The Sun. — London, England, 1858-11-27 00:00:00

THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.—Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W Harrison. THIS EVENING, THE BOHEMIAN GIRL : Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne, Miss M. Prescott, Mr. Ferdi nand' Glover, Mr. H. A. St. Albyn, Mr. Bartleman, and Mr. W. Harrison. Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. To conclude with a new Ballet Divertissement, LA FLEUR D'AMOUR : Mesdlles. L. Michelet, Morlacchi, and Pasquale. ROYAL PRINCESS'IS THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, LIVING TOO FAST. And MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. With THIRTY-THREE NEXT BIRTHDAY. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE BELLE'S STRATAGEM. Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews. Followed by THE CRITIC. Mr. and Mrs. C' Mathews. After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE GUADAL QUIVER. Perea Nena. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE, Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough. THIS EVENING, THE LITTLE SAVAGE. After which THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE. WOOING IN JEST AND LOVING IN :EARNEST : Miss Swanborough. And'THE BONNIE FISH WIFE. Commence at 7 o'clock. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Westminster-road. Sole Lessee, Mr. William Cooke. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips. Engagement of John Townsend, Esq., M.P. for Greenwich, for Six Nights only. THIS EVENING, and during the week, will be presented Shakspere's Tragedy of KING RICHARD THE - THIRD ; or, The Death of White Surrey, reproduced with all its origi nal splendid effects. The Duke of Gloster, Mr. John Towns end, M.P. Followed by the inimitable SCENES IN THE ARENA, in which Mr. W. Cooke, Mr. Runnels, Miss Kate Cooke, and Madile. Blanche will appear. To conclude with the popular farce of SHOOTING THE MOON. No fees to box-keepers. The art of riding taught. e Carriages at eleven. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.-- Proprietor—C. MORTON. The public is most respectfully informed that 'the FINE ARTS GALLERY, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW OPEN DAY AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12 o'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec tion of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters .and is also devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist ing Music Hall, the New Pine Arts Gallery, and the recently added Ante-Hall, wilt present an attraction which, whether as regards the architectural beauty of the structures them selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the Kingdom. The Moslem. ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at 'even o'clock. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Nov. 27. THERMEIEETES, IN MHB SHADE. 57—highest since noon yesterday. 50—lowest this morning and during :he night. 51—this day at noon. BAnomrrEn-29.05.—another fall of half-an-inch. WIND ; S.W. ; light, with drizzling rain, and dull wea. ther. THE SUN. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 27, 1858. Never, during a career of no ordinary character, has the Count DE MONTALEMBERT acquired such high distinction as in the trial which was intended to crush his genius, and change the liberal senti ments in which he indulged. Never was the EMPEROR guilty of so grave a mistake. Never did he permit the sycophants of the ante-chamber to betray him into so great an error. That they may have writhed under the keen and polished sarcasm of the brilliant orator and the gifted writer is more than probable, but why their Imperial Master should have condescended to become the instrument of their petty vengeance—why he should have allowed them to drag him through the mire with which they had been saturated, is a problem that will puzzle future historians, who will wonder that one so astute and clear-sighted in other matters should have so easily fallen into the trap, and been guilty of so gross a blunder. As to M. DE MONTALEMBERT he may accept his imprisonment as a high honoir, more glorious far than the cordon of the Legion of Honour, than star or riband of any order, however distinguished. He has proclaimed the truth when it was forbidden has asserted the liberty of the Press when it was proscribed. He has rendered justice to British institu tions when it would have better pleased the back-stairs influence to libel and calumniate them. The defence of his illustrious advocates, MM. BERRYER and 7 DUFAURE was not an apology, but an exultation. They vindicated every act of their clients, while proving that had it even been otherwise there was not the shadow of a pretext for a conviction. The law under which they were tried was no longer applicable to their cases. But, then, conviction and sentence was a foregone conclusion, that proved how profitably France might have benefited by our English insti tution, the trial by jury, the great palladium of our national liberties. It is deeply to be regretted that those brilliant addresses cannot be published in extenso. Unfor tunately, however, the French Press is now tram melled, and cannot give publicity to anything that will not be pleasing to " the Powers that be," no matter how earnest the anxiety of the people to receive fair and impartial information ; no matter how desirous Englishmen might be to peruse a just report of the proceedings. It cannot be given unless the journal in which it appears is prepared to brave all the consequences, and to be suppressed, if such should be the will of the authorities, for its plain-spoken and straightforward truth. The fine of 3,000, or, taking that of the printer who knew nothing about the article previously to its appearance, into consideration, 4,000 f. can easily be provided. It should not be permitted to fall on the distinguished orator. A shilling, aye a penny subscription would speedily defray it ; and a noble opportunity would be afforded of display ing British appreciation of the candour and bravery displayed by one of the most illustrious Frenchmen of the age. The praises of England fell heavily on the ears of France. The insolent sabreurs who dared to insult us—who fulminated their vile slanders and bootless threats—were encouraged ; but the first—the only man— who has bravely dared to vindicate our institu tions has been tried, condemned, and punished. The freedom of tho United Kingd om forms too striking a contrast to the absence of liberty in France. The Procureur Imperial contended that the in stitutions of France feared no comparison with those of England. Was he not at the very mome n t giving the clearest and most unequivocal con tradiction to his assertions, proving that there was neither a free press nor fair trials under the Empire ? Was he not setting the official seal on the charges put forward by M. DE MONTALEMBERT, and establishing beyond the possibility of doubt or difficulty that the praise of British institutions must be as injuri ous to French ones, as it would be distasteful to many Frenchmen, and more especially to the haunters of the ante-chamber who have so cruelly persecuted :the talented writer for daring to state the - whole truth, and nothing but the truth ? The interesting trial has now terminated. The buck-stairs clique have had a nominal triumph, but it would be well for the future fame of Louis NAPOLEON if the untoward chapter could be blotted out of the annals of the Empire. Obstacles of the most tantalising description still interfere with the accomplishment of one of the world's greatest engineering achievements. The Suez Ship Canal is to this day still talked of hopefully, but still to the.last unattempted. Miracles of skill in art and science are elsewhere performed —literally—to admiration. But the digging of a broad channel connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean is being perpetually postponed, and the project set aside as a daydream defying actual realisation. Even Despotism—both European and Oriental—has failed to effect this wonder by its potent fiat, though twice within the last sixty years we have seen it elaborately accumulat ing its preparations. NAPOLEON projected the traversing of the isthmus by the commerce of Europe and Asia by means of a grand ship canal— but NAPOLEON left the work, not only undone, but unattempted. The enterprise remains upon record in his biography, with various other marvels dreamt of by his Imperial and Royal MAJESTY, but never seriously undertaken. It survives there in that fairy tale of modern history in the same category with the Ideal ofLhis Eastern Empire. It is there as much of a visionary scheme as that colossal elephant which it was intended by the Em peror and King should spout forth perpetual fountains of spring water for the refresh ment and adornment of the capital of his empire. It survives, there, as a design wholly imaginary— splendid but unsubstantial—like that intended Palace of the King of Rome, one of the giant stones of which was eventually carved into a stupendous vase—yet standing in the vestibule of the National Gallery, as a trophy of the victory won by the allies in 1815, at Waterloo. It was imagined that Suez would be severed by a ship canal during the time of NAPOLEON—just as it was imagined cen turies before that Mount Athos would be carved during the age of ALEXANDER, into a stupendous effigy of the Macedonian con. qneror—bearing in the palm of one hand a popu lous city, and in the other an urn from which a river was to flow forth everlastingly. Aftemards, during the reign of the Viceroy MAHOMET ALI, the design of the Ship Canal across Suez was revived. It was talked about long and frequently —the great Pasha of EGYPT held supreme power over the ancient realm of the Pharoahs for years and years, survived even to extreme old age, and at last died. But the Suez Ship Canal still remained a mere dotted outline of what yet some day ?night possibly be attempted —a dim supposititious achievement, pencilled fancy fully in the course of a map of Asia Minor. And so to this day the notion has lasted—as just a faint possibility. Nothing more apparently than a possi bility—even at this age of triumphant engineering. A permanent tunnel, carriage, and footway could be excavated under the channel of a broad river like the Thames. The gigantic and rocky barrier of the Alps could be traversed by the wide zigzag roadway of the Simplan. An iron tube could be suspended in midair over the Straits of Menai, through the resounding walls of which wrial bridge the railway trains are now-a•days thundering perpetually at intervals. Mystic cords of communication have been trailed under the waters of the great deep from kingdom to kingdom, from continent to continent, from hemisphere to hemis phere, along the submerged core of which messages could be transmitted in the flash of an instant on the wings of the light ning. Yet while those marvels have been readily enough accomplished by the engi neering skill of the nineteenth century—the Suez Ship Canal remains yet to the last not even at tempted—a day dream in nubibus. Flying ma chines have been elaborately constructed, that would not fly. Numerous other wild and fantastic projects have been subjected again and again to costly experiments, have been patented, have given rise to enterprising companies, have accumulated millions of money to scatter the same into thin air immediately afterwards. But all this while nothing has seriously been done towards the cutting through of the Isthmus of Suez, with that long talked of 'ship canal, joining the Red Sea to the Mediterranean. It is really as though the ad vocates of the design were babbling about a voyage to the Moon—as though they were projecting a tunnel straight down through the centre of gravity, and on to our antipodes. Whatever the cost of the undertaking, that cost might readily, we believe, be contributed, and once contributed and applied, would prove inevitably remunerative. What ever the difficulties of the enterprize, those difficulties we may certainly rest assured might be vanquished with comparative facility by men like BRUNEL, or LOCKE, or STEPH:ENS43N. In spite of so many reiterated disappointments, there fore, we may still be allowed to remain sanguine that this noble day-dream of a ship canal through Suez may yet—even during the life time of the indefatigable M. LEssEPs—happily arrive at last at the period of its actual realization. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR,. Nov. 26. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, dined with her Majesty yesterday, attended by Lady Farkny Howard. The party also included the Dean of Windsor e Lnd the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, Vice-Admiral W. F. Martin, Major-Gen Sir Edward Lugard. The Queen rode out on horseback this morning, attended by Lady Macdonald, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Major-General the Hon. C. Grey, and the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort went out shooting. Princess Alice and Princess Helena rode in the riding house. Vice-Admiral W. F. Martin, Major-Ganoral Sir Georgo Wetherall, and Major-General Sir Edward Lugard left the Castle for London. Their Royal Highnesses the Count de Paris and the Duke de Chartres arrived at the Royal t3hip Hotel, Dover, on Tuesday last, and embarked on the following day for Ostend. His Excellency the . Count de Torre Diaz has left town, for Paris, en route for Madrid, to take his place in the Senate. The Duke of Rutland left town yesterday, for Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire. The Marquis of Bath has returned to town, from Longleat, Wilts, The Earl and Countess of Camperdown are ex pected in town in a few days, from their seat in Scotland. We are very glad to learn that the Ladies Lucy and Charlotte Bridgeman continue to progress as favourably as can be anticipated from the nature of the injuries they have sustained. Neither the Earl of Bradford nar Viscount Newport have been able to use their hands since tie lament able occurrence. Count Bela Szechenyi has arrived at Howchin's Hotel, from Vienna. Lord and Lady Wodehouse are expected in town early next week, from Kimberly Hall, Norfolk. The Right Hon. F. W. and Mrs. Cowper will return to town on Monday, from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough at Blenheim Palace, Oxon. The Hon. Frederick Craven comes tc► town to day from Hametead Marshall. Two sons of Archduchess Marie of Russtia, widow of the Duc de Leuchtenberg (son of Prince Eu ene Beau harnais), are in Piedmont, and about to leave fior a winter i n Rome. By this connection the Imperial lionise of Ito manoff is allied to the grandson of Josephine, now occu_ pant of the Imperial throne of France. NEW LEGAL CHANGES.—It is undcrsttood that ce Knight Bruce is to be made a pee ir, whe n h e his appointment. Vice-Chancell or W oo d w i ll Chancery bar, is expected to be the new Vice - C i'dancellor. bewi will Lordth r e ejsui ne lt v i Lord Justice ; and Mr. Malins, M.. 1) ./ of the THE SUN, LONDON, LATEST NEWS. The following telegram was received at Mr Reuter's office this morning, Nov. 27 : MADRID, Nov. 26, The semi-official Correspondancia Autographa contains the following : The Minister of Marine, Admiral Jose Maria Quesada, having promoted two naval officers (chefs de marine) without consulting the Council, Marshal O'Donnell in consequence thereof tendered his re signation, but the Queen most graciously refused to accept it. The Gazette contains an official announcement of the resignation of Admiral Quesada. Marshal O'Donnell is provisionally appointed Minister of Marine. Three per Cents. closed yesterday, 42 70. Ditto, Deferred. FRANCE. PARIS, F RIDAY. A deplorable accident oceurred yesterday at Vin cennes. General Ardent, of the Engineers, who was assisting at a trial of guns being fired at a target, was struck on the head by a projectile, and was killed on the spot. The Minister of War, Marshal Vaillant, was standing near him at the moment, but escaped unhurt. The weekly sitting of the French Academy takes place every Thursday. M. Berryer and M. de Montalembert, who, as you are aware, are both members of that learned body, atteneded in their places yesterday. They were received with great applause—in fact, their entry was quite an ovation. Though M. de Montalembert, from the simple fact of his condemnation even to a lighter penalty than six months' imprisonment and 3,000 f. fine, becomes amenable to the provisions of the terrible penal law passed after the attendat, and might be banished to Algeria at the will of the Minister, he has no present intention, it appears, of quitting France when the term of his imprisonment is expired. The Presse publishes a long article on the high price of meat, and strongly recommends the Muni cipal Commission of Paris to take the matter into its own hands, in the interest of the public. It points to a plan pursued in Turin as worthy of imitation, and as presenting no difficulties worth speaking of. The following is an extract :—" Why does not the Parisian municipality do for meat what it has done for bread ? Why does not the City of Paris, which has become miller and baker, also adopt the trade of butcher? It has only to apply to meat a similar measure to what has been adopted for bread. As a precedent it might bring. forward the municipal butchery trade of Turin, which has existed for more than a century. Having been first founded for the supply of the hospitals and colleges, it was afterwards opened to the public for the purpose of counteracting the increasing exigencies of the butchers. It is placed under the surveillance of the superintendent of police, who appoints the director. Every week this latter purchases the cattle which he may stand in need of. He publishes an account of the price of the animals when alive—their yield in meat, tallow, hide, and offal—the general ex penses of slaughtering, and other charges connected with the institution. He thus establishes the cost price of the meat, to which he then adds afair profit for the tradesman. The butcher, it is true, is not compelled to remain satisfied with the profit, but as the consumers know the real price, they are able to beat him down, and as a last resource they have the municipal butchery to apply to. This insti tution, therefore, possesses real advantages. In making known the real cost price of the meat, by official publications, it enlightens at the same time both the producers and the consumers. It enables ' the former to judge of the advantages of breeding, and the latter to contend against the extortions of the butchers. Thus, on the one hand, it favours the cheap production of cattle, and, on the other, enlarges the circle of consumption. It therefore proceeds in a contrary sense to what intermediate agents do, who by increasing the price of articles limit the demand." The Constitutionnel, in discussing some statistical returns on the state of mendicity in the Haut-Rhin, recommends that an inquiry should be instituted on the subject in every department of France, in order to render relief to the poor more efficacious, without being less prompt or less general. BOURSE, Nov. 26.—The market has been rather unsettled. Threes have been done at 74f. 10c. and 74f. 25e.; Mobilier, 1,015 f. and 1,023 f. 75c.; Austrian, 645 f. and 646 f. 25c. ; Orleans, 1,397 f. 50c. and 1,400 f.; Northern, 995 f. and 997 f. 50c. ; and Southern, 585 f. 50c. and 585 f. The follow ing are the last quotations : 41 per Cents. .... 96 95 Credit Foncier 675 Do. end month .. 97 Belgian 41 3 per Cents 74 15 Piedmontese (5) .. 94 .50 Do. end month 74 25 Roman 95 50 Bank Shares. 3157 50 Austrian Credit Mobilier .. 1017 50 Spanish Threes Do. Account ..... 1025 Home Debt 42 50 • - • 4 , 111, , .47 0 , 4t t, ' \ a , f, l .4't * 401k4104 : rt ri d 11 r V tAleiO • ; 'Pt.„... RAILWAYS. Cash. _. Account. Orleans Northern New ditto. 837 50 .. 840 Lyons and Mediterranean 876 25 .. 877 50 New ditto — .. -- -- Geneva — .. 630 Midi — Southern Western 615 .. 612 50 Eastern Grand Central — Sardinian 455 .. 457 50 Austrian Exchange on London, at sight, paper,,2sf. 121 c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 971 c. ; money, 24f. 95c. THE EAST. A letter from Constantinople of the 17th, in the Gazette die . 1 di, says :—The works of the Kus tendje Railway are being carried on with the greatest activity, and even the winter weather, which has begun to set in with remarkable severity, is not allowed to stop them. Surveys are being effected for the construction of other lines to branch off from the above, and the Porte has, it is said, granted a concession for one in the province of Broussa. Several engineers or representatives of companies are also making applications to the Porte for the construction of lines of telegraph in Europe and Asia, both in the interior and on the coast. This sudden increase in industrial activity has sprung up since the present lull in political matters commenced, and it is to be hoped that the plans may turn out advantageously for the country and for those who undertake their execution. Thanks to the Municipal Council, the utility of which institution is every day more and more apparent, Constantinople is becoming com pletly metamorphosed. Works for levelling and paving the streets, which have been hitherto almost impassable, particularly after dark, are going on with great activity. Gas is being laid down in many directions, and the houses are being numbered. The names ofthe streets are also being put up, both in Turkish and European characters, on pieces of board painted green. In many parts the new law of appropriation for purposes of public utility has been brought into operation by the Muni cipal Council, and several old houses have been ordered to be immediately demolished to give air and render the neighbourhood more healthy. The inhabitants and owners of those unhealthy places loudly protest against the measure, but all their remonstrances are not likely to check the operations of the new council, the members of which appear determined to perform their duties with firmness and energy. I have mentioned' above that the winter, has begun to set in with great severity. During the whole of the present month violent storms of wind and snow have pre vailed in the Black Sea, and many casualties have occurred. At Bourgas, on the Black Sea, it has snowed almost every day since the beginning of the month, and the thermometer has been below freezing point. At Gallipoli there have also been several heavy snow-storms. In the interior, and particularly in Bulgaria, the weather has been very severe, Accounts to the 19th ult. have been re- . -r---- SATURDAY EVINING, NOVEMBER 27, 1858. S ceived from Teheran. Mr. 3grimy, the English ambassador, had recovered from his late serious illness, and left for England on the 16th. The ex- Visir continues in close custody at a village five leagues from the capital, in charge of Government officers. The object is to make him produce his accounts, and restore the sums which he has illegally appropriated. The Tureomans continue their depredations in the neighbourhood of Aste rabad. M. Henri, the Belgian Charge d'Affaires, is preparing to explore several provinces of Persia in order to ascertain their commercial resources. The Russian scientific expedition, under the orders of M. Khanykoff, has arrived at Herat, where political affairs are in disorder on account of the 'numerous candidates for powei,i ,- " The member of the Cainiabanie of Moldavia," says a latter from Vienna, "who has resigned is M. Katardgi, Minister of the Interior. In transmit ting his resignation to the Grand Visir, he accom panied it with an energetic' protest against the acts of the two other caimacans,'hiS colleagues." SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 22d contains a Royal decree by which branches of, the Bank of Spain at Alicante and Valencia are authorised, and a series of regulations are established for them. M. Creus, treasurer of the order of San Juan, had been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary and Consul- General in the Republic Monte Video, a post which he had previously held. The Peninsular Correspondence contains ) the following :—" If the Opposition journals. were to be believed, the garrison of Madrid is , being very rapidly aug mented. Such is not tll6` fact. The arrival of new troops is merely in consequence of the usual changes in the garrison, which take place before the winter sets in.. In the course of a few days, when the regianents . which hate been relieved shall have set out for other points of the peninsula, there will not be a soldier more than usual." The weather had been very bad ; rain had fallen in torrents, ; and rendered,outdoor operations almost impossible. It was said that the funds necessary for the payment of the half-year's dividends had arrived in Madrid. It was reported that General Jose de la Concha had at last resigned the captaincy general of Cuba, and was,to be succeeded by Gen. Ros de Olano. The semi-official Correspondancia Autografa publishes a .telegraphic despatch an nouncing that the squadron destined to cruise cif the coasts of Morocco sailed from Cadiz on the 21st. The Belgian Chamber of Representatives, in its sitting of yesterday, adopted unanimously by 65 Totes the ensemble of the Imprisonment for Debt Bill, the final vote on which had been postponed. THE PENINSULAR IWAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY NIGHT. The Alhambra steamer, Capt. Steward, arrived as 11.30 p.m., with the mails in charge of Lieut. Lloyd, R.N., Admiralty agent. She left Gibraltar on the 20th ; Cadiz, 21st ; Lisbon, 22d ; and Vigo, 24th. On the outward voyage the Alhambra ex perienced a heavy easterly gale in the Bay of Bis cay, in which she was hove to for 30 hours. She was also detained at Lisbon for four days, a south westerly gale not allowing her to cross the bar. At Gibraltar the weather was rainy ; homeward she had fine weather to Lisbon, where heavy rain was falling, and thence Strong south-westerly and southerly winds. The Alhambra brings 12 passengers, £664 in specie, and Q cargo of oranges, eggs, and sundries. The French brig Stephanie, from London for Marseilles, ran ashore near Congio Lighthouse, at the mouth of the Tagus, and went to pieces the following day. The Alhambra sent a lifeboat to her assistance, but found her deserted by her crew. Exchanges at Gibraltar on the 20th were quoted : —On London, 50 to ; Paris, 529 ; Marseilles, 530 ; Genoa, 531. Her Majesty's ships Vulture, Racer, Lapwing, and Quail were at Gibraltar. The Austrian brig Tisoro, with coal, from- Cardiff for Venice, went on shore off the Orange Bastion, in a gale on the 10th, and was obliged to be abandoned by her crew, after sundry ineffectual attempts * to get her off by the boats of Her Majesty's ships Vulture, Lapwing, and Racer. The A - astrum bark Antonietta Amalia, laden with grain, bOund 'for England, came in col lision with a Prussian bark near Tarifa, during the gale of the 11th, and both vessels foundered. The captain and five of the crew of the Austrian were missing, in all probability drowned, the remaining four and the whole of the Prussian crew reached the shore. On the same day the Austrian polacca Luigi, Captain Huglich, from Alexandria for Eng land, with a cargo of beans, was totally lost at Sandy Bay; crew saved with difficulty, and some of them a good deal hurt in reaching the shore. The Hanoverian schooner Margaret, Poll master, laden with iron, from Ne wcas tl, was leaky, and grounded on the morning of the 11th at the Puerta de Savilla, at Cadiz. The Tuscan brigantine Tesian, laden with coals, struck on the point of the New Mole, at Barcelona, on the morning of the 4th, and remained in a very bad position, the surf breaking over her hull with great violence ; crew saved by a Spanish war steamer. The brig Ida, of Gibraltar, was fouled in Gibraltar Bay during the gale of the 11th by the Gabrielle, of Palermo, and would have to repair damages before proceeding to Genoa with a cargo of coa l s . Th e Sar dinian brig Gieuseppina dragged her anchor on the 14th and fouled a schooner at anchor in the bay, both vessels suffering damage. The Sardinian barque Spartaco encountered a severe gale off Cape St. Vincent, in which her foremast was broken, and was obliged to throw overboard part of her cargo of salt. The British brig Newbottle, arrived at Gibraltar on the 16th, picked up, 80 miles off the Lizard, the crew of the British sloop Langport, and trans ferred them to the British brig Augustus, bound for Falmouth. The steamer Demetrius, from Liverpool, arrived at Gibraltar on the 18th. She encountered very boisterous weather along the coast of Portugal, and was struck by a sea which stove in the front of the poop boat and did other damage. The Austrian barque Giuseppe Second, and the American barque Lenox had put into Gibraltar to repair damages. The British barque Elf, which arrived at Gibraltar. on the 17th, was blown out of Saffi in a storm when she had only part of her cargo on board. She would have to discharge for repairs of damages sustained in the gale. The Prussian barque Ahto, laden with deals, from "%Vasa, stranded off Torre Carbonera. Several other casualties on different parts of the coast are reported. The merchant steamers African, Araxes, Da nube, Earsdon, and Calpe, from England, had ar rived at Gibraltar. The Alhambra left Lisbon on the 22d, imme diately after the arrival of the Tagus, with the out ward moils. The British ships-asf war and the French steamer Coligny had left the Tagus. The stormy weather which preceded and succeeded the earthquake had subsided upon the coast of Por tugal. Lisbon exchanges by this packet are quoted, for three months, as follows :—London, 53! for money, over ; aris, 532 ; Genoa, 528 ; Amsterdam, 421 ; Hamburg, 48. Bills upon all places in demand. Three per Cents. registered, 46k- to 7, •, Coupons, 441 to 45; Deferred, 301 to 31; Bank of Portugal shares, 7 to 8 per cent. prem. ; Oporto Bank, 24 to 25 per cent. prem. • ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.— . The following members of the college, having been elected fellows at previous meetings of the {council, were admitted ' on the 18th inst.:—Messrs. William Freeman Daniell, army staff ; Chambers Collins, Maryport ; Robert William Sanne man' Cheyne-walk, Chel se a ; N a th an i e l M on t e fi ore , Hyde park Gardens; Henry Samuel Hammond, Edmonton; Richard Tippets, Dartford ; Richard Sutton Harvey, Lin coln; James Smith Walters, Bakewell, Derbyshire ; Wm. Miller Coultate, Burnley; John Malcolm, Houghton, Durham ; Thomas Lees, Southport ; Henry. Pawle Ree, Fulham • Duckworth John Nelson Acacia-road, St. John's Wood ; John Galt, Ashton-under-Lyne; Nathaniel Moore, Sheffield ; Francis Bryant Pearce, Haverstock-hill; Joseph Wickham, Penrith, Cumberland; Joseph Lancaster, Clifton ; Martindale. Ward, Chelsea ; Walter John Bryant, Bathurst-street, Sussex -square; Richard Holland Bradley, Trafalgar-road, Greenwich • Alfred Eccles, Tunbrid ge Wells ; Stephen Shute Alford, Haverstock-hill ; and Alexander Thom Thomson, Oldham. APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Names of gentlemen who passed their examination in the science and Practice of medicine, and received certific a te s t o p rac ti se on Th urs d ay, Nov. 2d, 1858:—Joseph Lockwood, Armitage Bridge, Huddersfield ; Wiliam Barney Tate, Dover, Kent; Thomas Bigland, Brigland Hall, Lancashire; James Collyer, Fulham ; William Alexander Summers, Ilminster, Somer set ; Robert Batho, Am es bu r y,. Wilt s ; J o h n Hamilton, Manchester ; John Holmes, Chesterfield ; William Taunton Plowman, Brunswick House, Torquay. In addition, 11 gentlemen passed their first examination. METROPOLITAN ToLLs.—Yesterday a committee o f the Lambeth vestry was appointed to co-operate with the other suburban vestries, to form a deputation to the govern ment to represent that the parishes were willing that the toll-gates should be removed.; but as the parochial rates are at the maximum of what the householders can at present bear, to submit that the Government should remit to the metropolis some portion of the quarter of a million of money now collected in London from the taxes on carriages and - horses which use the roads in the metropolis, none of which up to this time has been applied to the purposes of road making or road-repairing, THE' ELECTIONS IN PR USSIA. BERLIN, Nov. 24.—The definitive election of the Deputies to the Chamber came off yesterday in the same noiseless and undemonstrative way as the first election, twelve days ago. Nothing that met the eye could tell you there was anything going on. The trials of strength in the preceding week had pretty well predetermined the result, and so fore closed the interest which would have been other wise felt, as it was generally agreed among the electors that they should consider it a point of honour to abide by the votes they gave in caucus. The third seat, however, in district No. 1 was still undetermined. Accordingly, the interest of the day was concentred on. this point. The proceedings commenced at 9 o'clock in Armin's Saloon (Un ter den Linden), when the electors were called over, and the law of elections read out. As an absolute majority of the whole of the electors present is re quired to make a valid election, and as the method of splitting votes is not practised, there must be a separate ballot for each seat. The first dis trict returns three members, the rest only two, and, accordingly, the proceedings occupied many hours. 502 electors answered to their names in district No. 1, and on the first ballot Kuhne (Superintendent of the Tax-office) obtained 493 votes. On this second tour de scrutin Reimer, the publisher, obtained 392 votes, and Heinrich von Armin 81, the remaining votes being dispersed in small amounts. Before the final struggle for the third seat it became known that Heinrich von Arnim was already elected in district No. 3, and, accordingly, his supporters united their strength upon Dr. Jonas, Minister at the Nikolai Kirche. In the third scrutiny the numbers were—General von Bonin (Minister of War), 236; Prediger Jona* 169 ; the rest in scattered votes. As 252 votes were necessary to constitute an absolute majority, it was necessary to proceed to a fourth scrutiny, in which Prediger Jonas obtained a majority of 28— the numbers being:— General von Bonin 234 Prediger Jonas Majority -28 It is observable that the contest lay, not between Conservative and Liberal, but turned upon a num ber of secondary considerations. No Conservative (Manteuffelite) candidate was so much as thought of for Berlin. Prediger Jonas has no oratorical talent, and is far from being a good preacher, but he is the most liberal of the B er li n c l ergy . ie is advanced in years, and has been throughout his life the steady and consistent champion of freedom of thought in religious matters, and an upholder of the union against the sectarian confessionalism which has been the fashion of late years. His election is a declaration of the sentiments of the solid Berlin citizens against the Lutheran revival, which the Kreuz Partei have been driving on very fast lately, under the auspices of Stahl. The following is the result of the elections for Berlin District No. 1. 1. Kuhne, Superintendent of Taxes 493 2. Reimer, publisher 3. Jonas, Ministerof the Nikolai Kirche 262 District No. 2. 4. Reidel, Archiv-Rath 5. Veit, bookseller District No. 3. 6. Von Arnim, Wirkl.-Geheime-Rath . . 258 7. Grabow, Oberburgerrneister District No. 4. 8. Wentzel, President of Court of Appeal 311 9. Mathis, Geh.-Ober-Regierungsrath . 203 ! ~ c POTSDAM. Flottwell, Minister of the • lnterior 339 Ritter, Prediger (M ) It could have - little interest for your readers to send a long list of names unknown, and therefore unmeaning, in England, as I must do if I gave a complete list of the Chamber. Till all the returns have come in we shall not be able to compute the strength of the various parties. As far as is yet known, the majority of Ministerialist Deputies is considerable, though. the. Manteuffelite and Kreuz Partei have carried a good many elections. Some of the principal returns may be . given (M., Minis terialist ; L., Liberal Mimstertalist ; t, Kreuz Partei)t— BRANDENBURG. Grabow, Oberburgermeister (L.) Von Ronne, Judge of Court of Appeal (L.) 224 HALLE. Jacob, merchant (L.) . Fubel, Prediger_(L) KONIGSBERG. Simson, professor. (L.) Tamnau, solicitor. (L.) Riehter:Schreitlacken. (L.) DANTSIC-WITII-NEITSTADT. Behrend, merchant. (M.) Maquet, Geh.-Regierungsrath. • (M.) Below-Rutzau, proprietor. (M.) Pavelt, Ober-Regierungsrath. (f) Von Plathen, Landrath. (f) BRESLAU. Von Auerswald, Minister. (M.) Von Vincke-Olbendorf. (L.) Milde. POSEN. Naumann. (M.) Pilaski (Pole) MAGDEBURG. Von Bonin, Ober-President. (M.) Dihm. The praise of patient and laborious discharge of their duty to the Vaterland cannot be denied to the Berlin electors on this occasion. For 12 days have they (the Wahlmanner) been assembling every evening, in tobacco-parliament, to go through the tedious ballots, by which they have painfully worked their way to the result. Nor as in Fre derick William's Tabaks Collegium, did tobacco smoke serve as the substitute for Parliamentary palaver—the Wahlmanner had to endure no small share of the latter, too, with the constant risk of being half-an-hour late for supper besides. On the actual voting day the business was mostly over by_ dinner time, except in district No. E Through four wearisome scrutinies did the • tough electors battle it out—from sunrise almost to sunset ; a grateful country should never forget, that though it was half-past four before the last ballot was closed, not more than six or eight had given way and quitted the field, yielding to the imperative necessity of dinner. That Berlin has selected the nine most distin guished, or most able men, out of the 0 or 60 can didate' with which they commenced their delibe rations, cannot be affirmed, nut they have chosen nine men every one of whom is very well fitted for the purpose, and for the present juncture. What was required was independence of character, with out extreme political tenets. They have endea voured to get men who would support, without being subservient to, the present Ministry; men who had political knowledge without theories of politics. And what the electors sought it must be admitted that they have found. Their 12 nights' deliberation was not thrown away. All the nine, however different in social position, in education, in talent, have, most conspicuously, a common brand or political type, and it is one which we may ex pect to see numerously representedin the Chamber. Above all, the electors of Berlin have chosen,—they have selected, not taken at haphaiard. Nothing has been left to the surprises and escamotage of an election fray—nothing to the pettifogging intri gues of electioneering agents. In their own slow and deliberate method, the Berliners have smoked their way to the result they meant. They may certAinly`be congratulated on it. THIS DAI'S SHIPPING. LONDON, NOV. 27.—Wind this day at noon, S.E. ; strong breeze, and weather mild, with rain. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 26.—Wind E.—Arrived—Alham bra (steamer), from Gibraltar. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 26.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived-- Her Majesty's steamer Curlew, from Gibraltar; her Ma jesty's steamer Argus, from the westward. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 26.—Wind • S.S.W.—Arrived— Azof, from Mogadore. OFF DUNGENESS, Nov. 26.—Arrived--Scotia, from Cal cutta, (ET ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday Morning. Iliad S. ; heavy rains. Arrived—Moslem, from Newport ; Wonder, steamer, from Jersey ; Alhambra, steamer, from Gibraltar ; Argyll, steamer, from Carentan; Alliance, steamer, from Havre. Sailed—Le Coq, for Cherbourg; Havre, steamer, for Havre; L'Etoile, for Carentan; Dispatch, and Atalanta, steamers, for jersey. Wind S. LIVERPOOL, Saturday Morning. Arrived, No. 26.—Ann Buckle, from Bombay ; City of Palaces, from Manilla ; Anglesey Lass, from Xabea. Sailed, Nov. 26.—Matilda, for Naples ; Revenue, for New Orleans ; Geppina, for Rotterdam. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) . GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Wind, S.W. by W. tide three-quarters ebb, cloudy. Arrived, Nov. 27.—Deux Cousins, from Granville; Wheatsheaf, from St. Malo ; Isabell, from Rouen ; Mentor, from Worcum; Jane Pringle, from Genoa ; Scotia, from Calcutta. Sailed, Nov. 27.—Mowe, for Bremen; Triton, steamer, for Calais. DEA.L, Saturday Morning. Wind S., moderate. Passed.—Ardberg, and Winterthur, both from Calcutta ; Paris and London, screw steamer, from Faris; Leda, from Nantes—all for London. QUEEN'S COUNTY PROCLAIMED.—The Dublin Gazette notifies that the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Coun cil have issued a proclamation to the effect that the Peace Preservation Act shall apply to, and be in force in and for, the barony of Clandonnagh, in the Queen's County, THE TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF 211. DE MONTALEMBERT. (From the Times.) The proceedings on the trial of Montalembert will go abroad throughout the world like the news of some sad symptom of a distant epidemic. To-day they occupy the public mind of England ; they will pass from us to the free States of the Continent, they will be read far and wide through the cities of the Atlantic, they will be repeated among th e populations of the Southern Ocean; but wherever they pass they will produce a prevailing sentiment of deep commiseration. It is not Montalembert, but France, that will be pitied. Every one will ask himself, " What can be the condition of a country where such things can be, and where no one cries aloud ?" It is as if we saw a rat gnawing a human form which did not start. It may be trance, it may be death, but it is not active vitality. Perhaps it is the silence and inaction of abject terror, but there is scarcely an instance of a great nation so silently prostrate. Men must now re member what Frenchmen were before they can feel an interest in what they yet may be. Montalem bert goes forth to prison, and no voice is raised, no patriot leaders come together to protest, no flying sheet tells the story of his trial—the very mob are afraid to shout. But the same fear hangs upon the oppressor as upon the oppressed. The description of this judicial proceeding reads more like a meeting of conspira tors than like a State trial. When Power mas querades as Justice it has been usual to borrow robes of dignity, and exhibit the majesty of law in some great hall, where crowds might assemble and the scene and the example might be imposing and impressive. But the Montalembert trial takes place in a room like a London police-office; the audience are carefully admitted by tickets and passwords. There is a deed to be done which, so far as is possible, shall be done privily. No man may take notes. A scrap of paper and a pencil are signs of disaffection and endanger instant expulsion. The seats of honour by the bench are occupied by those who have distinguished them selves only under the Imperial regime. We may be sure that the ticket-holders in the small area of the court are, so far as may be, stanch Im perialists. It is well imagined. Berryer and Du faure must be heard, and it will be inconvenient to deny them a :reasonable license ; but their voices will not be allowed to penetrate beyond that room. Outside, the Imperial will has laid an interdict upon France. " You may tell, them that the Judges are seated, and you may tell them again that the prisoners have been condemned. This is enough for France to know." Yet with all these precau tions, there was a demeanour about the Bench which was not that of security. The President evidently doubted from the beginning that France could supply even a small roomful of partisans zealous against the accused. He saw in every face an enemy, and commenced by a warning of pains and penalties against all who should dare to ap plaud. Soon after his nervous ear had caught a sound which no one else had noted; and again, when Berryer Thad concluded his oration, the irre pressible instinct to applaud fora moment over came an apprehension of the President's wrath. The Judge was right in llis suspicion that it was impossible to pack an audience which would sym pathise with this prosecution. It was quite im possible that any one could hear even the statement of the case as it came from the prosecuting counsel without being convinced that the incriminated passages were but an eloquent repetition of the commonplaces of poetry and history. Th e y con tain only a passing allusion to the corruption of Cults ; e gentle sneer at the progressive spirits who believe in universal suffrage ; an assertion o f the undoubted truth, that Canada now has political and municipal institutions which France once had, but which France retains no longer ; and an asser tion of the fact, which, if it wanted any confirma tion, is made notorious by this prosecution, that in France " no one speaks but by permission." These phrases picked out of an article of 70 pages form the counts of his indictment and the justification for his imprisonment. No tyranny that the world has seen ever as sumed this form. The most absolute and unscru pulous rulers have never yet proscribed history. Livy, at the Court of Augustus, could write of the expulsion of the Tarquins and celebrate the deeds of the Republic, and Tacitus could compose an eulogy on the free institutions of the Germans, and circulate it under the patronage of Vespasian and Domitian ; but a French nobleman at Paris may not say that he speaks only by permission, and must not write it in a periodical that France once had constitutional institutions, and another nation hard by still retains them. ,The doctrines under which Montalembert has been; condemned proceed upon assumption that, the Government of France being a despotism, any mention of freedom is an attack upon its existence ; that the laws are so bad that to state them is to expose them to contempt; and that the Court of the Emperor is So corrupt that general expressions against corruption need no application to wound the great officers of the Empire. Under such doctrines life and pro perty can never be safe. No man can guard his common conversation against these remote con structions. Montalembert's article might be very disagreeable to the Emperor, and doubtless was so, but if it is a libel the Bibliotheque Imperiale is full of libels; and it will be only fair to tell people who desire to keep far from Lambessa and Cayenne to make over its contents to the Bains Chinois. Under the present regime such books as " Plu.- tarch's Lives," " St. Thomas Aquinas, " Maritani," " De Rege," all the histories of France and all the Greek Classics, can be of no use but to keep Paris in hot water. We would be bound to open any one of these books at random, and find a passage ten times more insulting to the Emperor of the French than .any incriminated phrase of Monta lembert's pamphlet. Does Napoleon the Third think that this is an interlude of little moment, or does he realise the importance of • his enterprise and lament the inex orable necessity which drives a despot on against his will ? So shrewd a man cannot suppose that this is a small matter. Henceforward he has afforded to France at least one topic Toon which all her factions will be agreed—he hal - shut up one man to whom every one will look as a martyr. He has made a silence that may be felt ;—is he sure that it is the silence of peace ? There are successes which grow so ripe that they bend with the seed of future failures. He who has so strong a dislike of historical parallels will doubtless remember those words of M. 'niers in his retrospective chapter upon the First Napoleon—" La nation s'est retiree de lui. Il a succombe en prouvant combien de nos jours le despotisme est impossible." We cannot but see in these extreme measures to destroy even the freedom of thought a 'despotism that is dan gerous to itself, and in these tours de force a con sciousness of weakness. It is, of course, nothing to us what sort of government France chooses to adopt. Beyond that sort of sentiment which made even rude Sparta wish to see Athens flourish in equal power, lest one of the eyes of Greece should be put out, we can have no other interest in this matter than that of lookers-on who speculate and philosophise. At this moment there is one topic which is absent from no Frenchman's thoughts, but which passes from no Frenchman's lips, and may not be touched by his pen. This is strong govern ment, We have seen fortresses with open doors and perhaps rather lax discipline, and we have heard roaring choruses coming from the barracks, and thought it was lucky there was no enemy near, and that the surrounding populations dwelt like brothers with the garrison. But we have also seen a fortress close fastened, silent, and solitary, sleep ing like an image of strength in the cold winter's sunshine. " L'armee s'etait retiree de lui." It was to be dismantled for the general convenience. It was only the attentive distant spectator, who could see that the pale portfires were slowly burning towards the mines, and that the appointed moment approached when the silence would be broken and the firm masonry would be hurled aloft in air. We do not prophesy—we only illustrate a warning, that noise is not always danger, and silence not always safety. (Pram the Daily Netes.) It is reported that M. de Montalembert has been prevailed upon by his friends and advisers to appeal from the sentence of the Correctional Police to the Imperial Court. We had ventured to hint a doubt whether such an appeal to the superior jurisdiction would not be deemed superfluous in a case where it was, and is, a question of striking down an obnoxi ous opponent, not of trying him by the forms of law or the rules of justice. The noble defendant was, perhaps, not unwilling to submit in protesting silence to the act of violence which the meaner in struments of unrighteous power registered on Wed nesday, and to renounce a right which could only result in the perpetration of a greater wrong. It is possible, however, that unexceptionable counsels may have persuaded him, that even a desperate legal resistance to flagrant illegality is a duty he owes, not to his own person, for to such a man stone walls do not a prison make," but to the most sacred cause on earth—to the cause of out raged liberty and violated justice. The Procureur Imperial permits the Correspon dant "to live," if life it can be called which is only not an instant death ; such a life as a liberal in the ancient days of the great prototype of Imperialism was permitted to enjoy when he received permissic to open his veins with a stylus, and to faint into forgetfulness, drop by drop, amidst the vapours of a bath. M. de Montalembert, we know, might shake the dust of despotism off his feet, and fly to freer shores from the tender mercies of his venal persecutors; but we question if he would deem it consistent with the high moral dignity of his pre , sent position to exchange the only favour he can accept of the Empire without dishonour, for a voluntary expatriation en contumace. Should he, indeed, be advised to present himself once more in person before an Imperial Tribunal, and to give the higher Court an opportunity of proving to the world that the last spark of independence on the judgment-seat is not yet trampled out by the master of an insolent soldiery, he will doubtless be pre pared to accept the alternative of a second and final condemnation. The cause for which M. de Montelambert is ready to offer up his personal liberty a willing sa crificelcan only gain, it is true, by a renewed pro test in the face of Europe ; for all Europe was present in the spirit in that sorry Chamber of Cor rectional Police; all Europe hung upon the eloquent lips of Berryer and Dufaure, when the one was pouring forth a burning torrent of indignant scorn, and the other was cleaving through the web of shameless sophistries with a logic that pierced like an icebrook-tempered sword. All Europe now knows, and will never again forget, that the Empire of December is an accident, an expedient, an adventure—not a rule of justice and of law. A Government that fears the truth is self-condemned, and it would puzzle the purchased apologists of the Empire to explain how it is that a Government based upon the national will, cannot for a moment en dure the trial of free discussion ; how it is that a Government founded upon universal suffrage starts at the mere shadow of a phrase. The scene enacted in the Palais de Justice on Wednesday was but a representation on a petty stage of the straggle against the domination of force, which the collective thought and intellect of France, driven from the tribune and silenced in the press are sus taining daily, without concerted action, but with a common purpose. In the person of Montalembert, be it remembered, English freedom and English opinion are struck on the back by a hand that dare not strike in the face. Belgium, :Sardinia, and Switzerland have been taught good manners, but England is incorrigible, and a good word for Eng land is treason to Imperial France. There is a profound significance in that passage of M. Du faure's speech for the defence, in which he insisted that the regret expressed by M. de Montalembert at the dissimilarity of French and English institu tions only showed that the writer wished to see the alliance established on a lasting basis. We have said, over and over again, that the only firm foun dation for such an alliance is, we do not say abso- • lutely the idem velle atque idem nolle, but an iden tity of political sympathies and public principles. Tenth-rate diplomatic dancing-masters and poco curantists of easy public virtue point to Austria. and to Russia, and glibly ask whether an a lli ance with either of these Powers is impracticable be cause neither Vienna nor St. Petersburg is blessed with a limited 'Monarchy and a free Parliament. These jaunty cynics forget that what is natural in Russia and normal in Austria, is an arrested de -1 velopment, a deformity in France. After pouring forth the blood of her children like water on a hundred battle-fields of freedom, France, as M. Berryer finely said, cannot " confiscate her history," and relapse into silence and darkness, without a. throe of disquietude or despair. Louis Napoleon can no more endure in patience the liberties of England than we can tolerate without a pang the persecution of thought and the perversion of justice among a people with whom, in spite of hereditary antagonisms, we are inseparably associated in the destinies of civilisation, whether for better or for worse. England and France are the natural co heiresses of Freedom--twin competitors in the generous race of Progress. How can one of these sisters be stricken, and the other not mourn? OPENINGi OF T. PAUL'S cATITEDRAL ON ADVENT SUNDAY EVENING. The Special Committee appointed to assist in seating the congregation met the Dean in the Cathedral on Thursday evening at 4 o'clock in order to inspect the progress of the works, which will be all completed by 3 o'clock on Saturday. The:l)ean was supported by Archdeacon Hale, the Rev. Mr. Moore, one of the Canons, Alderman Wilson, Messrs. Baker, Scott, Cazenove, Butterworth, and a few' other gentlemen. The superintendent of police attended by order of the Commissioner to receive the committee's in structions. It was arranged to open the two side doors of the west entrance facing Ludgate-hill at 6 o'clock, and the service is to commence precisely at 7. The three gates leading into the courtyard are to be opened at 4, and should this yard become at any time before 6 inconveniently crowded the people will be admitted. Barriers will be placed on the steps leading to each entrance, with sliding bars, which will be closed from time to time to prevent confusion or annoyance within the edifice, and the three gates of the courtyard will be shut if any necessity present itself. There are 2,500 chairs provided, and when they are occupied all the . gates and doors will be closed and notice will be given that no more persons can be accommodated. No one who has not a seat will be allowed to remain in the church, and particular care will be taken to prevent any persons from standing on the chairs or moving from place to place, serious inconvenience having been caused during the Bishop's late charge by the rude endea vours of many persons to improve their positions onithat occasion. Those who are seated must remain in their seats or leave the church ? and there will be no permission to any one to remain outside the screen, which has been placed all round to keep out draughts of cold. air and help the sound of the Bishop's voice, which was not distinctly heard by the assembly upon the delivery of the celebrated. address. The floor has been covered with soft matting and kamptulicon, and 12 stoves will be burning during the service. The north door will not be opened at all. The choir, consisting of 500 persons, will be admitted. at half-past 6, at the iron-gate facing Watling-. street. The Lord Mayor, aldermen, sheriffs, arid clergy will be admitted at the south door. The committee who have undertaken to assist in seating the congregation will each carry a white wand, and it has been arranged that the members of the committee shall be the only persons em pow/red to move about during the performance of the service, and that one of that body shall issue directions to the rest. Inspector Mitchell, whose energy as one of the city force is well known, undertook to place a suf ficient body of policemen outside to maintain order, and of detective officers inside for the protection of the congregation ; but the committee expressed an, opinion that, as there will be no collection, those who have purses may as well leave them at home. Carriages will not be allowed to set down at any of the gates except the two west gates in the court yard. After the committee had made all these arrange ments they proceed e d un d er the dome, and upon a signal being given th e w h o l e of the magnificent building was in a blaze of light. The committee directed that the psalms appointed to be sung on each Sunday evening shall be printed, and a copy deposited on each chair. They gave great credit to the architect for the rapidity with which he has carried such extensive arrangements into effect, and they entertain no doubt that the public will be satisfied with all that has been done for the accommodation and convenience of the con gregation, taking into consideration the limited means at the disposal of the committee and the shortness of the time in which the object has been accomplished. The dome is still undergoing the skilful labours of painters and cleaners and repairers, and it is be lieved that sufficient has been done to show that if the funds be forthcoming the church will be made One of the most useful for divine service in the king dom. The consumption of coal is very great, for it has been ascertained that the heat must be kept up continuously. At half-past 6 o'clock the choir, consisting of up wards of 500 persons, were admitted. Among them were several of the best singing boys selected from the different schools from upwards of 1,000 applicants, all of whom had testimonials from their masters. The evening service for Advent Sunday will be led by the Rev. Mr. Moore (minor canon), and the organ will be presided over by Mr. Goss. The ser mon will be preached by the Bishop of London. The " report" of the Montalembert trial pub lished in yesterday's Ale iteur is a curiosity. Exclusive of the text of the indictment and judgment, it makes less -than 15 lines. It is simply a statement that MM. Douniol and Montalembert appeared before the tribunal, and that the Procureur Imperial Cordouen prosecuted, and that M. Berryer and M. Dufaure were for the defendants. There is one prerogative, we beg to assure the sportive hirelings who play the part of Bertrand to the Imperial Macaire, which even an Emperor by the grace of perjury cannot exercise towards men convicted by his tribunals of honour and of virtue. He canno t par d on. H e may shrink from the cry of arraignment and indignation which all the winds of heaven are wafting to his ears, and may cancel the decrees of a prostituted Court ; but he can no more smile away the disgrace of the Twenty-fourth of November with a simper of clemency than he can bury the remorse of the Se cond of December under a mask of lead. If there be pardon, it must come from guiltless hands : the disturbed conscience of tyranny must seek first its own absolution, and leave to history—inexorable history the absolution of its enemies and its victims. M Wee illip far( esta the sh sere viz. sect We/ of i %II rat tes bee eXc 1401 Th Go] EI itn E 328 216 252 247 ~"'