The Sun. — London, England, 1860-11-19 00:00:00

OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN—under the Management of Miss LOUISA i'VNE and Mr. W. HARRISON, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, THE NIGHT DANCE,RS: Messrs B. Haigh, H. Cord, G. Kelly, Distin, and Lyall ; Madame Palmieri, Miss Albertazzl, Miss Lefilzr, Miss Thiriwall, and Ilia Huddart. And a Ballet of Action Ambuscade. _____ Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Doors open at Seven. Commence at Half-past. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstone. TITIS EVENING the performances will commenOs with THE SUN AND THE WIND. By the Leclereqs. After which, THE BABES IN THE WOOD. . And MY WIFE'S DAUGHTER. Commence at 7. KOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.--. ) Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. H arr i s. THIS EVENING, an adaptation of Victor Hugo's cele .brated Play of RUY BLAS, by Edmund Falconer, Esq. t when Mr. Pechter, the favourite actor of Parisian renown, will make his'2oth appearance on the English stage, supported by Messrs. W. Lacy, Meadows, Garden, Graham, Raymond, .3forland, Collett, Paulo, Daly, A. Harris ; Miss Rose Leclercq, Mrs. Weston, and Miss Heath. - To be preceded by SUSAN SMITH. To conclude with THE GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM. Soie Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE YOUNG WIDOW. Mr. H Neville, Mr. J. Rouse, Miss Hudspeth, and Miss Rose Howard. Followed by the new drama, entitled ADRIENNE ; or THE SECRET OF A LIFE. Principal characters by Mr. 'Henry Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. H. Butler, Mr. Villiers, Mr. G. Vining, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Campbell„ Mr. Clifford, Mr. J. Johnstone ; Mrs. Keeley, and Madame Celeste. After which, THE PEPS OF THE PARTERRE. Scenic Department under the direction of Mr. Wm. Callcoft. The Music by Mr. George Loder. Principal characters by Mr A. Neville, Mr. John Rouse, Mr. J. Morris, Miss M. Ternan, Miss Neville, Missliudspeth, Miss Stuart, Miss Turner, Miss Douglas, Miss Annie Collinson, and Miss Lydia Thompson. Commence at 7. A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. - 1 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Engagement for a limited number of nights of Miss Agnes Robertson and Mr. Dion Boucicanit, who will appear every evening in the highly successful Drama of " The Colleen Bawn." THIS EVENING, THE RIFLE BRIGADE. Messrs. W. Smith, D. Fisher, C. Selby, Miss Woolgar, Miss Kate Kelly, skid Mrs. Billhas,rtma. After which, THE COLLEEN SAWN. D. Boncicault, D. Fisher, Killington, Falconer, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, Romer. Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Chatterley. To conclude with MUSIC RATH CHARMS. Mr. David richer. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-eflice open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes,"4l. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Baleony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalin, is. • Pit Stalls, 28. ; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6 d. Acting Mana g er—Mr. Wm. Smith. t STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Manager, Mr. We. BATTY. Triumphant success and increasing popilarity of the Grand Spectacle of Ronm HOOD. Last Six Nights. This Evening, the highly successful new Spectacle, in Three acts, by Fiteball, Esq., entitled ROBIN HOOD ; or. the Merry Outlaws of Sherwood ; introducing the Stud of highly trained Horses, Herd of real Deer, Stag Hounds, &c, Allan a-Dale, Miss Rebecou Isaacs; Robin Hood, Mr. John Prit chard. To be succeeded by Scenes in the Arena, supported by the celebrated Madame Newsome, Mr. James Newsome and their Troupe of uneqnalled pert , rmers, &c., including the. incomparable Young Charles Ducrow, the Greatest Wonder of the age. Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7. Box-oflice open daily from 11 till 4 Stage Manager—Mr. W. weal.. Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- EVERT EVENING, A Grand Selection from the opera of NORMA. Norma Miss RUSSELL. Adahrisa . (Her first appearance in this country.) After which the ETHIOPIANS, consistingof Seventeen Per formers. organised expressly for this et;tablishment, for the Performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Negro Delineations, Anecdotes, &c. Prin cipal Negro Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H. Drummond, and Charley Fox. Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGH3IANS. Balcony, la, -Hall, gt-L THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Nov. 18, 1560. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 43—highest since noon yesterday. 33—lowest this morning and during the night. 42—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.91. WlNO—North ; light, with fine dry cold weather. Nov. 19. THERMOMETER, TN THE SHAMS. 42—highest since noon yesterday. 30—lowest this morning and during the night. 41—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.12. WIND—North-Westerly ; moderate, with fine weather. Prost in the night. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TRIM DAY.—Morning, sh. 56m.—Afternoon, 6h. 20m. To-moßßow.-Morning, 6h. 45m.—Afternoon, 7h. 13m. r se. • c x - 1 A , - 4% - • ‘l,.k - " THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, NOV. 19, 18CO3 The election of Mr. LINCOLN is now secure. New York, the city, we presume, which is the more remarkable, has given her vote in his savour by a majority of 10,000. This is decisive ; the House of Representatives, and the Senate, will have nothing to do with the matter. The Republican candidate, the man chosen to reverse the pro-slavery policy of the last forty years, will be the elect, directly, of the delegates chosen by the people. We congratulate, from the bottom of our hearts, the great American nation on this propitious result. It is one as truly important, politically, as that of GARIBALDI'S noble and brave enterprise. It will tell most happily, both on the internal and the ex ternal relations of America, and will, we cannot doubt, be one of the most important eras of Ameri can history. Ever since 1820, at least, a policy has been gaining the political ascendancy, which, though it may seem paradoxical to say so, was not the policy approved by the hearts of the great majority of the people enjoying universal suf frage and the ballot a sufficient proof we shall be told of the uselessness of those institu tions. This, however, is simple ignorance or thoughtlessness ; for we see before us that univer sal suffrage and the ballot can correct popular errors, and that without turbulence, when they become manifest. But the truth is that the long, dreary, pro-slavery policy of so many years has been due to a well-organised, but utterly unscru pulous party combination. The slave States, who ar e naturally the aristocratic States of the Union, perceived that the Democratic party, as opposed the Conservatives, there called Republicans, were the stronger. They made, therefore, with them the unholy compact, that if the Democrats would includ e in their programme a pro-slavery policy they . Would aid them with all their strength. It has been a coalition of extreme republicanism and slavery—of men who asserted liberty of white men to the . uttermost, with men who trode underfoot every right of a coloured man, and even declared th at he has Lone which a white man is bound to respecti Universal suffrage and the ballot-box • therefore hav e done what they profess to do. They have responded faithfully to the will of the majority. I f a majority was t reated by an immoral compact, its verdict wa s given, had though it might be. If the majority, coo lly reviewing what they had been doing, pro nounced against their former decision, Universal Suffrage and the Ballot gave place for repentance; and the right vote was manfully given. This is the simple account of the matter, adding and subtract ing nothing, and we do not think the friends of these institutions have anything to be ashamed of, or their enemies anything to boast of. It is evi dent that by their means a change for the bettt r in a nation's sentiments can quietly give effect to itself; and they point to the true method of gain ing the upperhand with a free people—patient teaching and persuasion. We congratulate our cousins on the happy effect which their choice will have on the estimation in which they are held by the nations of tht old world, and especially by England. The election of ABB.ARAM LINCOLN will be hailed everywhere, as a declaration that the great Republic is not a slave Republic. We shall not, indeed, expect impossibilities. We know better than to imagine that Congress will interfere in the smallest measure with the sovereign rights of the slave States ; we do not even look for any very strong federal action against slavery, being quite aware that the two houses, the Senate especially—would not yet con. cur in anything of the kind. But we saw the plague spreading in every direction—we saw the new territories proclaimed by the South to be slave-land even before they were settled —we saw it threatened that this awful moral and political pestilence would soon cover the whole of the Northern Continent—but A BRAHAM LINCOLN " stands between the living and the dead, and the plague is stayed." Hence forth slavery is limited to the Pandemonium it has made; henceforth it will perpetrate no n'ore Kansas atrocities to resound throughout Europe to the disgrace of free institutions ; henceforth it will pass no more fugitive slave-laws ; henceforth it will nominate no more partisans to the Supreme Court of Justice ; henceforth it will be limited to its own blighted domains, till it exterminates itself by its unfitness for existence without the safety-valve of extension over new territories. The friends of liberty in Europe will soon cease to be taunted with the policy of the great Republic, and cease to be ashamed of it. For it was not the mere existence of slavery in America— that was known to be an accident of the nation's birth—but the fact of its being governmentally fostered and defended, which so injured the repu tation of liberty in American hands, and enabled old Toryism in Europe to point to her institutions as really unfriendly to genuine freedom. We may now hope that the slavery spirit will be cowed for ever. It would hardly seem to be within the power of a cause so inherently villanous to regain its ascendancy. It is not like those Conservative tendencies, which are as right in themselves, and as inherent in all civilised society, as the tendency to progress. Slavery is confessed to be an utterly and irredeemably bad thing. It can have none of the vitality, therefore, by which a defeated good principle is for ever re viving till it finally conquers. One serious defeat like this must be a final defeat. The cause of slavery is henceforth a retreating one. It has been defeated in every stage. Mrs. STOWE'S raillery made it ludicrous; the better theologians of late have proved it wicked; Helpers Book and Mr, SEWARD proved it to be the commercial impoverishment and ruin ; and now ABRAHAM LINCOLN has shown that it cannot, even by a base coalition, keep its political supremacy. After this fourth public defeat we may hope, therefore, that it will retire to its old position of a necessary evil in some sections of the country for the present ; an evil which all good men will exert themselves to mitigate as much as they can, and finally to extirpate. We must regard 1860 as a year of unusual good omen to the future relations between this country and the United States. The visit of the PRINCE is a fact which has produced an equally favourable impression on both countries. They will be long before they forget the spirit in which he was sent to them, and the spirit in which he conducted him self among them ; and we shall be as long in for getting that the descendants of the revolted colonists exerted themselves to the utmost to show how cordially they esteemed the present SOVE REIGN of Great Britain, and how they delighted to do her honour in the person of her son, the future Sovereign of these realms. But if the PRINCE'S visit will do much as a single and pleasing incident, the election of an anti-slavery President, as an indication of permanent policy, will do even more. England will now approve of the general course of United States policy; and with the derninancy of the Slave power half the causes of irritation between the two countries will England must ever be an anti-slavery country, and its Government of any party an anti slavery Government. When on this great point the two countries and their Governments are at one, we may be confident that it will be a source of mutual goodwill. cease. If ever the Poles have hoped, it must be now— now in the presence of Italy risen and emanci pated. Let Poland but yet a little longer be faithful to herself, and the day will come, too, for her political resurrection. The beginning of the end, indeed, of her misfortunes may date actually from that sinister gathering, in her ancient capital, of the descendants of the three rulers by whom the land of SOBIESKI, the Kingdom of STANISLAUS, was seized and subdivided. It may even be that the expiation, fated ever since the first partition of Poland to fall with avenging weight sooner or later upon Russia, upon Austria, upon Prussia, may be thus signal and direct, if only the noble hearted sons of Poland continue a little while longer true to the lofty hopes they have each and all of them so long cherished. Of this there are unnumbered auguries --many of them singu larly and even wonderfully auspicious. The example of Italy has already been particularised, and that as a scarcely resistible incentive and encouragement. The probable emancipation (be fore many months more have elapsed) of the heroic Hungarians, contributes another " sign of the times," full of fair promise to the Poles and to Poland. Added to either of these interests—the interests of the Italian nationality already, in a great measure, re-established, and the interests of the Hungarian nationality nearer than ever now to its eventual and inevitable re-establishment s —added to the new hopes awakened by the influence upon the hearts of the more ardent and faithful of the patriots of Poland, is there not fresh encouragement to be drawn by them from the rapid and obvious decadence, the visible and very manifest crumbling away of one of the three great robber-powers, that of the Austrian KAISER ? It was but yesterday that the finest province of all Austria was violently wrenched from the grasp of that Govern.. meat by the strong hand of the Em peror of FRANCE at the head of his armed legions ! It was but yesterday that Lombardy was thus torn from the young Austrian KAISER by NAPOLEON 111., and handed over at once, with a magnificent grace, by that Monarch to the Soldier- King VICTOR RIDIANTJEL 11., the royal leader of the Italian population. Since then Austria has been mustering her forces in the covert of Venetia and the Quadrilateral—there fairly driven to bay by the terror of the great movement in the South headed by GARIEALDI—the movement now concen trating its force in that Sceptre of Italian Unity which has but so very recently been placed by GARIBALDI in the grasp of the knightly gauntlet upon the bold right hand of the Re Galantuonzo. It has been estimated that, within the shadow and shelter of that stronghold of Venetia and of those fortresses of the Quadrilateral, Austria with a bankrupt Exchequer ! has been gathering together, at enormous cost, during these last fourteen or sixteen months, an army but little short of 2 00,000 men. This—as we have said, with her coffers empty and her Exchequer literally all but in a state of bank ruptcy-. Her position as a great power is, in truth, so precarious, so obviously perishable, that we have THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1860. seen her within a very short time from this volun teering an apparent restitution to Hungary of Hun gary's old liberal constitution. And we all know the Government of Vienna sufficiently by this time ' surely to be quite certain that when it enters spon taneously upon a course like that, the key to the mystery is no other—in SHAKSPERI AN phrase—than Miching Malechol "It means mischief !" But that the ghost of the great Roman poet might rise in the horror of a repentance that the words were ever scrawled—first of all, by his iron stylus on his waxen tablets, to be afterwards copied fairly with a reed on papyrus, to be perpetuated then through later times upon monkish parchment until the age of printing—we should be tempted to mutter under our breath that dreadfully apposite Timm Danaos, which we can only hint at thus apologetically, trailing off the close of it in a modest et cetera. Never certainly could that too familiar quotation be more justifiably dragged again into use than in its application to the recent proffering by Austria of a seeming restoration of their constitutional liberties to the often deceived and long-suffering Hungarians. The day for a compromise between Austria and Hungary has long since, however, gone by, never, we may be sure of that, to re turn. It has gone by as utterly in that instance, as we have very recently men that it has gone by between Austria and the Italians —as time will assuredly sooner or later prove that it has gone by, utterly and for ever gone by, between the Poles and their Oppressors ! Convinced of this, firmly and absolutely con• vinced that the Polish Nationality WILL again be re-established in Europe, and that the pride and power of Austria is rapidly vanishing away—we are all the more solicitous to direct attention to the meeting held, according to annual custom, at Sussex Chambers, Duke-street, St. James's, on Saturday, and to a telegram dated on Saturda?from Vienna, a telegram which we shall here immediately parti• cularise. The anniversary meeting was, as will be seen from the report of the proceedings given in another column, a recurrence of the one held year after year by the Polish Historical Society in grateful commemoration of the late ever-lamented LORD DUDLEY COUTTS STUART. The generous oration pro nounced upon the occasion of this meeting on Saturday by the Chairman, Major SZULCZEWSXI, will be found in every syllable of it at this mo ment to be peculiarly entitled to consideration. It being a luminous exposition, in fact, of the actual situation of Poland between the past and the future, between the Italian and the Hun garian movements. What shall we say, however, in regard to the subjoined telegram, dated as we we have already premised, Vienna, the 17th Nov. ? mid running thus in the notification of the Austrian Ciazette :—" We have received information," says that Viennese Moniteur," from a special source, that England, which up to the present time has only been represented at the Imperial Court of Austria by an Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni potentiary, will raise the rank of her embassy, and will in future be represented by an Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary." Is this intended as a sop to Austrian vanity and con ceit ? Is it designed as an anodyne for the pangs caused at Vienna by Lord JOHN'S last diplomatic manifesto ? In every point of view it appears to us singularly inopportune. In no way does it seem to be called for by the exigencies of the Austrian Government or to be reflective of dignity upon our own. FEABFUL CATASTROPHE. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. A telegram has been received from Gibraltar, communicating the total loss of a Brazilian vessel of war, with fearful loss of life. It states that the vessel was on her way from Marseilles for Lisbon, and was wrecked at Cape Spartel, on the coast of Barbary. It is also reported that the captain and 35 persons were drowned, and 115 saved in a de plorable condition. These were conveyed to Tan gier by the English steam frigate Agus (query, Argus ?). We believe the Brazilian corvette had a great number of naval cadets on board for education and instruction in practical navigation, and the loss will throw gloom on Rio when the news goes out by the French steamer on the 21st, and plunge many of the most respectable families into grief and mourn. ing. THE COURT.—The invitation of the American Minister on a visit to the Queen at Windsor so soon after the arrival of the Prince of Wales, in company with the heads of the Government, is a prompt and graceful acknow ledgment of the hospitality of the President, and the cordial attention and the enthusiastic reception of the heir to the British throne exhibited by all ranks and classes of the people of tho United States. The Queen has placed her own first-class steam yacht, the Victoria and Albert, at the disposal of the Empress of Austria, for her Imperial LA. TEST NEWS. TEE EMPRESS OF THE FREN" H. The Empress of the French arrived in York on Friday evening last by the 5 45 Great Northern train from London. Her Majesty's visit was en tirely private, the only intimation of her intention to stay at York being conveyed by telegram to Mr. Holiday, of the Royal Station Hotel, who was re quested by Colonel Faye to prepare accommodation for a party of fifteen. It appears that at the King's-cross station the directors proffered the Empress a special carriage, which she however declined, and took her seat in a first-class carriage as an ordinary passenger. She was attended by the Comtesse de Montebello, Madame de Saulcy, the Marquis de Lagrange, Colonel Faye, and ten attendants. The presence in the ancient city of York of so illustrious a visitor was but little known until the following morning, when her Majesty break fasted at the Royal Station Hotel, at half-past ten o'clock. It was not known whether the Empress would make a closer acquaintance with the ancient city, so celebrated for its great anti quity, for its historical associations, and for its varied objects of interest, but it was thought by some that her Majesty would be anxious to pay a visit to the most splendid Gothic cathedral in England. A number of persons collected for the purpose of seeing the Empress, who, about half-past 11 o'clock, got into a cab, accompanied by two female attendants and Col. Fave. Her Majesty was, of course, not known to any of the spectators, but she was soon recognised by the portraits of her Majesty which have from to time time been seen in the print-shop windows. She was very plainly attired in a black dress, and plain black bonnet and shawl. The cab was driven to the Cathedral, where the party alighted. They were immediately conducted into the choir, where the Empress had the fullest opportunity of inspect ing the grandeur of its proportions, its gorgeous windows, and the records of departed greatness, while listening to the organ, upon which the or ganist, Dr. Monk, played one of his best volun taries. This was followed by one of Hasidel's best compositions, " He delivered the poor when they cried." The greatest courtesy was shown to her Majesty by the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of York (Dr. Duncombe) and the Rev. Canon Hey, who accompanied her ; and, in order to prevent any intrusion upon the Empress's privacy, the gates of the choir and side aisles were kept locked. Her Majesty spent newly half an hour in the choir, " lady chapel," and in the aisles. During this time her movements were watched with great interest by a crowd collected in the transept. At length the Empress emerged from the north aisle, and proceeded into perhaps the most beautiful part of the Cathedral—the Chapter-house. A source of gratification was provided for the Empress which she could not have expected. During her visit to the Chapter-house the crypt under the choir was lighted up, and thither her Majesty was con ducted by the south aisle after she left the Chap ter-house. She afterwards proceeded into the vestry, and after staying in the Minster altogether about three-qaarters of an hour, she left by the office of the Chapter clerk. A considerable crowd —amounting to several hundred persona—was waiting outside, and when her Majesty again stepped into the cab she was loudly cheered. She repeatedly bowed her acknowledgments, and, amid renewed cheering, was driven to the Museum and grounds of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. After inspecting the Museum her Majesty was accompanied over the Hospitium by the Rev. Canon Hey and the Rev. J. Kenrick. The Empress had arranged to leave York en route for Scotland by the 2 20 p.m. express train along the North- Eastern and North British Railways. The direc tors of the North-Eastern Railway Company who were in attendance were the Lord Mayor (Mr. G. Leeman), and Mr. J. Pulleine, of Crakehall, near Bedale. The city Sheriff and a number of railway officials were also in attendance. Precisely at 20 minutes past two o'clock the Empress left the Royal Station Hotel. She was accompanied along the platform by the Lord Mayor of York, whom she informed that she had been highly pleased with her visit to the Cathedral and the Museum, and intimated that, in all probability, she should again visit York, and make a more prolonged stay there. The Empress then entered the carriage, and, amid repeated cheers, which were again acknowledged by her Majesty, the train sped on its way to the North. Her Majesty, with several of the members of her suite, occupied the central compartment of a first class carriage, and the train reached Edinburgh at a quarter past eight o'clock. As no special ar rangements had been made for the reception of the august lady, and as the platform was somewhat dark, very few of those who gathered round the carriage in waiting on the platform could distin guish her Majesty among the ladies of the suite, all of whom were plainly dressed in deep mourning. The crowd, however, gave her Majesty a very cor dial cheer, both as she alighted from the train, and as her carriage left the platform. Her Majesty and suite immediately proceeded to Douglas's Hotel, where apartments had been engaged for their brief stay. Apart from the popularity of her Majesty's charac ter, her ancestrial connexion with Scotland is cer tain to secure for her a very kindly reception north of the Tweed. Majesty's voyage to the inland of Madeira. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. The Ministers present were—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. C. Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir George Grey, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell. St. Paul's Cathedral will be opened for the ordi nary services on Advent Sunday, December 2. The Dean and Chapter are unwilling to discontinue any longer Divine worship in the cathedral, though the improvements in the choir are by no means finished. The Dean and Chapter and Committee have been unable to carry out more com pletely this portion of the great projected improvements, partly from want of time, partly from the want of funds. It is proposed to open the new dome area and the new organ with a musical festival on the holyday of the Conversion of St. Paul, Friday, January 25, under the direction of Mr. Goss, organist of the cathedral. On the Sunday after (January 27) the Special Evening Services will commence. The Lord Bishop of London has conferred the Chancellorship of St. Paul's Cathedral, vacant by the death of the Rev. Henry Soames, M.A., on the Right Rev. George Trevor Spencer, D.D., some time Lord Bishop of Madras. CALLS TO THE BAR.—The undermentioned gentle men were on Saturday called to the degree of Barrister at-Law by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's-inn—viz., Henry Selto Page Winterbotham, Esq., London, LL.B. (certifi cate of honour, first-class) ; Daniel Alexander Freeman, Esq. (certificate of honour., first class) ; Thomas "Wilkin son John Dent, Esq., M.A., Cambridge; Alfred Henry Say Stonhouse Vigor, Esq., 8.A., late of Cambridge; Robert Allan Fitzgerald, Esq., 8.A., Cambridge ; the Hon. John Byrne Leicester Warren, 8.A., Oxford ; Edward James Athawes, Esq., 8.A., Cambridge; Thomas Bonville Were, Esq., George Charles, Esq., 8.A., late of Oxford ; Francis Noel Mundy, Esq., George Dixon Atkin son, Esq., Henry Colville Marindin, Esq., 8.A., Oxford ; Edward F. a'Beckett, Esq., Horatio Henry Shirley, Esq., 8.A., Cambridge; Ferrer Herschell, Esq., B.A , London ; John Giles Filcher, Esq., Matthew Pilcher, Esq., Samuel Thomas Stoughton, Esq., Henry Stewart Drewry, Esq., M.A., Cambridge, and George Parker Bidder, jun., Esq., 8.A., Cambridge. The undermentioned gentlemen were on Saturday called to the Bar by the non- Society of the Inner Temple :—William Rolfes Fryer, Esq., B.A. ; Frederick Samuel Child, Esq., Henry Lit omas Braith waite, Esq., M.A. ; Richard Bettye, Esq., B.A. ; Archi bald Levin Smith, Esq., 8.A.; Robert Mars den Lathan', Esq., Harry Tiehbourne Davenport, Esq., M .A. ; Joshua Dean, Esq., Frederick Bridgman, Esq., Jose ph Hartley, Esq., Henry Francis Gillett, Esq., M.A., and John Henry . William Fenton, Esq., M.A. The undermentioned gen tlemen were on Saturday called to the degree of the Utter Bar by the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple :—Edward Bullen, of 2, Brick-court, Temple, Esq; George Burnett Barton, of Sydney, Esq. ; Christopher James Davison, In gledew, of Northallerton, Esq.; George Frederick Robinson Jerv:s, of Exeter College, Oxford, Esq., Cornelius Wel ford, of 1, Elm-court, Temple, Esq.; and Clenient James Wolseley, of Castletown, county of Carlow, Eeq. ELECTION OF AN ALDERMAN. —On Saturday the Lord Mayor issued his precept for the election of an alder man for the ward of Walbrook, in the room of Mr. Alder man Wire, deceased, appointing the ceremony to take pace on Thursday next, at 2 o'clock, at the Bay Tree Tavern, St. Swithen's-lane. In the event of a poll being demanded —which is highly probable, as there is an unusual number of candidates for the vacant office —it will open on Friday morning at 10 o'clock and close at 4 on the same day, in conformity with the statute regulating civic elections in the city of London. The Lord Mayor has also issued a precept for the election of a common councilman for the ward of Tower, in the stead of Mr. Thomas Barkley, who was re cently declared to have disqualified himself for sitting as , a member of the Court of Common Council by his non-atteno ance there fora period of six months. The day for holding tithe election rents with the ward authorities. THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY ELECION OF MR. LINCOLN. NEW YORK, Nov. 7. Mr. Lincoln has been elected President of the United States, and Mr. Hamlin Vice-President. The majority in New York for Mr. Lincoln was 10,000. The Republicans have gained largely on former majorities. GAETA, Nov. 13. Yesterday the Piedmontese bombarded the suburbs of Gads. The Neapoli:an troops continue to fight reso lutely, but the defection of staff officers is increas ing. Four generals—Salzano, Cslonna, Barbobriga, and Polizsi, have resigned. The King hai dismissed and sent away General Bertolini. Colonel Pianelli has surrendered a bat talion of chasseirs to the Piedmontese. Further reFistance by the Bourbon troops is paralysed by the insubordination of their chiefs and the confusim which prevails. TURIN, Nor. 18. The Nationclities announces that no Northern Power has protested against the entry of Victor Emmanuel into the city of Naples. PARIS, Nov. 17. The Pays says : " Sardinia has claimed the cannon taken from the Neapolitans who were disarmed on Papal ter ritory. General Goyon replied that at present it was impossible to give a decision, but that the artillery would be given up later to the proper party. " Judgment in the process against M. Guerault, of the Opinion Nationale, has been deferred until Friday next." NAPLES, Nor. 18. A military commission, composed of French and Sardinian officers, and presided over by Generals Goyon and Cialdini, will settle the question arising from the entry of the Bourbon troops into Roman territory. BERLIN, Nov. 18. Lord Bloomfield is appointed English Ambassa dor at the Court of Vienna. Lord Loftus, English Minister at Vienna, re places Lord Bloomfield at Berlin. VIENNA, Nov. 17. The Austrian Gazelle says : "We have received information from a special source that England, which up to the present time has only been represented at the Imperial Court of Austria by an Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, will raise the rank of her Em bassy, and will in future be represented by an Am bassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten tiary. FRANCE. The Emperor Napoleon yesterday received a letter from the Emperor of All the Russias, an nouncing the birth of H.I.H. the Grand Duke Paul, his son ; one from the Emperor of Austria, an nouncing the birth of the Archduke Charles Stephen, son of the Archduke Charles Ferdinand and the Archduchess Elizabeth ; and letters accre diting M. Bornemann as resident Minister of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. BOURSE, Nov. 17.—The market has been firm, but without any very material improvement in prices. Threes, for the Account, are now at 70f 21c. Mobilier, 763 f 75c; Orleans, 1,387 f 50c Northern, 985 ; Mediterranean, 912 f 50c; Austrian, 515 f; Lombard, 490. The following are the last quotations : 41 per per Cents 96 —f Credit Fancier .... 917 50 Do end month 96 —, I Belgian 4f. 94 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 85i Roman Bank Shares 29.50 — 1 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 755 —! Spanish Threes 484 Do. Account — I Home Debt .. 4B RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1387 50 .. 1380 Northern 985 .. 983 75 New ditto B9O Lyons and Mediterranean 908 75 .. 908 75 Geneva — Southern 522 50 .. 622 50 Western .... Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard . 485 .. 485 GERMANY. According to a letter from Berlin, dated the 14th inst., a bill will be presented in the next session of the Prussian Chambers for the construction of a railway from Stralsund to Berlin. This line will be of great strategical importance in connexion with the coast defences. A letter from Ulm, of the 15th inst., says that that federal fortress will shortly be armed with rifled cannon. Many regiments of the artillery are being organised on the French footing. Advices from Munich state that the Castle of Bitterstein, in the vicinity of the Bavarian capital, is being prepared for the reception of Francis 11. of Naples. The Queen of the Two Sicilies is the daughter of Duke Maximilian of Bavaria. A Congress of German Sovereigns is spoken of as likely to take place at Dresden, to settle the internal affairs of the German Confederation. • THE BULWER NOVELS. Novels and Romances by Sir E. Bulwer Lytton. Library Edition. Blackwood and Son. The thirteenth volume of this admirable collec ti vs reprint of Sir Bulwer Lytton's twenty cele brated works of imagination, places in the hands of the subscribers to the " Library Edition," the first half of one of the most beautiful and imaginative of them all—Vol. I, of " The Last Days of Pom peii." It was only in this very year's Academy Exhibition that one of the mot gifted of living painters, Paul Falconer Poole— during many years past now an " Associate," before many years more, we will hope, to be " Acade mician' —proffered with his brush of fascination a most exquisite tribute to the genius, and the poetry, and the pathos luminous in every page of that noble classic romance. Who that saw that picture of Mr. Poole's can yet have forgotten it? The antique boat floating over the waters of the Tyrrhinian sea—floating dreamily away from the destroyed cities over the calm surface of the deep flooded with moonlight—floating solemnly past us as we gazed upon the scene, bearing, under the shadow of the sail, upon the slanting deck of the little barque, the three chief personages in the tale, the hero and the two heroines—lone, and Nydia, and Glaucus ! Glaucus and lone—awed by the remembrance of the terrors through which they have but just passed, as by a miracle, scatheless—side by side, clinging tenderly to gether. Nydia, the blind girl—whose sightless eyes have enabled her to guide them through the darkness enveloping the doomed cities, away from the otherwise inevitable destruction—Nydia, (the true heroine of the story) with her hands upon the strings of her lyre, those strings, between which shines resplendently the pale yellow glory of the Italian moonlight. To many of those most familiar with this romance of romances, a sight of that lovely painting, from the master-hand of Paul Poole, upon the walls of the Academy this last season, must have been sugges tive of yet another perusal of the book itself, to the closing incident of which that picture formed no unworthy illustration. In this very perfection of a library edition, issuing now steadily month after month from the press of the Messrs. Blackwood, there is certainly in type, paper, size, and "getting up" generally, every pos sible inducement to the fulfilment:at once of that intention—namely, to the re-perusal in this beauti ful. edition of this eminently beautiful romance of the Last .Days of Pompeii. THE CONWAY NOI LOST. The St. George's Chronicle (Grenada) of the 13th ult., has the following relative to the troop ship Conway, of the wreck of which vessel we have pre viously had accounts : " Captain G. Rose, of the ship Home, which ar rived yesterday from England with coals for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's depot, reports having fallen in, on Sept. 11, with a derelict. Cap tain Rose states :—' I bore down upon and boarded the British ship Conway in lat. 35 deg. 36 min. N, long. 19 deg. 15 min. W, having her fore lower mast standing, the main and mizen lower masts lying fore and aft on the port side of the main deck and quarter deck, they having gone by the partners. I found the ship in possession of French and Spanish captains and portions of their crews, two barques, to which they belonged, lying by and receiving the plunder carried by their boats from the derelict. It is impossible to describe the appearance of the main deck and between decks; it fairly outstripped the incidents of the Crimean war, the French and Spanish sailors on board the Conway being dressed in women's apparel, a is Bloomer, with plumes and artificial flowers wavin g on their gracefully to the breeze, while busy in breaking open chests, carpet bags, knapsacks, bedding, &c. I found also the French crew taking all the small sails, they being new, and, as the captain said, suitable for his small vessel. Ropes, canvas, compasses, signals, &c., were all gone. The ship was so completely gutted by the crews of the barques that I had to supply her with a compass, a coil of rope, and other neces saries. Having intimated to the captain in charge that the Conway being a British ship, it became nay duty as a British subject to act for the benefit of all concerned, and put a stop to further plunder; that I did not wish to interfere with their claim upon the ship, but should certainly remain by and see that the ship was carried into port. One of my boys giving the French captain rather a bull dog shake, they thought fit to leave us and the Conway to ourselves, and take their departure. On sounding the pumps I found five feet of water in the hold, which proceeded front two auger holes in the starboard lower bow post, bored from the inside ; the water from the lower hole running constantly, but from the upper hole only when she dipped. I immediately plugged the holes from the inside. At the said post we found four augers, one gouge, a handsaw, a lantern, and matches. I left four hands on hoard for the night, and remained by her. Next morning sent the chief mate and six men to get the spars up and canvas set. At 6 p.m, on the Wednesday parted from her, having left her in charge of my chief mate and five seamen, with instructions to make for the first port the wind and weather would per mit in England, and upon their arrival the chief mate was to deliver my sealed report to Lloyd's agent.'" HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The Queen's box was occupied on Thursday evening by their Serene High nesses the Prince and Princess of Holstein-Augustenb our g . Among the fashionable company present during the week have been the Marquis and Marchioness of N?r nianby, Viscount Barrington, Lord and Lady Frederick Fitzroy, Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, General and the Hon. Mrs. Grey, 1%1aj07 Du Plat, Miss Coutts, &c. The exterior of the theatre was brilli an tly illuminated in honour of the return of the Prince of Wales. THE GREAT OCEAN SURVEY. (From the Athetkeum.) The following letter from Sir Leopold M'Clintock to Capt. Collinson has been courteously placed in our hands for publication : " Bulldog, near Rockall, Nov. 6. " Closed at ICilly begs, Nov. 11. "My dear Collinson,—We have nearly brought to a close about as tough a job as usually falls to the lot of the most hardworking—even of surveying ships. I have been up (in the ship) to the head of Hamilton Inlet, but South Greenland we found enveloped in an unusual amount of pack, so much so that I had to go up to Godthaab (64 deg. North) before I could get into any harbour. On the 29th September I succeeded in getting into Julianshaab, where I expected to find the Fox, but could obtain no intelligence whatever respecting her. Our vessel was the earliest to arrive there this season ; the ice having been impene trable. The Fox (with Capt. Allan Young, Col, Shafner, and Dr. Rae on board) had not arrived at Hamilton Inlet on the 17th September, and I fear she has been detained by ice on the east coast of Greenland, although in a letter Young left for me at Reikiavik he says he intended going first to Julianshaab, to obtain an interpreter for the east coast. We have bad desperate weather since the beginning of October. A gale on the Bth of October almost crippled us ; we lost two boats, had our bowsprit snapped off by a sea, but as the gammoning held it fast he has since been ' righted,' and at least looks shipshape. The iron tiller was also broken, and a vast deal of damage done to the sponsons, paddle-wheels, bulwarks, &c., lying-to under bare pole for thirty hours, sleet aloft, and seas coming over us below, unable to cook, &c., disagreeable enough even for a Polar.' To accomplish a line of sound ings from Cape Farewell to Rockall, has proved rather beyond our powers at this late season, and with such continued severe weather ; yet we have sounded at intervals the whole way, and I think sufficiently for ordinary purposes. South-west of Iceland, where we expected 2,000 fathoms, we only found 748 fathoms, and in 1,260 fathoms we brought up a living si ar-fish ! I tried in July, August, September, and October, yet could not approach Cape Farewell from the south-west, within forty-five miles, the intermediate space being close pack; but at the same time the present is such a bad year that the Danes in Greenland say they have not had one like it for nearly 30 years. It has been very favourable in La brador, and very little iee seen there. In Iceland also the summer has been very fine. We have had much more ice work than I expected, and the ship has suf fered accordingly ; paddle-arms bent, cetwater chafed away, and copper bolts standing out; the ship rolls very heavily, and is now quite eager for a good caulking. I think we have done our work well, at least we have done all we can. Instead of a deep chan nel leading into Hamilton Inlet, I doubt if forty-five fathoms can be carried insidelthe outer islands, and would reduce the width of the main channel to about five miles, and there is an exterior bank along that part of the coast, having between 100 and 200 fathoms water on it. . I have completed the soundings across to Rockall, but they are at long intervals, and not as straight in line as they would have been under more favourable circumstances of weather. I obtained deep water again inside of the Rockall Bank, 1,310 fathoms about midway. . The same south-east wind is still blowing which has scarcely ceased since the 18th of October. " Most sincerely yours, " F. L. M'CLINTOCK, R.N." FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR THE CITY. The question of establishing a free public library and reading room is being mooted in the city in a manner to command public attention. It has been taken up in some of the city parishes, especially in that of St. Botolph, Aldersgate, by Mr. Besley, common councilman for the ward, and on Friday last the subject was canvassed in the Court of Common Council, on a motion propounded by Mr. Hartridge, affirming the necessity for a free library for the whole city, and suggesting a preliminary inquiry by a committee. That motion was nega tived on a division by two, and an amendment was carried at the instance of Mr Besley, to the effect that the Lord Mayor be requested to convene a public meeting of the persons assessed to the con solidated rate to consider and determine whether the Free Libraries Act shall be adopted in the city of London. In St. Botolph the original idea was to establish a free library for that particular parish only, but the result of a reference to Mr. Tidd Pratt, who drew the Public Libraries Act, carried in the House of Commons by Mr. Ewart, is rather calculated to discourage the parochial movement, inasmuch as he states that if a parish in the city of London were to adopt the Act, and the city in the aggregate were to do the same, the effect would be that the parishioners would be side their own rate for that particular purpose, hayo to pay an increased consolidated rate. The question then, in that view of it, is rather more for the rate payers of the whole city to determine than for those of any individual parish. Mr. Alderman Sidney, M.P., -took a conspicuous part in the Common Council in opposing the establishment of a free library. He reminded the Court that six years ago the subject was elaborately discussed in a public meeting of ratepayers at the Mansion-house, and that a resolution was passed by a large majority that no such institution was wanted in the city. He still contended that there was no need for one, and that the mechanics' institutes and similar insti tutions in the metropolis had dwindled down to mere lounging places for novel readers. He sub mitted the corporation had something better to do than to provide light literature for the rising generation. Of late the tendency of street archi tecture, he said, had been to disperse the poorest part of the population, and princely buildings had been erected by merchants in most of which a library for the use of the persons in their service was an usual adjunct of the establishment. He thought the age was too much given to do every thing for everybody. For his part, as an employer, he would leave young men alone, and teach them the value of self-dependence. He added that he knew a ward school so little appreciated that children not resident in the ward were invited to attend it. Mr. Lowman Taylor deprecated any unnecessary interference' in this matter by the council, and substituted that it was one for the ratepayers to decide. Dr. Abraham complained that Mr. Ewart was not heard with common re spect when he attended the Mansion-house meet ing six years ago to advocate the establishment of a free library. He (Dr. Abraham) argued, as against Alderman Sidney, that it was not the work ing classes who were being dispersed from the city; that, on the contrary, a third of the civic popula tion belonged to that class, and that it would be a disgrace to the corporation if it did not take the initiative in this matter. Mr. Alderman Rose sup ported the motion for inquiry, contending that it would be a reproach to the corporation of London if they did not establish an institution such as had already been founded in several of our provincial cities and towns, and that not so much for the use of people who could afford to buy books, as for the accommodation of the working classes. Mr.. Hart ridge's motion was also supported by Mr, R. N. H. Phillipps, Mr. Pedler, Mr. Sheriff Lusk, and Mr. Anderton, and opposed by Mr. Charles Young and Mr. Cox. In support of his proposition Mr. Hart ridge stated incidentally, that the experiment com menced by the Common Council four years ago of lending a portion of the corporation library to its members had proved eminently successful ; the last monthly return showing the number of volumes lent to the members to be in the ratio of 3,000 per annum, and that upwards of 10,000 volumes had been consulted by visitors to the library, int"Coun. chiefly by members of the Court of Com m °li was cil. He added, that before that experiment a h s o o w n e only tried, the number of visitors to the limloroanrythws and it remains about 700, while the return for last that they were now in the proapcotivir_itoirn7.B°weisileryeTrlailyst 12,000 a year. The amendment f . stated, was affirmed on y a division , public opinion by the representa tive body of the citizens. --- 18. ---- n._—The ship Northfleet Corn to Messrs. Dunbar and Son, arrived h Channel vrth 1 i n t e , I , 0 50,0001 b. of ma P nd L e Y r 3 B lO . U F T re ir em , of London, has 00, 0 from Canton River, July 30. She tea, valued at £lOO, o f Good Hope Sept. 26, tottched at St. rounded the Cape N an o , v l;o l. o 7 3ging 8 and crossed the Line Oct. 18. Spoke, Sept. Helena Oct. , s long. 59 E., the Southern Cross, from 'don 64 days flora Macao; the 9th, in Whampoa 1 43 30 E., the barque Chance, 37 days lat. 28 10 S,, °ng. • h 4th, in lat. VO Lon , f rom Kurrachee, with seeds, for Marseilles ; the 22d, in 5 s. long. 21 E., the ship Gloriana, and the French lat. 3 u _ ii rmah , both homeward bound ; Oct. Bth, off ,t. barq . oo.c ow- 00, • 9 • Helena, the Robinlsr Hood, fro m F h f • 19th lat long. 24 ~ the Alice Walton, from Liverpool 1 30 N. , for Melbourne; wind, south- east; 21st, lat. 5 N., long. 25 30 W, the barque Chili ' for 70 days f rom V a lp ara i so Liverpool ; 29th, lat. 23 N. long. 34 W., the American brigantine Palmas, 31 days from Baltimore, for Monrovia; Nov. 6th, lat. 39 20 N., long. 20 40 W., the ship Epaini nondas, of Belfast, bound far the southward; Bth, lat. 43 20 N., long. 15 30 W., the brig Trifolinm, standing south-west; 11th, lat. 48 N., long. 15 W., the Dutch ship Schoonverbond, 117 (Lys from Batavia for Amsterdam. The Northfleet experienced a cyclone two days after leaving China, strong westerly winds the Cape, easterly gales out side the edge of soundings. On Friday afternoon she was off Dover, in charge of a pilot steering for the Thames. A snow storm took place at Birmingham on Saturday. It commenced early in the morning, and con tinued during the greater part of the day. The cold was so great that in exposed places the snow lay for a long time after it fell. POLP:11 MEETING. Saturday, the 17th inst., being the sixth anniversary of the death of Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart, so well known for his exertions in behalf of Poland's rights and the Polish exiles in England, a meeting of the Polish Historical Society was held at Sussex Chambers, Duke-street, St. James's, to pay a tribute of respect and gratitude to the memory of their departed champion. Owing to the absence from London of the President, Col. L. Szyrma,,the chair was takenby the Vice-President Major C. Szulczewski, who after expatiating on the devotion of and sacrifices made by the late Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart for the cause of their country, continued : Like the billows of the ocean, now rising, now falling, have been our fears and our hopes during the intervals of the successive anniversaries on which we have met to com memorate the day on which our never-to-be-forgotten friend (Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart) breathed his last. But however depresssed we may have been at times by the adverse conjuncture of events, utterly hopeless we have never been; for we are sons of Poland, and in her breast hope never dies, so that to those who would maintain that Poland is defunct, we may say, with truth, reversing the old adage, that where there is hope there is life. And there is life in the Polish nation, although those who, when this life, like all compressed forces, was venting itself in fitful and violent outbursts, stigmatised us with the name of "revolutionary firebrands," now that it is manifesting itself in quiet exertions to develope the material resources, and to raise the moral and intellectual status of the people, while it is biding its time, speak of our country only as a " dead and mangled carcase." But that the 'f carcase" is not dead, none know better than those who " mangled" it • and, as a proof of how much they fear the life that is still stirring in it, I need only allude to the agricultural society, founded in Poland in 1857, and to the endeavours to crush it made by the Russian Government. On the 28th of February, 1858, the society held its first meeting in Warsaw, at which 1,500 Polish landholders were present; in 1859 it courted 2,500 members, and at the be ginning of the present year 3,240; while the subscriptions to it, which in 1858 amounted to £3,480, rosQ in the ensuing year to £6,000, and at the commencement of this year to £B,OOO. A few months later the number of members was very near 4,000, and the receipts of the society were not less than £lo,ooo—numbers which are very nearly the same as those of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, which has been in existence five and twenty years. But the numerous meetings held allover the country for the dis tribution of agricultural prizes, during which all classes of the community were brought into beneficial contact with each other, and which was rapidly spreading an improved system of husbandry among farmers and landowners, and improving the breeds of live stock in the country; as also the steps taken in connexion with the society to ameliorate the domestic conditi9n, promote the education of the agri cultural population, and to develope the export trade in corn, awakened the fears of the Government, and on the 24th May au Imperial edict was published, restricting in various ways the action of the society, and more espeCiany ordering that the prizes shall not be presented by the society in public meetings, but shall pass those to whom they are awarded, through the hands of the Russian governors of the provinces. So little then, we see, does Russia believe in the extinction of the national spirit in Poland ; that she dare not let the people associate even for such peaceful and commendable purposes, and thus our countrymen are im peded in every branch of activity which they seek to deve lope for the good of the community. But this very fact keeps alive in our people the remembrance of the origin of the Government that oppresses them, and of their distinctness from the race of the oppressors, and makes them consider every endea vour towards national improvement as one also to wards national deliverance; and the dignified manner in which, on a recent occasion, the majority showed their sense of the insult practised upon them, when the repre sentatives of the three Crowns who divided among them selves the " mangled carcase," met in our capital to plot against the liberty and independence of Italy, shows that we have passed from the stage of noisy but impotent ebul lition to one of calm reticence, pregnant with a force which will be put forth in energetic action when the day comes for us as it has come for Italy. I have said when the day comes for us as it has come for Italy; but may I not go further, and say that it must come for us, because it has come for Italy. In the case of Italy the inextinguishable right of nations to throw off the galling yoke of foreign oppressors—who impede the developement of their best energies, and seek to eradicate those distinctive features with which God has endowed them for some wise and bene ficent end—has been publicly acknowledged and tri umphantly vindicated ; and this recognition and this triumph must tell, in one way or another, on every enslaved nationality. When our day will come we cannot tell, but we can wait; and, when it does come we shall, if he be needed, have our Garibaldi, our nale-hearted, single-minded, self-devoted, never-wearying hero in the field, as in the friend, whose memory we have this day met to honour, we found at a time when tongue and pen only could be wielded in our defence, a champion whose disin terested zeal and devotion have never been surpassed. Several other gentlemen expressed similar feelings, and the meeting then separated, after passing a vote of thanks to the chairman. THE DRAIN OF GOLD. The suspension of gold.withdrawals from the Bank continues, and it is not known when or to what extent they are likely to be renewed. The Emperor Napoleon, it is alleged, opposes any further advance in the rate of discount by the Bank of France, a common idea of the French people being that the only way to prevent a disturbance of commercial interests is for the Government to forbid the chief article of commerce, money, from finding its natural value. In the event of this course being persisted in it is to be presumed that every effurt will be made to keep up the artificial drain from London, until it shall have been fully ascertained that to borrow gold from us at 6 per cent. for the purpose of lending it at 4i per cent. merely results in the endles s oircular operation of causing that coin modify to be transmitted hither as fast as it can be obtained, in order that it may be retransmitted by us to Paris upon terms so distinctly profitable. Meanwhile the conviction gains ground that whither the Bank of France shall still hold to the palliative of buying gold, or resort to the legiti mate plan of raising its rate of discount, there will be no possibility of permanently averting a serious catastrophe if the present expenditure of the French nation is maintaised. The scheme of buying bullion might, among a public ignorant of its ultimate futility, prove sufficient to check a run originating in a mere panic, while, on the other hand, a steady rise in the rate of discount would infallibly arrest the evil of a specula tive state of commerce. But for the results of an ever-increasing Government outlay, and the withdrawal of large portions of the population from agricultural and manufacturing industry, there is no conceivable termination but that of bankruptcy. Happily, the position of the Bank of France, and of the country generally is still sufficiently strong to afford ample opportunity for recovery, and for a re cognitiom on the part of the Government of those inexorable laws of finance upon which its existence must depend. If, however, the warning of the present crisis and the opportunity likely to be pre sented by the close of the Chinese war for commenc ing a new course be neglected, the end will be plain to the simplest calculator; although liable as it is to be retarded or accelerated by changes of season, the temporary success o f p o p u l ar d e l us i ons , an d a variety of other influences, the precise date of its occurrence must remain a matter of conjecture. — Times' City Article. THE RED SE-1 TELEGRAPH. A report is in circulation—which it may be hoped will be forthwith contradicted—that the inquiry , which was expected almost immediately to take place into the causes of the failure of the R e d S ea Telegraph, and the loss of £ BO O,OOO of public mcney, is likely to be h u shed , up. A suit is NeWail, the contractors and the company, and reliance was entertained that upon its being brought into court the evidence elicited by cross examination and otherwise would he invaluable to the cause of telegraphic science. But it is said that a compromise is contemplated, and s hould that result take place the public must all hope of obta• • give up obtaining any light upon the matter, since in affairs of this kind investiga tions by Parliamentary or other committees are worse than useless. The point in dispute be tween Messrs. Newall and the =rummy wg. AA to the fulfilment of the contract. Messrs. Newall assert it to have been fulfilled, and claim the balance of their account accordingly, and to settle the ques tion it would of course be essential to ascertain upon which side the blame of default is to be thrown. Are Messrs. Newall responsible for the mishaps that occurred, or do they rest with the Government engineers, or with the directors of the company P The directors are believed by most persons to be exempt from fault, but it is highly important that the exact position of all parties concerned should be clearly brought out. The best security, however, against a compromise being effected—if such an in tention really exists—lies in the danger it would involve to the shareholders of the company. The Government guarantee is for the sum expended under the contract. If Messrs. Newall have not fulfilled its conditions, the liability against that firm can be enforced. If the contract has been fairly completed, then the Government have nothing to do but to pay the guaranteed interest on the capital sunk. But the third case—namely, that of a compromise, might apparently raise an entirely new question. The Government could possibly dispute their responsibility to pay interest on an amount never legally shown to have been 'expended under the prescribed conditions. The results of a pacific discussion between half-a -dozen directors on the one hand, and a contractor on the other, could hardly be substituted for the fulfilment of specific Parliamentary requirements. At all events, no such agreement could safely be entered into without the sanction of the Government, and it is not for an instant to be supposed that that sanc tion would be granted. The shares, which bear a net interest of more than 4 per cent., guaranteed by the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain, are now at 15 per cent. discount, and it is possible the reports in question may have had something to do with the in creased heaviness ; but if the unanimous opinion of all persons who have considered the point is worth anything, the investors may rely that with ordinary vigilance on their part the intrinsic value of their property, so far as it is based on that guarantee, is unassailable.— Times. „ let Vs. di .",o.d. "•• di cartax no. Penni Tn variai Great aula i Joi are t 10 3 , ; Steen Bank; $ Per u Per “ ei , 3 Ittdi a ; Dirt, Ditt4 3 ittol .c.xch e tt Ditt Ditt Turkia bitt Ditt Ditt , Ditt Dutch Ditt Austr, &tar Brazil Buenc Bahat Caziad ~ `-ape c China, Gibral India( ' 1 44% 1 I gisbot Cuba . Malta, Vi go, Unite, West M of A trnite Do. 5 'Kent; Penn lllin. no. 6 : Michi . 7 20. d, not al Opr , d. •uo. New biii; Ditto P 1 an( itu(