The Sun. — London, England, 1858-10-28 00:00:00

THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY - LANE. Under the Management of Miss L. Pyne and Mr. W • Harrison. THIS EVENING, Balfe's celebrated Opera, THE ROSE OF CASTILLE : Characters by Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne Miss M. Prescott, Mr. Geo. Honey, Mr. Bartle man, Mr. F. Glover, Mr. A. St. Albyn, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. To conclude with a new Ballet Divertissement, LA FLEUR IYAMO Mesdlles. L. Michelet, Morlacchi, and Pazquale. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Manag - ement of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING will be presented Shakspere's Play of KING JOHN. King John, Mr. C. Kean--Constance, Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by the Farce of AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstotve. THIS EVENING will be performed LONDON ASSU RA.NtE : Mr. and Mrs. C. Matthews, &c. HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. And ANY PORT IN A STORM. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough. THIS EVENING, THE LAST OF THE PIGTAILS ; Messrs. C. Selby, J. Bland, J. Clarke, arc. After which THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE. Followed by THE BONME FISH WIFE. And MY AUNT'S HUSBAND ; Mr. Swanborough, Mrs. Selby, Miss Ternan. Commence at 7 o'clock. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee, Mr. William Cooke. The New Tariff : Dress Circle, 3s. ; Upper Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls. ; Galleries, 6d. Great and Extraordinary Sensation produced by the new and brilliant Decorations—Splendid Act Drop—Magnificent Chandelier—Appropriate Scenery. During the week the new and successful drama of THE BATTLE OF BOTHWELL BRIG. With THE SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, comprising the evolutions and equitations of the first Professors in the world and their unequalled Stud of Horses. To conclude with a Farce called A king. MISTAKEN STORY. No boo Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.-- OPEN EVERT EVENING.—The following Company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DWETS, &c., viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badsey, Miss Brunell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ; Herr F. Jonztmane, Mr. Henshaw, S Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L Hime, Mr. Badsey, Senor Tiroll, Mr. Cozens, Mr. Bell, Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Albyn. Mr. John G. Forde, Mr. E. Taylor, and E. W. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks —Harmonium, Mr. Courtnay—Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at 7 precisely. Suppers, &c., until 12 o'clock. NOTICE.—The Proprietor begs respectfully to announce that _ THE FINE ARTS GALLERY IS NOW OPEN, From 11 o'clock a.m. until 12 o'clock p.m., Containing an extensive Collection of Pictures by Ancient and Modern Masters. THE WEATHER.—Sus OFFICE, OCT. 28. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 56—highest since noon7yesterday. 50—lowest this morning and during the night. 64—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.02. WIND, South-Westerly ; light, with dull rainy weather, THE SUN. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 28, 1858. Mr. BniGurr's admirable speech, yesterday, at Birmingham, has sounded the trumpet-note of Re form for the next session of Parliament. It rings clear and loud upon the ear of the nation ; and will, happily, be echoed for some time to come from journal to journal as distinctly as by a series of audible reverberations. The Reformers of Eng land—and we may count them in almost any direc tion by hundreds of thousands—have again reason to be grateful for the complete restoration to health of the most eloquent of all their great advocates in the Legislature. We say this quite as cordially, as unreservedly, as un affectedly as the most infatuated of the political followers and personal friends of the ex-member for Manchester, now M.P. for Birmingham. Mr. BRIGHT is by none more sincerely respected or more heartily admired than by ourselves. Yet upon many questions, and some of these vital ques tions too, we have often been, we shall probably very often be, diametrically opposed to him. We b:lieve him to be as thoroughly conscientious a politician as ever, with the rarest witcheries of oratory, charmed the senses and led captive the judgments of an assembly of Englishmen. But we don't by any means regard him as infallible in his own judgment. We conceive him to have often been, and still to be upon many points, egregiously mistaken. And, by the same right that he him self utters those opinions which appear to us so very fallacious, we presume frankly and explicitly to declare them to be, according to our view of things, erroneous. For our exceeding audacity in so doing Mr. BRIGHT has, before now, fallen foul of us with the utmost possible degree of discourtesy. That he has so retaliated upon the independence of this organ affects our judgment in his regard not in the least particular. His abilities will still find in the columns of The Sun an ever cordial recognition. His arguments will still be examined by us neither in a captious nor in a sycophantic spirit—but with a candid regard to their intrinsic value in our own unbiassed estimation. It is with these sentiments that we have always hitherto scrutinised—that we shall continue still hereafter to scrutinise—the reasoning of Mr. BRIGHT upon all those important subjects so inti mately affecting the welfare of the community— subjects discussed by him with the ready mastery of a man at once of genius and of common sense, both within and without the walls of Parliament. As a Reformer we go with Mr. BRIGHT heart and soul. As a Peace-at-any-price man, we are opposed to him absolutely. Of his whimsical pugnacity in insisting upon his views in the latter character, he himself almost perversely, certainly very gra tuitously and superfluously, afforded a new and somewhat striking illustration at the outset of the brilliant oration delivered by him yesterday in the Town-hall of Birmingham. Now—in 1858—he must needs go harking back to the old irritating question—the vexed question and the vexing ques tion—of the war of 1854 between the Allies and Russia. He reminds us of what we only too well remember—How at the time when that great war aPPpeared to be imminent he insisted upon it, from his place in the House of Commons, that it was in no way worth the cost and sacrifices it would inevitably necessitate. Mr. BRIGHT at that tim e was in a conspicuous minority. He is so to this moment. At the period he refers to, the Crown, the State, the Country thought otherwise. And, thinking other wise, war was declared. At an enormous cost, with very fearful sa4crifices that war was continued— with many blunders, with precipit a t e, w i t h in sensate haste it was brought to a conclusion. And now that three years have elapsed since the date of its close, Mr. BRIGHT-still in a minority, no doubt a conscientious, but still a very ridiculous minority —signalises the commencement of the first great speech he has yet delivered outside the walls of Parliament since his happy restoration to health —by taunting; the Crown, the State, the Country with the qu cry, " Was this war really, after all, worth this enormous cost, these terrible sa-cri flees ?" He t pikes pains to bring before the national ken as vividly as possible the mournful penalties of the war—th .se aggregate of 40,000 lives lost by England, t h e total of £100,000,000 sterling spent by :England in the agonies of the Crimean str lio•gle. Was the war worth all this P We answer, Yes ! We answer that there are re sults now visible upon the face of Europe which proclaim distinctly—notwithstanding the inade quate terms of the peace so unhappily because precipitately and inadequately concluded—that even through that miserable treaty of Vienna, there were results gained that were worth yet more lives and more money• than we know to have been actually expended. Constantinople, once in the grasp of Russia, and Modern Civilisation would be driven back half-a dozen centuries. The European capital of Turkey is politically—the standing point of ARCHIMEDES. Let any one of the great Power's of Christendom obtain a mastery of that, and it would at once secure an enormous preponderance—a preponde rance so considerable that the balance of power would be at once a thing of the past. We do not agree to that most dastardly of all political axioms which tells us that there is nothing in politics that is worthy of the shedding of one drop of human blood ! Much less can we subscribe to the opinion that there is nothing politically worthy of the expenditure of a single guinea! It is nothing, to our mind, at "all to the ;purpose if an appraiser appears with his note-book upon the yet reeking battle field to calculate the value of all the gold lace and broadcloth dabbled in blood and mire in that chaos of slaughter. How many died at Thermopylae—what was the cost of it —does it matter? NELSON expired at Tra falgar—more was the grief of the nation at the calamity—but was the victory worth gaining or not—though the national ob ituary was so mournfully increased, and though so large an item was added that year to our war expen diture ? No—we are as entirely opposed to Mr. BRIGHT, in what we believe to be his most mistaken, though eminently conscientious opinions as an advocate of Peace at any Price—as we are with him earnestly, heartily, enthusiastically, as a champion of Reform in the Constitution of Parliament. What will tne French say of us now ? We have harboured assassins ; we have conspired against an Emperor ; we have been guilty of a thoroughly selfish Free-trade ; we have flooded our markets with cheap foreign goods that we might benefit ourselves and ruin the world ; we have talked of responding to Cherbourg and steam rams with an increased navy and other steam rams ; we have kept M. LEssEPs,rwhat in us lies, out of the Isthmus of Suez ; we have filched the barren rock of Perim from Turkey ; we have laughed at Popish miracles, and been very irreverent to the POPE'S toe and to Cardinal Wiseman—indeed, there is no end to the perfidies of Albion ; but the end is coming —we have at last actually hissed a bishop! yes, one of our own bishops, an Anglican bishop, a Right Reverend Father in GOD—an audience has been found on British ground rude enough, pro fane enough, to hiss a bishop. What could the wretches mean ? This was no ordinary bishop. He had been tutor to the QUEEN, and, hissing him, was it not like hissing all to which he could claim of intellectual and moral father hood in her MAJESTY herself ? He was a bishop no less—some think a great deal more—by grace of the Court of VICTORIA than by the grace of GOD ; and to hiss the memory of the Court of the QUEEN ! and that too with the very same voices which but a very few weeks ago were heard in the adjoining town of Leeds shouting, Long live the QUEEN ! Inconsiderate profanity and disloyalty, to say the least of it, which we may hope QUEEN and Bishop will both forgive. And then, again, our Bishop was on such a holy errand—he was pleading the cause of his Society De Propaganda Fide; the pet society of the Anglican Church, the society of that Church, and not, like the Church Missionary Society, the society of Lord SHAFTESBURY and Lord EBURY, and the clique self-designated Evan gelical. This was the real Evangelical Society, since it is one for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Why, Lord DERBY wrote a book for it which we reviewed some time this summer, and ROBINSON CRUSOE, or DE FOE, no matter which, wrote another for it, for it is very properly one of the Society's stock publications. Oh ! men of Bradford, fie on you for ever to hiss a Bishop, when urging, too, the claims of the SocietyDePropaganda Fide—the fines of ROBINSON CRUSOE, and a very good faith too, far better than half the credos issued by half the societies. But what had the Bishop done ? Bradford has not been a turbulent place of late ; very busy— busy under the patronage of a Bishop, too—of Bishop BLAIZE, whom to this day it does not forget —whom it honours as surely as his anniversary comes round. It was a little unsettled, to be sure, in Chartist times, and it was said (that of course was slander) that, under Tory stimulus, FEARGUS O'CONNOR being leader, it would hiss down JOHN BRIGHT and RICHARD COBDEN. And once it turned out Major-General, then Colonel, THomPsoN; and worst of all, it would not have Church-rates, and made the Churchwardens spend three or four times the amount of a rate for nothing at all. Such things we have heard of : but we never .heard of Bradford's hissing a Bishop before. The town, too, has wonderfully taken to music of late. We be lieve the vast and noble hall in which the Propa ganda met was built formerly for music ; how could the town go back again so far, and back even to hissing ? We consulted our reporters but in vain. There was nothing to hiss in the speech—nothing, at least, unless the speech could be interpreted by the man, as wise people say prophecy is interpreted by the event. And there is confessedly something in this—for the first of Roman rhetoricians lays it down that an orator ought to have the good-will of his hearers ; that is, he should have behaved himself well, as they say of judges, and can fill the office of orator only quam diu se bene gesserit. And this was no doubt the explanation of all. Boyn Hill was shouted aloud into the Episcopal ears ; but the Bishop, nothing daunted, took the enemy in front and flank—he cared nothing, not he, for " those nasty hisses from nasty mouths." They and cer tain " nasty articles in nasty newspapers" were the last resorts of intolerance, which had fled from every other spot in the land—the Bishop must have forgotten the House of Lords and the bench of Bishops there. The Bishop exulted in the martyrdom of hisses, and it was no doubt infinitely better than the fire and faggot of old HARRY, or the dungeons of QUEEN BESS, or the voluntary banishment of the pilgrim fathers, whom the Bishop praised for their conscientiousness, but bid them freeze for their Presbyterianism. But the fact was the confessional story had reached Bradford. Oh, the mischiefs of telegraphs and railways, and, above all, " of nasty articles" in intolerant newspapers ! In Puritan times the village of Bradford would never have heard of such doings at Oxford. Now, no sooner done than known, and the nasty doings of Boyn Hill call forth nasty hisses at Bradford. The Bishop did talk exceedingly well. He professed most loudly —nay, we thought the Bishop did profess too much —his loyalty to Anglican Protestantism, and he lauded the Bible and the Prayer 800k —not the Bible only—that is not Anglican Protestantism—to the very skies again and again ; they—the two books--had done no one can tell what for Englan d and would do as much for any country which would but accept both. But with all this, these profane hissers would interpret the words by the man, and they would believe that SAMUEL of Ox ford did like the confessional after all. They thought he stood by his Father Confessor of Boyn hill as long as he could—that he appointed a com mission for a very similar purpose to that for which the Crimean Commission was appointed ; and, that only when frightened by the revulsion of public opinion, and perhaps by hints from high quarters, he wrote his celebrated recantation, kissed the rod, and begged pardon of modest females and indig nant husbands and fathers. Well, we know not what to say to the men of Bradford. If we censured them, they would tell us that we sometimes hissed in print, and we fear we must plead guilty ; but we humbly advise the Bishop of OXFORD to stop at home, and make no more speeches, till be gets to the Lords again. If he ventures on the platform of public meetings, he will find that he is but too well known ; these nasty newspapers and their nasty articles have, in the language of the nursery song, put " Rings on his fingers, and bells on his toes, And we shall have hissing wherever he goes." BIRTH OF A DANISH PRINCE. HAMBURG, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Princess Louisa of Denmark was safely delivered this afternoon, at four o'clock, at Castle Bernstorff, near Copenhagen, of a prince. The princess and her child are both doing well. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, OCT. 27. The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by Princess Helena and Prince Alfred, drove out yesterday afternoon attended by the Equeries in Waiting. There was no addition to the Royal dinner party. Her Majesty, with Prince Arthur and Princess Helena, walked and drove in the Home-park this morning. The Prince Consort, attended by Captain the Hon. D. de Ros, left Windsor at 10 o'clock, for Portsmouth, with Prince Alfred, who embarked this day on board her Ma jesty's ship Euryalus. Major Cowell, R.E., is in attend ance on Prince Alfred. The Prince of Wales joined the Prince Consort and Prince Alfred at Basingstoke, and also proceeded to Ports mouth. After accompanying Prince Alfred on board the Euryalus at Spithead, the Prince Consort returned to Windsor Castle, and the Prince of Wales to the White Lodge, Richmond Park. Early in the morning Prince Alfred went to Frogmore to take leave of the Duchess of Kent. The Lord Chancellor will receive the Judge, Queen's counsel, &c., at his Lordship's residence in Eaton-square, on Tuesday next, the first day of Michaelmas term at 12 o'clock. e'' ... ' .. N, , :• . . A s . 4.: ' \\ ' l, ‘ , 0 \1•0 ,,, 1 , • MAC . ' " —.Ol P < . 4inteir r. A. •*"., ;11L P , e i '441 I '''' '. ' ii: . ilk ',., ,Are , ii ~ ' '' t ,:",: 7 ' . '*',.., "' '''' ". '''''T .' '14,4 HIE SUN, LONDONI THURSDAY EVENING, OCtOBER72B, 1858: LATEST NEWS. INDIA AND CHINA. MARSEILLES, OCT. 28. The Panther, with the mails from China, Cal cutta, and Mauritius, reached Marseilles at 7 o'clock this morning. The mails left for London at 10. Passengers in quarantine until 7 a.m. of the 30th. The following telegram was received at Mr. Reuter's office, Oct. 28 : PARIS, THURSDAY. The Moniteur of this morning publishes an article on the affair of the Charles and Georges. After having treated of the historical side of the question, the article concludes thus : " Having made a more attentive inquiry and more exact appreciation, Portugal has complied with the just remonstrances of France. Such a resolution is conformable with equity, and will cause to disappear every traeeof misunderstanding, and will have without any doubt the effect of re storing to the relations of both countries the cha racter of cordiality which they had before." CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 20. The Grand Vizier has given a great banquet, at which Lord Stratford de Redoßife was present. Several toasts were proposed, after which Sir H. Bulwer said that he was the only ambassador who eulogised French alliance and the Emperor, FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY. A Paris letter in the laPpendance of Brussels states that the indemnity to be paid by Portugal in the affair of the Charles-Georges was at first fixed at 450,000 francs, but was afterwards reduced to 180,000 francs, of which 50,000 francs will go to the widow of the second officer of the vessel, who died in the prison of Mozambique. The Siecle says :—" The name of the medical attendant of the Mortara family of Bologna is Sara goni. In his certificate, dated 31st July, 1858, he declares that it was at the age of one year that the little Mortara was ill of a worm fever, which, how ever, caused no fear for his life. ' Professor Daveri and myself,' he says, felt perfect confidence on that point, and we are informed the father, mother, and relatives of the child, and the servants of the family of the fact of no danger existing.' It was then at the age of one year, and not six, that the little Mortara must have been baptised—if he were baptised at all, which is extremely doubtful. The servant, Ann Morisi, who did not speak of the baptism which she pretends to have administered until after five years of absolute silence, was not quite sixteen at the time of the indisposition of the boy ! What a minister to confer a sacrament with all the formalities necessary for rendering it valid !" Boußsit, Oct. 27.—The market has been in a complete state of stagnation, but prices remain unaltered. Threes have been done at 72f. 90c. and 73f. ; Mobilier varied from 900 f. to 905 f. ; Austrian, 657 f. 50c. to 658 f. 75c. ; Orleans, 1,342 f. 50c. to 1,345 f. ; Lyons, 867 f. 50c. to 870 f. ; Northern, 960 f. to 962 f. 50c. ; Eastern, 717 f. 50c. to 720 f. ; and Southern, 563 f. 75c. to 565 f. The market continued in the same inanimate state to the close, when the following were the last quota tions : 4i per Cents. .... 95 50 Credit Foncier 650 Do. end month .. -Belgian 4 3 per Cents. 73 Piedmonteso (5) Do. end month.... 73 50 Roman 93 50 Bank Shares. 3125 Austrian Credit Mobilier .. 900 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 907 50 ,Home Debt — CANTERBURY HALL. The numerous patrons of this popular place of amuse ment will be glad to learn that the spirited proprietor, Mr. Morton, has, in addition to the hitherto never-failing attrac tions of his establishment, added a promenade and fine arts gallery. We have no doubt that his laudable exertions will be fully appreciated by the public—that portion, more especially, who patronise Canterbury Hall—the working classes, whose daily increasing love of " the beautiful" will, doubtlss, induce thousands to renew their visits to this splendid and attractive place of public amusement. The chief works which adorn the walls of the new hall have appended to them the enduring names of Sir A. Cal cott, D. Maclise, W. P. Frith, T. Creswicke, Redg-rave, Royal Academicians, together with Danby and Poole, asso ciates. Frank Stone, Anthony, Horace Vernet, Confine, Niemann, Wallace, Herring, sen., Bristow, &c. The col lection of pictures also contains two choice bits by Rosa Bonheur and her sister Julia. There are about three hun dred subjects in the gallery, many of them are necessarily familiar to the public from their previous exhibition at the Royal Academy and elsewhere. On entering the gal lery the visitor is at once charmed with its fair proportions and extent. At the upper end is the well-known picture of "Noah's Sacrifice," by Maclise ; contrasting with this, at the lower end, is Haydon's celebrated work "Marcus Curtius leaping into the Gulf,":the foreshorten ing of which caused so much controversy among con noisseurs some years ago. Among tho chefs-cr ceuvre the visitor will be gratified by the sylvan beauties of No. 162, " Beech Trees and Ferns inWindsor Forest," by Anthony. There is a fine specimen by Danby, No. 137, " The Advent of Spring," remarkable for its fresh and natural colouring. There are other pictures well worthy of examination, such, as example, we may mention—" A Sunny Evening, Perthshire," (Buchanan) ; " Massacre of the Innocents," (Prieur) ; "Poultry Market, Moonlight," (Vermulen) ; " The Fountain of Youth," (Haussoullier) ; " Ferdinand and Miranda," (Poole). But where all are so truly excel lent, it would be invidious to enter into comparisons. The water-colour drawings will be found well worthy of obser vation. When the gallery is lighted up, the effect is charming, and effective in the extreme. Much praise is due to the skill of Mr. Reynolds, the builder. We have frequently had occasion to speak in terms of eulogy of the musical entertainmets presented in Canterbury Hall. It is, therefore, unnecessary at present to refer to them in detail !urther than to observe, that last night (the opening of the Fine Arts Gallery), they gave the utmost satisfac tion to a crowded audience. REFORM IN PARLIAMENT. The following is a copy of a letter from Mr. In gram, M.P., read at the Reform meeting held at Newcastle, on Monday last : " 110, Marine Parade, Brightox, Oct. 22. "My dear Sir,--I am glad you are making well directed efforts to call greater attention to the question of a new Reform Bill. As it new stands, there appears to me to be a greater desire in the House of Commons for reform than there is even among the people outside. This desire arises prin cipally, I believe, out of the remembrances of the last election, as well as from the near prospect of another. The members can themselves bear testi mony to the great abuses of the present system, entailing upon candidates great expense and great degradation ; and they, therefore, desire an im provement. We have now to consider how such an improvement is to be accomplished. The pre sent state of matters may be briefly summed up : That in a small constituency bribery and corrup tion are resorted to almost uniformly, involving large expenses ; that in the large constituencies, although there may be no briber-, yet a large ex pense is incurred by agencies, chiefly conducted by legal gentlemen. Hence it would follow, in my mind, that the small constituencies should be made larger, and that effectual means should be used to prevent exorbitant and unreasonable expenses for the future, whether in large con stituencies or small. A diminution if not an entire prohibition of the interference of lawyers at elections must follow in consequence. It has been proposed that#the introduction of household suffrage, giving a vote to every house, should be established ; but I think that the experience of our municipal elections will prevent such a suffrage being established for the purpose of electing mem bers of Parliament ; and without doubt, residential suffrage to all persons of 21, unconvicted of penal offence and not in receipt of parochial relief, would be far preferable to mere household suffrage, because you would include the more intelligent persons who are lodgers, such as well-informed mechanics, bankers' clerks, and others, who often occupy the best part of a house, and are now excluded from the franchise. As we are a practical people we must not notice all fine-sounding theories about the right of every person having a vote, but must consider the best means of getting the best Parliament and of preserving our present liberties. In order to ac complish this, I think that boroughs of less than 10,000 inhabitants should only return one member, and in their stead that we should give the right to large places now unrepresentedof returning a mem ber to Parliament. No constituency to be less than 3,000 ; and if the place is not large enough, to an nex neighbouring towns to the present boroughs, as is done in Scotland. I cannot say I view with much favour the extending in counties of the right to vote to £lO householders and tenants ; but with an improved law for the free transfer of land, give the right to freeholders only ; the ex •periment of giving tenant-farmers votes cannot be said to have worked satisfactorily. In order to give every one an opportunity of voting as freely as possible, let all the constituencies have the right of saying by ballot yes' or 'no' whether they will have the ballot at an election. Then we sum up by asking for our ancient franchise—free holders in counties, and every resident in a town. I hope the reformers in the north will not be parties to the rejection of any measure that has a tendency to improve the present state of affairs because they cannot get all they require, but that they will accept all improvements as instalments of what they consider their just rights, as in the end education will considerably increase the in telligence of the people, and, with intelligence, extension of the suffrage must follow. Accept my thanks for your letter, and " I remain, dear sir, yours truly, " Jos. Cowan, Esq." " HERBERT INGRAM. RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto. 965 - .. 965 - - .. 812 50 Lyons and Mediterranean B7O 870 Now ditto Geneva 620 - Midi 566 25 .. 566 25 Western 607 50 .. 610 - Eastern Grand Central .. 718 75 Sardinian Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 1.5 c.; money, 25f 10c.; three months, paper, 24f. 971 c.; money, 24f. 921 c. ITALY. A letter from Turin of the 23d says :—" Is the baptism of young Mortara really proved ? The Holy Office, it is true, affirms that it is ; and its decision forms the basis of the conduct of the Holy See. But on reflecting well it is not difficult to prove that the decision of the Holy Office is unfounded and iniquitous. It rests on nothing more than the simple declaration of a girl 16 years of age, who was of loose conduct, and Without education. She says that not knowing how to administer baptism, she applied to a druggist named Lepori, who told her. But Lepori says that this statement is false. His assertion destroys that of the woman, and that suffices to overthrow the sole plausible argument on which the Holy Office relies to consider the administration of baptism as certain and proved. It is not then proved that the child has been baptised."—The same lett gave ersays :—" The Pope a n d C ar di na l A ntone lli lately parents of the child permission to see him, and M. and Mme. Mortara accordingly went a few days ago to Alatri, where he is. But the rector of the Catechumens prohibited them from seeing him. Moreover, some gendarmes went to the pub lic-house at which they put up and demanded their passports, and as they had none took them before the governor like malefactors. The governor ordered them to leave Alatri immediately, remark ing that if they stopped a year they would not be allowed to see their child. The poignant sorrow of theseand esp ec i a lly o f th e mo th er , may be imagined; has gone to Rome to obtain jus tice. Papal States the orders o f th e poor Thus people, nsth hee Cardinal Secretary of State and of the Pope him self are violated with impunity by those who are charged to execute them !" PRUSSIA. The muticipal authorities of Berlin a few days ago presented the following address to the Prince Regent : " Illustrious Prince Regent—The whole country and with it the principal place of residence of our Sovereigns, represented by us, feel profoundly and sincerely the bitter sorrow of knowing our King and beloved master still suffering. But we bless our Celestial Father for not having, in his bounty and goodness, left the country an orphan, and having given it in your Royal Highness, in this time of trial and affliction, the Royal master from whom the country expects the benefits of a just, mild, prudent, and strong Government, such as it hai always had for 400 years. and such as is required by its welfare, liberty, and high mission. We pray the King of kings to accompany your Royal Highness with His blessing in the frequently thorny path of Government, and to protect you with His powerful arm against all danger. May your Royal Highness deign to receive this expres sion of profound respect, love, and fidelity !" The Prince replied I sincerely thank the authorities and dele gates of the town of Berlin for their address on the occasion of my accession to the Regency of the kingdom. The more the cause of this temporary institution of a Regency is sad and sorrowful for our dear country, the more painful to my heart is the duty which falls on me. But precisely because a duty is imposed on me, God, whose impenetrable decrees have charged me with it, will give me the force to accomplish it. On this point our senti ments are the same ; and we incessantly address to Heaven our united prayers that our King and mas ter, completely cured, may soon resume his august Royal functions." SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 23d contains an order of the Minister of Finance to the effect that when ever a supplementary or extraordinary credit is granted, the decree making the grant shall set forth by what means the credit is to be paid ; also if the credit be required at a time when the Cortes are not sitting, the Council of State shall report on the urgency and necessity of it. Another order of the same minister directs that the payment of the coupons of the public debt, both consols and deferred, also the dividends on road and railway shares and on all kinds of public scrip, shall be made in the provincial chief towns in the provincial treasuries. This measure, by encouraging the investment of provincial capital in the public funds, will, it is said, probably increase the upward tendency which has been lately manifested in the money market. A Royal d=ep, iin the official journal, enacts that the commission of general sta tistics of the kingdom which lately took the census shall continue to exist, and shall make suitable arrangements with the different branches of the administration for collecting data in order to arrive at the best method of measuring the territory, and calculating the wealth of the country. The decree appoints three inspectors-general of statistics to visit the provinces, to inspect all statistic operations, regulate and rectify them, and stimulate the activity of the employes ; it also appoints 150 provincial in spectors, and it awards a credit of 3,400,000 reals to the commission. The Parlamento, an organ of Narvaez andNocedal, had been condemned to a fine of 16,000 reals and costs for a seditious libel. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY MORNING. The Royal Mail steamship Dane, Commander Robert Maynard, arrived this morning. Her dates are—Table-bay, September 21 ; St. Helena, September 30 ; Ascension, October 4. Among her passengers are Lieutenant Gayer and Messrs. Creek, Speed, and Crane, R.N. She has specie valued at £650. Sir :George Grey opened a Conference on the 13th of September on the frontier, with a view to the reconciliation of the President of the Free State and Moshesh. His Excellency and the General Commanding the Forces have had an interview, at which it was decided to send every available soldier to India. The Megwra is appointed to embark the 60th Rifles at East London, for Bombay. The Prince Arthur has received Captain Cleve land's field battery, and is to embark 350 Germans at East London. The Simoom will convey the 31st, The remainder of the 2d Queen's are preparing to embark. The flag-ship Boscawen, from the Cape, has arrived at the Mauritius. Four vessels have left Algoa Bay, and one Table Bay, with horses for India. Several others are embarking horses. The smallpox has extended from Cape Town to the adjacent villages. Some fatal cases have oc curred, but vaccination appears successful. The elections for the Legislative Council have closed, but the state of the poll was not published. Upwards of 2,000 of the German Legion have volunteered for India. The Edward Oliver arrived in Table Bay Sept. 12, with 473 immigrants. The troop ship Mer chantman, for India, arrived in Table Bay on the 12th, with the crew of the emigrant ship Eastern City, burnt at sea on the 25th of August (only one man lost.) The Royal Mail steamer Celt, from Plymouth, arrived in Table Bay on the 14th. The mixed British and Portuguese Commission Court have decided that the evidence was not suffi cient to justify the reizure of the Flor de Mozam bique by Her Majesty's ship Lyra. Four slave vessels have been captured and sent into St. Helena. Arrivals.—Table-bay, August 23d, American ship Kate Lowe ; September 4th, Greenwich, from London ; Phoebe Dunbar, from London ; sth, Northern Light, from Cardiff; 13th, Courants, from London ; and 17th, Hotspur, from Ports mouth. Departures—September 3, Lightning, for Lon don ; 9th, Golden Fleece, for London ; and 15th Marian Moore, for Liverpool. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. The Hammonia steamer, Captain Schwensen, has arrived from New York with 130 passengers, and proceeded to Hamburg. She brought no specie. Advices are to the 15th, one day later than the Arabia, but there is no news of importance. We received no papers by this steamer, and could only get a moment's glance at one of the 15th in the hands of a passenger. Stock-market buoyant. Cotton-market unsettled, and quotations irre gular. Corn active. Pork dull. Sugar less buoyant. Freights without change. Her Majesty's ship Valorous had arrived at New York to convey Sir William Gore Ouseley to Central America, as special envoy from England. She took from Fay al 42 of the Austria's rescued passengers, landed there by the French brig Maurice. Three remained in hospital, being badly burnt. Havannah dates are to the Bth. Sugar was quiet and declining, buyers offering for Nos. 11 and 12, 5- dols. to 5.4 dols. Stock on hand 110,000 boxes, against 195,000 last year. In the explosion at Havannah on the 29th ult. the loss of lives was 112, and 128 wounded ; loss of property over 1,000,000 dols. The Hammonia spoke on the 15th the British ship Salsette, from New York to London, 10 miles east of Sandy Hook ; 22d, the American ship Jeremiah Thompson, bound west, in lat. 48 N., long. 34 W. ; 23d, the Danish ship Frederike, bound east, in lat. 49 N., long. 29 W. ; 25th, the Parnell, showing second distinguishing pendant 870, bound east, in lat. 49 N., long. 16 W. Throughout the passage the lammonia had easterly winds varying from N.E. to S.E.; first part moderate weather ; latter fresh, with high seas from S.E. His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Duchess de Malakoff honoured the Crystal Palace with a visit yesterday morning, and afterwards left town on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The Duke of buccleuch has taken the large man sion in Belgrave-aquare formerly occupied by the late Earl of Sefton, pending the re•erection of Montagu House, the razing of which was commenced yesterday. We are requested to state that the Duchess of Wellington was not present on Tuesday in the circle as sembled at the wedding of Lady Katherine Hamilton and Viscount Valletort. The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke have re turned to Wimpole Hall from visiting the Earl and Countess of Derby at Knowsley. Viscountess Jocelyn and family passed through town yesterday, from visiting the Earl of Roden, at Hyde Hall, Herts, en route to Broadlands, on a visit to Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.—The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Steamship Company's screw steamer Kangaroo, M'Donald, commander, took her depar ture this morning for New York, with the United States' mails, 56 passengers, and a fair cargo. The British and North American royal mail steamship Asia will take her departure for New York with the usual mails on Saturday next. A letter signed " Fair Play,• in the Liverpool Courier of to-day, calls attention to the fact that the screw steamer City of Baltimore, which sailed from Liverpool on the 29th ult., one day after the Indian Empire sailed from Galway, reached New York two days before her ; and that the royal mail steamship Africa, which gave the Indian Empire four days' start, and the advantage of a shorter passage, reached New York only a few hours behind her. The writer adds that credit, however, should be given to the Galway boat for one day's detour and detention at Halifax. THE Loss OF THE ADMIRAL MIAULIS, SCREW STEAMSHIP, WITH THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA'S STATE RAILWAY CARRIAGES.—On the receipt, at Lloyd's, of the telegraphic news of the loss of this tine new steam-ship, 1,200 tons burden, off the island of Oessel, at the mouth of the Gulf of Riga, while on her passage to St. Petersburg, Captain Burstel was immediately despatched by the under writers to the wreck, with a view of saving as much of the valuable freight as possible, the ship and cargo being in sured for nearly £50,000. The Admiral, Miaulis steamer belonged to the Greek and Oriental Steam Company, who had recently purchased her of the builders, Messrs. Pyle and Co., of West Hartlepool, for the purpose of conveying three magnificent state-saloon railway carriages to St. Petersburg, for the use of the Emperor of Rus sia and imperial family. They were built at Paris upon the most improved and costly principle, and then taken to Havre, where they were shipped on board the un fortunate steamer. She was commanded by an experienced navigator, Capt. Westcott, and in pursuing her course up the Baltic she was in charge of a pilot, who had been taken on board in passing the Sound. Late on the evening of the 11th she struck on the sunken rocks about eight miles from the Island of Oessel, and having been at full speed, she became an instant wreck. The officers and crew just had time to lower the three boats and save themselves, not even being able to preserve the chronometer or the ship's pap ers. Captain Burstel, who reached Riga on the 25th, comm un i_ cated with Lloyd's yesterday, stating that he had seen the captain, and he regretted to say that not a vestige of the ship or cargo was recoverable. She had broken up, and all had disappeared in deep water. The English consul at Riga had taken care of the crew, and was about to forward them to England. The Emperor's state carriages were valued at £15,000. THE BLACK HOLE OF DUM-DUM: The one point which supplies the whole popular history of our eastern metropolis is the Black Hole of Calcutta, the horrible sufferings of which are made known by tales, by paintings, and by engravings, and which furnishes sanitary authorities with the trite example of death by suffocation in a burning climate. This event happened in the year 1756 ; and was commemorated by a monument, which, being considered offensive to the mild Hindoo, and, we have now reason to believe, distasteful and re proachful to the Indian Government, was removed, and, in the year 1.54, the 100th anniversary of this dreadful atrocity was commemorated by solemn prayer and service. In India the Black Hole of Calcutta, one would think, could not be forgotten ; and yet the very efforts of the Government to banish it from memory make one fearful that its impressions have been effaced. There, at all events, we should expect that Englishmen would not be deprived of air, of the breath of life, by confine ment to narrow cells, and to the swiftly-engendered pestilence of fever ; but soldiers in barracks, and interlopers when in the hands of native officials, have been made to know sufferings comparable to those inflicted by the tyrant of Bengal. While the most benevolent feelings have swayed the Admini stration in preserving the spirit and the semblance of generosity to the natives ; while noble and dis interested motives have guided its members in legislating for our subjects ; those very feelings and motives, generating a tenderness of showing favour or undue preference to a conquering race, have too often covered a neglect of the wants of our soldiers and the rights of our citizens. We are not moved in saying this by a feeling of anger or a spirit of faction ; we make allowances for the policy of the East India Company and the impression they produced on the minds of their satellites and servants, and yet it may be that, as they had succeeded soubahs and nabobs, they thought they still owed allegiance to the Mogul of Delhi, whose impress they kept on their coins, and owed a local fealty to the communities of Brahmins and Mahommedans they administered. Thus they became as much the subjects of the lex loci as their vassals, and were vassals, and subjects, and slaves. It was an amiable weakness to become nabobs ; it was perhaps a greater weakness to abstain from torture, when all the native machinery of torture was kept in orderly working ; but, altogether, the position of the Company was one of political and social weakness, the continuance of which much longer would have been the fruitful nursery of more political crimes on the part of the Company and on the part of its subjects. Heaven alone knows from what atrocities the single government has saved us—from atrocities towards Hindoo and English, from all the crimes that political weakness and political cowardice are heirs to ; and this is the heritage the Company has left to Lord Stanley. Lord Stanley, in no ungenerous spirit, has striven to spare the Company from reproach, and has ren dered the highest tribute to its motives ; but he must not deceive himself or the public as to the task before him, the great responsibilities which the Company has created for him, and the shame, disappointment, and disgrace, greater than the glory, the power, and the prerogatives of his office, if he fail to fulfil* what he has promised, and the natives expect at his hands. We say again, we seek not to speak in anger of the Government when we dwell upon the fearful atrocities which the late mail has made known as having blackened the name of Dum-Dum, and made its memory a name of horror to the men who, in the fields of India, are contending for our honour and the safety of our empire. We are told that the wives and children of the successive regi ments of English soldiers landed at Calcutta, unable to follow their husbands and fathers to the field, have been crowded into the cantonments of Dum-Dum, till nearly two thousand have been there gathered at a tine, in numbers beyond the possi bility of the place to accommodate them. For the women there was bare space, for the tender chil dren no adequate room and convenience. Of the consequences the Government were warned by the surgeons and the press, and the remedy, of re moval to Darjeeling, was laid before them ; but it is to be presumed the fear of subjecting the natives to the expense, and of showing such favour to foreign women and children at such a time of re volt, led to the warning passing unheeded. We now hear the frightful news that five hundred women and children have swiftly perished by the pestilence. Horrified at the consequences, the head of the Government rushed to the canton ments, and earnestly applied himself to stay the further slaughter, and remove the remaining suf ferers from the jaws of death. Too late for mothers, for hundreds whose children will life-long mourn their loss ; too late for hundreds of infants and children dead and yet to die, whose fond memories will foster griefs that time will canker and not cure ; too late to save the widower and the stricken father from sufferings no medal will com pensate, and no pension buy off—wounds not of the body, which may be soothed, but of the mind, which heal not, and to which glory and honours are no ministers. All is dark and fearful in this tragedy. Early in the year the Government were first warned by their officers ; and in this country it is now months ago that General Tremenheere was giving evidence before the chairman and directors of the Company, and other members of Parliament, as to the neces sity of placing the soldiers' children in a school at Darjeeling. These warnings were no vague predic tions, made on the chance speculation of some event happening at some time or other to give them effect, or lingering on to be forgotten and to escape re proach. In the world of science pestilence is to be foretold and reckoned upon as surely as the orbit of some wandering star—cholera moves in its orbit with satellites in its train, and fever rotates as time and season roll on. In June, as the Go vernment had been warmed, disease made its ap pearance ; through July it increased, and yet bore on through August. The scenes that took place before and after the catastrophe were in their nature appalling ; in buildings, in space and accommodation inadequate, were crowded decent English women and the drabs of the streets, filthy Irish and their countrywomen from the better ranks, the neglected Highland women—the children of all of these, tidy or dirty, well or ill-behaved, as their mothers had trained them, and in such a throng all power of separation and the very bases of discipline were utterly want ing. Three sergeants and two clergymen were left night and day fruitlessly to toil at their noble labours, to combat with ignorance, vice, and disease. Many of the women, the scum of England and Ireland, already given to drunkenness, found ready indulgence in a fatal vice. Dirtiness—a fatal habit in India—was the habit' of too many of the ignorant ; and very many, accustomed at home to wander about with uncovered heads, so exposed themselves to peril. Vice and ignorance maintained their sway ; and it is said, scenes of disorder took place of a character too dis graceful to be recorded, and an amount of moral and physical suffering was witnessed to which at home, happily, we can present no parallel. By these influences the officials were baffled, and, over wrought in ministering to the dying, they were no longer able to save men from death. The Govern ment spared no medicine, it denied the people no food, but denied them air, climate, shelter, health. During these many months the women and chil dren could gradually have been conveyed to Dar jeeling, where, within the distance of 400 miles from Calcutta, the children of powerful officials and wealthy residents are brought up in one of the finest countries of the world. There the children would have been at school, as the happier few aro at Kussowlie and Mount Aboo by the munificence of the Lawrences, and many of the mothers and their children would have obtained welcome employ ment in the families of invalid residents, and in the establishments of the settlers. On the enlargement of the depot many of them would have rendered invaluable aid as nurses of our wounded soldiers. True it is, that though the Government has in hand the provision of better transit, the journey is tedious and expensive ; but the steam-boat would take the travellers half-way, and it -was no great task for the authorities to conquer 150 miles of road, though there is waterway to the foot of the hills. Had General Tremenheere and his coadjutors been Hs' tened to, by this time a thousand women and chil dren would have been saved; for let none believe that the five hundred so recorded as dead ar e all the victims that pestilence will claim, for even those who have survived for the time will drop hereafter week by week and month by month; hlad these li ves b een saved, a noble help well' have been given to an infant colony, for which the Government, which has for many years been anxious to give encouragement, could not so read-lb' enlist settlers from England. Did this sad tale stand by itself it might be read with silent sorrow, in the wish to banish it from our minds. We can give no such poor comfor t ' It has happened in the east, within reach of Ca l. outta—it has happened in the west, on the waters of the Indus—it is the tale of every cantonment le India—it is what Ronald Martin and Julius Jet' freys have disinterestedly laboured for years to se t at rest, and for which they have still to labour, fo r the re-construction of the Indian army will not be complete till the English soldier is cared for as Runjeet Singh would have cared for him, and the main stations of our army are placed in the Hires' layas, the outlines of the Hindoo Koosh, the luga range, and the Ghauts. We have spoken of many of these poor women , living and dead, as vicious and depraved, but W e cannot forget whose they are and who are th e fathers of their little neglected children. Mag i even of the worst, are the wives of the best or ducted of our soldiers, of the older men who hav e withstood temptation and have good conduct re' wards, of the medal men of our former campaign s ' The women, too, more particularly, are the wiv es of the non .commissioned officers, of those well - d e ' serving men to whom we are so much indebted fa r the discipline and prowess of our own regimen ts and of our native levies. If, too, we hav e spoken of those whose life, having been one of temptations, they are now the sacrifice to those temptations, who cannot bethink himself of the hard life, the thrift, the pinching, the toil, travel' homeless wandering and patient suffering of the soldier's poor wife, with her little family, tried as none now in E ng l an d are tr i e d , as none in wilt's was once poor Ireland are tried —women who liv e a life of penury, to share their husband's scant Pen' sion till widowhood, and then to reach the work house. Few are there of these well-behaved toiling women, even the wives of non-commissioned officer s ' who, in their unsettled life, can obtain any means of achieving a better condition for themselves or their children. Soldiers' wives are truly of th e poor, for whom charity barely steps in, when th e triumph of the nation has been won by the wide'' hood of many. What must be the feeling of thes e men, for whom our love has been earned, and 0 , 1/ whom our lavish praise is b oas ti ng l y bestowed' when they hear the saddening news of these cols • mities, when every mail th a t l eaves ta k es hol e tidings of their glory, w h en every ma il t h e y gee brings tidings of the loss of those they love ? 03 , young soldier goes to the field with no care for this , but not unmindful o f th e su ff er i ngs o f women h e b os s' known, of children with whom he has played soldiers will play, and of the sorrows of men olderand more honour e d th an hi mse lf , whose presen t 1: is the glass in which he sees his own future. 'IV' older men—there are noble Highlanders them, whose wives were from their native hills there are gallant Irish, of w h om th e i r mo th ers wer e in earliest ye ars th e yout hf u l b r i des, the swee t , hearts of the same t own l an d—th ere are men grey hairs, whose elder sons fell in the Crimea and at Lucknow, and wh ose l ast young favourites died unseen, unkissed, unblest at Dum Dum. e These are the men o n w h om t h e tardiness of 11' Government has fallen, and the sufferers e rs a many ; one mourns a w if e , an d one a child, 9120 moodily a man drops upon the march, or ill s '; uo desperately to the fight, an d th rows away a rife mit more. None will thi n k th ese men d o not f ee l . , u to those must know the soldi er ' s lif e t o summon their thoughts, as he does, in the l o n e wa t c h-h°l of the night, or that dull waiting-time of doubt an hope before the li g ht, th e memory of a woman I°''e4 a for years and far away —of children s t ar ved, O f the babe whose f ea t ures, perhaps, the fortunes that fight may l eave to him unknown for ever. There is a sa d an d solemn pleasure in thes e thoughts, a lo ng - en d ur i ng h ope and steadfastness in their contempl a ti on ; b ut when those hope s 7 g , tx shattered, and thei r o bj ec t li es i n some coffin away, then is that man d eso l ate, w i th t h e ste dictates of military duty to check his grief, an to nought but the rough kindness of his comrades soothe such woe. THE COMET. M. Chacornac has just communicated to t be , ' Academy of Sciences a series of astronomical obs ot e i vations of the comet, commencing from the 1 6 0 ult. The instrument used by him was the g r All equatorial of MM. Secretan and Eitchenst the lenses magnifying from 60 to 770 times. On rij o 10th, the nucleus of the comet, observed with if lowest magnifying power, appeared round and l e brilliant. The coma w hi c h surrounded i t hsa feeble lustre, which did not prevent the outline the nucleus f rom b e i ng we ll-d e fi ned, l i ke a plane'7, disc. But in p ro p or ti on as t h e magnifying Pe,„,' was increased, th e a p pearance of the comet w 11,03-, dified, so that, when magnified 770 times, the ! 0 % cleus assumed th e a p pearance of a nebula hallTo merely a concentratiion of matter in its centre., the naked eye, the nucleus .with it s coma seernec`,4 least equal in s i ze t o th at o f the most brilliant sTro, of the tail of U rsa M a j or ; nevertheless direct pot tometrie compariso ns h ave s h own t h at the ratro brilliant part of th e nuc l eus was i n f er i or in 1 11 g h t to the stars of Ursa M a j or . O n th at d ay the lig of the comet did not offer any visible traces of p°, larisation. The coma p resen t e d not hi ng renio r o , t able ; it encircled the nuc l eus uniformly, witil° presenting any di s ti nc t diff erence of lustre 11 where, and its feeble light was gradually . lost 0 , the dark background o f th e s k y. O n the list the comet offered nothing re mar k a bl e , except u'ro the southern part of the co ma was somewha t brilliant than the northern one. On the lath brilliancy of the nucleus was ph o t ometr i cal l y cod, pared with a star of the se ven th or eighth ni ti g - t t o r e the ; on the 14th, simila r o b servat i ons prove d -no the southern part of the coma continued to be >n brilliant than th e nor th ern one. The comet, C,13 mined with the large telescope, but without all piece, presented, with Savart's polariscope, faint traces of polarized light, only perceptib" t o the portion of th e t a il neares t th e nucleus. 011 e j, 19th, the aspect of th e come t h a d slightly changed the light of the coma having generally become To i l ir intense. The nucleus had a m ore appreciable '4.'4, meter, which seemed, even with the lowest inat' ir fying power, to be surrounded with a slight ne' losity which was mote sensible in the direction °P o i posite to the tail. With the magnifyi ng powe r ,/ 770, the nucleus did not quite lose its planet s ) ,"o appearance. It did not occupy the centre of t,, 0 coma, but was nearer to the northern than to t oo ' southern limit, but both these limits are much r oo indistinct to be available for measurement. most luminous part of the nucleus being photoei eo trically compare d to the most brilliant star of Ctiliho Venatici wa s f oun d t o b e a b out equal in lustre tei-r, weaker of the two components of that double s t : v . On the 23d the come t p resente d a remarkab l e s P , tacle ; the nucleus w as enc l ose d w i thin three hr „, o o t lucra, consisting of con cen t r i c sem i c i rcles of differ o f luminous intensity. Th e t wo most brilliant,,r these were traversed by rays which were alt" o t nately luminous and d u ll. Th e nucleus was quite in the centre, but rather removed toward s o o.4 northern side, the coma th ere cont i nu i ng to be i to luminous than the so u th ern one. L astly, cle9vore the nucleus, a fourth i nvo l ucrum was seen, I n a . luminous still than the preceding ones, and alig ie rently issuing from the nuc l eu s s pi ra l form. OnAecl, 25th this involucrum was found t o have expan", increasing its distance from th e nuc l eus, whir be fifth involucrum was being form e d exactly like t 0 fourth ; two more were gradually disengaged fr e ) , the nucleus between Sept. 25 an d O ct. 8. The s ilce oo was very brilliant, and yi e ld e d polarised light. pita the 6th Oct. four small lumi nous clouds were sP,.l%.ii• over the surface of th e s i xth involucrum, the ro lianoy of which wa s un if ormly distributed i. on sides of the axis of the tail. On the 9th the 4 ';cl nous arc formi ng th e seventh involucrum displace a small black spot, of a triangular form. "" „. through the l arge telescope, this spot had the to pearance of a r en t i n the involucrum, the I,lf-0,0 and the nu c l eus b e i ng both deformed. The 'For. was distrib u t e d equally around the radius lreerre passing th roug h the black spot, an d a t its e% mity it f orme d a kind of protuberance. Thi s P x th tuberance was equally remarkable on the nth® T he light of the involucra an d of nucleus had diminished, in intensity.