The Sun. — London, England, 1858-11-16 00:00:00

WINTER. —NO GENTLEMAN during the Winter should be without one of pfACDOUGALL'S FAMOUS HIGHLAND CLOAKS, Universally acknowledged to be the most comfortable, useful, mid gentlemanly upper Garment now in use, either for Town wear, or the Rail, the Coach, Riding, Driving, and Walking. They are made of Scotch Tweedy,in every.variety f Plain Colours, and very pretty Mixtures : also in dark Grey and Black, forylergymen's wear. Good useful qualities from.... 265. to 3fis. The best do. do. 38s. to 50s. The Height and Size round Shoulders is sufficient measure. Patterns and price per post, free. Any number of Cloaks forwarded in four days from date of order, free to London. D. MACDOUGALL , THE ROYAL TARTAN WAREHOUSE. INVERNESS. • CONTRACTS FOR VEGETABLES. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling, Somerset-House, 16th Nov., 1858. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on MONDAY, the 6th December next, at half-past One o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for:supplying (under separate contracts) all such quantities of VEGETABLES as may be demanded for the use of her Majesty's Ships and Vessels at the following places, from the Ist January, 1859, to the 31st March, 1861, both days included, viz.:— ENGLAND, &c. SCOTLAND. Douglas (Isle of Man) Bernera (Hebrides) Hastings Campbeltown Jersey and Guernsey Kirkwall L yin ington Stornoway Newhaven I IRELAND. Poole Carrickfergus Castletownsend S'neem (Kenmare River) Separate tenders must be made for i Kch port, and no atten tion will be paid to any offers not so Made. None of the contracts to be sub-let. A form of the Tender may be obtained, and the conditions of the revised Contracts, to which particular attention is called, may be seen at this office, or by applying to her Ma jesty's Collector of Customs at Douglas, .Jersey and Guernsey, Poole, Newhaven, Campbeltown, Stornoway, Kirkwall, and to the Postmasters at each of the other places. No Tender will be received after half-past one o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed unless made on the printed form provided for the purpose ; but it will notbe necessary that the party tendering, or an agent appointed by him, should at tend at this office, as the result of the offer received from each person will be communicated to him and his proposed sureties in writing. Every tender must be delivered at the above 'office, and signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering, in the sum of £lOO, for the due performance of each of the contracts. • CONTRACTS FOR FRESH BEEF. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling, Somerset-house, 16th Nov., ISSB. ?THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the, Ow FILE of LORD 1110 - 11 ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM 0;' GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO HERERX GIVE NOTICE, That on MONDAY, the Gth Member nest, at Half-past One o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as mor be willing - to CONTRACT for supplying (under separate Col ;tracts) all such quantities of FRESH BEEF • as may be demanded for the use of her Majesty's Ships and Vessels at the following. places, from the Ist January to the list December, 1859, both days included, viz. : ENGLAND, dm. I Weymouth Brixham WhitstabLe Chatham (!owes Yarmouth SCOTLAND. Dartmouth Deal, and in the Downs Dover _ _ Aberdeen Bernera (Hebrides) Campbeltown Douglas, Isle of Man Exmouth Croniarty Glasgow *Falmouth Grimsby Harwich Hastings llolyhead Hull Jersey and Guernsey Littlehampton Liverpool London Bridge to Gravesend, inclusive Lyme Lymington Newhaven Penzance Poole Portland and Portland Roads Portsmouth (Oxen) Ramsgate Sheerness Southampton Swansea Granton Greenock Kirkwall Leith Montrose Oban ? t u o e r en s fe r ry u °wa I Y RELAND) Bantry Bay Berehaven Carlinirford Carrickfergus Castletownsend Galway Kilrush Kingstown and Dublin Londonderry Queenstown and Kinsale Rathmullen Sneem (Kenmare River) Waterford Separate Tenders must be made for each Port, and no at tention will be paid to any offers not so made. None of the Con;.racts to be sub-let, and the Contracts for Chatham and Sheerness, to be taken by persons residing on the spot, and the Cattle for Chatham and Sheerness to be slaughtered on the spot. A Form of the Tender may be obtained, and the conditions of the revised Contracts, to which particular attention is called, may be seen at this Office, or by applying to the Su perintendents of the Victualling Establishments at Deptford and Gosport ; the Superintendents of her Majesty's Dock yards at Woolwich, Chatham, and Sheerness ' • the Clerk in charge of her Majesty's Yard at Deal ; the Agent for the Victualling at Haulbowline ; the Agent for Transports at Leith ; the Officers conducting the Packet Service at Dover, Liverpool, and Southampton ; the Secretary to the Post master-General, Dublin ; to the Collectors of her Majesty's Customs at Glasgow Greenock Kirkwall Montrose Stornoway Galway Londonderry Waterford Cowes Newhaven Dartmouth Yarmouth Douglas Penzance Falmouth Poole Grimsby Ramsgate Ilarwich Swansea Hull Weymouth Jersey & Guernsey Aberdeen Lyme Campbeltown And to the Postmaster at each of the other places. No tender will be received after Half-past One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed, unless made on tiro printed form provided for the purpose ; but it will not be necessary that the party tendering, or an agent appointed by him, should attend at this Office, as the result of the offer received from each person will be communicated to him and his pro posed sureties in writing. Every Tender must be delivered at the above Office, and signed by two responsible persons, etfkaging to become bound with the person tnideriwz in the sum of £1,500 for the due performance of each of the Contracts for London-bridge to iravesend, :7zheerness,"Chatham; Portsmouth, and Queens town and Kinsale ; and in the sum of £3OO for each of the other Contracts. THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.—Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W llarrison. THIS EVENING, Balfe's ROSE OF CASTILLE : Miss Louisa I'yne, Miss Susan Tyne, Miss M. Prescott ; Mr. Fer dinand (Hover, Mr. A. St. Albyn, Mr. Bartleman, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. To conclude with a new Ballet Divertissemeat, LA FLEUR D'A3IOUR Mesdlles. L. Ilichclet, Morlacchi, and Pasquale. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. •.TH IS EVENING will be presented ShalEspere's Play of KING JOHN. King John, Mr. C. Kean—Constance, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by the Farce of AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckatone. — TIM; EVENING will be performed (sixth time), THE TALE OF A COAT. Mr. Charles Mathews. After which, THE DOWAGER. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews. Followed by THE ETON BOY. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mather , , &c. And JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. Commence at 7. R OYAL STRAND THEATRE Lesse:? and Directress, Miss Swanborough. THIS EVENING, WOOING IN JEST. AND LOVING IN :EARNEST: Messrs. Selby, Parselle, and Miss Swan borough. After which THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE. Followed by TILE LAST OF THE PIGTAILS : Messrs. C. Selby, J. Bland, .7. Clarke, And THE BONNIE FISH WIFE. Commence at 7 o'clock. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee, Mr. William Cooke. Astounding and Expensive Parisian Engagement. THIS EVENING, and during the week, will be presented TII E WOO DMA X'S 110 ItSE, introducing a treble company of equestrians and the finest Stud of Horses in the world. Characters by Messrs. Holloway, W.. Cooke, Anson, Francis, Mark Howard, Anderson. Followed by the inimitable SCENES OF THE ARENA, in which Mr. W. Cooke, Mr. Runnels, Miss Kate Cooke, and Madlle. Blanche will appear. After which, Madame Amite Maurice, from Paris, will make her Terrific Ascent from the Stage to the back of the Galleries. Mons. Maurice will also have the honour to introduce his extraordinary Dogs. To conclude with A MISTAKEN STORY. Dress Circle, 3s. ; Upper Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls. ; Galleries, Bd. Private Boxes from £1 la. to £2 2s. and upwards. Stage Manager, Mr. IL Phillips. CANTERBURY BALL, Westminster-road.— Proprietor—C. MORTON. The public is most respectfully informed that 'the FINE ARTS GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW OPEN DAY AND NIGHT, from II o'clock a.m. *until 12 o'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec tion of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters and is also devoted to Art production's generally. The Proprietor feels he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist- Musie Hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently added Ante-Hall, will present an attraction which, whether a regards the architectural beauty of the structures them selves,_, or the v ar i e d an d hith er t o una tt em pt e d co mbinations will be found to be wholly without parallel in the Kingdom. The MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT COREECIICes as usual at Seven o'clock. The Quarterly has r ecentl y g ive n to the wor ld the epitaph of the late Government. It is saga_ ciously and sententiously penned throughout. Any one who lists may read it legibly engraven in elm. ractcrs as clearly marked as the cruciform hiero glyphics upon the stubborn surface of a political argument upon "Past and Present Administra tions." Unlike the general run of tributes in that dead-lively department of literature, the epitaph here inscribed by the Quarterly reviewer over the grave of the defunct and buried Ministry of Loi d PALMERSTON is certainly not cloying to the taste from the sweetness of over-much flattery. On the contrary, it is acidulated with sarcasm where it is not positively bitter with acrimony. Altogether, its. flavour, to our thinking, has the twang of true wit and the:shrewdness of genuine sagacity. It cer tainly has a relish about it that we are none the less disposed to acknowledge, where we cannot deem it to be actually wholesome—where we have somewhat of a suspicion even that it is calculated in a slight degree to be deleterious. The poli tical article ;.we are 'alluding to is the closing paper in the current number of our true-blue quar terly contemporary. It is a production to which we would earnestly direct attention as one consti tuting a graphic epitome of recent events in Par liament, calculated to afford a more vivid idea of their general bearing and of their real signi ficance. The reviewer sets out in his argument by remarking, as truthfully as picturesquely, that " the tragic vicissitude which has overtaken Lord PALMERSTON' seems more in keeping with the records of despotic, nay of oriental favouritism and its sharp reverses, than with the more tranquil and even movement of the fortunes of statesmen under a well-balanced system of constitutional Government." And having shortly afterwards alluded to the circumstance that the Administra tion subsequently called into existence, the one now presiding over the destinies of the empire, actually and notoriously rules by a minority, the writer adds that, nevertheless, " The Ministry of Lord DERBY exists with pretty general approval and with nearly universal acquiescence." Nay—it having been already remarked by him in so many words, that "at this moment the actual party of the Government can hardly be said to exceed two-fifths of the House of Commons," the re viewer thus happily analyses the proportions of party in that popular assemblage. He. says— " Two fifths of the House of Commons, to begin with, are fast friends of the Government. Two more fifths, although not its fast friends, yet from. various motives are not prepared to concur in its removal. Some, because they think it a better Go vernment than the one which preceded it. Others, because they think it a better Government than any which is likely to follow. Others again, be cause, though in mental vision they forecast some form of Liberal restoration, yet they know the time is not come. Others, because they think the Minister, who took office to meet a real public emergency, ought to have fair play. And all these are taught by their common sense that they ought not to distress a Government which they are not prepared to remove. Thus it comes about that with four-fifths of the House of Com mons the Administration is strong for every prac tical purpose : that it can rely on its allies as well as well as on its native troops : that its miltia some times rival its regulars." The illustration will cer tainly be allowed to be very felicitous. It happily enough adorns the romantic tale of our late Parlia mentary vicissitudes, the moral of which tale is sagaciously pointed by the following congratulatory remark upon the result, as " honourable to a coun try where we see that party in politics is not always blinded into faction." The independent section of the Liberal party is said immediately afterwards to have preferred—" to the eclat and the perquisites which it might, had it been so minded, have continued to enjoy in the train of a Minis ter "—" the dowerless poverty of honourable opposition." Hereupon follows the elaborated epi taph already alluded to—the epitaph inscribed by the Quarterly; over the tomb of a Cabinet which says the reviewer, " will perhaps, after all, be chiefly remembered as the braggart or Bobadil Administration." Its foreign policy was for the most part its chief standing ground. Whereupon thus wittily quoth the Quarterly, "It was once said to be a policy of vigour tempered with concili ation : it is now seen to have been a policy of arro gance, dashed and variegated with timidity." It is described as having lacked any definite powers of comprehending the idea of "public right"—now strikingly defined as " the keynote of harmony in the march of States." PrOving, it has been observed by the writer, that the advantages which might otherwise have accrued from the ex-Premier's " great knowledge of one great department" were in reality " more than neutralised by the spirit of mingled turbulence and levity" carried by him into the affairs of general administration. These peculi arities he is said to have transferred into them with yet further effect through " the supple and unresist ing medium" of my Lord CLARENDON, the then Foreign Secretary. As a consequence of all which, is is surely no wonder now to be reminded that Lord PALMERSTON'S " two years of peace ad ministration were agitated by abundant quarrels both of ink and blood." In proof of which it is not alone to the imbroglio with Naples, or the anxiety of our situation in regard to France and the French alliance that reference is here made exclusively. " The very same spirit," observes the Quarterly, " which ruled in the matter of the imprisoned engine-men and the WALEwsKt despatch, had been, as we now all find, visibly enough at work before. That spirit it was which, in 1855, peremptorily re fused to rule the questions of the Isle of Serpents and the Bessarabian frontier otherwise than by force, and made a demonstration of force accord ingly by sending the British fleet into the Black Sea contrary to the treaty of Paris ; and which then, upon the same state of facts, and without any confession of error, allowed those very questions to be submitted, as Russia had re quired, to the decision of a Conference. That same spirit it was which, with the elaborate sophistry of diplomacy, pushed America into extreme irritation by frivolous claims to the possession of Ruatan and by virtual dominion in the Mosquito territory ; but which abandoned these pretensions wholesale, when it was found that, as in the ease of Naples, the other party to the quarrel was at least more in earnest than ourselves. That same spirit it was, which by miserable quibbling, and by its under ground manoeuvres for the purpose of recruiting in America contrary to law, brought down upon us the insult of Sir JOHN CRAMPTON'S dismissal with three or four British consuls in his train, and then took credit for its mag nanimity and forbearance in refusing the challenge which its own misconduct had provoked." Altogether, the system expressed in the late Government is defined by the reviewer as " a system which at home was favourable neither to permanence nor to progress, and which abroad united the dangers of violence with those of pol troonery." It is curious to remember, indeed, that by a whimsical anti-climax the Cabinet, whose chief claims to support were that it had brought about peace, and that, in the meantime, peace was even tually destroyed by a device emanating from those who are avowedly the advocates of the uncompro mising, fantastic, and utterly impracticable scheme of Peace-at-any-Price—conscientious sticklers for even they, o that most u t o pi an o f a ll po liti ca l pr i nc i p l es —they, f w a cru p l A d L n m o E t ßs c T o o n N sen G t ov t e o rn a m cc e e n p t. t peace PA the price The Bank Charter Act has been unequivocally condemned, not merely by the vast majority of the experienced and intelligent witnesses who were examined, but by almost every disinterested mem ber of the Committees of both branches of the nse of the en ti re and by the general se Legislature, 'A)SP- 4 1 N • , 4 44. 0 . , a te Pot .f ,rglW A11111114 6 \ AL, Viet. 1 E it 4 `.1•• • "'. biter!' 1""2, THE SUN. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 16, 1858. THE : .;UN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16, 1858. country. The Lords' •Committee, in their lucid and able report, declared.. that the restrictions thereby imposed " materially aggravated the pressure," and produced the pani 3" of October, - 1847. They clearly and distinct ly explained the process by which the distress was produced and credit virtually annihilated. They showed that the Bank itself must have closed its doors but for the issue of the Government let'ter of the 25th October, which afforded immediate relief, and that the suspension of the law ought t , a be regarded as tantamount to its total repeal. In deed the only excuse that could be received for a de liberate violation of the enact ment was a firm determination to abrogate it at the earliest possible opportunity. Provisions that only work during fair weather—that alike stimu late a mania or a panic—that render money at one time a drug in the market, and at another a commodity that cannot be obtained at almost any price—that make the rate of discount vibrate between 1 and 20 per cent. cannot be sustained or justified on any pretext. In the Commons' Committee, JOSEPH HUME, the staunch, consistent, and independent Liberal and Free Trader, moved a resolution—" That, in the opinion of the Committee, the laws for regulating the issue of bank notes, payable on demand, aggra• vated the commercial distress in England in 1847." This was supported by eleven independent mem bers, including the names of Lord GEORGE BEN TINCK, Mr. DISRAELI, Mr. GLYNN, Mr. HERRIES, Mr. T. BARING, Mr. JAMES WILSON, Mr. SPOONER, Mr. HUME, Alderman THOMPSON, Mr. IluDsOlc, and Mr. CAYLEY ; while in the carefully-selected majority were included Sir ROBERT FEEL, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Mr. GOULBURN, Mr. CARDWELL, and Mr. BECKET, all holding influential places in, or closely connected with, the Ministry, by which the inauspicious measure was carried ; and Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Sir CHARLES WOOD, and Mr. LABOUCHERE—three members of the Government, who had determined to support it perfas aut nefas. Indeed, it was on the appointment of that commit tee that Sir CHARLES WOOD made that remarkable statement, that a Government would act very erroneously in consenting to the appointment of any committee ) of the nature of whose report they could not previously form a clear estimate. In deed, this was so clearly understood that many of the members opposed to the Act abstained from undertaking an arduous and practically useless duty. Mr. DISRAELI felt that there were ample grounds on which to frame the necessary legisla tion, and this will account for the apparent indif ference with which himself and many of his sup porters regarded the proceedings of that body. Had Parliament - proceeded to legislate speedily after the crisis of 18t7, there can be but little doubt that there would have been a complete revision of the monetary laws. Public feeling had been thoroughly aroused. Every commercial man was smarting under the heavy losses he had sustained. The working-classes saw and remembered the sufferings endured by their families and themselves. They saw the many comforts which they had accumulated dispersed, and sold for less than half their value, and the savings which they had set aside from their hard earnings taken away, in order to obtain the common necessaries of life. If it had then been thought that the law which produced, or at all events greatly enhanced, these fearful evils would be maintained, there would have been a convulsion throughout the entire country—a pressure from without that would speedily have brought Parlia - ment and the hardest of the hard calculators to reason. Sir CHARLES WOOD, however, artfully contrived to shelve the question for an entire session, until the grievances were forgotten, and the people became comparatively indifferent respecting a ques tion in which their welfare, prosperity, and happi ness is more deeply concerned than in any other that could possibly be ventilated.. There are, however, even stronger grounds at present for revising and modifying the law, even than in 1847. It has failed a second time in its operation, and once more wide-spread ruin and dis tress hare been the awful results, Again, traders of unquestionable solvency have been compelled to suspend payment. The minimum rate of discount at the Bank itself was advanced to 10 per cent., and nearly double that out of doors. Ten years previously it stopped at 8. There was, if possible, a greater starvation of currency. The measure and representative of value, the life-blood of industry, was absolutely wanting—production was arrested, mills and factories closed, and tens of thousands, aye, hundreds of thousands of men, able and will ing to work, deprived of employment, in order to gratify the pet theories of Lord OVERSTONE and his disciples, and to enable the hard calculators to add to their already overgrown hoards at the ex pense of the industrial population of the country. But there are other important reasons which render the case still stronger against the Bank. In 1847 it possessed an existing charter which would not expire until the termination of twelve months any time after the Ist of August, 1855. Parliament could scarcely have interfered with the provisions of that Act without giving a fair equivalent. It had done nothing to forfeit its privileges ; for although authorised to transgress the prescribed limits, it had contrived to keep within them—the knowledge that they could do so, if necessary, and did not, having completely restored confidence, and dissipated the panic as if by the wand of an enchan ter. But this is altogether changed. The Act has virtually expired, only awaiting the notice to quit which may be given at any moment. The Directors well knew the vantage ground they oc cupied in 1848. They could at any time have raised a cry of breach of faith had there been any interference with their valuable privileges, by which their profits have been so greatly enhanced during every period of monetary pressure. That element is completely eliminated from -the circula tion. And Mr. DISRAELI cannot entirely, as he thinks, prosper without any embarrassment arising from that quarter. Besides, the Bank actually exceeded the amount in 1857. It was compelled to do that which, ac cording to law, incurred the forfeiture of it* char ter. Every difficulty has, therefore, been smoothed away. And Mr. DISRAELI will not only be justi fied, but imperatively required to enter on the task which had previously been evaded by Sir CHARLES WOOD and Sir G. CORNEWALL LEWIS. It is, there fore, the proper period for monetary reformers to bestir themselves. The light cloud is already pass ing over the moon's disc. A golden opportunity will arise, which, if neglected or misapplied, will leave the people securely fastened in chains, from which there will be but little hope of escaping for a series of years. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, Nov. 15. The Queen, with Princess Alice and Princess Helena, rode in the riding-house this morning, attended by the Hon. Mary Bulled. The Prince Consort, accompanied by the Prince of - Wales, went out shooting. Toussoun Paella, only son of the Viceroy of Egypt, was introduced to her Majesty the Queen by Sir Moses Monte fibre, to take leave on his return home. Messrs. German had the honour of exhibiting on Satur day to the Queen and the Prince Consort a working model of their recently patented new propeller, in lieu of screw and paddles, with boiler and engine complete. LATEST NEWS. INDIA. The following telegram has been received at the East India•bouse To THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE, INDIA: HOUSE, LONDON. FROM G. F. EDMONSTONE, ESQ., SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA WITH THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL. ALLAHABAD, OCT. 16. OUDE. The following events have occurred in Oude since the date of my last message, on the 4th of October :- .The rebels had advanced on Sundella with 12,000 men and 12 guns. Captain Dawson entered a fortified enclosure with 1,400 police in • sending back his 500 cavalry t o M a ll eca b ad. fantry, On the 10th of October the rebels were driven out of Sundella, losing one gun and 100 men killed. On the Bth a column sent from Luck.now attacked the rebels at Zhamoo, near Sundella, and routed them, taking three guns. The pursuit was kept up for 10 miles, and 1,000 rebels were killed. Our loss—Europeans, two officers and seven p r i va t es wounded ; police, four killed and 44 wounded. On the sth of October Brigadier Eveleigh encountered a body of rebels at Meeahgunge, near the Cawn took two guns, and kill e d and wounded pore-road, 200 men. Our loss trifling. The Kftpoorthalla Contingent have again disj finguished themselves in an attack on the town . of Bundooree, near Bairam Ghaut, on the Gogra River; 400 of the rebels were killed, without any loss on oar side. A strong column, under Brigadier Wetherall, is being formed at Soraon, in the Allahabad district, on the left bank of the Ganges, and will advance into Oude immediately. NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCES—BENARES Artillery. They proceed towards Gooneh to morrow. KANDEISH. Metarain, the leader of the rebel Bheels in Khan deish, was killed on the Bth Oct. by a party of Holkar's cavalry, under the orders of Captain Keating. Her Majesty's 6th Enniskillen Dragoons arrived in Bombay, per steamship Oneida, on the 16th instant. H. L. ANDERSON, Secretary to Goverment. Bombay Castle, Oct. 25, 1858. VINCENT G. MONTANARO. Malta, Nov. 14, 1858. • The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office : MADRID, Nov. 15. General Concha has been nominated President of the Senate. Governthent does not accept the resignation of the Marquis of Habana. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY. The Moniteur of yesterday has the following : " Since the commencement of this century France has vainly attempted to enter into relations with Cochin China. The incessant pitiless treatment of our missionaries has more than once brought our ships of war to the coast of the kingdom of ' Ann am, but without any success attending their efforts to enter into relations with the Government of Cochin China, and obtain an attenuation of its habitual acts, of violence. In 1856 the Government of the Emperor sent a spe'cial agent to Tourane, to make another attempt to overcome the blind obstinacy of tho Court of Annam. That agent was not even allowed to land, and he was compelled to leave without being able even to forward to ,Hue the message of which he was the bearer. This proceeding was followed by a new and still more rigorous persecution than ever of the missionaries, and a bishop, M. Diaz, was put to death after being first put to severe torture. As the Government of the Emperor could not allow his overtures to be so disdainfully rejected and his solicitude to be made the pretext of persecution, an expedition was resolved upon. " The Spanish Government suffering under simi lar griefs, hastened to concur in the object of the expedition, the command of which was entrusted to Vice-Admiral Rigaud de Genouilly, placing at his disposal a Manilla regiment and two ships of war. The report which we published the day before yes terday makes known the first results obtained in the Bay of Tourane by the united flags of France and Spain." Every exertion that was made to effect a serious re-action in the Rente having failed to succeed, the quotation 'became firmer as the closing of the Bourse approached, and the price rose from 74f. 40c. to 74f. 70c. The Mobilier reached 992 f. 50c., and railway shares partook of the advance. The last price of Rente was—Three per Cents., 74f. 60e. PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin, of the 13th inst., says : "The Minister of the interior, M. Flottwell, has prohibited the circulation of the Swiss paper, the Bund, throughout the whole of Prussia. The Minister invokes the law on the press which, when one copy of- a foreign newspaper has been once, seized, authorizes the Minister of the Interior to prohibit it altogether. (A copy of the Bund had been formerly seized.) The reason of this step has not transpired, and has caused considerable surprise at Berlin, as the Bund was allowed admittance under the late Ministry, even at the time of the Neufchatel crisis. It would have been well if the Minister had notified the special reason for so serious a proceeding." RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND. The annual general meeting of this company was held at Aberdeen on Friday ; Mr. John Stewart, in the chair. The cIIAiRMAN congratulated the shareholders on the present position and prospects of the com pany. The receipts for the year showed an increase of £4,000 over those of the previous year, while the expenditure was less, the working expehses of the line being only 31 per cent. of the receipts for traffic. This was 8 per cent. less than the working expenses of the Caledonian, the cheapest•worlced line in Scotland, and 13 per cent. below the average cost of working all the lines in England. The plant of the company had been maintained in a most effi cient state ' and, while the expenditure in various matters of detail had been considerably reduced the working stock of the company was never in a better condition. For this they were mainly indebted to their active - and intelligent secretary, Mr. Milne, In reviewing the traffic of the year he was sorry to say that the:increase had all been on the first three months, and arose from the opening of the Banff, Macduff, and Turriff Railway, the traffic of which, however, had not been sustained. - They had suf fered on the Great North of Scotland line in con sequence of the general stagnation of trade and commerce, which for a time had affected nearly all the lines in the kingdom ; but of late trade had im proved, and now their weekly income promised to give them . a total for the next year of larger amount than they had yet realised. The Alford Valley Railway, to which they had subscribed, would be opened in January next, and no doubt materially benefit the company. ' The Aberdeen and Inverness Junction had been materially bene ficial to the Great North of Scotland ; the Formar tine and Buchan line, to which they were also sub scribers, would be made as soon as the proprietary and residents in the district had subscribed £2,000 a mile, and he was glad to say that some of the proprietary had set a good example to others by giving their land at the rate of £1 per acre of ground-rent, or perpetual feu. He concluded by moving resolutions approving the report and the dividend on the original shares of the company. The resolutions were passed unanimously. DIVISION. The districts of Benares, Jaunpoor, Mirzapore, and Azinighur are quiet ; the northern frontier of Azimgbur is, however, still threatened from Oude. The Ghazeepore district is generally quiet, but a few sepor are still hanging about the village of Burragason. GORUCKPORE. The rebels, who had again advanced on Bansee, were driven off, and the country east of Bansee is now in a great measure cleared of rebels. The territory bordering on Gueth (?) contiNues to be disturbed. ALLAHABAD DIVISION. Nothing of importance to report. ROCHILCUND DIVISION. This division continues quiet, with the exception of the northern frontier of Shahjehanpore, which suffers from occasional runs by the Oude rebels. A force from Shahjehanpore, under Sir T. Seaton, encountered a body of rebels at the village of Ban gamaon, on the Oude frontier, on the Bth October, took two guns out of three, and killed 300 men. Our loss, about 12 killed and wounded. On the same day another body of rebels attacked Powaeen, but were repulsed. The Agra, Meer at, and liumaon Divisions are quiet. JHANSI DIVISION. This division has been generally quiet, but the approach of Tantia Topee, who was last heard of on the banks of the Betwa, on the borders of the Sullutpoor district, has cttused great uneasiness: Fenton, the Deputy-Commissioner of Sullut poor, has had to abandon his district and fall back on Jhansi. It appeared uncertain whether Tantia Topee would move in the direction of Jhansi. The Jubbulpore Division is tolerably quiet. CENTRAL INDIA. On the '2d. i)! Oct. Tantia Topee attacked and took Enaghur. The troops of Scindia, who held the place, are believed to have fraternised with the rebels. The post of Thundegree, in the Jhansi division, was attacked by a portion of Tantia To pee's force from the 7th to the 9th of Oct. The rebels were beaten off by the garrison, which was composed of Scindia's troops, and retreated to Seel (?), ten miles off. On the 9th of October General Michell surprised a division of the rebels under the Banda Nawab at Mongrenlie (?), O of them,killing sixguns. The Rao S a hib saidis to towards Jhansi w ith ano th er have and gone division. PUNJAB.-DELIII TERRITORY. The King of Delhi left Zeenut Mahul, and Auvan Butt left Delhi on October 7, under esco r t of her Majesty's 9th Lancers, a troop o f H orse Artillery, and a Police Battalion. BENGAL. PATNA DIVISION. A party of Sepoys were attacked near Doomdaon, in the Arrah District, and about 30 killed. Our loss, two officers—Captain Nason, Military Train, Captain Douglas, Madras Cavalry—killed. G. F. EDMONSTONE, Secretary to the Government o f India, with the Governor-General. SUPPLEMENT TO MR. SECRETARY EDMONSTONE'S MESSAGE DATED OCTOBER 16, OUDE. A force was despatched from Sultanpoor on the 20th of Octoter to Daodpoor, where it completely defeated the Nusseerabad rebels' brigade, taking three guns, three elephants, and all the enemy's materials. The fort of Burrah was taken on the 21st. The British loss on these occasions amounted to about 40 wounded avid a few killed. BENARES. The Deputy Magistrate of Sassaram reports that the column under Col. Turner engaged a body of the enemy at the village of Baja (?), Capt. Sir H. Havelock at the same time pressing their rear with his cavalry. The enemy was completely routed, losing 600 in killed; the Britishope officer killed and two wounded, and seven or eight then killed and wounded. CENTRAL INDIA. On the 9th of October the Mhow field force, under the command of Major-General Michell, sur prised near the town of Mongrenlie a body of the Gwalior rebels, numbering from 4,000 to 5,000, and utterly defeated them, taking their six guns ; the British loss very trifling. On the 12th of Oc tober the force under Brigadier Smith joined that of Major-General Michell, and on the 19th the combined force came upon the enemy, 10,000 strong, at Saiswa (?), south-east from Chundalee, and totally routed him, with a loss of 500 killed and all his gum. The enemy fought fiercely. The British loss very slight. The fugitives have fled, it is supposed to Behut, on the right side of the river Betwa. A force from Jhansi covers the ap proaches to Tehree. Mann Singh is reported to have plundered Ramgorah, Rear Gooneh, on the 18th Oct. The following cavalry reinforcements have arrived in Central India :—The Guzerat and Guicowar Horse, under Captain Buckle, reached Sarumpore on the 20th Oct., and continued their march. On the same day Lieut. Ker, with the Southern Mahratta Horse, will be at Bhilsa. On the 28th Oct. Major Learmonth, with a squadron of her Majesty's 17th Lancers, was on the road to Gooneh. The remainder of this regiment, under Colonel Benson arrived this morning at Mhow, together with the sth troop of Royal Horse BANFF, MACDUFF, AND TURRIFF. The fourth ordinary meeting of this company was held at Aberdeen on Friday; Mr. John Stewart in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said the Great North of Scotland Company had worked the line at the rate of is. 9d. per train per mile, while the working expenses of their own line amounted to 2s. 51d. a mile ; so that if the line had not been remunerative it was not on account or heavy expenditure. He then showed that the decline arose from local causes, in competi• tion between the ports of Banff and Macduff for traffic by sea, which the company wished to carry by land; and, a* it was hoped that these would be removed, and the proprietors of the district take a larger interest in the undertaking, the report was approved, and authority given to the directors to apply to Parliament for power to raise £30,000 on preference stock. The meeting then separated. INVERNESS AND DINGWALL. It is proposed to extend railway accommodation from Inverness to Dingwall, with a branch to Tain, for the purpose of opening up the west Highlands and bringing Ross-shire into communication with the railways leading to London. 'Tile proposed line has been surveyed, and it appears that the proprie tors in the district liave come forward liberally to support the scheme. NORTH-EASTERN. This company intend to apply to Parliament next session for . power to'construct the Nidd Valley branch, and to raise further capital for the purpose ; and to purchase the Rosedale and other branches of the North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway. THE MANCHESTER BANQUET.—A letter has been received from Mr. Bright, who is sojourning at Llandudno, accepting an invitation to the Manchester banquet. The applications for tickets, although neither the price nor any conditions of admission have been published, are very numerous, many of the writers for them asking to be fur nished with as many as half-a-dozen to a dozen tickets. A leter from Compiegne of the 11th says : "As already announced, the artistes of the Gymnase per formed at the palace last evening. The Emperor and Empress entered the theatre at half-past eight, previous to which all the distinguished guests now at the palace had taken the seats appropriated to them. The performance of "Les Trois Maupin" went off with great eclat, the Emperor several times giving the signal for applause. During the entt'actes, the band of the Lancers played several of their best morceaux. The representation concluded at midnight, and at the conclusion the actors were called forward and loudly applauded. During the day, the Emperor received General Sir John Burgoyne. In the Plorning a large party partook of the amusement of shooting in the preserves, and on Saturday there is to be a stag hunt." NOMINEES FOR THE SHIIIEVALTY. The following list of names, taken from a Supplement to the London Gazette of Nov. 12, is substituted for that which wee-published on Saturday, which contained several Mac curdcies The names of those who were nominated for Sheriffs by the Lords of the Council at the Exchequer on the morrow of St. Martin, in the twenty-second year of the reign of Queen Victoria, and in the year of our Lord 1858 : BEDFORDSHIRE. --Richard Longuet Orlebar, of Him% ick, Esq. ; Joseph Tucker, of Pavenham, Esq. ; and Charles L. Higgins, of Turvey, Esq. BERKSHIRE. —Charles Philip Duffield, of Marcham park, near Abingdon, Esq.; Sir Claudius S. P. Hunter, of Mortither, near Reading, Bart. ; and John Sivewright, of Pepper-park, Esq. BUCKS.—Thomas T. Drake, of Shardeloes, Esq.; Wm. T. Praed, of Tyringham, Esq. ; and Sir A. De Rothschild, of Aston Clinton, Bart. CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND HUNTINGDONSHIRE.—John D. Gardner, of Chatteris, Esq.; James Hall, of Ely, Esq. ; and J. R. Frier, of Crow Hall, Downham Market, Esq. CUMBERLAND.— Gamel Augustus Lord Muncaster, of Muncaster Castle ; P. H. Howard, of Corby Castle, Esq. ; and T. Ainswor4h, of The Flosh, Esq. CHESHIRE.—A. H. Devonport, of Capesthorne, Esq. ; C. Swetenham, of Somerford Booths, near Congleton, Esq. ; and J. R. Shaw, of Arrowe-hall Birkenhead, Esq. DERBYSHIRE.—The Hon. Edward K. W. Coke, of Long ford ; F. Hurt, of Alderwasley, Esq.; and C. Leslie, of Hes sop-hall, Esq. DEVONSHIRE.—John H. Hippesley, of Shobrook-park, Esq.; Peter R. Hoare, of Luscombe, Esq.; and Sir J. T. B. Duckworth, of Weare, Topsham, Bart. DORSETSHIRE.—WM. C. Lambert, of Knowle-cottage, Esq.; George D. W. Digby, of Sherborne-castle, Esq.; and J. Fellovts, of Kingston-house, Esq. DURHAM.—Sir Wm. A. Clavering, of Greencroft, Bart.; H. J. Spearman, of Newton-Hall, Esq.; and R. L. Pember ton, of Barnes, Esq. ESSEX.—C. Russell, of Upminster,Esq.; H. J. Sperling, of Dyne's-hall, Halstead, 3 Esq ' • and John S. Thompson, of Ilford, Esq. GLOUCESTERSHIRE.—J. C. Dent, of Sudeley Castle, near Winehcombe, Esq. ; the Hon. A. George J. Ponsonby, of Hahterop-castle, Fairford ; and. R. C. Lippincott, of Over Court, near Thornbury, Esq. HEREFORDSHIRE. John Jones,. of Langstone-court, near Ross,, Esq., M.D. ; William Partridge, of Bishop't wood rip,. Ross, Esq. ; and K. M. P ower , of Bill court, nearßoss; Esq. HERTFORDSHIRE. —Martin Hadsley Gosselin, of the Priory, in Ware, Esq. ; James Bentley, of Cheshunt, Esq. ; and W. J. Loyd, of Abbots Langley, Esq.l KENT.---Sir Richard Tufton, of Hatfield-place, near Maidstone, Bart. ; Sir Courtenay •Honywood, of Evington Elmstead, Tart. ; and Alexander Randal, of Foley-house, Maidstone, Esq. - _ LEICESTERSHIRE.—WiIIiam 'Boswbrth, of Charley, Esq.; Edwd. Henshaw Cheny, of-Geddesbi; Esq.; and Richd. Sutton, of Skeffington, Esq. LINCOLNSHIRE.—Chas. Thos. Sainl. Birch Reynardson, of Holywell, Esq. ; Sir G. E.Welby • of Denton Hall, Bart.; and W. C.' Amcotts, of Kettlethorpe, Esq. MONM6UTHSHIRE.—Thos. Powell, of the Gaer, Esq. ; the Hon. W. Powell Rodney, of LlanyiWangel. Court ; and E. M. Currie, of Itton Court, Esq. NonroLx.—Hambleton Francis Constance, of Weston, Esq. ; H. Birkbeck, of Stoke Holy Cross, Esq.; and J. T. Mott, of Baininghana, Esq. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE The Hon. Chas: H. Cust, of Arthinworth ; W. C. C. 'Thornhill, of Rushton Hall, Esq.; and J. E. Severne, of Thenford, Esq. . NORTHUMBERLAND.-41. Silvertop, of Minsteracres, Esq.; Wm. Jno. Pawson, of Shawdon, Esq.; and J. Cook son,_ of Meldon-park, Esq, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.—H. Sherbrooke, of Oxton, Esq,; John H. Manners Sutton, of Kelham, Esq.; and E. V. P. Burnell, of Winkburn, Esq. OXFORDSHIRE.—Geo. Gammie, of Shotover-park, Esq.; J. Weyland, of Woodeaton, Esq. ; and J. P. Hodges, of Bolney-court, Esq. RTJTLANDSHIRE.—Edward H. C. Moncton, of Seaton, Esq. ; Sam. Hunt, of Ketton, Esq. ; and A. Doria, of Manton, Esq.; SHROPSHIRE.—Chas. Orlando Childe Pemberton, of Millichope-park, Esq. ; Sir J. Emerick Edw. Dalberg Acton, of Aldenham-hall, Bart. ; and Sir. C. H. R. Bough ton, of Downton-hall, Bart. SOMERSETSHIRE.—Edward Berkeley Napier, of East Pennard, Esq.; Robert James Elton, of Whitestaunton, Esq. ; and F. V". Newton, of Barton-grange, Esq. STAFFORDSHIRE.—Sir Henry Delves Broughton, of Broughton-hall, Bait; Wm. Davenport, of Meer, Esq.; and R. H. Haywood, of Brownhilla, Esq. COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON.—Robert Vaughan Wynne Williams, of Appuldercombe, in the Isle of Wight, Esq.; John Deverell, of Purbrook-park, near Cosham, Esq.; and W. G. Craven, of Brambridge-house, Winchester, Esq! SUFFOLK.—John. George Sheppard, of Campsey Ash, Esq.; Thomas Thornhill, of Riddlesworth, Esq.; and John Berners, of Wolverston-park, Esq. SURREY.—Sir W. R. Farquhar, of Polesden, Leather head, Bart.; Robt. Campbell, of Coombewood, Kingston, Esq.; and W. J. Evelyn, of Wootton, near Dorking Esq. Sussmx.—W. H. Blaaun, of Beechlands, Newick, Esq.; C. S. Dickens, of Coolhurst, Esq.; and Geo. Gatly, of East Grinstead, Esq. WARWICKSHIRE.—Sir G. R. Phillips, of Weston-house, Bart.; Henry J. Sheldon, of Brailes-house, Esq.; and R. Graves, of the Cliff, Warwick, Esq. WESTMORELAND —Wm. Moore, of Grimes-hill, Kirby Lonsdale, Esq.; Matthew B. Harrison, of Ambleside, Esq.; and Wm. Hopes, of Brampton-crofts, Appleby, Esq. WILTSHIRE.—Sir F. D. Astley, of Everleigh, Bart.; John N. Gladstone, of Bowden-park, Esq.; and Horatio N. Goddard, of Cliff Manor-house, Esq. WORCESTERSHIRE.—Francis Edward Williams, of Mal vern-hall, Solihull, Warwickshire, Esq.; Alexander B. Cochrane, of Heath-house, Stourbridge, Esq. ; and J. B. Vernon, of Hanbury-hall, Esq. YORKSHIKE.—W. R. C. Stansfield, of Esholt-hall, near Leeds, Esq.-, Sir Lionel M. S. Pilkington, of Chevet-park, Bart.; az-I J. G. Marshall, of Headingley, Esq. WALES. ANGLESEY.—Majoi-General Robert George Hughes, of Brynddu• Henry Owen Williams, of Trearddur, Esq. ; and G. R. Griffith, of Pencraig, Esq. BRECONSHIRE.—john Maund, of Tymmvr, Esq. ; J. E. Evans, of Brecon ; Esq. / • and C. A. Parkinson, of Bony- pare, Esq. CARNARVONSHIRE.—Lord Newborough, of Glinllifon park ; John Loyd Jones, of Broom-hall, Esq. ; and J. W. Greaves, of Sanyrallt, Esq. CAnmAnrnENslllßE.—lsaac Horton, of Yshad, Esq.; Richard Jennings, of Gelleydeg,Esq. ; and Allen J. Gul ston, of Llwynberllan, Esq. CARDIGANSHIRE.--.WICI. Price Lewes, of Llysnewydd, near Newcastle Emyln, Esq.; Wm. Jones, of Glandennis, near Lampeter, Esq. ; and Wm. Buck, of Abercifed, Esq. DENBIGHSHIRE.--T. L Fitzhugh, of Plas Power, Wrexham, Esq. • R. C. Naylor, of Nantclwyd-hall, Ruthin, Esq. ; and J. Hardcastle, of Pen-y-lan, Ruabon, Esq. FLINTSHIRE.—P. P. Pearson, of" Bodfari, Esq. ; H. M. A. Jones, of Wepre-hall, Esq. ; and P. W. Goodsal, of Iscoyd-park, Esq. GLAMOROANSIIIRE.—Sir I. B. Guest, of Sully-house, Bart. ; Geo. Rous, of Court-y-ralla, Esq. ; and Chas. Wil liams, of Roath Court, Esq. MONTGOMERYSHIRE.—E. Morris, of Berth Lloyd, Esq.; Wm. Curling, of Maesmaur, Esq.; and R. J. Drew, of Glafhafren, Esq. MERIONETHSHIRE.—H. J. Revsley, of Brynygwin, Esq.; D. Williams, of Castel' Dendraeth, Esq. ; and J. Williams, of Castellfawr, Esq. PEMBROKESHIRE. — G. A. Harries, of Hilton, Esq. ; Wm. Owen, of Poyston, Esq.; and E. Wilson, of Hean Esc i l _ _ RADNORSHIRB.-Sir W. S. It. Cockburn, of Downton i Bart. ; J. A. Phillips of Gunama, Esq., and J. W. G Watt, of Doldowlod, Esq. The duties of High Sheriff will devolve upon the gentle man whose name stands first in the list for each county. DREADFUL CALAMITY IN SPITAL- FIEDDS. During the whole of Sunday night it blew a hurricane, and many accidents occurred upon the river and in various parts of the metropolis. One of a fearful nature occurred in Palmer-street, Ten ter-ground, Spitalficlds, near the parish church. The house No. 1, Palmer-street, was occupied at the time of the accident by several families, princi pally of the Jewish persuasion. The top room was occupied by a Jew named Capper, an industrious and well conducted man, but in great poverty, his wife, and four young children. There was a stack of chimneys ascending six feet from the roof on the top of the house. About half-past twelve o'clock, when the storm was at its heig . at, the stack of chimneys was blown down, and fell upon the roof, which was carried away, and fell into the room where poor Capper and his family were sleeping. The most terrible screams and cries for help suc ceeded the fall of the chimneys and the burying of the family in the ruins, and the occupiers of the -lower rooms rushed from the building in a state of bewilderment, and with nothing on but their night-clothes. The police and a few stout-hearted men entered the house, and, after much trouble, succeeded. in extricating Clipper's wife and children from the debris, and it does not appear ' they sustained much injury beyond the fright. Capper and one of his sons, aged five years, were, both killed •in thcir, bed—in fact, they were crushed by the falling materials, and died in stantly. The bodies were left in the room where the poor creatures met with their deaths, and now await the usual investigation by a coroner's jury. The poor families who fled from the house were sheltered elsewhere. Inspector Price, of the A division, no sooner heard of the accident than -he gave directions, in order to prevent another acci dent which seemed impending, for the floors to be shored up and two strong buttresses to be placed against the front wall, which has bulged consider ably. This was immediately done. Mr. Thomas, the master of the Shoreditch Workhouse, to whom the house belonged, also employed men to remove the materials of which the chimneys and roof were composed, to lessen the weight on the upper floor, and they were busily engaged all day. The widow of the deceased Capper is very ill. Mr. Edwards, divisional surgeon of police, was called in to at tend upon her in the course of yesterday, and found the bereaved woman in a very low state. Her escape was very miraculous. She escaped with only a few slight bruises, but her husband and son were killed by her side. The melancholy affair has caused great sensation among the poor resi dents occupying the old and dilapidated houses in Spitalfields and Bethnal-green. Many of the crazy tenements ought to be abolished forthwith, and better and cleaner habitations provided for the humble occupants. A little pamphlet, called " Histoire de Mou stache, ou les Deux Bandes de Voleurs " printed in Lon don, and purporti ng t o b e a R om an ifistorique, is being largely circulated, much to the annoyance of the police, who cannot discover the means by which it is distributed. It savours strongly of the Jersey mark, and it is thought to be by a well-known hand.—Court Journal. LITERATURE. Sylvan Holes Daughter. By. Holme Lee, author of " Kathie Braude," &c., &c. 3 viols. Smith and Elder. It is impossible to peruse the works of this author without admiring the great ability which they display, and the vigorous style which ever characterises them. This story does not equal some of its predecessors, but it is distinguished by most of their peculiar traits. Sylvan Holt himself is sketched with those powerful strokes which stamp a character at once, and make it stand out for ever in the mind of the reader with an indelible impression that cannot be effaced. There is something painful in the extreme to contemplate the wretched life led by this stern recluse. Circumstances, and not taste, had occasioned his extraordinary exile ; and although he had erred greatly in giving way to the excess of his passions, there were aggravating actions to account for, if they could not excuse, his violence. His daughter Margaret '' ghter Margaret is not of a pleasino disposition ; sh e inherited too much of her father's strong will and ungovernable temper to be suitable to a feminine nature.. There was something genuine, however, in her feelings, and she possessed qualities that, under the influence of a better train ing than any her neglected youth obtained, might have shone forth pre-eminent, although there was the want of softness in her nature which could not fail to be manifest, as a. deficiency for which no brilliancy an dbeauty could compensate. She appears to most advantage in her early days, when wandering in her native village, untrammelled by forms, and eager to perform kind offices to all around her. After her marriage with Colonel Fielding the darker side of her nature seemed uppermost. Mingling with the world, to which she was not accustomed, aroused angry feelings which she had neither the tact to conceal nor the self-comMand to subdue. Her mother's sad tale had filled her with indignation, instead of awakening any sentiment of pity to one whose career, if • guilty, had been very sad and full of suffering, which it did not beconie her daughter to regard with the cold eye of an indifferent judge. Unfortunately for Mar garet's temper, she was singularly like her mother, &nd when she mixed in the circle of her husband's family, and friends, she had to encounter many painful recognitions, and overhear many startling remarks which did not tend to allay the angry feel ings which were paramount in her nature. A still more fatal- obstacle to her peace, and what eventu ally nearly .proved the deathblow to the happiness of her after-life, was the discovery that her husband had been attached to another, years before he met her. She might have become reconciled to this in time if everything had not seemed to con spire against her efforts to think no hasty or unkind thought. To please her parents, Frances Stanley had married a Mr. Hamilton, who was very rich died almost immediately after Rupert Fielding's marriage with Margaret Holt. Mrs. Hamilton returned to live with her parents, whose house was situated in the village, near the estate which Sylvan Holt settled on his daughter on her marriage. Margaret did evince great self-command at that trying period, and after Frances' departure for Italy all fear of disunion between husband and wife seemed over, for the unhappy widow was fast hastening away from the world she had found so sorrowful a sojourn, and there was no chance of her return to England. It is in the passage which follows that there is a mistake made in the description of Colonel Fielding's conduct. We are informed on a previous occason, that notwithstanding his early devoted attachment to Frances, it was his wife only who then possessed his heart. This is only natural when Margaret's many excellent and endearing qualities are considered, and, above all, her ardent affection for her husband. It is not, therefore, likely that Rupert Fielding would have left Margaret under a false pretence of transacting business in London, and hastened to Italy to attend the last moments of Mrs. Hamilton. It would have been better to have asserted that a lingering i fond ness for the memories of youth ling ere d n his heart, than to have disowned the sentiment which alone could furnish a reason, however reprehensible it might have been for so strange an action. In the scenes which follow, we meet with that vivid descrip tion and powerful delineation, which on many pre vious occasions have been conspicuous in the works, of Holme Lee. The solemn death of Sylvan Holt, " out on the moor," is an awful scene ; and the agony of his devoted daughter was extreme. The faithful servant, who went out with her young mistress, was equally aghast at the sudden departure of her master. He died alone, as he had lived ; but, as his attached dependant exclaimed to the mourning daughter, other than human aid might have sus tained the final moments of his weary pilgrimage. It is satisfactory to find that Rupert and Margaret were eventually reconciled to each other, for they were too 'noble in their respective characters to cherish angry feelings, after the first pan gs of disappointed trust on the one side, and wounded dig nity on the other, had been su bd ue d b y t i me an d softened by reflection. Mrs. Joan Clervaux is an admirable portrait of a kind-hearted and upright minded woman. Whatever was estimable in Mar garet's conduct was chiefly owing to the fostering care of her good old friend. Mrs. Joan had not sufficient intellect to sway Margaret effectually, and her exertions were counteracted by the example of the father at home ; but, still, her genial qualities and loving disposition were as saving spirits to the distracted mind and tortured heart of the excitable and impetuons maiden who was dear to her from her very isolation. It was through the mediation of Mrs. Joan that Margaret was reconciled to her husband, and many were the good offices she effected, for her in earlier day s . Bell Rowley is a ludicrous sketch of a fast young lady. The spirited way in which her dashing exploits and bold sayings ,are recorded, is an amusing episode in the tale, and contrasts with its otherwise somewhat sombre tone. If it cannot be said that this story is so interesting as " Maud Talbot," or " Thorney . Hall," there is much that proclaims it not inferior merit of style, and not unequal in point of talent. It is shining with the same light, and nerved with the same energy, that imparted to their pages unwonted brilliancy and power. PRINCE ALFRED AT LISBON. Some sensation was caused here on Sunday by the landing of Prince Alfred, who had arrived in the river the previous afternoon on board the Euryalus. Although her Majesty did, I believe, at first express her wish that no reception should take place, and that the prince should be in nowise dis tinguished from the other officers of the ship, she, it is said, yielded to the instance of the King of Portugal, who was determined to make a return at the first opportunity for the manner in which he had been received at the English Court. A royal barge was sent alongside the Euryalus, and every body was astonished at the alacrity with which the sailor prince bowled down the ladder and got into the barge. When it reached the arsenal, a regi ment of the line was drawn up as a guard of honour, and the Duke de Terceira, with several other Portuguese noblemen, the British Ambassa dor, the other members of the legation, Mr. Smith, H.M.'s Consul, all en grande tone, were in waiting to receive him. The prince demeaned himself like a little gentleman, as he is, but looked about as if rather bothered and frightened withall the display and formality. He soon, however, ensconced him self in the royal coach sent for his reception, and was rapidly whirled away towards Necessidades behind six spanking greys. A large crowd was assembled at the gates of the arsenal, where I saw the British Minister, Mr. Smith, our consul, and Major Cowell, respectively, pointed out to inquiring Portuguesebystandors as Prtace Alfred of England, probably on account of the imposing effect of their uniforms. The sailors' of the Euryalus have an anec dote amongst them to the effect that two midship men, during the voyage, blackened Prince Alfred's face while he was asleep in his berth, in that spirit of mischief for which these young gentlemen are notorious. The Prince made no complaint, but was up like a skylark before gun-fire next morning, and cut away the hammock strings of the two young gentlemen who had served him so, taking the law into his own hands in true sailor-fashion. At Lloyd's yesterday £5 ss. was asked for in surances on the Agincourt, now 114 days out from Mel bourne with £233,120. The ordinary charge is 30s. THE GALE IN THE METROPOLIS.—The great metropolis and country districts for miles distant were, yes terday and the previous night visited by violent storms of wind, which at certain periods nearly resembled a hurri cane, which, we regret to state, did a vast amount of damage to property and were attended with fatal conse quences. The wind was principally north-east, but it fre quently veered round to the south-west. So violent was the wind felt on the river that it was considered dangerous for small boats to pass through Chelsea-reach, and some of the schooners riding at anchor down the river were seriously injured by being forced against each other during, the night. The trees and plants in the different Royal and private parks were also greatly injured; branches were broken off the former, and hundreds of chry san th emum s were blown down, and the flowers scattered about. A police constable named Wilson, belonging to the P, or Camber well division, went on duty on Sunday night, but upon his sergeant going round to visit him he could not be found, but at, a later period his hat was found at the side of the water in the Grand Surrey Canal. The supposition is that he must have had his hat blown off, and while in the act of trying to catch it have fallen into the canal, and by so doing was drowned. 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