amp were ebelbiled papers would be started by men of slew wise MINIM sit be sued, and therefore the time lines woad be Sable. It was the intention of the redo to see that at last security in this respite siessall be ties. As to the proposition that papers should be sod nastemped, it would be attended with seam inasmuch as the separating the ramped them the nesiasped repine would sawn great In twaveniener aid great rehear a the Post.oillee. It was an ran abeam se tell the newspaper stamp a tax upon knewledp; it was a voluntary tee, mad to all latent. and purposes a metal stamp, and la ble *aka ought sot to be taken eft Mr. Tam rose to sere the Ant regolatioa, and es pressed hie empties at the little Stores takes ia • question which so seibrady affected the large body of newsreaders. He poiated eat what he wasegired to be an absurdity in the hill. whisk held eat a boon to persons publish hag apsse statist seems. for it wag thargia provided 'het SO WOO be metered Into, so that new papers wield be started by men of straw • thus throw's' the whole of the respeastbility ea the nit wagader. It was Sear fns the speak of the Chaacellor of the Eubequer that he had seasalle himself sequeiated with the details which he pro p sad to Mist upon them. The speaker deaounced the whole dime es impracticable sad &Sart It bad best argued by the Islamise Measlier of the Exchequer that the desesse af MAW le the seem would be mat's up 111116611•1 16111111.01111 of riper. Bet he lost sight lbe imperast Be OP IMP easy MIS who ooght hewed VP new bill st. had declared due they n had bt would be eatislied uatil they bed obtained the vessel of the duty as peps. This was a real tax upon knowledge, bat he denied that the asirspaper swap wag so. It woo seseatially • postal artp/ement. Bo far from advancing the Interests of the country or advsacing the respectability of the pas, It world reduce it to the level of the trashy press of America. It would lead to a vast increase in the asseber of immoral pablicatioea. Ano ther objection was, that the respectable daily papers which west to 'proem expense to procure the best intelligence, would he pilfered sad the stolen Intelligence issued by who wither Scarred aspens or responti ri i t re"s y. Mr. Terry soseluded by stanag—" That the plea proposed by the Cbsaesllor of the Exchequer permitting newspapers to be either stamped or anstalaped, will awes. eerily erste great tionfasies in its practical workinp to the newsreader, whilst the facilities that to be afforded to pude" starting sew papers without netts tioa or security, will have the street of rendering the teller of each publication alone liable to as action, should it be found to manila LWlmee matt,,." thresiedien. It was his opinion that the object of Me ma Otheek Cobden, and Bright, was to destroy the Landes pens, sad transfer it to the provisos*. (" Oh, oh," sad " Hear, hear.") Mr. HOLTO•Ill f or the purpose of moving an amend meat He did so as a aewaveradele, sad agreed that greet credit was due to Mr. Wild for the step ha had taken, bat he denied the right of the nowevenden to set up their opinion against the opinioa of the public. He quite @greed that tie stamp was a postal fee for those who required to send • paper through the Poet-ofilee, but os those who did not require this privilege, it was to all intents and purposes • tax. He denied that the abolition of the stamp would tend to degenerate the prole. There was no unstamped paper at the present time that pat forth such things as even the Times itself (Hear, bear.) 8o Ur from the newsreader being in a worse pOsitios, he contended that the abolition of the stamp would multiply the trade, and with that Its profits. As to leading to legal pros:indices, there were at present • vast &amber of papers issued, for the reeding of which without the stamp they are liable to be promoted. This was the Bret time that he bad ever seen a trade stead eat is opposition to the public. He quite agreed that to have an American press hers would be a gnat calamity ; bat we a could have an American prose in this country until we all became as the American people. (Hear, hear.) As to trans mission by the post, the difficulty of which had been alluded to, new means of transit would fie provided ; one railway had already commenced a plan to meet the demand. (Hear, hear) Upon public grounds, and in the interests even of the trade i&elf, and for the benefit of the public at large, he begged to movejas an amendment, " That, in the ooinion of this meeting it is desirable to abolish the compulsory I sawspaper stamp, and the security system, and to admit all printed natter to postage at the rate of four ounces • penny." Mr. Tavnbort (also a newsreader) sesooded the amend. meet; and Mr. Taker having replied, The CIAIILIIILK put the amendment, for which 13 hands wen held sp. Toe original resolution wu then put, and car ried by a large majority. Mr. 'Tamar then read resolutions to the effect in the event of the present bill becoming law, the Post.oMee revenue will be reduced by a rut somber of this cheap publications being conveyed by the railway oompanies, and that the public would be losers, inasmuch as they would lose the privilege' they now enioy of sending ripen to and fro by the poet. The ousting, therefore, was of opinion that the measure in question would most mate rially restrict instead of facilitate the spread of information. Mr. Boerne seconded the rtsolutione, which were also carried ; and the meeting concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman. .p 7,41 17.7.•.a7/7 7 ' TT .PP„lfi.q.4.7 5! ITT THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH NI, 1855. Campbell sad the Highland Brigade. TM West was &sok is a tttatnn ealy es be key:toed by ifigideaders: ♦ d!•.. by two of du youprw•r •t dar Cherie Forbes wee aassiratay evocoted, sit►all the aatie•el outhosisam which shareetevises tkalr summed Whits; and the evesiag concluded with the and Seottiah festivities. MR. THACKRRAY ON “ RUMOUR AND CHARITY." _....._ A very large wadies°. assembled Met eight at the Marylebeas Literary lastitatioa to ►ear Mr. Thackeray deliver a lettere heavies this title. The subject had a special apiropriateassa, for Mr. Thanker.; teetered for the benefit of a thstiaguished sun of bitten. Basra sketching his dis course, it may be premised that it ass reesived throughout with the highest attention and satisfaction; sot is this to be wondered at, for while it professed to treat of "Humour and Charity," it woolen of bode THICICILAY, it mesa, &wisp his Americas tour, lint his literary Navies, to the eappott of a c►arita►le Insti tution, es which °ermine be dealt with a question which had of old ripped his attention—via., what support is given to the same of charity by the Mariam of the humorists el literature ? Sash likewise was last eight's tope, and the made of handling it wee appropriate. He passed is review many of the mast famous and best known humorous wtiun of England, and discoursed on the dr gree in whish each of them las aided the general cause of philanthropy—tbo diffasion of kiadly seutiment sod good feeling smog mankiud. - - Borne of the opening Remarks were most characteristic. Mr. Thackeray pointed out a kind of similarity of position between the " Pharisee " and the pleasant humorous writer. Just as the Pharisee's gold, thongs giros only from ostentatioe, would do pod, so the philanthropy of the writer, even when his practice was aot so good as his presehlsg, mast be allowed to have dose its good also. Humorists were weekday preachers, dealing with commas hfis for their text. They excited our love, our tenderness, oar pity for the weak—our hatred foe the bully. Writers was no better aim than teas whoa only writing was in their ledges,—:hass other men doing the radial business of mankind. Let us be fair to thus, however,—let us consider their natures and their work, and allow for their good itificioneee. The humorist, in Mr. Thackeray's opinion, was a philanthropist by nature ; be was a humorist Just by virtue of the sympathy with which he could enter into the feelings of people about him ; he watched them, and loved to speculate on them ; thought and felt, and laughed and wept, with them. Hence be was naturally a kindly man. His theme was every-day life. His power lay in hie faculty of exciting the pleasure and sorrow in men which be had fall. company with than and seen exhibited by thee'. And so it followed that the beet humour was that in which there was tenderness, and which bordered upon pathos. The teatof high humour was its rentainieg the elements of sympathy and love—ha appealing to sacred affections. But at the same time (urged the lecturer) tears were seared—nor was that writer to be pardoned who laboured to produce them by sham sensibility, by a straining after the excitement of emotion. A father did sot kiss his children .11night. A lover was not always sighing. Sterne era to he sondeased foe offending in this way. When he bestowed carefully prepared teas upon a dead 818-0110 cried out "Off quoit"- one loathed the asinine tenderness. Mr. Tbackeray was very energetic in this point of the artifieial character of some of Sterns's pathos: his account of Uncle Tu►y's kindness, of the euble's reclaiming his swerd—tha case was very different with these; the reader thanked him foe passages like these. Men were bettor fa such emotions as these excited. With regard to Swift, our lecturer re• sewed his high impression of his admiration of his genius, ►et 'gain repeated more emphatically his disgust at his shortcoming' is human kindness and love. He observed that he remembered no pamages in his writings snowing a love of nature. beauty. Ho *peke coarsely of poverty, and harshly sad scornfully of poor persons with families. He graved his contempt for his fellow.ertatutee upon hie tomb•stme, and hurled insults at the weaknesses of these who, like himself, were God's weak children. Instances of his harshness were a the way is which ►e spoke to Stella of the clergyman ('l ysdal) who wooed her, and the passage where he upraised sorrow at a child's sickness oaly because it interrupted a court intrigue. [lt is not oar intention to criticise Kr. TilaCktfiy'S lecture or this occasioe, but men-of-letters will scarcely approve the wholesale condemnation of Built, which since the days of Jeffrey's essay on him has become a kind of fashion ] In the comedies of Coogreve (Hr. Thackeray continued) there was no more charitable pupae than in Euclid. No doubt, indeed, be was a pleasant pause in society. He must I have had some good qualities to Tashi so many friends so long ; for the world found out a man very MOO, and detested a poltroon and a quack. But what human love was there In that tawdry, false, glittering, hollow comedy of the " Bas toration" ? Apropos of Steele, Addison, and the Spectator, the audi ence were treated to a personal reminiscence of America— s country where kindness, and courtesy, and good nature, as he told us, were in nothing more conspicuous (though you meet them constaotly) than is the gallant attention everywhere shown to women. Deady and elowa alike yielded place to a woman in omnibus or railway oar. Sir Roger de Coverley would have loved this tree evidence of the feeling of the Resinous. It would have so pleased Steele, that be would have takes the gentle dandy or clews to the nearest tavern, and treated him to a bottle—pnsibly to Biz bottles. " I don't mean," added Tinekeray, "to set down the len five bottles to the score of Disk Steele's good works. They would be very decidedly works of supereroga tion." Steele was the founder of the school of sentimental hu mour. Before biotite', people thought feeling an affair only for blank verse. He made classic the joys and sorrows of all mankind. To bins, and Addition, and their lit , the cause of charity owed an immense debt. Everybody could enjoy the " Spectator." In it was preserved the image of that age with its extinct mermen, the fine gentleman who had passed away, and all the playfulness and gaiety and wit which Winged to its clever men. Of Mr. Therkeray's high opines of Addison no nodes needs to be reminded. He dwelt as medially oa the humanity of the man, nee night, as in the pages of his " Humorists." He nab., also, emphatically noted the manly qualities and deep pa. ality of great, kind, wise, erring 'roadies. An Amin tf his " Jonathan Wild "led to some nimble oteervatlentl • the innocent ignorant), with which simple people read humorists without insight into their objects—as child ren read " Gulliver " for the story. Boma were shocked at " Jonathan Wild." who did not see below the canto mask which the satirist neeessarily wean. An o:eureka wee now made by Mr. Thackeray into the subject of cheap *ante works—of the humorous amusements of the populace. He noted here (in evidence of the natural tendency of WOW writlog to be fa favour of the weak naiad thie street) that in all popular plays and stories the giant bully is thrashed by the little fellow. And here he convulsed the audience with some ehermbeig raillery of the "Mysteries of the Court of London," which eneesrages that popular sentiment is its own way. Some years sines be bought that work, and found our late monarch, poor George the Fourth, employed is the moat infamies, designs against the wives of the tradesmen of his realm. Some lure pawed. He (Mr. Thukeray) bought a current part of that work again ; and here was the monarch still occupied in his nefarious employment. La the penny theatres there was always a "minion of wealth," who swaggered about with a halfpenny can*, and was engaged in attempting to wrong a daughter( of the people—the aMempt always resulting in the exit ►y the window of the Assigning miscreant, at the hands of a virtuous young Muh -1 smith. No part of the lecture excited more hilarity than ibis—in which the °Nest of the leetarer's satin was easily and pleasantly exposed, with a kind of marderess gaiety, reminding ewe of Voltaire, and slso of Sydney Smith. The fun, throughout, was subservient to the cease of goad nature however; aad when the lecturer sought in the walnut writers of our owa times, for farther illestratioas of his leading idea—that natio literature aide the general *anti moat of kindness—the sortie! warmth with which he peaked his contemporaries, and especially Mr.Diekens, excited much enthusiasm. He said he should always remember wilt pride that an article of his about Hood (whom he ranked , with the greatest of his clean) ►ad gratified that writer when he was on his deathbed. The latter part of the lecture included a Delius of Lamb. Lad Mr. Thaekeray did net omit to 'Bade to those who charged his with taking a dark view of life ; observing emphatically that he nest write what be thought the truth; that to do else were to mash inane. against his wansedenee 1 sad against that Power which had bass plumed to plain kin la the calling whisk he followed. The estraets chosen by Mr. Theekeray (ioolediag lamb's Captain JaCk•Olk ") wen felicitous s and from first to last we observed, that hi. assay was heard with pleasure—dashed onsetheee by a deeps: emptiest. He eoneleded by easeane. lag that either Mr. Jacob Bell or himself would be glad to native us staatte is the name to aid lank he hod now bees add:slang then. MIT FOR NEWSPAPER/3. [The qaestice of acepyright for newspapers has nowhere been more completely and ably elucidated than in the evidence given by our lanwested friend Mr. Frederick Haight Hunt before Mr. Milner Gib son'e Committee. flat evidence wu very imperfectly re ported in the notes app e nd e d t o th e comm i ttee ' s report • but as Mr. Hunt's sudden death pr e v en t e d the realisation of his design to revise them, or develop his views more fully in some other form, no hater record has been preserved of hie opinions. We, there fore. reprint the notes of his evidence from the Blue book containing the committee's report, on account of their importance at the present moment.)—Daily I News. Mr. Frederick Knight Haat, ailed is, and examined: Chairman—You us connected with the Daily New, are you not I—Yen What aloe do you hold on that paper ?—I am sub.editor of the Doily New;—the editor of the news portico of the paper ;—tbe details of the paper. The general management and position of that paper are of course within your knowledge I—Yes. Have yea an &menet of the amount of stamp duty that yon paid last year on papers and supplement' T—l have not. A knowledge of that falls within the province of the massa jer of the paper ; I h ave on l y to d o w i t h the news of the ournal, the reports, and the reception and arrangement of news. In fair, lam the working editor of the paper, apart from its opinions. I have nothing to do with the number of stamps issued. Do you conceive that the Doily New would be benefited by the repeal of the stamp upon newspapers T—l have taken some trouble to examine the program of different newspapers with • view to a book, th e "Fourth Estate," which I printed some time ago and I am of opinion that the best paps rs would thrive by t h e removal of the stamp ; teat le to say, that the Tower, the Daily New, and other morn ing papas that are conducted with talent, would thrive if the stamp were removed, provided that on the removal of **stamp they were protected in the property they publish ; that is to say, in the possession of important news. At pretreat the cowl morning paper., which are ia the handssof about (Our sets of proprietors, pay for all the important intelligence that is distributed over these kingdoms. Four sets of pro prietors out of the six morning papers pay fur the Indian mail ; they pay also for reports of the law court., sod they give the most elaborate account of the parliamentary pro ocedinta ; and all the special reports they pay fot ought to be regerema as their property. If you give the newspaper proprietors some twelve hours' copyright in that which they pay for, I thick they would then thrive by the removal of the penny stamp, and that all the papers might then he reduced in price; an the Times be sold for 311. or 3d., and the Disolv New certainly for 3d. I should say, But if you wire to take off the stamp to-morrow without evil,' any cop) right in important special news (the Indian mail, for instance, which perhaps might cost SW. or 1001.), the effect would be to reduce the character of the newspapers ; became moo would not give 801. or 1001. for an Indian mail, unless they could have a property in it for • certain number of hours. _ You are exposed to piracy now, are you not ?—Yes, we are s xposed to piracy to• vary large extent; but if you take off the stamp (lodging by the character of the cheap prods.- tions of the preser.t hay—the penny papers—who pay no. thing for authorship, and who pay nothing for reporters, and whose petters are made up almost entirely from other jcarnals), you will lay the morniag papers open to a larger motet of piracy tbas at present ; and the proprietors, In self-defence, must cease to give you so template a newspaper as they now offer. Sir T. F. Lewis—Would it be possible to devise any scheme of effectual protection in the nature of copyright newspepers? You have suggested the ides that it should 13a penal to republish, during • certain 'slumber of hours, that which appeared in the Daily News or news; would it be possible to p persons from taking the substance of the news, end, as it were, reonmpoanding it, and putting it in somewhat different phraseology, condensing it a little, and patting it forth as if it were their own T-1 think it would. Say that the Indian mail is brought be steam to Trieste, and sent through Austria, Prussia, and Belgians, to Calais, and then brought over by is steamer (kept waiting for the message with her steam up ate large expense) to Dover, and thence by electric telegraph to Lvadoe, as is the practlie of the morning papers at present. It is not possi ble that a penny newspaper could go to such espeases for such news, and no change in the verbiage of the telegraphic despatch could a t conceal the piracy as to protect the party guilty of it. The overland mail comes by telegraph, oia Trieste, perhaps 12 or 24, or 38 hours before letters from India an delivered. • Are the committee to conclude that your opinion is that there would be sufficient protection if persoos were pre vented from pirating intelligence, and giving the debates in parliament squally for a certain time I—Any paper might give the debates in parliament; they are things at home. They could send a reporter into the gallery to write them • summary containing quite as much as the general public would care to nad ; that is not the else. of news that re quires scything like a law agaiost piracy, but copies of sub as the Indian mall. Such mews u the earliest intelligence by six or eight hours of some convulsion in some town In Europe to which a 'loco( proprietors have sent a correspon dent should be protected. At present you have in Londe'', papers which, for the extent of their intelligence and the character of it, are certainly unequalled ; they have grown up to their present position under a great many difficulties, though they are now subject to piracy. But the only per sons in a condition to pirate are persons who have stamped newspapers, and who ere restrained, to a large extent, by rudderations of honesty and character. But as to piracy with the penny unstamped publication., which are betted in large numbers in some parts of London, the ease is widely different. Seth moo, when they get • press, will print any- thing they can take bol-1 of. They pay no authorship. It may hempen that en article from the Times is quoted all over the country ; to the Times it now matters not; if an article is taken and qunted the rinses may regard it as • compliment; but if the Times had to run in competition with • three halfpenny journal, it would be another matter. The Times, in order to 'apply its 38,000 subscribers, must issue its first copies at heft-past four in the morning to get the trains for the north ; if a man in Londou got one copy and took the articles and reprinted them, be would be run ning into competition with the 7 inift. without incurring ens tenth part of the expense* paid by that journal. Mr. G. A. Hamilton—How could you prevent piracy with regard to news when the events had recurred abroad I—ln any alteration of the law relative to the press,—if you took off the .tamp,—you should, as at present, require persons bevies newspapers to give security against libels and defa mation, and make them in addition give security that they would p iy the damages in any action that might be brought Ugliest them for piracy, sod the thing would be complete. With regard to the Draw News, we have had one or two potable instances in which, partly by money and partly by the exercise of diligence and energy, we have got news to London before other papers. Such successes are essential to a paper, as helping to establish its character; but these mole things have been taken, as the law steeds at present, b other papers, without any chases of redress. Sir T. F. Lewis—On the same day ?—Yes. From the London papers at present we are liable to piracy. If yea make free trade in newspapers you must have a law whisk shall give a property in a pies. of exclusive news fir a ma* tate number of hours, and which would enable the owne d that sews to proceed against any person who stole it. Mr. G. A. Hamilton—Hew is it possible with retinae to an event which has occurred, for instance in Germany, that you could devise any plan by which the copyright of that intelligence meld be secured I—l will endeavour to explain. You have, guy, on the 26th of May intelligence which shall appose in the Daily New. in its intelligence' from India of a given date, the 29th of April; we know it is impossible for steam to brier it in the time, it can only come by the elects's, telegraph, and that is only to be scram ;dished by elaborate arrangements and agencies, which are nest wetly. If the Tames, or the Daily News, or the four papers now paying thou equines, bring a piece of impor tant Indian sews to London, say of a battle, or some other great event, they take ft by the ordinary mail packet to Malta, and send it to Trieste by steam, and through Austria, Prussia, and Belgium, to Ostend cr Calais; they keep a 'beat waiting bring it across to Dover; it reaches London Ia the middle of the night, say three St the morning ; it manes to the offices of these (our papers ; it is printed by them, say at half-past four, in order to go by railway to .apply their customer* at Manchester, Birmingham, sad Liverpool, and if this was pirated they would be enabled, under • law such as I tersest, to go late a *Mart of law, and say, we claim exclusive skid to this piece of news, and let the defendant, if be denies our right, say how he got it. Things which are ly important, and which are specially costly to obtais, would be very easy to identify and to protect. In the Mater of Parliamentary debates piracy would not be of so Meallaensequence ; no newepaper proprietor would ask fee tetssi pretectios in that matter, but he desires to be pre• meted la the honest enjoyment of the foreign sad other news he pays high prices for. Sir T. F. Lewis—Would you extend your answer to the reports of law proceedisgs in courts of justice, and ales proceedings before the magistrates; would on reqtire pros tuition with reference to thou matters ?—I de cot think it would be very forestial. But supposing a very important ease to occur, the newspapers employ three or four reporters of skill and character to take a loos report, and then if that report was taken wholly and entirely, and if the proprietor of the report chose to complain, it would then, of course, bee, question for ajar? to say whether or no the man so hiking it' was justideds It is rather for them points of news in which the English pass is unequalled (and there is no press like it), that sesoollg Is wasted. I have beside good deal said shout ski Med= sad the French press, sod thinking it possible taut n gesetioa might be put upon the subject I have beinglit as.. specimens with me (handing in the same); med if the committee compare these Farb. New YPrk. S, Berlin, and Madrid papers with the Times or News they will see that the newspapers of on, that is to say, the morales paper. of London, contain an mount of news which is not contained in any foreign papery. A French paper give. you some very deur—emu extremely clever, bodies articles. Is times of szelMeseet, there is a long report of the debates is the Cham ber, bet there it almost studs; there are no .hip; ng lists, fsei.w n o sa =ti the.ps ei t the markets, T. aa pc.u ark are sts o , fdd n riff o .rei r i e t po ir r id ta into o peo f Bah upon. courts of stateot to t h i is wo.t E a e ll - Mr. Cobden —you sow speak of French papers, and not cf the American I—la the American press you Ind a great deal of oommereiel sews, cad if the coommtme compare this American newspaper (pointing to one) with the Times or Deily New of to-day, they will fled that this amount of information ad news for the people is Intranet, null. There is on it *nee sa comber of advertisemeNta a .bleb are peelltable, sad there is a quantity of shipping newt. lodised their esannereial news to very good in Aust ria.; bat look at the leading article, and you find it is but a small paragraph (pointieg out the same). Bit T. F. Lewlo—Tbe leadiag artiele does not occupy then half ookeu r l—No; and the whole real news in this American paper, which is the best commercial paper of New York, would go into lase than one page of i Loudon paper. Can you give the committee any information upon this point ; of the total number of papers published by the Daily New. or the nesse, what proportion goes out of London foe sesmadary sale t—l cannot sty ; I should think it probable that it might be from a quarter toe third. Chairman—You have stated that at present you are sub ject to piracy; that you consider the proprietors of news papers are entitled to have a property in the new. which they have laid out money to procure, and you think it pro bable that there will be more pirates than now if the stamp were removed; but you do not mean the committee to un derstand, do you, that as far as the stamp is concerned, you advocate its mainteraece on its own merits I—Certainly not; I think that all the papers would improve greatly if the stamp were removed and they bad protection from piracy ; they an interested in the removal of the stamp, except pat ine,. the moot successful of all, the Tines, which I do not think is so much interested in removing the stamp, became it being sow in the first poalUon, soy change could not im prove hut might inlay. it. I think that the Daily New, the Morning Chronicle, and the Herald wou ld b e i mprove d in their position by the removal of the stamp; I think that the general circulation of papers would be greatly increased. hut that some of them would be obliged t 2 ionise new blood and a more popular feeling into their colossal generally; for they would doubtless have a number of popular rivals. Sir T. F. Lewis—How do you contemplate that the Lon , don pspen would he eitentated ? by post or otherwise ? At present the bulk of the circulation, all the early circulatlin of the London morning papers is the provinces, is conducted without the Post office ; they are sant down in large hales by the =amigo mails; large bales of papers are sent to local agents ; cud the local agent., I believe, clings some little gn i dition to the price for the paper*, to remunerate them for • the 011114•11111 of them by railway parcel. With reference to the portion of Its circulation, a London paper derives no benefit from the circulation of those papers oo.talte free, does it I—From a portion it does; it is proba ble that after a paper is taken down into the country by railway, it may be sold and sent by post i n th e evening. I presume that it Parliament consented to remove the stamp from newspapers, they would probably allow newspapers under an ounce or two ounces to go by pod with a penny stamp affixed._ WOisld that suffice, do you think t—l think it would quite ; it seems to me that the great point is that we should not damage the newspapers of Eastland. Tne Lando') news , papers, on a fair comparison with others, are the most 'tem plate, are those upon which the most money is expended, and those upon which most vigilance is exercised, in the world. The proof lies in themes hill ; they ought not to be damaged by any change in the law in reference to the press. If the legislature took the irony stamp off, granting to newspaper proprietors a legal property in costly pieces of Intelligence, I thick that the change would improve the press ; it would im►reve newspapers generally, and it would give every ore of them a larger circulation. At present the proprietors in London pay for the (wetly news I have spoken of, and others steal it. Suppose the Indian mail, for in stance, comes in on a Tuesday morning, is printed in a morn ing paper, and is taken down a railway line; a copy of the riper is thrown out, say, at Northampton, and if it happens to be the day of publication of the Northampton paper, the agent is there to get this paper, in order that the proprietors may reprint and sell that which cost 1001. to proprietors in London, and it is obtlened at Northampton for 6d. If not protected, the proprietors of newspapers in London would be compelled to give up such things as Indian mails. Are the leading articles in the principal papers frequently , copied I—Yes ; but when copied and acknowledged, that is seldom objected to. Would you extend the copyright to leading articles ?—I think the law of copyright in news should be framed in this way; that if a man purchased a thing, whether en Indian mail or a discussion in Parliament, or an article discussing a matter of national importance, if he chose to attach a value to it, he should be enabled to go before a jury and ask them to give him a remedy spinet a men who had pirated it. Nr. G. A. Hamtlton.—The law of copyright now has reference to specific publications or specific designs. Applying the principle of copyright i■ the macuer you suggest, would you prevent the publisher of a country oewspaper from publishing the report of a battle in India?— After six or eight hours, certainly not. It should be after he hod, Of might have, received it by way of post ; when it had become public property in fact. Would you p his publishing as soon as he could, in order to anticipate the intelligence contained in the London rapers, a report of that battle I—The news h►viag been ob tained in the way I have mentioned, I think that ns London paper would at all object to such a pablicatila as this If the Northampton Herald. for • instance, should say, "The Times and the Doily News contain an account of a great battle in India, in which 20,000 men have been killed and wounded," no paper would be likely to object to that. But the injustice is this; the expenses cf the morning papers are enormous; they have agents where anything is likely to turn out of interest to the public; they bring this information home, end if the paper is printed at five o'clock in the morning, end if the Northampton paper reprints the whole substance of • it the same morning at ten o'clock, the newspaper proprietors in London, who are the real owners of the new*, ars de prived of the full enjoyment of that to which tbi y are en titled. Any ease of polies. or any proceeding in a court of law, may be any man's property ; for any man can easily go and get it; but news from distant ploc , e is au:Aber thing. If the stamp were removed, and a copyright in news given for six or eight or ten hours, the host ;epees would not be injured at all. The London papers would circulate more widely, and people would get newspapers to inform them on political subjects, and get them as cheaply I think as for 2d. Not a newspaper like the Times or Daily News; I do not think they would get those at quite so small a price, but they might perhaps have newspapen for 21. Do you mean a trasieript or a copy of those papers ? They might get a sucrmary of them, which should be ac knowledged; but I shirk it should be left in the hands of the owner of the news, whether he would objet or not to such a summery ; but an the law protects a man who hes brought from India a piece of cotton and paid for it, the law ought to protect a man who brings from Indic a piece of news and paid for it. When news • by post by the ordiasry mail, it is eveery man's property ; but when it ban been brought to this country at great private expense, and at the cost of four nets' of proprietors, and it is pirated, that is an injustice; it ought to remain the properly of its pro prietors till it blames the property of the public. The law protects a specific design as regards cotton ; this analogy would only go to estabich • cspyright as far as regards the espyiog f a particular article, or copying a specific piece of news ; but it would not apply t cases where substantially the !MS intelligence in another form was given P—l should soy that if a man owns a piece of cotton or a piece of Dews, be is entitled to say how much of that may be abstracted by another person with his leave, and how much may not ; tt is his property till it 'Acmes public property- Chairman.—Ds you think it is a foolish apprehension that in other respects the established newspapers would have anything to fear from the rivalry that would rise up in consequence of the removal of the stamp ?—I have a very distinct opinion upon that subject. I have been writing in varione papers, and have some knowledge of their affairs; (or instance, Dickens's Household Words, which I know enfoys a very wide circulation without any suck " OTMOO tion" as a romp; and I do not think anybody ran bring out a twopenny paper to beat that. Mr. Di, kens sells a very large number. And, again, you could not bring oat any twopenny paper to beat Pesach. Talent protects itself. If the Times is the best newspaper in London, it would get the greatest number of purchasers, whether it he stamped or unstamped. The Daily News is ou;y a young roper, and has not a tenth part of the age upon it that the limes hes ; yet it occupies, I supposr, the rem d place on the London press, and (it seems to me) it never need fear the taking Giro( the stamp. The advantage in any competition of having an already existing organisation and experience in conducting news papers would of course be all-favourable to the success of the established papers ?—Clearly. You could not get up the organisation of the Daily ems, for instance, under any circumstances, without tne loss of some two or thrtle jean; and yen could not get up any such papers ;Is we see an London this day without great ezrenditurs of time and money. When any change of the law comer, therefore, a ' rival could not hope to equal them at once, as you cannot procure all the news and get it prepared for the public in the careful mincer in which the present newspaper proprie tors prepare it, without a large and ezpensive staff It you protect what they proclaim they will go en in the same way, and the press will not go down from its present level, though the stamp be removed. Sir T. F. Lewis—What advantage is derived from the use of machinery ; is it merely rapidity I—Yes, rapidity of production. The Times is very greatly interested in bevieg very rapid machinery ; but for a paper that circulates only 7,000 a day, an ordinary machine whiuh throws off 4,000 or 6,000 an hour well do. Supposing the House of Pa.liassent sits till two in the morning, the papers have skilful marten there, who mike all haste to the office, and when there would write out the letter ►art of the debate, say within en hour, which would make it three o'clork ; and the paper can be completed end sent to press. Say the early [raise go oat at a quarter put air, and between dime and a quarter past sic the printers must produce the number of papers required to supply their country subscriber. ; and if you want to seed away 12,000, a 6,00 per.bour machine will answer that purpose. Bat if the Toms warm to stud 20,000 by early trains, machine. In that way. latino of a Pal* , like the mend, the French papers mouse. Some London log long before pubfica Instance, is dated on sands orris on Thursday night, a first news later than Thai every six or twelve hoot ansalaary of intelligence , day night. Mr. Rich—With regard r sa conveying eiilu ne t w ri s from iinla to tv t very easy to find out bow trace It with regard to • :then they must have a more rapid y defective machinery limita the abets. , te: . g oto press Times.To early supt in h supply t• t ai r lsr e iota to weekly papers have • I R First. ication. The Illustrat • . Coe .. 1 ,6) • • anday, but its grit edit a : At .• • . ht, and thee cannot btit•r, , ilk • 1 Thtraday night ; tt•eyo . • p ire, a little bit of type Milli .o' A l ''. e ; but tt ey begin to ppn .•i I,e • 11 4 1, ;ard to the question of jed• •.•Ai i -• "°... -.- 1 the Indian news; b' 1 • - • ~j,,a' ' '.... in India is so narrow that t .. a e".• bow it was pirated ; hew wn . V 2 g, contMeatal events I—Suntan:es the THE HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF LONDON. The annual gathering of the members of this so ciety, for the purpose of commemorating the battle of Alex andria, was held last evening at Freemasons Hall. The avowed objects of this society (which we. established in 1778 and incorporated in 1816) ese for preserving the martial spirit, dress, music, and language; the remains of Celtic literature and antiquities of the enchain Caledonians ; en couraging a kindly tooling between Highlanders in all parts of the world, and in other respects promoting the general welfare of the northern parts of the kingdom. The members sat down toss ezeelleet dinner, which was presided over by &r Cesar= Finns*, But., who was supported by General Sir Jahn Wilson, Sir John Miley Doyle; Dr. Chisholm of the Royal Artillery Medical Staff; and about 60 other gentlemen. Mr. Cranford gave his valuable services and sang several solos. Miss St. Armand presided at the pianoforte, and Mies Robertson Stage, a young lady from Edinburgh, made bse tint appearance as • vocalist. The usual preliminary toasts having been drank and most loyally responded to, Tin CHAIRMAN seat proposed to the company the toast of "The Memory of Abercrombie, end the heroes who fell with him Is Egypt," to be drank in solemn silence. This was the analversary of the HlgWd Bosiety, which, aspics of ill shillesities sad emS in spite of attempt. to cry down the utility SU Society, had risen above it all. (Cheers.) It esetisasit to prosper and steadily to do pod. The mem toast was especially directed to the heroes who fell M Papa, It was a melan choly occasion, but at the same lime It was the of pride, which brought bath to their reedisetin the gallant heroes who perished at that glories. fight The Casten/Jr proposed the health of Lord &those, the presides% of the society, and thee proceeded to give " The Army and Navy," a Wait whisk was received with rap • tunes anises*. He alluded to the gallant conduct of his Royal Bighting the Duke of Cambridge, who had endeared himself to every soldier by the hearty good feeling he had 'amid towards them. (Loud cheers.) Of the army and navy it was avoidable to speak too highly. On a late occasion—and when he said that they all Mew what he meant—they all must admire, as he did, the bravery, the gallantry, the indomitable enrage—the issuperable courage which had, by the will of God, idealised the efforts of the army and navy. He mid by the will of God, because within the last few months, indeed at their lest anniversary, they had seven gallant eilleses of the army present, fear of ags had been killed, and on who wee wounded had 11111.011141 died of his wounds, making Bve out of elves who bed perished In the cease of their COMMIT. (Hear)) This Illiaissidered to be an illustrative of what the British army was, The British army had 'vistaed a spirit of oedema widish was knewa eel, te that army. (Cheers.) Per himself es a Briton—as a see of Brim—be felt it to be a pride to hove such se army end amp. Bo avast the health of the British army, Lulea, Beg,* MeMek Melt God Mess them, and kin Meet bosh to receive that tribe% eiestiomte n aiveties whisk the country wee to Magee es them. ter IOW! DOTLI *OMR hr the army, used, alluding to his ewe eareer, stated that is early life he beinged to the Pod Garden Meanders. Ile wore the peltlenses in the Shed is Ho had derived many add hems beta by Ses superiors. Prudeees was ass a dbdegeiskiegehereeteristie et an biennia, bat ia gsealtude was eist a Men whisk attached to the Isiah she raster. (Loud sheen.) Captain Jay, IL N., retuned thus oa behalf of the Navy. Many ether teems followed. Mr. Cranked s several Son* songs with greet offset, end Mies played seise variations an the Blue Bells of Soodand "a a very creditable weer. Miss Robertson Stage made her dart with the snag of " What's • 'the stag. kismet" The lady. who has a good mew ulnae nice, was Mesa p ea. mad. Sir Jou Nat= Don.. gave as health se Bit Celia