The Express. — London, England, 1861-10-25 00:00:00

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We are daily told that the tide of reaction is at the flood ; and if wo are to give heed to crowing* and chock bop like those of Lord Joitx MANNER:4, there is not a spot in central England, however high or distinguished fur liberalism, that may not ere long be submerged beneath its aggressive wave. We may have something to say hereafter regarding the electioneering logic which leads his lordship to infer • from the chance return of Mr. HEYGATZ for Leicester the probability of Nottingham, Derby, and Coventry falling into a similar blunder. Mean while it is pleasant to think that Scotland is where it was on all the great subjects of progress, domest , c and foreign. Some fallings away there may have been among Scotch members during the last session and the previous one ; but these are things which can be corrected, and whenever another dis solution occurs we may confidently expect to see a winnowing of the chaff from the wheat. We cannot forgetthat when the Forfeited Seats Bill was under consideration last session, the Scotch Tories never ventured to take a vote on the claim they set up on behalf of the tiniest unties ; and the reason currently stated was, we believe, the true one ; Mr. Distaati and his friends look upon the representation of Scot land with despair, and they could not, there fore, be induced to support any scheme for its extension. The whole tenor of the address deli vered by the honourable Member for G...vilock shows how firm is his reliance on the prevailing liberality of his bearers. On every question Mr. Drifter cheerfully takes the popular aide. We have seldom, for example, seen the case for the Dissenters' Burial Bill, or the Education Minute of Council, more clearly or coge•dly stated, or the encroaching and monopolizing spirit of High Churchinanship in such mat ters more freely or fearlessly rebuked. What a fey of indignation would have been raised, indeed, as Mr. Dviswr says, if an Anglican Bishop had barn debarred by the Presbyterian minister of the parish from performing the Burial likerriee ordained in the Book of Common Prayer at the funeral of the late Lord EOLINTON yet the converse of this is what every day takes place in parishes in England ; and it was against a Bill to remove such a grievance that the Conservative party voted as one man iu the past seamen. And it the new Minute of Council regarding Primary Schools be destined to encounter strenuous oppneitirm next year, it will be chiefly owing to the fact that the Church having so long been suffered to apply the money of the State in a way to create influence and patronage, it is not easy now to effect any educational reform that curtails or circumscribes them. But as foreign affairs engrain more sad more of popular attention, we met to a certain extent look to them as furnishing teat• of men's soundness and sincerity in VW moss of liberalism. What is to be the tone of Eng land's diplomacy toncerniug Italy, and Hungav, and Poland ? What line of conduct are we to pursue respecting America T In the heart of the people there is indeed, and can be, no wavering on any of these points. Professional politicians may think it clever to finesse or to affect reserve with reference to contingencies that may never arise, and complications that may exist only in the pnz• sled brain of bureaucratic society. But as a na tion we heartily and openly wish to see Italy one and free ; as a nation we look back with nothing but regret on the tameness of our passive compli city in 1849 in the trampling down of Hungarian liberty, not by Austrian troops but by a Russian army ; and as a nation we have never ceased to look with loathing on the jointeteck spoliation of Poland, and with regret, not wholly unselfish, at the demolition of that once vital rampart for Cen tral Europe against the encroachments of Muse°. ♦iie ambition. Lord DERBY thinks of an Italian nation only as of a kennel full of unlike hounds, whose cries can never be in unison, and whose fierceness is chiefly directed against one another. Such was his deliberate opinion expressed in the House of Peers not many months ago. Ho would have bad the plan of a Northern and Southern king dom with a Pontifical centre to hold the balance, in stead of a great nation united under one strong Government. When the cycle of Parliamentary prophesying shall have revolved, we shall lee whether he and kis reactionary followers will adhere to their retrograde .creme. The ex- Premier is said to have spent a portion of his autumn in visiting Hungary ; and as his party is uncommitted so far upon the great controversy between the people of that country and the cen tralizing despotism of Vienna, it is still possible for them to do the right and the wise thing, and to adopt the principles which the Member for Greenock, in common with the best men of the Liberal party, holds. It would be too much to expect of l'uonerrAtiam that it should suddenly awaken to the troth reganling Poland ; but on the Hungarian question they are still in time tout them 'selves at ono with the bulk of the community. Have they the courage or the discernment to do so? Still more trying to principle will be the course, hitherto blameless and consistent, which our Government shall take respecting the Ame rican quarrel. We pay little regard to the vague rumours afloat that the leaders of the Conservative party incline to question the policy pursued by Lord Rrs.seit of strict and loyal non-intervention. We can hardly suppose any set of men so reckless of the great permanent interests of the country as to advise the adop tion of any other line of conduct. Ephemeral popularity among certain sections of the com munity might possibly be won by the manifesta tion of a tenderness for Southern interests and necessities, at the expense of what is due on our part to good faith, international right, and the plain dictates of sound policy in our dealings with the North. But no intermeddling, however diplomati:ally disguised, no disregard of the obli gations we owe to the great commonwealth with which we have more ties of kindred, of business, and of sympathy than with all Europe put together, could possibly fail to ruin the reputation of any set of men pretending to the rank and character of British statesmen. The fact that in • manu facturing town like Greenock its representative should receive nothing but plaudits for the utter ance of these opinions is the latest and not the least significant corroboration of the inference drawn from the earlier declarations of Mr. Gist'- s-rose to the same effect at Liverpool. The con tinuance of the blockade may for • time render the supply of cotton from America scanty and uncertain ; though there is much in what many men of great mercantile ex perience have said all along, that with the high price the great staple of Lancashire industry will somehow or other find its way to the banks of the Mersey. Be this as it may, neither employers nor operatives have evinced the slightest wish to put upon Government any unworthy pressure, nor do we believe that any attempt of the sort could be made without evoking • spirit of indignant rebukes and reprobation that would summarily overbear all such sinister suggestions. The cause of the Union is the cause of public law and per sonal liberty against wanton sedition and the per petuation in bondage of millions of men. Come what may, Great Britain can never waver as to the side which she morally espouses in such a struggle ; and the representatives of the people cannot perform a more important duty at the pre sent juncture than in bearing clear and audible testimony to this national bath. be Court. HOLYROOD, OCT. V. The Queen, the Prince Consort, tbo Princess Holtenlobe, the Primers. Alice, Helena, Louise, and Bea trice, sad Prince Leopold, attended by the Marchioness of Ely, Lady Amara Brace, Sir George Grey, Sir Charles Phipps, Dr. Jeerer, Dr. Gunther, and the Equerries in Waiting, left Bolas eal at half-pest nine o'clock yesterday morning for Mimed, travelling by railway from Aboyne to the private station at St. Margaret's, Edinburgh, and that proceeding in carriages to the Palace, where her Ma jesty arrived at a quarter before seven o'clock, and was ro ared by the Duke of Baccleuch, Major• General Walker, Mr. Gordon (sheriff), and the Hon. W. Cowper. The royal dinner party included the Queen and Prier Consort, Princess Alice, Primer Hohenlohe, the Dueler of Wellington, the Ma:three= of lay, Lady A. Bruce, the Duke ut liucclauch, Sir George Grey, the Hoe. W. Cowper, Major-General Walker, Dr. Jeers, Dr. Gunther, and the Equerries in Waiting. WINDSOR CASTLE, Ocr. 24. The Queen and Prince Consort, and Princess Hohenlohe, attended by the Marchioness of Ely, (bore out yesterday morning to the Botanical Gardens at Edinburgh. The l'rince Cowen; and his suite, Furl Spencer, Maine- General the Hon. C. Grey, and Colonel Ponsonby, left Helyrood Palace at a quarter before two o'clock in two dress eurleges, escorted by the Beate Greys, and proceeded to Pt:nee-street to lay the foundationatone of the DOW Poet sees, and afterwards of the new Industrial Museum. His Paul Highness returned to the Palace at half-put three eelesk. rm. Qum, easompenied by Prince.. Alice, ►ndd attended by the llarchlonue of Ely, dices out iu the afternoon, and milked en Arthur's beat. At tee miautes peat 8 o'clock the Queen, the Prime Con sort, the Princesses Mies, Melees, Louise, and Beatrice, and Prises Leopold, attradsd by the Marchioness of Ely, Earl Spencer, Major-G*O4W the Hon. C. Grey, Dr. Jenner, and Dr. Gunther, sad the Equerries In Waiting, left Holyrood for the private statics at Mergaret-street, escorted by the liceite Greys, awl at half-peat 8 p.m. travelled by a spur. dal train to Win,Lior, where they arrived at half-past 8 this moreleg. A guard et \amour of the l.t battalioa soot Funlier Chan* wits the baud of the regiment, wu at the Windsor laaway Ration. Primer flotieslohe, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, loft PLdsro,d Palace at bailout one o'clock p.m., awl pro- Orneifti by radway to York, on her way to Windsor Coati°, wlesee her Senile Highness arrived thin afternoon. The Hon. Eleanor Stanley and the Hon. Flora Macdonald lave arrived as Mania of Masotti. in Waiting. Lord Harris bas arrived as Lord in Waiting, and (lemma &r Edward Bowater as Greven is Waiting. Iler Majesty's for the International &bi- titian of 11 4 63 have received official information from the (keener of New Zealand, that he has appointed a local eammissiou in each of the nine provinces of that colony, it girding their honours the several Superintendents. to easel and transmit articles of colonial produce sad mantdacithres, and be trusts that by their means the colony will be adequately represented at the forthcoming Exhibition. His Excellency bac also appointed Mr. John Morrison, of No. 3, Adelaidecplace, City, the London Commissioner. The Duke of Somerset bat been appointed Lord Lieotenaat of Devonshire. The Duke and Duchege of Hamilton are expected ie town early neat weak from Scotland, on their way to Paris. The Earl and Countess of Warwick leave town es Wesley sera ea a coetiosotal tour. The Earl of Wicklow will leave town in a few days for Brig tea for the autumn. The Hon. Leopold Agar Ellis, M.P., arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, yesterday, f rem Dublin Castle. Sir Alexander Woodford and Ludy Woodford arrived is tows ea Wedeseday, alter a oojourn of wend Ilbostlis as the Ceetieset. On Thursday, the 17th inst., the Rev. Edward Roger Manwaring White, M,A., was instituted to the titanic sad parish church of Ilendlesham, in the county of Suffolk, oo the presentation of Edmund White, of Moe tegu-strart, Portmanequare, in the county of Middlesex, Fay. On the same day the Rey. John Fitzherbert Bate man, ILA., and Fellow (on the Foundation) of St. John's College, in the University of Cambridge, was instituted to the rectory of North and South Lopham, in the county of Norfolk, on the presentation of the Bev. John Bateman, of West Leak., in the county of Nottingham, clerk. Uu Friday, the 18th inst., the Rev. Charles Kirkby Robinson Clerk, M.A., Master of St Catharine. College, Cambridge, was installed by the Hon. and Rot the Dean, a canon of the cathedral church of Norwich, an the resignation of the Right Rey. Henry Lord Bishop of Worcester. A meeting of the Society for the Propagation of tie Gospel was held yesterday at Derby, at which the Bishop of Oared atteeded, and, in an eloquent speech, urged on the meeting tho obligations ander which English men lay to send the gospel to Africa, on coconut of having bees among the Ant to arty to that country the curse of •every. We axe informed that the honour of knighthood has been offered by her Majesty to Mr. Fairtaint, of 11 cheater, as a recognition of the lengthened and valuable aervin• he has rendered to science, and that the distinction has been nepactludy declined. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1861. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ITALY. "Letters from Turin," says the Pays, "state that King Victor Emmanuel, who was not to have gone to Naples until the month of January next, has resolved on proceeding there to be present at the installation of General de La Mamora. His Majesty will leave about the middle of next month. Almost all the ministers will accompany the King. Three only will remain at Turin, but they, in their turn, will also go to Naples, where his Majesty will remain longer than was at first expected." A Cobiontz letter states that certain persons un known recently asked the Prussian government to sell them 10,000 muskets, for which they offered a good price. As, on inquiry, these persons were found to be the same Bourbonist agents who not lung since purchased a quantity of arms at Dresden to be sent to Italy, the Prussian government re fused to accede to the proposal. FRANCE. La Patrie announces the arrival at Paria of General Count de Goyon, on leave of absence. DENMARK. Advices from Copenhagen to the 22nd inst. state that the King had nearly recovered from the attack of illness he has been s uffering from since his return from Jutland. A monument in commemoration of the Danish poet Oehlenschlager was uncovered on the 21st. The statue is from the chisel of M. Diemen, a pupil of Thorwaldsen. Its placed on a granite pedestal, presented by Norway, in the fine promenade near the Amalienborg Palace, the moat elegant quarter of the town. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. Oct. 25. The 3fonikur of to-day contains the following " A judicial investigation has established the fact that the congregation of the ladies of the Sainte Union at Douai have voluntarily abetted in the abduction of young Jewish girls. " These facts would have justified the govern. ment in revoking the authorisation of the Society of the Sainte Union, but it has confined itself to withdrawing the acknowledgment of its legal exist ence. This measure, marked by firmness and mo deration, will remind the religious congregations that neither their character, their object, nor their rules excuse them from obeying the laws of their country." HUNGARY. VIENNA, Ocr. 24. Reports have been current here to-day that serious disturbances bad taken places in Pesth, but according to authentic information those reports are unfounded. IMPORTANT HUNGARIAN ADDRESS TO THE EMPEROR. PESTH, Ocr. 24. The members of the Council of the Hungarian Chancery (Statthaltereirath) have sent an address to the Emperor requesting his Majesty to come to Buds ; to withdraw himself from the influence of the foreign advisers who surround him ; to as semble the Obergespanne of the Comitats, and declare to them that he is resolved to govern in conformity with the Hungarian constitution ; and finally to appoint au Archduke as Governor of Hungary. Then, the address says, the country would place confidence in his Majesty, and would hasten to render him homage. SPAIN. MADRID, Oct 24. In consequence of the death of the Infanta Donna Maria, the opening of the Cortes has been adjourned until the Bth November. The Pope has sent a message to the Queen con doling with her Majesty for the loss of her daughter. GREECE. ATHENS, OCT. 17, vu NAissit.us. The student Dousiott, who lately attempted to assassinate the Queen, has made an unsuccessful attempt to escape from prison. Four persons have been arrested. CHINA AND JAPAN. CANTON, Ssry 12 The death of the Emperor Hien Fung took place at his palace at &hol t in Tati;ary t on the 22nd August. Ndn►nking has been captured by the Impe rialists. Trade at Hankou is hourly increasing. The state of affairs in Japan is still unsatisfac tory. Mr. Oliphant returns home with de spatches. Sir Hercules Robinson has made a trip to Japan, but did not land at Yeddo on account of the disturbed state of affairs there. It appears that, although Father Paseng lia mainly owed his concealment and subsequent escape from Rome to the protection and aid of an English lady, the Bri tish government was also disposed to use every exertion la his behalf should he have required any more potent orAcial mediation to avert the impending wrath of the Court of Rome. The reverend father was appointed Mr. Severn's secretary, and Mr. Severn received a telegram from Lord Russell, instructiog him to make every exertion in behalf of Father Passeglia, sod autho rising him, if sucks step were necessary to remove him from persecution, to grant the father a passport as if to a British subject. At Poggio Mirteto the news of the reversed ecclemartic's arrival spread like wildfire. Congratulatory visite poured is upon him, and in the evening he was sere naded by a band under his windows. Ile telegraphed at ones to the Governor of the Province of Sabina, Signor Mastricols, who came to him the following day from Rieti, and took back Father Passaglia with him to that town, where he was likewise received with all possible festive demonstrations. On the lath he was to leave for Term, by which route he will proceed to Florence. Pere Laeordaire is represented as sinking day by day. His malady defies the efforts cif the French physicians ; and has during teh pint week made • program alarming to his friends. The disease has taken • nervous form, and the patient's sense el touch leas become so fiue as to be almost • torture to him. He bre been obliged to throw aside on that account ►is mane Dominician robes and a sackcloth shirt, which it appears that he has worn for several years. But in spite of all his bodily sufferings, Lsoordaire's intellect seems to in crease rather than decrease in brighteess. .He speaks much on the politic, of the day ; or, rather, improvise dis coursed, when conversing with men of intelligence, that would electrify an audience, and that far surpass, bammes wore natural and illuminated by an abnormal brilliancy of thought, everything that he has ever said in public. The Messager (.14 Midi states that throe days b oo k a waterspout burst over the town of Saint-Form near Avignon. and did • great amount of damage. Five bridges were swept away by the ruddeu rising of various streams, Yd several factories were obliged to suspend work. The prefect thought it neesmary to proceed to the spol, a great number of men being thrown out of employment. . _ A Paris letter, in the Isubspendanct of Brunels, states that the marriage of the Prioress Anna Murat with the Prince of Oranze is much talked of, and that if such as event should take place, the Emperor would give the princess a dowry of two millions. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ova mg PARIS. THURSDAY ETIOOIO. As I find that doubts are expressed on the sub joct, it is as well to state positively that M. Ratazzi did have an interview with the Emperor, at the Tuileries, on Tuesday, Oct. 22. I have strong reasons for believing that the results of that inter view were entirely of a negative character. The situation remains the same. The French army will continuo to occupy Rome at least throughout the winter—and no man can say how much longer. M. Ratazzi, I am told by his friends, is convinced that the Emperor wishes well to Italy, and is per sonally disposed to further the realisation of her hopes ; it is possible that he may have given ex planations on this subject to the eminent Italian statesman which will not at present transpire. But the broad and melancholy fact is that, for reasons which the Emperor thinks cogent, he is not prepared at present to change the stub; quo. At all events, the Italian ministry will know what they have to trust to when their parliament meets in November. The Bourse improved a little. The effect of the rise in the interest of Treasury Bonds having been discounted yesterday, and it being now understood that the Bank of France will not raise its discount, there was a slightly increased demand for securities. Rente rose 10c. for cash and account, closing at 68fr. 60. in each case. Mobilier rose 61r. 25c. The Italian Loan rose 10fr. Railways were a little higher. The market was dull at the close. The Pays contains a curious paragraph, reproach ing the Gazette de Prance with a misrepresentation in alleging that the Pays had contradicted a report that M. Fould was likely to become Finance Minister. The Pays, desiring to speak quite by the card, now says that it only denied certain "anecdotes" told by the Timm correspondent. The inference from this susceptibility is that the Pays shrinks from affirndng that M. Fould is not coming into office. A soldier has just been tried by a tour:-martial, at Nantes, on a charge of having forcibly taken his sister out of the convent of Le Bon Pasteur de Saint Florent, in which she had been placed by order of a family council. The particulars given in the papers are meagre. It seems that the sol dier drew his bayonet, and struck terror among the nuns. On the other hand, there was evidence to show that the young girl had been ill-used, and that she bad called upon her brother to deliver her. The court, by a majority of 6to 1, acquitted the prisoner. A M. Leon Kreutzer, a musical professor, having been awarded a " prize of encouragement" by the Institute, writes a haughty letter to the newspapers to say that he has " no sort of right to it," he having never submitted his pretensions to the . judgment of cer niessieurs. NAVAL AND MILITARY. ADXIRAErT, OCT. 24. —PROMOTIONB AND APPOlNT inaffs.--C.ptain J. R. Cockburn, to the Beringspetem, and to be naval officer in charge of the dockyard and victualling establishment at Simon's Ray. Lieutenant Duke D. Tongs, to the Orpheus. Master W. L. Strong, to the Orpheus. Assistant• Surgeons T. Craig promoted to the rank of surgeon ; and W. D. Longfield (acting) to the Firebrand. Assietant•Paymaster W. IL P. M. Gillham, to the Orpheus. Assistaot•Clerk F. Roberta, to the Revenge. Midshipmen A. Anderaon, to the Edgar ; and A. 11. B. Bradshaw, to the Orpheus. Engineer J. Leigh, confirmed as second-class meistant en gineer in the Revenge. Mr. G. M. Manse' has been nominated to • naval cadet ship. .CI3ATHAIc, cosi% 24. This morning upward• of 160 men of all ranks, belonging to various regiments, were discharged from the army at Mt. Mary's Barracks, and forwarded to their re strecrtsi:ery service. Each coartusedngeeenolpititsr inspected for i f ,T ur a . Chelsea board, who had awarded pensions to the men ordered for discharge, varying in amount according to their period of service. . . _ Captain Hewett. 3fith company, and Captain Cornea, 35th company, Royal Engineers, have been appointed instructors at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and will give over the command of their respective companies at Bramp ton Barracks on the Ist of November. RIFLED ORDNANCE. The competitive trials at Shoeburyneas of the rifled 3'2-pounder service guns have been brought to • sloes by the Ordnance Select Committee without any very satis factory reaulte. At the final trial lancaster's (oval bore), which had previously fired about 90 rounds, stood the 57 competitive rouoda without serious wear, but every shell had to be rammed down with a heavy m etal rammed by two or three men, and wend were cracked or broke up in firing. Scott'. (three groove centric*" bore) had already stood 300 r, ainds. but this gun bunt at the 10th round from a flaw in the bore. Hadden's (eliptical three groove), which had fired 130 rounev, was cracked at the vent after rounds. Jeffrey's (five groove segmental bore) had fired 50 rounds, and stood the 57 rounds without apparent injury. Britten's (seven square groov e) bad fired 3C3 rounds, and stood the final trial, but r f the grooves showed considerable wear. Armstrong's improved shunt gun burst at the 45th round. The gun rifled upon the French plan (three groove) was rendered unserviceable after 42 rounds. _ _ The Lancaster and Armstrong shells fit tight ; Scott's centres against the groove, but allows a windage of about 1-12th of an inch ; the others have more or lees windage, Britten's as much as 1-7th, which greatly reduces the strain on the gun. With two degrees of elevation Scott's and Lancaster's and Jeffrey's ranged 1,000 yarda, Haddon's 000, Armstrong's LOC), and Brittea's varied from 750 to 1,000 yards. The simple iron shells of Lancaster, Scott, and Hidden have lees wearing effect on the bore, require no covering such as the others necessitate, and the velocities at effective breaching distance appear to be decidedly in favour of the simple Iron pro jectile. The trials have been conducted under the super niteodence of the select committee, whose report will be looked for with much anxiety, as the Whitworth and Armstrong heavy guns. as well as the marries guns tested at Shoeboryories, have all failed to answer the expectations of the inventors, and none of them appear to be calculated to meet the requirements of the navy.—Tian. The Madrid journals of the 20th announce that General Miramon, ex.l'resident of the Republic of Mer'co, bad left that capital for Cadiz, to embark for his ou a country. Accounts from the Spanish provinces of Ali cante and Murcia are ver► sad. In the former, owing to the long-continued drought, the fields are parched up, and the populations are emilrating to mane from inab"ity to obtain water to d-ink. In Murcia, with the exception of the renowned plains watered by the SegJ-a and its tan tariee, the fields are completely Merle, and no sowings can ba made. -- A St. Petersburg letter of the 19th says : “ During the last few days the position of the studento Imprisoned in the fortress has been improved. They are no limier dressed is convicts' clothes, their ellowshoe has been Increased from 8 to 25 copecks a day (from about act. to nearly 10d.), and they are permitted to smoke ; but they are Mall kept in solitary soot nement, and they are hot allowed the use of books The attempt to iz the sharp of ems , apiracy upon them is said to hays s'-tody broken down." . Visitor. from Boulogne declare (says the Critic) that the Lord Chanel:Bon New Bankruptcy dot is the most popular reedit( in that city d sairtaary. It is eve. said that Mr. Merridew (the local /India) has had to pro vide 400 oopies of that interesting work to Inset the made upon kiln. Tun MAIM —Yesterday, the Quebec and Mon treal Royal Mail etaameMp Jura maa despatched from Liver pool for Quebec, with the Canadian and United Slates mails, a number of passews, Re. Yestanky, also. the Atria. Royal Mad steamship At wee dispatched from Liver. Koolefr7ffr the Wout sod il tosst el Atria, with the ma the re Madeira, d Atrima Coast. ° ilia Athenian, In additi on , to n o o k an average cargo and piseespre. Tomorrow (Saturday), the Ounard Royal Mail steamship Persia will Lave Liverpool for New York, with the North American and United States mails. The letter.lion at the Liverpool Pent-edies will close at II a.m. MUSIC. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. Harrison have n — ..72e a good beginning of their winter campaign. No theatrical managers have ever deserved success more than they have done. They have from first to last laboured most conscien tiously in doing their duty to the public ; and the public, in requital, owe them every encouragement and support. Their present company is even stronger than it has hitherto been ; they:have made an ample and varied provision of new works by our most distinguished composers to be produced in the course of the season. Their chorus and orchestra are superior to anything we have ever heard in an English theatre ; they have provided all the means of giving splendour and magnificence to their per Cormance ; and in Mr. Alfred Mellon they have a musical director whose ability and energy are not to be surpassed. The theatre opened with Mr. Howard Glover's new opera, Ray Blat. Much was expected from this work, and no disappointment has ensued. On the contrary, it was performed to an audience who crowded the theatre to the doors, and from whom it met with an enthusiastic reception. Its success, indeed, has been triumphant, and such as will give it • permanent place among our standard English operas. The opening scene, of the Pic in honour of the King's birthday, is a most happy mixture of brilliant music, gay spectacle, pretty dances, and lively action. It pre pared the audience for being amused and excited by what was to follow. The first of the dratestie Immense who appeared was Don Salluat, personated by Mr. Swaney, who was received with the honour due to so excellent • per former. His air, "My heart with rage is swelling," was greatly applauded. When Mr. Harrison appeared shortly afterwards, he was greeted with acclamations from all parts of the house. He performed the part of the hero, which he sustained most admirably, showing the powers of a great tragedian as well as of a great singer. His ballad, " Beside her lattice every night," a charming melody (the theme of which we had already heard in the overture), created a great sensation. It was loudly applauded and encored, but though the call was persisted in, it was not responded to. We afterwards found, to our satisfaction, that both Mr. Harrison and Miss Louisa Pyne bad adopted the resolution to decline all encores; • resolution which we hope they will have the firmness to adhere to, and thus con tribute to do away with a senseless practice which has become an absolute nuisance. The duet between Don Sallust and Don Cesar de Baran (Mr. Eantley and Mr. St. Align) is dramatic, and was delivered with much spirit, but it is too long, being too full of words. In the scene which opens the second act there is an exceedingly pretty part-song for female voices, " We have wandered through the gardens," which had • meet pleasing effect, and ought to become popular wherever part-singers "do congregate." Miss Louisa Pyne now made her first appearance, in the cha racter of the Queen. She was exquisitely attired, and looked both charming and queenlike. The sight of her produced • tumult of enthusiasm m the house, which was heightened by the manner in which she warbled her delightful ballad, " A trusty heart in sorrow's need," which, though applauded loud and long, was not repeated. In the same scene there was a playful trio. " Beauteous lady," sung by Miss Thirteen as Casilds, Miss Jessie M'Lean (a most pro mising dibutante) as the Page Oscar, and Miss Susan Pyue as the antiquated Duchess of Albuquerque, the Queen's duenna—very comic and clever, and admirably sung. Casilda's subsequent air, "'Tis sweet to roam," &little Spanish ditty, redolent of Andalusia, enabled Mis s Thirteen to appear to great advantage ; and Miss Susan Pyne was equally happy in • lively song, " Where • husband's eye must fail," which she sang with great spirit and quaintness. When the curtain fell there was the usual ovation which attends • successful performance. After the principal performers bad appeared before the curtain the author was loudly called for, and on presenting himself was greeted with the warm and unanimous plaudits which he so well deserved. THE BUILDERS' BENRvozufr INSTITUTION. Last evening the ntetrepoiitan builders, in these times a numerous and influential body of men, dined together at the London Tavern, iu commemoration and aid of an in stitution, set on foot about fourteen years ago, for affording relief and granting pensions to decayed members of the various branches of the building trade and their widows, and also for affording temporary relief to workmen in case of accident. The Lord Mayor, the president of the society, acted as chairman, accompanied by Messrs. Cockerell and Twentyman, the sheriffs of London and Middlesex. On the right and left of the chairman were Mr. W. Dunuage, Mr. George Plucknett, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Lee, M.P., Mr. George Myers, Mr. George Spencer Smith, Mr. W. J. Gardiner, Mr. Jay, Mr. R. D. Masts, Mr. Stanley Bird, Mr. E. Blatchley, Mr. G. Corderoy, Mr. R. Bennett. Mr. Harwood, Mr. J. F 4. mends, Mr. W. Higgs, Mr. Joseph Peters, Mr. J. R. Freeman, and several more of the leading builders in the metropolis. The report of the society for the peat year, ending on the 24th of July last, stated that the subscrip tions and donations during the year amounted to 1,326/. odd—viz., the annual subscriptions to 8411. As. 6d., and the donations to 4841. 12s. ; showing an increase in the former of 331. Ae. 6d., and in the latter of 1111. Is. 6d. as compared with the preceding 12 months. Since the com mencement of the institution, in 1847, 6,2371. odd has been paid to pensioners, of whom 28 have died during that period, and RI are now dependent on the funds, making the whole number relieved by the charity 61. The directors have made • further investment in the Three per Cent. Consols of 7011. odd—namely, 6171. 11. for the relief fund, including the profits of a ball held in February last, and WI. 12s. 6d. for the building fund, which raises the funded proper( yof the institution to 7,8121. odd, with a talent* at the bankers of 4661. Two elections of pensioners had been held during the past year ; the first in November last, when two were chosen ; the second in May, when four were elected. The deaths of pensioners dining the year were two. The society has recently esta blished a brunch at Brighton. Mr. Robert Forest, of Mon tagu-place, Clapham-road, who died recently, bequeathed ',MN. to the charity, to be paid on the death of hi, widow. At the last election of pensioners the directors were pateed to see so many applicants whom they were obliged to send away with heavy hearts from want of funds to elect more. What funds the society has at its command it dispenses to the decayed members of the trade sod their widow., pri vately, to assist them to live among their friends and ac quaintaooes, wherever they may be, without collecting the recipients together in an almshouse. Mr. George Bird having lately resigned the office of treasurer, Mr. Pluck nett, a leading member of the eminent firm of builders in (hay's-inn-rued, has been unanimously appointed his suc cessor in the office. The Lord Mayor, in proposing the toast of the evening, feelingly commended the institution to the support and countenance of the trade at large, as well OM the ground of common charity as of the precarious cha racter of their vocation. Several complimentary toasts were proposed and drunk in the course of the evening, and at the clues of the festival Mr. Harris. the secretary, an nouneed that the subscriptions during the evening amounted to about 450/. Mr. Guildford Onslow addressed hie constituent* at Guildford on Wednesday night, There is no man in England who can boast of so remarkable a connexion with a borough, Mr. Widow's ancestors having represented Guildford for a period of 166 years, ending with 1830. The hon. gentleman vowed bin attachment to all the leading ineeaures and principles of reform, and was able to point to his votes during the late session in proof of the sincerity of his profassiona Mr. Dillwyn has also addressed his constituents. Yesterday Mr. Adderley attended a meetinc in the Potteries, and assisted is the distribution of the prizes given by the North Staffordshire Society for the Promotion of Education. The right hon. gentlemen, while guarding himself against concurring in all the details of the education minute, expressed his opinion that some change in the pre sent system was required in order to render managers of schools more responsible than they are at present, and to stimulate schools generally. The Earl of Erue has set an example to hi■ brother landlords in Ireland who own property in districts visited by the floods. At the annual exhibition of stock and agricultural produce belonging to his Gifford tenantry, which was held at 13allindrate on Saturday, he stated that he would remit the rent on all the land that had been flooded. He and Lady Ems had visited every family on the estate, and he said that be had never known his tenantry to be so comfortable. He earnestly impressed upon them the necessity of draining their land. His lord ship has been a diligent instructor of his tenantry is all the improved modes of agriculture for the last thirty years. He has extended the indulgence with regard to flooded land to hie tenantry in Fermanagb. . _ His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Con stantine of Russia embarked from Ryde pier yesterday on board her Majesty's steamer Fire Queen, Master• Commander Paul, and crossed over to Portsmouth to visit the doeklard. On landing at the King's Stain be was received by Ties. Admiral Sir H. W. Bruns, Rear-Admirals Hon. O. Grey and J. E. Erskine. He retuned to Ryde In the Pin guise. That portion of the Channel Squadron which in at Plymouth is nearly ready for sea. The Revenge is lying inside the breakwater, and may proceed to-day to join the Warrior at Portland. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will of the Dowager Lady ltfuegrave—relict of Sir Philip Mapprave,latart, of Mao Hall, near Penrith, Cumberland, M.Y. for Carlisle—sou proved in the London court, on the 10th instant, by Major-General William Flndyer, the brother, sole executor. The personalty was sworn under 16,0001. Lady Musgrave was the granddaughter of the Earl of Westmore land. She married Sir Philip Musgrave, Bast, whom she survived thirty-four years, and had issue one daughter, who died in 1844, unmarried. The baronetcy consequently plumed to the next male heir of her late husband. Her ladyship, possessing property in her own right, has disposed of it by her will to Sir George Musgrave, Bart. (her bro ther-in-law), of Eden Hall, with the exception of some email bequests to other members of her family. Her lady ship usually resided at Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, but died in Albemarle-street, on the 21st of August last., aged sixty.six. The will of Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H., Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, was proved in the London court on the 12th inst. ; it bean date the 16th Nov., 1860, the executors appointed being Thomas Brightwen, Fag., Alfred H. Browne, Esq., and the Rev. S. C. Brown. The personalty was sworn under 4,0001. Sir F. Palgruve, whose original name was Cthen, assumed that of Palgrave soon after his marriage, it being the designation of • relative of his wife. Sir F. Palgrave filled the office of Deputy Keeper of the Public Records for many years, was formerly one of the Municipal Corpo retina Commissioners, and had the honour of knighthood conferred upon him in 1832. He wu called to the bar in 18:. 1 7, but appears never to have practised. He was a man possessing great literary taste, and has produced several works, some of them being unfinished at the period of hie decease. The will, which is very brief, contains merely some family directions. His MSS. and correspondence he leaves to his sons, either to keep or destroy, as they may deem requisite, requesting then, to select from his library any books they may Fider, as well as some personal orna ments to be retained by them as mementoes. There are two legacies—one of 1001. to • cousin of the tes tator, and 0110 of 501. to a personal friend. Sir F. Palgrave directs that the residue of his estate is to be in vested as an annuity for his sister Rosa, whom he mentions in terms of much affection, and with the singular peculia rity of his "desolate sister." Sir F. Palgrave attained the ap of 73, died a widower, and has left a family of feu children, all sou. Illustrated Loaders News. The governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital have elected the Rev. Walter Mitchell, M.A., of Queens' College, Cambridge, Assistant HoaMtaller of St. Barthel°. mew's Hospital, and Reader at Christ Church, Newgate. street, to the Rectory of St. Bartholomew-the Lees, London, rendered vacant by the death of the Rev. Samuel Vi ix, M.A., who held it 53 years. Ma. (I. V. Baooga.—On Wednesday night this actor took a farewell benefit at Dublin, when a piece was specially prod uced by him. It is founded upon an incident in Warren's •• Diary of a Physician." Sterns TO But THoMAIS ACLAND.—The some what novel circumstance of the erection of a monument to a living worthy lies just takeu place at Exeter. The merits of Sir Thomas Acland, of Killerton, Devonshire, have been for many years appreciated not only in his native county but in other and more distant parts of the world. A com mittee was therefore formed, with the Earl of Devon as chairman, and subscriptions poured in from all quarters. The result has been the erection of a marble statue on one of the plateaus of Northernhey, in the city of Exeter, by Mr. E. R. Stephens, the eminent sculptor. On Tues day the ceremony of inauguration took place, the Mayor and Corporation of Exeter attending in state, and a large num ber of county gentlemen end others being present. Among those were the Earl of Devon, Lord Poltimore, Lord Clif ford, Sir S. Northcote, M.P., the Right Hon. M. Adderley, M.P., Sir John Duckworth, Mr. A. Hood, Sir J. Buller East, Sr John Dante., Sir P. Acland, Sir J. Kennaway, Admiral Sir F. Moresby, the Huo. and Rev. H. Courtenay, Hon. and Rev. C. L Courtenay, Mr. Buller, M.P., Mr. Race wkh, M.P., Mr. Gard, M.P., Mr. F. Franklin (mayor of Exeter), Itear•Admirsl Cralgie, General Stud ent, Colonel Actual, Dr. Acland, the Rev. L. Acland, and Mr. J. B. Acland (four sons of the hon. baronet). At the banquet, which was held in the evening, the Earl of De von in the chair, letters, regretting their inability to attend, were read from the Earl of Portsmouth, the Bishop of Exeter, Sir H. Davy, M.P., and others. The following motto on the pedestal was suggested by the late Earl Fortescue, who in early life was the political opponent of Sir T. Acland :—" Praienti tibi tua taras largimur tenures." The statue contained the follow ing inscription :—" Erected as a tribute of affectionate re 'pact for private worth and public integrity, and in testi mony of admiration for the generous heart and open hand, which, without regard to party, nice, or creed, have been ever ready to protect the weak, to relieve the needy, and succour the oppressed." THESALMOIS FISHERIES.—An influential meeting of the owners of river frontage on the Derwent and its tri butaries, and others interested in the preservation of salmon, was held at Cockermuuth nu Wednesday, to con sider what measures should be takeu for the purpose of en forcing the provisions of the new act relating to the protec tion of salmon, and for generally improving the Derwent and its tributaries. The lion. Percy Wyndham. M.P., presided, and in opening the proceeding" said that he was One of those who believed that all that scientific men hai said about salmon was true if they only gave it fair play— that, as he saw the other day, the salmon was almost the best animal they could make a bargain with, for he took nothing from them and gave himself in return. If ooze they placed salmon in the state nature intended it to be they would have it in great quantities. In reply to Mr. John Steel, IL P., it was stated that three years ago en angling association was formed, and they had met with every support from the landowners. Lord Neal, M.P., remarked that the interest of tho upper proprietors would now be much increased, and perhaps they would be likely to combine to preserve the river. A long conversation took place, iii the course of which the Hon. Percy Wyndham , stated that there was only one weir which would require the erection of a fish ladder. A letter was read from Mr. W. Lawson, M.P., in which be expressed himself in favour ; of the system of rating the proprietors, though be was doubtful how such a system would avower in this part of the country. After considerable discrwaion a eanniittee was appointed to consider what steps should be adopted for the presermtioa of the fish in the Derwent and its tributa ries. awl the best means of taking advantage of the new act. THE MILTOWN-KOAD OUTRAGE.—We (Freeman's Journal) understand that the cabman who is under arrest on the accusation of being the offender in the Miltowo-road case is about to apply for a postponement of his trial, partly under the apprehension that io the present state of feeling he could not hope for an impartial investigation of his case, and partly on the ground that he is not prepared. We most armless that we feel that there are in the two allegations suf &Wet grounds for an application for delay. There never was so much public indignation exhibited on any one lees tioo, and even an innocent man would Mal the very soma. tioa enough to overpower, perhaps to convict, him. Justice can afford to wait, and if the accusal even imagines that he can make a mote successful &fears) by procuring time to prepare it, be ought to have it. the Irish Ti 1001 of Thursday says :—" At the oomniissioc of oyer mad termitic . this day, the grand jury found a true bill against the cab man, J ohn Correa. _ . . AOILIRIAN Ouritanv..—Thi. Newry Telegraph of yesterday contains the following account of an outrage :—" Yesterday, at the Police-court, before i rt n . C. Brady, two men, earned Michael Ferrigan and James Maguire, were brought up in custody of Sub-constables Kelly and West, charged with entering& house near Sea brook, and beating the owner, a man named Joseph Cooper. Ann Cooper deposed that on Mo n day night, about 11 o'clock, ber husband beard a knock at the dear, avid roes to open it. When the door had been opened she heard a ft-urne, and heard her husband crying out, Oh don't, boys.' She rose up and ran out to the kitchen, which was crowded with men, all beating and at her husband. She called out, but they her husband into the street, and while one man held him on his knees, F ran over and kicked him on the breast. They made him go down on his knees, and put his band to bra heart, and swear by his Maker that he would give op his house and land. Her husband said teat be had always lived at peace, and never had a falling out with the boy M'Elroy, from whom he had the laud, but that be would give it up. Ferrigan was rushing at him again, when he was stoo ped. She ran down to arouse John M'Elroy, her nearest neigh. boor, and when she came back the five men were going away, when the man who bad her husband on his knees caught her by the hand, and said, ' Good night, Mrs. Cooper. I came fifty miles to see this done, and tell your husband that if be does not give up the land what he bee got will only be an "earl penny "to what he will get.' This was the prul• cipal portion of the woman's depositions. She described the clothing worn by the prisoner Ferrigan. A certificate vii handed from the medical gentleman attending Cooper, stating that he was in a very dangerous state, principal! from tuteroal injuries. Yr. Brady said that these craw were a disgrace to the country, and that the law would have to put a atop to it. He hoped the gentleman who tad come the 50 miles to see the 'job ' executed would soon be in the hands of the police. The prisoners were thee remanded for • week, and on bail being offered it wr refused." THE MURDER AT BUCHLAND MONACHORtII. - " It will be remembered by many of our readers OA during the night of the 30th of October, 1452, au oti woman, named Mary White, was murdered is bd bed, her throat having been cut by a person who ar pared to have entered her cottage through the lad" room window. The deed of horror caused the f orAtet.. excitement at the tiros, and s butcher named Corber , et ri residing at Milton, in the parish of Buckld, who wag the first to discover the murder, was appreloo an ded, undr. went several examinations, and was finally committed : 1 trial on suspicion of being the murderer. The ogej however, was not brou,/ht home against him, 0 " he was discharged. Since then the &fair b. l ! hood tell lately remained a perfect mystery. aud alaw 6 ' everybody not residing in the immediate ueigid.a." the discovery of the murderer. Mr. Superioteodent ha i r e ij m org em ott i en a tchleuedre been found Ntiotawt,nlimoywetine,.ri sett fray man, of the Storehouse police, hes received inforg'iTi which we are not at liberty to dialog', but it cane, slew it an Sir of great probability th a t the perpetrator atmciou act will at last ho brought to justice. ° perhaps, be able to give further partieuldrs In our grit issue. —Plymouth Journal.