The Sun. — London, England, 1859-10-27 00:00:00

R OYAL F,NOLISIi OPERA, COVENT- GA UDEN. Inder the manazement of 3liss.L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison. THIS EVENISG, DIN 011 A U. Messrs. Santley, H. 'orri, St. Albyn, and W. Harrison. Misses Pilling, Thlrl all, and Miss Louisa Fyne. Conductor, Alfred Mellon. DIVERTISSFMENT. 3ldlles. Lequine, Pasquale, Pier ron, and Mons. Vaudris. Commence at 8 o'clock. T IIE A T RE-ROYAT„ HAY MARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. TIM; EVENING the performances will commence With fa'''. ROAD TO RUIN. Mr. C. Mathews. And PAUL PBX. Mr. and MI s. C. Mathews. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-- Lessee, Mr. A. Harris. TIM EVENING, the performances will commence with LOVE'S TELEGRAPH. After which, PUSS ; or, Metempysychosis. Miss L. Keeley. To be followed by a dramatic tableau in Watteau colours, by J. It. Planche, Esq., entitled LOVE AND FORTUNE. NTEW THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHI. A= 4 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Open for the Winter Season. THIS EV ENING, a new farce, entitled A ROW ON FITE PREMISES. Mr. David Fisher, P. Bedford, C. Selby, Miss H. Simms, K. Kelly, Mrs. P,illington. After which, Til E WILLOW COPSE. Luke, Mr. Ben. Webster; Hulks, Mr. David Fisher ; Augustus, Mr. J. L. To , le ; Staggers, Mr. Paid Bedford. Followed by LOVE AND HUNGER. Mr. David "Fisher, Mr. Paul Bedford, C. Selby, C. J. Smith, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Laidlaw. I .ours open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box- Of ce open from 10 to 5. No char,e for securing seats, nor far bills of performance. All fees to servants of this establishment arc strictly prohibited. • Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, Ring-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen gers all hours of the night. THIS EVENING, Poole's comedy, THEY'RE BOTH TO BLAME. Messrs. Leigh Murray, Barrett, Walter Carle ; Mesdames Frank Matthews, Murray, Catharine Hickson. After which the successful Ballet Farce, by John Oxen ford, Esq., entitled MAGIC TOYS, supportA by Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, and a numerous Corps de Ballet. To conclude with the New and Original Burlesque, by L. Bwkingham, Esq., of VIRGINILTS ; or the Trials of a Fond Pa pa. Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, Is. The Box-office open from ll to 5 daily. Doors open at hall-past six; perform ance commences at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough THIS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN EGGS. Atter which THE GREAT RUSSIAN 'BEAR ; or, An other Retreat from Moscow. Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE LADY OF LYONS. And CAUGHT BY THE EARS. Commence at 7 o'clock ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee lir. William Cooke. Brilliant reception of the New Ilistoricil Drama, by Tom Taylor, E'sq., called GARIBALDI, sustained by a Nev Dra matic Company, full Stud of beautiful Horses, Characteristic Costumes and Picturesque Scenery. Engazement for a limited period of the Great Delavanti troupe, Gvmnasists par excellence ; also, Little 3lenda, the most Wonderful Juvenile Equestrian in the World. Scenes in the Circle by Star Riders and talented Equestrians. Terminating with a Laughable Farce. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips CIANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- v EVERY EVENING. —The Music of Verdi's Opera of IACBETII (now first made public in England at these Con tierts). Ir And a Grand Selection from Meyerbeer's new opera of DINORAFI. Comic Vocalists - Messrs. Georcre Hodson (the Trish Come dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. 31;tckney. Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts Gallery. The suite of flails have been re-decorated and beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant 9154 - bts of the metropolis. THE WEATIIER.—Sus OFFICE, OCTOBER 27. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 50—highest since noon yesterday. 43 —lowest this morning and during the night. 45—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.90. WlND—Northerly, light breeze, with showery weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 2h. 13m.—Afternoon, 2h. 33m. To-Monitow-Morning, 2h. 53m.—Afternoon, 3h. 12m. bn.: , THE SUN. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1859 A quarter of a century has elapsed since Lord BROUGHAM'S last appearance in his birthplace— the ancient and loyal, the learned and classically beautiful city of Edinburgh. Yesterday, he was once more entertained there by his fellow-citizens, and after the banquet, in the hearing of one thou sand persons, delivered another of those remarkable orations by which he has of late been very signally demonstrating the intellectual as well as physical vigour that, after a mast lengthened and laborious life of more than oighty-one years, may still survive undimmed and undiminished in the heart and brain of an octogenarian. It was in no exaggerated or hyperbolical strain that the noble and learned lord, casting a retrospective glance at the outset of this harangue down the perspective of his experiences, avowed that he considered this invitation and this reception as " one of the two greatest honours that had crowned a not very short and a very varie gated life." Adding, by way of explanation, that " his being chosen to represent the great county o York was the other"—that the grandest of all the constituencies, both by the extent of its area and the number of its population, having, by an ever memorable act of electoral independence, selected HARRY BROUGHAM simply and solely as a man of rare genius to be its representative. No wonder ord BROUGHAM still counts, among all the many brilliant triumphs of his long life, as second to none other, his victorious return as M.P. for the West Riding of Yorkshire, for the express purpose not only of the advance ment; but also, and peculiarly, for the reform of Parliament. Yet appreciating to the uttermost that great tribute to him, in attestation of his popularity, Lord BROUGHAM hesitates to attach to it, as a per sonal triumph dearly cherished to the last in his memory, any superiority of importance when com pared with this his latest triumph in his native place, his reception at the banquet spontaneously offered to him by the citizens of Edinburgh. He simply classes the two honours together, and speaks of them, as we have seen, as " the two greatest honours" that have crowned his life— placing them side by side —giving to neither o them precedence. Although we have as yet but the merest epitome or telegraphic abbreviation of the speech delivered 'yesterday by the noble and learned ex-Chancellor, in return for the toast of his health upon its being befittingly proposed by the Lord Provost, in the name of the citizens of Edinburgh—we can recognise without much difficulty, even from this hurried synopsis, the sc o p e o f t h at f ul l report which the next post will bring more rapidly at the 'heels of the flying telegram. Deeply and pro foundly impressed above all things just now, as a politician,' by the miserable disclosures recently made of the systematic venality evidenced by so many of the large constituencies, Lord BitorGuam almost at the very commencement of his address found it impossible to avoid referring "to the in stances of gross bribery and corruption lately dis . closed in England, and expressing his great gratifica tion that in Scotland electoral corruption did not exist at all." Directly afterwards adding, with much solemnity, that until this corruption was thoroughly and effectually extirpated with a strong, steady, and unfl:nching hand, the Constitution of this country teenld be on its trial —as was intimated four or five years ago very preposterously by the PRINCE CON SORT in reference to the contrast of our great representative system with the Continental schemes of Arbitrary Government. The Constitution, even now we cannot quite regard, with Lord BROUGHAM, as, in any way, so to speak, really upon " its trial-"--in regard to the venality and corrupt' on recently dis closed to be so rife, and requiring, indeed, such vigorous extirpation. The representative system, if you will, is on its trial, so far as relates to the necessity of its modification. Hence the clamour for Reform, which has been the bone of contention among Parties session after ses- sion, during the chief part now of the 10 years last past; and the scrambling for and wrangling over which bas in reality lcd to so many abrupt changes of Administration. That the Constitution would sur vive this imaginary trial, however, Lord BROUGHAM yesterday declared that he for one entertained no doubt whatever ; and this simply he appears to have added, because he had every reliaitce upon the corruption itself being completely extirpated. The learned Lord's own device, for its extirpation, we know. It is simple enough, in all conscience, and certainly upon the very face of it wonderfully well calculated to prove eminently effectual. Our facetious Punch, if we mistake not, through the cunning pencil of TENNIEL, illustrated the poignant reference made upon a former and a very recent occasion by Lord BROUGHAM, to his own triumphant demonstration of the absolute efficacy of the plan hinted at — namely, when, as the Old Reformer, he rendered participation in the Slave-trade Felony ! Let but that trenchant scalpel be applied to this long fes tering gangrene in our representative system—and we shall have less chance in future of hearing any one talking about the Constitution being upon its trial—be he a Royal Highness or an ex-Chancellor. Extending his glance, however, beyond the ocean borders of our own land, Lord BROUGHAM yesterday referred, as was indeed but natural in this momentous crisis in the affairs of Europe, to the actual situation and future prospects of the Italian people in their struggle for independence. Whatever might have been the occult motives for the war, whatever may have been the secret signi. ficance of the " idea" in which it originated, that is on the part of France, or rather of her imperial ruler, NAPOLEON 111., the noble and learned lord expresses his conviction that even so far " a certain amount of good has come out of it "—a very great step having, according to his view,been made through the late campaign towards the political emancipa tion of the Roman Peninsula. Lord BROUCIAM acknowledges thereupon explicitly that his own especial aspiration in their regard is (in regard to these brave Italians) " to see them under the King of SARDINIA, as the only practicable mode of insuring their independence." Then follows this impressive allegory— an apologue, so to express it, sufficiently suggestive in its way, even though it is through the stenographic medium of the terse telegram, that it can alone as yet be regarded. " Alluding to France,"— quoth the telegram, echoing these thoughts of Lord BROUGHAM in acid thrills through the tele graphic wire from Edinburgh to London—"he pictured the great tempter holding out before that nation the laurel, the emblem of warlike glory, and expressed his hope that the French would not be deceived by it; and he described the tempter as likewise offering to this country the apple, the emblem of the fruits of the earth, and trying to lull this country into a false security, leading it to abandon its preparations for defence. In this last he knew that the tempter would fail. This coun try, he said, did not distrust its neighbours, but it trusted to itself. Their duty was to be prepared by sea and land in every way in whicn an attack was possible, so as to render it impossible not only that the attack should succeed, but that it should be attempted. 'We did the best both for our neighbour and ourselves by being com pletely and absolutely prepared tor whatever mizhi happen." Let England lay those words to heart and weigh them well in her innermost conscience. They are words of wisdom and prudence. They arc words dropped from the lips of of " an old man eloquent," who—whatever another old man (not at all eloquent) may think or feel upon these sub jects of vital import to the country and the Consti tution—has certainly been in no way injuriously influenced in his patriotism or in his judg ment by any imperial blandishments eith€r at St. Cloud or the Tuileries. It may be that these imperial blandishments possess in some mysterious way an additional seductiveness when lavished in the more sylvan regions of Compiegne. Whatever the cause of it they manifestly do act differently upon Lord BROUGHAM and Lord PALMERSTON. The latter overweeningly courtly and conciliatory in his manner, presents a marked contrast to the former, who remains to the last, through all, above all, and beyond all, heart and soul, body and genius a right-down, uncompro mising, independent Englishman ! Our lengthQned reports elsewhere will show at a glance only too plainly how disastrous his been that fearful gale of yesterday. Telegrams brought tidings to Lloyd's before nightfall from all the out- ports of the stranding of more than seventy vessels, accompanied, in too many instances, with a deplorable loss of life. The coast-railways have been, in several places, carried away, or so far destroyed as to interrup the regular coarse of traffic —as for example along the coast-lines near Exeter and Hastings. But, above all disastrous and deplorable, is the news brought to us from Liverpool of the loss of the splendid ocean steam-ship the Royal Charter, near Bangor, in Muffa Red Wharf Bay, with the loss of some 429 souls, out of the 450 who left Melbourne on the 26th of August on their homeward voyage from Australia. Eleven out of those 450 appear to have landed at Queenstown—all the rest, passen gers and crew (with the exception of ten, who arc said to have been providentially saved from the wreck) have, since the landing of those eleven at Queenstown (according to the brief and some what confused accounts yet received) most lamentably perished. The Royal Charter is said, besides this, to have carried down with her half a million of gold—according to one of those who, fortunately for them, landed at Queenstown, 79,000 ounces. As the report adds, however, " The gold will, of course, be easily recovered, but, alas ! not so the poor people who have perished." The gold even to the amount of 79,000 ounces, even if en tirely lost, is but of trivial value, remembering those four hundred and upwards of our fellow-creatures who have thus died together within sight of the old fatherland! The precise locality in which this catastrophe occurred is described as a spot situated two or three miles to the westward of Puffin Island, in the Isle of Anglesea, and six or seven miles to the north-west of l3eaumaris. The precise time of the fatal shipwreck cannot as yet at least it appears to be accurately estimates —the telegraph having bEen seriously injured, and the railway itself, in fact, bodily washed away at parts on the line between Chester and Birkenhead. Altogether our impression of this evening con veys but a melancholy record of lives lost, ships stranded or foundered, and property to an immense amount irrecoverably destroyed. Parliament was this day formally prorogued, in the House of Lords, until the 15th of December. Sir C. R. Rushout and the Hon. Lady Rushout have left Fenton's Hotel for Brighton. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY gVENING, OCTOBER 27, 1859, LOSS OF THE ROYAL CHARTER AND FOUR HUNDRED LIVES. LIVERPOOL, TILtiRSDAY From Mr. W. H. Gardener, who left the Royal Charter at Queenstown (his wife coming on with the vessel), along with about 10 passengers, we learn that the vessel had about 450 souls on board, and 79,000 ounces of gold. She left Melbourne on the 26th of August. The cabin passengers numbered 60 ; among those on board were Edwin Fowler, John Murray, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Murray, three children, and aunts, Walter Nugent, La Fargur, Rufford Welch, Mellor, Watson, a captain who had lost his ship on the Feejee Islands, Mr. Woodruff; the Rev. Mr. Jenkins, wife, and four children ; Mrs. Nahmur (a consul's wife), Mrs. and Miss Fowler, Mr. and Mrs. Davis, two daughters, and a son ; Mrs. Tweddale, Dr. Grundy, Mr. M'George, Rev. Mr. Hodge (who had been presented with a purse by the passengers), Mrs. Foster, Mrs. Fen wick and children, Mrs. Hutton D. Hatch (of Farnham, Surrey), Mr. Pilcher, wife, and two children; Mrs. Beams, Dr. Wright (surgeon of ship), Mr. Emery, Mr. S. T. Henry, Mr. and Mrs. Grove, Mr. Carew Taylor, Mr. Molyneux, Mr. Morse. These persons were from Adelaide, Syd ney, Melbourne, New Zealand, and Tasmania. Capt. Taylor, commander of the Royal Charter, had been presented with money for a testimonial. A communication from Aloefra, Oct. 26, says : " The Royal Charter was wrecked last night in a terrific gale from the N.N.E. All hands lost ex cept, according to my judgment, 25 ; all the officers lost excepting the carpenter and boatswain's mate." The communication, which was interrupted, is now complete. The pilotboat No. 12 is now in the river. A paAsenger from Holyhead reports that yester day a part of the breakwater was washed away, and that a vessel had been in collision with the Great Eastern. No damage, however, was done. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING: The public will learn with overwhelming grief that the splendid vessel the Royal Charter was totally lost yesterday, in Muffa Red Wharf Bay, near Bangor. The melancholy intelligence which nached us late last night was brief, but we fear that it was only too true. Of upwards of 400 persons on board only 10 are said to have been saved. There is some hope, however, that this is an exaggeration ; but under any circumstances the loss of life, it is to be feared, has been immense. The Royal Charter, it was supposed, had about half a million of gold on board. The gold will, of course, be easily recovered, but, alas ! not so the poor people who have perished. The place where the vessel is understood to have been wrecked is not unfavourable for diving opera• tions in calm weather. The precise time when the disaster took place is net known, for the telegraph had ceased to work, and so destructive has been the storm along the coast yesterday that the Chester and Birkenhead Railway had been destroyed in two places ; between Conway and Holyhead an embankment has been washed away, and near Rhyl about a dozen yards of the line had been completely washed away, and 100 yards damaged, the passengers having to walk in the first case two miles, and in the last half a mile to get to the train on either side of the disruption. At Penmaenmawr 20 dead bodies had been washed ashore. The bay in which the catastrophe has occurred is two or three miles to the westward of Puffin Island, in Ang,lesea, and six or seven miles to the north-west of Beaumaris. It has a shallow sandy beach for several miles, and with promontories at each end of the bay ; the country around is wild Ind few houses are about. ..._ _ • __ , The Liverpool pilot-boat No. 12 is reported to lave been lost, with all hands. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 27. A telegram has been received here from Bangor stating that the Royal Charter, from Melbourne, which touched at Queenstown on Monday on her way to Liverpool, has been wrecked in Red-wharf Bay, and that many lives have been lost. She woulfl have a large amount of specie on board, but the quantity is not yet known, as she brings late ad vice 9. Red Wharf Bay is situated about three miles to the westward of Puffin Island, Menai Straits, and six or seven miles to the north-west of Beaumaris. With the exception of the bay, which is very sandy and shallow, the coast is rocky and bold. The place where the vessel is understood to have been wrecked is not unfavourable for diving opera tions in calm weather. The Liverpool pilot-boat No. 12 is reported to have been lost, with all hands. Some portions of the rails along the Menai Straits are reported to have been washed away, and some of the telegraph wires have been blown down. LITERATURE. Beatrice, or Six Years of Childhood and Youth. By Mrs. S. Valentine. 'Pegg and Co. The accomplished authoress of "The Ransom," and " Kirkholme Priory," and other novels which some few years back enthralled the public has again, we are rejoiced to see, resumed her pen. Her re cent works are of a less ambitinus, but in reality of a not less important character, being addressed to the young—a department of literature in which some of our celebrated writers have not disdained to engage, witness:the tales of a Grandfather of Walter Scott and the charming stories of Maria Edgeworth. Accord ing to the saying of that shrewd observer, " l i et me write the people's ballads, and let who will make the laws," so we would say, let the literature of the young—the books that are to influence the plastic mind and the impressionable heart—be of the highest character, and the press of another genera tion must of necessity be elevated in sentiment, and purified in tone. One of the first elements of sue • cess in works of this nature is interest. That is an absolute essential. To be beneficial they must t o attractive. "To be good and disagrsable," it has ' been happily said "is high treason against virtue," and the didactic homilies to which an unwise care at one time confined the youthful reader, only served as a stimulus to a forbidden curiosity which was too likely when occasion offered to seek gratification in unworthy channels. We are wiser now—all novels, as such, are not absolutely excluded from the juvenile library, and a book for the young is often found to exceed in interest and ability far more pretentious volumes. Of this attractive cha racter is " Beatrice," the story of six years of the childhood and youth of a little girl from India. Her various faults and virtues, and the happy influ ences of her education, with the varying adventures that befell her, are most naturally portrayed. Her perilous imprisonment in the unknown passage will enthral many a youthful heart. A number of different characters are the companions of her history, foremost among them Mary Grey, the little village girl, whose character and adven tures are hardly less interesting than those of Bea trice. One suggestion we might hint to the fair authoress, that, if attended to, could only enhance the value of her future productions, namely, to avoid as much as possible whatever is beyond the comprehension of young readers. as the occasional remarks in French, and even in Italian, that arc to be nut with in the pages of " Beatrice," which is in other rzspects a charming juvenile tale, and one well calculated to become a favourite. Lir ETIOAT S LEY, Oct. 26.—Last night beetween nine and ten o'clock, the sloop George and Mary, of Hull, drove on shore opposite Filey. It was at the time blowing a heavy gale of wind from the eastward. The vessel failing completely to beat off from the shore having previously lost her jibboom, d rove f rom h er anchors'. She immediately afterwards showed signals of distress, being at the time a quarter of a mile from the land. The lifeboat of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was immediately manned by 13 men and launched; and just as the vessel was taking the ground the lifeboat reached her, and took off the . whole of the crew in safety. The gallant crew of the lifeboat have been promptly paid by the so ciety, £l3, for their valuable services. This station was only a few days ago visited by the lifeboat inspector of the society, and is reported to be in excellent order. Probably theie is no sinfle lifeboat in the United Kingdom which has /Wed more lived than the Filey lifeboat. LATEST NEWS. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. (PER PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM COMPANY.) The Bengal left Aden for Suez on the 15th inst., she was delayed at Point de Galle for the Ganges (the China steamer) which put into Trincomalee short of coals. The Ceylon arrived at Alexandria on the 17th instant. The mails will probably be delivered in London on Monday next. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : BERLIN, OCT. 27. The Tuscan deputation entrusted with a mitsion to the Courts of Prussia and Russia has left for Warsaw. Several particulars having been published concerning what was accomplished during their stay at Berlin, the Prussian Gazette contains to day the following remarks ;—The statements pub lished by the papers concerning the reception of the Tuscan deputation by the Minister of Foreign Affairs are in the essential parts inexact." The Prussian Gazette lays particular stress on the fact that the deputation was not received officially, be cause the Tuscan Government has not been recog nised by the Prussian Court. The interview be tween the Tuscan deputation and the Minister for Foreign Affairs was strictly private ; neither were the particulars of the interview destined to be made public. MADRID, OCT. 25. The rumours which have been current concern ing a peaceful settlement with Morocco are without any foundation. Generals Zabala and Serrano and other chiefs of the army take their departure this evening. General Olano will• leave on Saturday. The Spanish Consul was still at Tangiers on the 24th instant. PARIS, OCT. 26. At the request of M. Mon, the Spanish Ambas sador in Paris, Marshal Bandon, the Minister of War, has placed materials of war at the disposal of the Spanish Government, and has declared that the Emperor will support the military operations of Spain in the war against Morocco by advances made in a similar way to those made to Piedmont during the late war. It is asserted that the Emperor will pay a vis to the King of the Belgians. The Patria. of this evening says : Their Majesties will stay at Compiegne from the 30th of October to the 30th of November. There s no foundation for the rumaur that the Emperor of Austria is expected at Compiegne. The Grand Duchess Maria of Russia will visit their Imperial Majesties during their sojourn at Cumpiegne. The Queen of Holland arrived yesterday at St. Cloud. 12 10 p.m. The Bourse opens without any material altera tion. Rentes, 69f. 45c. 3 15 P.M. Rentes close at 69f. 35c., showing no alteration as compared with yesterday; but in railway shares a slight decline has taken place. MADRID, OCT. 21. The Spanish Consul gave notice to the Moorish Government on the 19th inst. that he was about to quit Tangier immediately. Marching orders have been given to the troops which are to join the expeditionary corps frame°. A decree appointing Marshal O'Donnell to the command-in chief of the military forces is expected to appear in the official Gazette of to-morrow. The Marshal will start at the end of the week. General enthusiasm prevails among the people. hurricanes are now prevalent in the Straits. MARSEILLES, OCT. 26 Advices have been received from Constantinople to the 19th inst. Four chiefs of the late conspiracy have been con demned to death—namely, Hussein Pasha, a mufti, a colonel, and an individual who was to have killed the Sultan. These condemnations had provoked a fermentation among tho populace, and direct threats of revenge had mysteriously reached the Palace of the Sultan. The executions have been delayed. The Sultan has written a letter to the Ministers reproaching them that the reforms have been incomplete. Kibriali Pasha took office yesterday as Grand Vizier. He was formerly a pupil - at the College of Saumur, in France. Modi fications of the Cabinet are expected. All the conditions under which Kibriali Pasha stated he w'as willing to enter the Cabinet have been accepted. The Montenegrins have began again to commit great atrocities against the Turks; the members of the commission for the settlement of the boundary question escaped them quite by chance. A con spiracy has been discovered at Aleppo, and arrests have taken place. ZURICH, OCT. 26. The Austrian Plenipotentiary, Count Colloredo, expired this morning. TURIN, OCT. 26. The Minister of Justice has tendered his resigna tion, on account of the Court of Cassation being transferred from Turin to Milan. The statement has been confirmed that several Deputies held a meting yesterday in order to solicit the Government to accelerate the armaments and to pursue energetically the work of uniting Central Italy. BRESCIA, TUESDAY. The Austrians have evacuated five Cantons of the district of Gargnano, on the Lago di Garda. The enthusiasm of the inhabitants is very great. CASSEL, OCT. 26. The Second Chamber in a secret sitting of yester day resolved, by 21 against 15 votes, to take into consideration the proposal of the member M. Herr lein to present an address to the Elector for rc establishing the Constitution of 1831. The pro posal was referred to a committee to make a report on it." FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. Captain Baron Clement de la Ronciere le Noury has been appointed to the command of the French squadron in the Levant. A Paris correspondent of the Nord says :—" The conviction seems general here that at any moment new incidents may arise, which will require all the attention of the Government. Despatches have consequently been sent off to Vienna to hasten the selection of a successor to Count de Colloredo, in I order to close the conferences of Zurich as soon as possible. The Patric tonight contradicts the report of the visit of the Emperor of Austria to Compiegne. En revanche the Queen of the Netherlands has arrived at St. Cloud on a visit, and Princess Maria of Leuchtemberg will attend the Compiegne fetes. Count Colloredo, you will have heard, died at Zurich yesterday. The Austrian Government have appointed Count Carolyi first plenipotentiary in his stead, A supplementary credit of 500,000 f. has been opened to the Minister of the Interior for secret service money. _ _ The Bishops of Strasburg and Alende have ordered prayers to be offered up for the Pope, in all the parishes and religious communities of their dioceses. In Belgium, the Bishop of Tournay has also ordered prayers for the Pope to be offered up in all the churches of his diocese ; and the Bishop of Ghent has addressed a letter to the Bishop of Orleans, ex pressing approbation of his protest in behalf of his Holiness. It is not the case, as stated by the Pays, that Captain Bourgeois, of the Imperial navy, has gone over to England to arrange about the China expe dition. He has gone over to buy some large transports. Rumours have of late been current here of a split in the English Cabinet. Lord Palmerston is said to be opposed to Lord John Russell on the Italian question. The noble Premier, according to what is stated here, is disposed to accept the treaty of Zurich as a proper settlement of the Italian diffi culty, while Lord John refuses to hear of a Congress on such a basis. Ido not myself attach the slight est importance to this rumour, but they are so gene rally circulated here that it is impossible not to notice them. The Presse to-night says Accord ing to Paris report Lord Palmerston will carry the day ; and, according to the rumours which reach us from London, the odds are in favour of Lord John." BOURSE, Oct. 25.—The market was steady at the opening, but afterwards became heavy. Threes, after having been done at 69f. 50c., receded to 69f. 30c. ; Mobilier varied from 770 f. to 767 f. 50c. ; Austrian, 542 f. 50c. to 540 f. ; Lombard, 550 f. to 548 f. 75c. ; Orleans, 1,362 f. 50c. to 1,360 f. ; Lyons, 908 f. 75c. to 507 f. 50c. The following were the last quotations:— it per Cents. .... 95 Credit Fonder.; 690 Do. end month .. Belgian 41 lOOl 3 per Cents 69 35 Piedmontese (5) .. 83 25 Do. end month 69 35 Roman B4 Bank Shares. ... . . 2835 Austrian Credit Mobilier .. 770 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 770 ! Home Debt '42 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans - .. 1361 25 Northern 932 50 .. 932 50 New ditto. Bl7 50 • .. Lyons and Mediterranean 9lO .. 910 Geneva 520 .. 520 Southern Western 565 .. 565 Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 111 c. ; money, 25f. 10c.; three months, paper, 24L 96c.; money, 24. 940. SPAIN. The Madrid journals publish a plan of campaign for the intended expedition to Morocco, which is rather amusing, from the cool manner in which the various proceedings of the Spanish forces are mapped out. After stating that when once the campaign is opened no time should be thrown away in besieging places in a regular manner, but that they should be set fire to by means of shells and rockets, which would compel an immediate surrender, the writer continues : The following table indicates in a few words the opera tions which the Spanish army ought to effect on the coast of Africa, and their approximative duration :—Conveyance of the expedition to Ceuta, and landing and organisation of the columns, 9 days ; march from Ceuta to Tangiers by the Kassar, 2; attack on Tangiers by sea and land, capture of the place and stay in it, leaving troops on departure, 2 ; march from Tangiers to Larache, by the Madrones and Arcilla, 8; attack of Larache hi sea and land, taking of the place, and stay there, 3 ; march from Larache to Mehediaiiy Marmora, 3 ; attack of Mehedia by sea and land, taking of the place, and stay there, 6; march from Mehedia to Rabat, 1; attack of Rabat by sea and land, capture of the place and stay there, 5; march from Rabat to Mequinez, 3; attack and capture of Mequinez, 3 ; march from Mequinez to Fez, 2 ; attack of Fez, capture of the place, and conclusion of a treaty of peace between the two countries, 8 ; return to Rabat, the point of defini tive occupation, 6. Each of the above places should have a contribution levied on it, according to its wealth, and which may be regulated as follows :—Tangiers, 10 millions of francs ; Lara Che, 2 millions ; Mehedia, 2 ; Rabat, 2 ; Me quinez, 4 ; Fez, 40 ; being in all 60 millions. When the Spanish army shall have proceeded along the coast, and pene trated to Fez, the Holy City of the empire, Spain would have nothing to gain by a prolonged occupation ; but it would be an immense advantage for her to occupy Rabat defini tively and in a strong manner, by converting it into a free port, like Gibraltar. All the caravans which do not pass by Tangiers, Fez, and Morocco come to Rabat with the, productions of Africa, where they exchange them for mer chandise Of different kinds. Rabat would be an excellent mili tary position to serve for the starting point for an expedition against Fez or Morocco, if such an operation should become necesary to secure the execution of the treaty. An annual tribute of 10 millions might readily be exacted by Spain from the, Emperor of Morocco. In the event of the expedi tion not taking place, in consequence of the Emperor pro mising a complete satisfaction, the Court of Madrid ought nevertheless to exact as one of the conditions of acceptance of that reparation, the exchange of Rabat for Melilla, for the reasons above-mentioned." PRINCESS'S TILEJITRE. The usual light performances of this theatre were last night put aside, in order that the 'full tragedy of " Hamlet" might be produced, to give Mr. George Melville, an actor of considerc.b:e provincial cele brity, the opportunity of testing his abilities as the world-renowned Prince of Denmark. Mr. Melville has several requisites for the highest grade of the profession he has chosen, and nature, though not completely bountiful, has furnished him with many requisites of a first• class tragic actor. His stature, though only just the middle height, is removed from the insignificant, and is so moulded as to give him a graceful and manly appearance. His face and features are pleasing, and are capable of consider able expression ; and, above all, he has youth on his side. He is well acquainted with stage busi ness, walks, dresses, and looks well, and outwardly has all the requisites of his art. He seems also to be a scholar, and to read with much judgment and taste. _ _ " Hamlet" has been so often and so variously in terpreted by the greatest commentators, and it . has been so often performed by the greatest actors, that it becomes the most difficult part a debutante can undertake. Mr. Melville's interpretation of the chameleon-like character is, in the main, one we think just. His principle is to bring out the youth, tenderness, and melancholy of the Prince, and to never lose sight that he was heir-apparent to the Danish throne. He succeeded best, therefore, in the colloquial and the didactic portions of the play ; and recited the hackneyed soliloquy of." To be, or not to be," much better than he.did the passionate one of " Oh ! what a rogue and peasant slave am I," which Garrick held to be the touchstone of an actor's capacity in the part. He recited the injunc tions to the actors, and expressed his regard for Horatio, better than he gave the semi-madness of his interview with the Ghost, or the frenzied declaration of love for Ophelia over her grave. Mr. -Melville is not deficient in energy, for, on two or three occasions, he fairly roused the audience to enthusiasm. Tie has excellent taste ; mimics no celebrity ; hankers after no intent meanings or net• readings, and is always judicious and sensible. In all this we thank him, for imitators and would-be profound interpreters have so long infested the theatres, that it is much to get a sensible actor who plays, at all events, from his own notions and his own feelings. The part of Hamlet is so long, so complicated, and requires such sustained powers, that we recol lect no actor who fulfilled all its requisites; not even the elder Kean, who in his prime was the nearest to a true delineation we have ever seen. Mr. Melville is young, practised in, and evidently devoted to his art; and there can be no doubt will prove a great acquisition to the metropolitan stage. The house, which was well attended, was evi dently much interested in the performance, and ex pressed its frequent approbation very loudly. Mr. Melville was called at the close of every act, and at the conclusion of the play received the very cordial approbation of the audience. A new drama is an nounced for Alonlay, in which he is to take the principal character. GREAT FIRE AT ANTWERP.—On Sunday a fire burnt down one of the wings of the Royal Arsenal, at Ant werp. One or two persons lost their lives, and several were injured. It is not known hew the fire was occasioned. DEATH OF REAR-AD2IIIIML THE EARL OF WALLEGRAYE. We regret to have to announce the decease of Vice-Admi ral the Right Hon. William, eighth Earl of Waldegrave, C. 8., which melancholy event took place on Monday night, at his residence at Hastings. Tho deceased William Waldegrave, eighth Earl of Wal degrave, and Viscount Chewton, Baron Waldegrave, and a baronet of the United Kingdom, fourth son of the fourth Earl of Waldegrave, was born at Navestock Hall, in Essex, on October 27, 1788. He had the misfortune to lose his father while yet in infancy—that nobleman dying while on a visit to the Earl of Aylesford, in 'Warwickshire, leaving his widow with four sons and one daughter, Lady Maria Waldograve, subsequently married to Mr. Micklethwait, of G l ossy Hall, Norfolk. Of the sons, George, the fifth earl, was unfortunately drowned at Eton, and was succeeded by John James, the sixth earl, who entered the army and served in the Peninsular war, and also in the short cam paign ending with the battle of Waterloo. The third son, Edward, also was in the military service, and after sharing in the disastrous retreat of Sir John Moore, was drowned in the wreck of the transport in which he was returning to England, on the Manacle Rocks, near Plymouth. William, the fourth son—the subject of this memoir—was educated at Eton, and chose the navy for his profession. Mr. O' Byrne, in his " Naval Biography," gives the following account of his career :—" Mr. Waldegrave entered as a first-class boy on board the Theseus, 74, Captain John Bligh, bearing the flag of his uncle, Lord Radstock, and then fitting at Spithead, August 11, 1801. Removing in January, 1802 (he had already attained the rating of midshipman), to the Medusa, 32, commanded by Sir John Gore, he con tributed in that ship, after cruising in the Mediterranean, to the capture of three Spanish frigates laden with treasure, and the destruction of the fourth off Cape St. Mary, sth Oct., 1804 ; and to the detention, in the ensuing November, of the Matilda, 36, a ship laden with a cargo of quicksilver worth £200,000. In the early part of 1805 the Medusa con veyed the Marquis Cornwallis, as Governor-General, to India, - whence she effected her passage home, a distance of 13,831 miles, in the wonderfully short period of 82 days. Mr. Waldegravo served with Sir John for a few more months in the Revenge, 74, in' the Channel ; but in June, 1806,he joined,: at Plymouth, the Royal George, 100, flag-ship of Sir John Duckworth. On il9th July following he was made' lieutenant of the Sirius, 36, Captain 'William Prowso, on his former station, the Mediterranean, where he was appointed 12th Dec., 1808, and 11th April, 1809, to the Ocean, 98, and Ville do Paris, 110, bearing each the flag of Lord Collingwood. On the night of the 31st October in the latter year we find him serving with the boats of a squadron under Lieutenant John Tailour at the capture and destruction of the French armed store-ship Lamproie, of 16 guns and 116 men, bombards Victoire and Grondeur, armed Xeber, Normande, and several merchant vessels, defended by numerous strong batteries in the Bay of Rosas, after a desperate struggle and a loss to the British of 15 killed and 55 wounded. As we learn from Lord Collingwood's public letter, he dis played on that occasion the spirit which was inherent in him, and having been the first volunteer on the service, he was sent home by his lordship with his despatches. He arrived at the Admiralty 29th of November following, and three days afterwards was promoted to the rank of com mander. He was next, 6th of July, 1810, appointed to the Melpomene, which, after Gen. Massena's retreat from be fore Torres Vedras, assisted in carrying the British army, under Gen. Hill, across the Tagus, and with a post cap tain's commission, dated Bth March, 1811, he was appointed to the Macedonia, also on the Lisbon station, which he left on the 7th June, 1811, returning to England." On the 10th August, 1812, Captain Waldegrave married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. Samuel Whitbread, by the Lady Elizabeth Grey. This introduced him at once into the politics of the day, and the character of that inde pendent statesman gave the bias to his mind which ever after remained with him, namely, a general determination to support Whig measures, but not to be a party man. On Mr. Whitbread's untimely death he was unanimously elected to fill the vacant seat as member of Parliament for Bedford during the minority of his brother. in-law, which he held till the dissolution of that Parliament in 1818. His noble mother, who, in the course of a long widowhood, had administered her son's property in the most exemplary manner, being now dead, Captain Waldegrave, about the year 1821, settled in Somersetshire, as agent to his brother under trustees, and in this county he is remembered with respect by his fellow-magistrates for his unwearied at tention to his duties as a justice of the peace, and with affection by the poor for his unfailing readiness to hear and redress their grievances. The colliers speak of him as the first gentleman who made himself personally no• quainted with their mode of life by descending their pits and endeavouring to improve their condition. On the 7th of Feb., 1829, Captain Waldegravo was appointed to H.M.S. Seringapatam, 46, on the South American station, and was sent by the Admiralty to investigate the state of the islands of the South Pacific, and report upon their conversion to Christianity. Subsequently he acted as senior officer in the Pacific from May, 1830, till April, 1832. The imme diate result of this voyage showed itself in his settling down in London on his return to England, and devoting his energies to the promotion of the temporal and spiritual in terests of seamen, and the spread of the Gospel among the heathen, whether at home or abroad, and he became an active member of societies formed for these purposes. At the end of seven years he was appointed to the command of the Revenge, 74 (May, 1339), and took a distinguished part in the bombardment of St. Jean d'Acre, under the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford and Sir Charles Napier. The latter he assisted in concluding the peace by which the war between Turkey and Egypt was ended. On the 18th Dec., 1840, he was nominated, with the rest of the captains in the Syrian war, a Companion of the Bath. In Sept. and Oct., 1811, he was senior official officer in the Bay of Tunis, with the Ganges, 84, and the Implacable, 74, under his orders. Ho obtained the captain's good service pension in 1842, and returned to England in March of the same year. On the Ist Oct., 1846, ho accepfed the rank of re tired rear-admiral, in accordance with his long-expressed opinion that older though still vigorous men should make room for younger mon in the service. In the same year he succeeded to the family dignity as eighth Earl of Walde grave on the death of his nephew, and having been a widower since 1843, married Mrs. Milward, of Hastings, which place became henceforward his principal residence. The loss of his eldest son, Viscount Chewton, who died on the Bth of October, 1854, of wounds received at the battle of the Alma, was a blow to his health from which he never re covered. The Queen expressed her most gracious and deep-felt sympathy at the death of Lord Chewton, in a letter which was most graciously worded and most grate fully received. Gradually and most reluctantly one active pursuit after another was relinquished, till in 1856 he was unable to attend in the House of Lords. The late Viscount Chewton left at his death (by his wife, daughter of Captain Bastard, R.N., of Sharpham, Devon shire), one son, 'William Frederick, born on the 2d March, 1851; and another son, Henry Noel, born on the 14th Oc tober, 1851, a few days after the death of his noble father. The late earl is succeeded in his title and honours by his grandson, the above William Frederick, now ninth Earl of Waldegrave, born on the 2d of March, 1851. THE PRINCE OF WALES AT OXFORD. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has now been at the University a week, and he may be considered to have fairly entered upon his career as an Oxonian. His resolution seems to be to conform to the rule of his college, and to conduct himself in nearly all respects like its ordi nary members. He has been a regular attendant at such of the lectures as have yet taken place, though the term being yet so young, most of the professors only begin their labours in the course of the present week ; and so far, un like many of his less illustrious colleagues, he has " saved his fines," by being at chapel punctually at eight o'clock every morning. One difference made in his favour is that instead of occupying rooms in college, the prince is allowed to keep up a residence in the city, a privilege that is never accorded to any but royal undergraduates. When the late Marquis of Waterford was at Christ Church (the prince's Alma Meter) he made great efforts to secure a similar con cession, but in vain ; and ordinary undergraduates are re fused even to bo allowed to take lodgings out of the Col lege until they have matriculated at least ono term. Any day the prince may be seen walking along the streets in his cap and gown, almoSt unattended, or strolling in the quadrangle of Christ Church with his brother under graduates, among whom he is very popular ; and he seems equally di§posed to submit to college discipline, and to bear his share in college sports. He seems inclined too to give his patronage to city entertainments. Mr. Charles Dickens gave readings at the Town-hall on Monday and Tuesday evenings, and at the first reading (" The Christmas Carol" and " The Trial from Pickwick") the prince and his suite were present. On his attaining his 18th year on the 9th proximo, the event will be celebrated in Oxford with great rejoicings. The prince will remain at. Oxford for nine months, and before his departure the beau tiful new museum in the parks will be opened by the Queen in person. In the same week the commemoration will be held, when his royal highness will probably be admitted to the honorary degree of D.C.L. COWES, ISLE OF MIGHT. (FROM OUR OW/s1 CORRESPONDENT.) Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent leaves Norris Castle for the season on Friday next. DESTRUCTIVE GALE AT RIDE.—A violent storm of wild and rain, attended with thunder and lightning, passed over the Isle of Wight on Tuesday night. Many trees fences, and chimneys were blown down, and a considerable part of Hyde Pier destroyed. COWES AND NEWPORT RAILWAY.—A number of men are employed on this line. The first sod was turned in the field adjoining Mr. Bannister's ropewalk, but the tunnel which is to pass under the Newport and Cowes road, Mill Hill road, and the grounds of West Hill House is not yet commenced. The Cowes terminus is to be in Carrel-lane, within a few yards of the High-street and the steamboat pier. The houses in Chapel-lane, and part of Carrel-lane are to be pulled down, and a new street, 50 feet wide, is to be made from the High -street, passing by the Catholic chapel, to the entrance to Northwood-park, GOVERNMENT GUeIBAN TEES. The recent remarks of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer at the Great Eastern banquet, on the sub ject of Government guarantees to public undertak ings have awakened attention. Mr. Gladstone pointed out that the unsatisfactory returns of rail way investments have tended to produce a novel and, as he believes, mischievous tendency in the public mind to abandon the principle of self-reliance and to make an assault upon the national purse whenever any fresh project is deemed desirable, and as guardian of that purse, to say nothing of the moral considerations involved, he claimed the sym pathy of his hearers for the task he has continually to perform of resisting such importunities. To this he is undoubtedly entitled, and he may also demand the thanks of all persons of vigour and judgment not only for the firmness of his course, but for having alluded to the evil. There is one part of the philosophy of the matter, however, which has never yet been sufficiently recognised. The refusal of the public to place confidence in the promises or management of private directors is perfectly proper and natural. It is simply a result of hard experi ence, and one at which—seeing that there is always a hunger for good investments—they have arrived with the greatest reluctance. We have for some time been at that pass at which all public under takings of magnitude must be declined unless. Go vernment security can be obtained. The lesson is painful, but as wholesome as it is painful ; and, instead of putting an end to it by granting the re quired aid, it is the business of the Government to let it work a cure. That cure will consist in the whole herd of modern company-mongers being thrown out of occupation, while individual capital- ists endeavour to effect single-handed, or by means of the untrammelled superintendence of some ono whom, from long personal knowledge, they can thoroughly trust, such public improvements as may be within their power. Nothing could be more un palatable to the parties whose trade is thus liable to be spoiled ; and the cry for Government guaran tees was chiefly raised by them in order that they might still lead the public, by getting from facile Ministers something that should excite the confi dence which they could no longer win in any other way. The clamour, in fact, was simply to keep such things practically in their old channels ; and the history of several recent companies—home and foreign—shows the extent to which it has succeeded. Let any further compliance be sternly refused ; let the public be told that if they want invest ments they must find men they can trust, or keep their money idle, and the requisite individuals will be found, just as in all other exigencies of life the right characters rise up when events have reached the stage at which they are a neces sity. Those who have shown the greatest talent, combined with that capacity for faithful labour which springs from the steady consciousness of duty, will then sometimes come into the place of those who are distinguished only by a grasping self-assertion, a fluent knack at all the platitudes of public meetings, and an unlimited faculty of mak ing promises for the future, and of justifying or disowning the past. This is the good to public morality that Mr. Gladstone, and such as think with him, may help to achieve. The change will be slow, but it is worth the patience of years, how ever mortifying it may be meanwhile to contem plate the great things that might be done, but that must be deferred, for lack of co-operative faith, to another epoch. Yet, as all rules have exceptions, there is a conclusion to be guarded against in the sweeping deductions to which we are thus led. Although the principle of Government guarantees is wholly unsound, and radically in contradiction to the habits that have made England what she is, the nation must not use this plea in order to throw upon individuals the risk of purely national under takings. There has for years been a reprehensible tendency in this direction on the part of leading statesmen. Go to them on some question involving *imply the consideration whether the Government will honestly pay a certain sum or undertake a cer tainliability for a purely national want, and they will meet you with a threadbare lecture on the desirableness of individuals being induced to supply it by private enterprise ; just as if the proprietor of certain lands you might propose to drain should meet you with a pompous reproof for outraging the principl e s o f p o liti ca l econom y by asking him for a pecuniary contrib u ti on . In the same spirit, whenever any t o t a ll y i mprov ident financial outlay, which may have . been use ful to the people and ruinous to the subscribers, 10 celebrated by a demonstration, some members of the Government are always found to laud the schemers who have instigated the folly for the " patriotic" marvels they have achieved. The cor rupting consequence is that the community are taught to regard as eminent benefactors those who have enabled them to gain .a great advantage by the imp o verishment of individuals. This desire of the Government to get benefits at the cost of families requires to be controlled quite as much as the opPe site desire on the part of promoters before a healthy can be assumed. If the Government think a speedy communication with India, either by tele graph or railway, via Suez, the Euphrates, th e Cape, or any other route, .on the ground that it might add to the security of our empire or save a million or two per annum of political expenditure , or if they deem an instantaneous correspondenc e with the United States or any other country to be, of sufficient political importance, apart from a ll commercial considerations, with which they have nothing whatever to do, to warrant a certain peel?" niary risk on the part of the two nations, it is that business to say so, and fairly to volunteer the par ment. On the other hand, if they feel called to a: press any opinion as to the propriety of individual being drawn into such hazards they should, inste act , of trying to assist delusions, condemn by every pot sible opportunity all premature steps, and preach the mercantile doctrine that the true patriot is 0 .: one who throws great enterprises back by egot!s tl , tally outstriding the demand of the hour and bring . . ing them into financial disrepute, but who oil_ tinually makes a steady onward move whenev er confidence has been justified by previous success. Times. BANQUET TO LORD BROUGIIAIIt EDINBURGH, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The banquet by the citizens of Edinburgh to Lora Brougham took place this evening. About 650 sil t down to dinner, and about 400 ladies and gentle' men were present as spectators. The LORD PROVOST having in appropriate ears, guage proposed " the health" of the noble lord, LORD BROUGHAM rose to reply am:el ma nifesto" Lions of great enthusiasm and delight. He said Il e considered this invitation and this reception as °, l l of the two greatest honours that had crowne, i a g not very short and a very variegated life. P i k being chosen to represent the great county of Yol . , was the other. He referred to the instan c f' of gross bribery and corruption lately disclosed 1 1 England, and expressed his great gratification thi;: in Scotland electoral corruption did not exist at sp Until it was extirpated with a steady, unflinching' and strong hand the constitution of this country would be upon its trial. That it would survive Ile_ entertained no doubt, because he entertained nu doubt that that corruption would yet be entirely_ extirpated. He adverted, in affecting terms, to th ! many changes that had taken place since his la" appearance in Edinburgh, 25 years ago, and 0 . ," pressed his pain to think that he was the surviv°' now of nearly all his private friends. One chang e ! however, he found of a more happy desciiptio n-- ; he had survived those rancours and delusions °I" party which then to some extent prevailed, th ose delusions which allowed no merit in an a dverssrl m i and admitted no fault in a friend. Referrin; the affairs of Italy, he said that whatever iv:Al c o r had originated the late war a certain amou nt good had come out of it—a very great step ho be, e n made towards the independence of the Raba_ people ; and his hope was to see them under VI King of Sardinia, as the only practicable D iode , 42 .. insuring their independence. Alluding to Franc; he pictured the great tempter holding out bef e ko that nation the laurel, the emblem of war e h glory, and expressed his hope that the Fr i e ll : e would not be deceived by it ; and he describe ( ' the tempter as likewise - offering to this country apple, the emblem of the fruits of the earth , O d , trying to lull this country into a f a lse security, l ee ~ ing it to abandon its preparati ons for defe ll la In this last he knew that the tempter sv° l2 o t fail. This country, he s a id, did no t distr n , its neighbours, but it trusted to it se lf. Their au, , ,, was to be prepared by sea and land in every ' e i l in which an attack was possible, so as to render a, impossible not only that the attack should suec, e ',,,i but that it should be attempted. We did the I', both for our neighbour and ourselves by being e° b 5 t pletely and absolutely prepared for whatever in'g_ut happen. (His Lordship was received throughi,"bo with great applause.) Among the toasts et evening were—" The Education of the Pc o r of proposed by the Lord-Advocate ; " The Collegj z , Justice," proposed by Lord Brougham ; " The } ' t he lish Bar," by Professor Aytoun ; and among so r other speakers were the Duke of Argyll, Pr oles Pillans, Mr. Robert Chambers, and others. „ T r; 0' VISIT OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF Pi , - - 5 0- —Preparations are being made at Windsor Castle forth e r est; ception of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princ t Frederick William of Prussia and suite, who will ar rive e at Frederick Windsor shortly before the 9th prox , f o r the perPt E !tly being present at the grand banquet in * h onou r of the t he day of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wale s ; the, illustrious visitors will not return to Prussia bel°'” 0 end of November, in order to be present at the celeb ratio %. the birthday of the Princess Royal on the 21st of that woo' I