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Bend Drayton, Wilby e Cooper; Miss roole, Miss Augusta Thomson, &o. Commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.— sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckstone. This Theatre will OPEN for the season on MONDAY, October 9, with S eridan's Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOE A3CANDAL in which Mr. Chippendale, Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. W. l'arren, Mr. Howe, Mr. Ropers. Mr. W. Gorcon. Mr. Clark, Mr. Braid, Mr. Weathersby, Mr. Coe, Mr. I'. White ; Miss Nelly Moore, Miss Snowdon, Mrs. E. Fitzwillimn, Miss C. Hill, &c , will appear. cr the Comedy, "God save the Queen" will be sung. To be followed by LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. Mr. Gelightly (his original character), Mr. Buckstone, With other Entertainny.nts. Tuesday and Wednesday (for these two nights only), THE SCHO t/L 14'01t SCANDAL, LEND ME FIVE ciill,- LINGS, and a 3 llet. On Thursday, October 12, Mr. Charles Mathews will re appear, after a remarkable and meat triumph nt perform ance of E'Homme Blase, in Paris, and in the French tongue, making his aebut here in the English version of the tame piece, entitled USED UP, sustaining his original character of Sir Charles Coldstream. Mrs. Charles Mathews will also appear on the same evening in Planche's Extravaganz of THE GOLDEN FLEECE, with Mr. Charles Mathews. On Friday and Saturday, USED UP, THE GOLDEN FLEECE, and other Entertainments. NOTICE.—Lr. Sothern will re-appear at Christmas. The Box-office will be opened on Saturday, Oct. 7, and daily atterwatds, from 10 till 5. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, at 7, GOOD FOR NOTHING. Mrs Alfred Mellon and Br. Felix Rogers. Alter which, at 8, RIP VAN WINKLE. Rip (his 28th appearance), Mr. Jefferson, supported by Messrs. nillington, I-. Bedford, It Phillips, I'elix ltogtrs, Ashley, hburne, U. J. 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To-Moßßow.-Morning, 2h. 35m.—Afternoon, 2h. 58m. el; At 444144 ttt LONDON, 771UR5D.117, OCTOBER 5, 1865. - The public are always delighted to hear of Lord 131:orGIIA131 coming forward and addressing a large aIiCIiCIICC of his fellow-countrymen. At the meeting of the Social Science Association, which took place last evening at Sheffield, the noble and learned Lord delivered an address with all hiS 'old ability and vigour. It was received throughout, with great applause, and afforded the greatest satisfaction to all those who heard it. At the opening address of the ninth Congress, Lord BROUGHAM commenced by stating that they had to lament the losses which they and the world had sustained since last :they met at York. This year has been signalised by the untimely removal of many distinguished individuals who have done great services to mankind in their day and generation. The best memorial to their merits is to be found in the honoured mention that s made of their names, and the enduring recollec tion that is kept of their works. First among the list of the departed was placed RICHARD COBDEN, " of whose great services," as Lord BROUGHAM said, " not only England, but France also, has been witness, and felt justly grateful." The promoters of social science feel that they owe a deep debt of gratitude to Mr. JOIIN CASSELL for his great exer tions in diffusing knowledge on secular and religious subjects at the lowest price at which he could issue his useful works. Above 60 millions of the "illus trated Bible" were sold in weekly numbers, which fact testifies to the benefits that accrued from his efforts. Lord CARLISLE is also to be remembered among the influential persons removed from among us lately, and as one who knew him well the testimony of Lord BROUGHAM is worth having, when he states that " a more virtuous per son, or, in all his positions, one more useful did not exist." On these losses, said the noble and learned lord, we may use the touching words which the Royal Psalmist poured out in his sorrow—" We shall go to them, although they shall not return to us." Con cerning the course of events since the last Congress, Lord BROUGHAM was enabled to congratulate his hearers. In the first place, the calming down of party spirit, which they rejoiced at on a former occasion, has been abundantly evidenced during the general election which has recently taken place. As here mentioned in this address we may notice that a greater absence of party and personal animosity was observable than at any time of our history since the Revolution. Many will be amused to find that the noble and learned lord has been employing his un rivalled powers of criticism on LordßussELL's late preface to his new edition of the Essay on the Constitution. The " proverbial inaccuracy" of contemporary history is instanced by the fact that Lord RUSSELL has omitted all mention of the great meeting of the Opposition at Lord ALTHORPE'S chambers to consider the plan that Lord BROUGHAM had given notice of, but which was put a stop to by the change of Administration shortly after. In discussing the several points in which Reform is needed in the private business of Parliament the noble and learned lord mentioned a very vital one, which is the necessity of every one particular in each Bill undergoing the same inquiry in both houses, so as always to double the expenses of all parties. With the late Duke of WELLINGTON Lord BROUGHA3I was always asso ciated in the efforts to improve these details, and brought forward the standing orders which now regulate the private business of both houses. At the time of the introduction of these changes the great plan was proposed but rejected, because, as emphatically stated in this address, the influence of professional men was against it, as they saw that it would cut off nearly half their services. It proposed a joint committee, to be composed of seven Commoners and four Peers, and the advan tages that would thus accrue are obvious enough to all dispassionate observers. That he earnestly advocated the adoption of so marked an improve ment was greatly to the credit of the Duke of WELLINGTON, and should be remembered by those who appreciate these changes. The Work ing Men's Club Institute was adverted to by the noble and learned lord, and he laid great stress upon the primary object of all such efforts being the relaxation and amusement of the labourers. As President of the Institute, Lord BROUGHA3I has always upheld this wise notion ; and he rejoiced that Lord STANLEY had lately, at Bir kenhead, inculcated this fundamental doctrine. It is quite absurd to suppose that those who are not of a high intellectual status can, after hard toil and great fatigue, turn their attention to dry subjects and heavy matters. If these ideas were carried out to extremity there would be an end to all the hopes that have been so freely entertained of the success of these undertakings, but fortunately wiser counsels have prevailed. In the Congress at York the subject of female education was considered, but mistakes were made under the impression that the proposal concerned " degrees for females," and this led to differences of opinion. The University of Cambridge has shown its discernment by entertain ing the proposal, and it is to continue as a" tenta tive measure" for three years, at the expiration of which period it is trusted that the scheme will be a permanent one. If so, it will be in every sense of the word a great gain. The effect of " examina tions" is always beneficial, and, as here mentioned, it cannot be but that the " moral value of the recog nition by one of our old Universities of the import ance of female education is likely to be still more widely and deeply felt." In the way of charity rather than education, as the noble and learned lord justly observed, much has been done by some bene volent persons. Companies have been formed under the direction of the principal ladies in London for " homes," and these have succeeded to a great ex tent. It is very satisfactory to find that the result of the labours in this direction in Edinburgh has been successful, and in the effort to extend the re sources of female labour " photography" has been an important branch. Lord BROUGHAM thinks that great benefits will accrue from the labours of the Commissioners appointed to examine into the schools. It was issued upon the recommendation of the Council of the Social Science Association, and has already done a great deal. The Commissioners have assistants, who examine the schools of this country, and also of America, and on the Continent of Europe. The efforts of the Association have long been directed towards the benefit of the working man in various directions, and it is satisfactory to find that they have been so far successful. Several employers have reduced their hours of labour, the early closing movement has also progressed greatly of late, and no doubt, as the noble and learned lord states, " in both these relaxations, the loss in hours of labour will be coma pensated by the more healthy state of the men, and their more diligent working." There can be no more fatal error made than to pursue any employ ment to excess, and it is an error too often wit nessed nowadays, both in mental and physical undertakings. Some remarks were made in this discourse upon the subject of penal servitude, and Lord BROUGHAM considered on the whole that due care was being taken on that important question, although it might with advantage receive the attention of the Congress. The noble and learned lord rightly de signated the seizure of the Danish territories as a " crime," and went on to state that the "chief blame in all respects is that of Prussia, and the proba bility is that the wrong-doers will even find their folly to have exceeded their guilt." The great Law Reformer declared with consistent emphasis that the Emperor of the AUSTRIA and his Ministers would gain in moral honour if they carried out their supposed intentions, and cr. ated an unpaid local magistracy, similar to our own, but in Prussia no such home improvements can be found to set off violence. Senat ors are s pr o a s g e c a u i n t s e t d e f x or te i r N o a r l d s d e s e p d l o n f in debate, while the kinsma n of a Minister is suffered to commit murder without being brought to trial. The noble and learned lord concluded his compre hensive address in the following earnest and elo quent terms, in which he set forth the true objects of the promoter of Social Science. "He is pleased to c ontemplate the flowers in their raiment surpassing THE SUB, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENII\ G, OCTOBER 5,186 E all tb e glories of SOLOMON, and to examine the animal creation in its endless variety, but the social aptitudes of man are yet more worthy of our study and the communities which he forms, and which are the especial objects of the Divine care. Social science, then, has pre-eminently claims to our regard, and promoting it is our highest duty to our Heavenly Father, that duty we delight to perform, rejoicing to be the instruments of His justice and mercy, and devoutly thankful to His goodness, which makes what He commands a pleasure to obey." Earl FITZWILLIAM proposed a vote of thanks to the man whose life was still devoted to public duty, with as much earnestness as it was fifty years, ago. Lord BROUGHAM is indeed a shining light to those who in the meridian of their days get weary of the march of life, for during the long years of his eventful career he has maintained his energy, and still after the lapse of half a century applies him self to his work with all his pristine zeal. possible to lessen the injury inflicted in another way. Prevention is undoubtedly better than cure ; but if an evil cannot be prevented, surely it is better to try to cure it than to abandon the attempt in cowardly despair I The annual autumnal meetings of Agricultural Asssociations partake this year of a somewhat melancholy character. However large the assem blage, however fine the exhibition, however satis factory the general result, there hangs over all the dismal shadow of that terrible disease which has so greatly diminished the number of our flocks and herds, and which still defies all the efforts of science and skill. At the same time while they lose something in animation these assemblies gain something in interest, since agricultural matters aro regarded with more attention than customary. The worth of a thing is known by the want of it, says the old adage, and, accordingly, men who were accustomed to speak somewhat slightingly of agri cultural matters begin to find out that if there were no farmers there would be some awkward deficiencies in the commissariat. The twenty fourth annual assembly of the Tring Agricultural Association was held yesterday in the grounds of the Royal Hotel, Tring Station, a fact, which was interesting from the circumstance of two or three of the porters employed at the station taking ad vantage of the opportunity to display specimens of the vegetables grown by them in the little plots of waste land allotted to them by the company. This was an encouragement to the men themselves, and also, we hope, an encouragement to the com pany in the endeavour to provide their employe's with a little healthful recreation. At the customary banquet there was a goodly show of guests, the most prominent among them being the members for the county, and the principal spokesman being naturally Sir E. BULWER LYTTON. His address was characterised by his usual tact and ability, and the contrast presented by the harmonious rivalry between the exhibitors and the most active compe- tition in which the company then assembled was last engaged was amusingly referred to. The charm of these less exciting meetings is, as the right hon. baronet justly observed, principally in the fact that all the acerbities of political feeling are laid aside, and Whig and Tory and Radical resolve themselves into their primary elements of friends, associates, and neighbours. The part of HAMLET, said Sir E. B. LYTTON, was omitted from the show ; but though there might be no exhibition of cattle, there were sheep, pigs, and vegetables in great profusion and variety. The right hon. baronet repeated the sug gestion which he made at Hertford, that on stated occasions the various societies of the county should unite their forces in one grand exhibition. Thiswould b - 2 a good plan to adopt in other agricultural coun ties, since it would enlarge the area of competition, give more zest to the meeting, and tend to neutralise the little local prejudices and jealousies that are almost certain to show themselves on occasions of this sort. It would of course have been impossible to have addressed a meeting of this kind without any allusion to the great topic of the day—the cattle plague ; and accordingly Sir E. B. LYTTON gave very briefly the result of his observations on the subject. There was, he remarked, a very great difference of opinion respecting the origin and the cure for the disease ; but there seemed to be little disagreement about the best mode of prevention. A copious use of vinegar, externally and internally, is approved by all the authorities, while, when in- fection has really entered a locality, chlorine and bonfires appear to be the most powerful preventives. As for the system of general slaughter advanced in many quarters, the speaker very wisely protests against it—since, he exclaimed, to add famine to pestilence is not that which would entitle us to call Government our protector or to accept science as our guide. The worst counsel in affliction, he justly observed, is that which advises us to despair, and it is only due to the scientific knowledge and applica tion characteristic of our age to believe that the present state of ignorance and perplexity must soon be in some degree lightened. It is the duty of our public men to endeavour to inspire confidence and to arrest panic ; and we are glad to find that some of our agricultural representatives have courage to come forward with reasoning language. The great uncertainty attending the best mode of meeting the cattle plague is one of its most dis heartening and harassing features. There has been no lack of discussion, or absence of sugges tions ; still no one can bring forward conclusive evidence as to the merits of his mode of treatment. The most competent and experienced veterinary surgeons freely confessed themselves puzzled ; and one thing only is clear, that whether or no the disease is of foreign extration, it can adapt itself only too readily to the conditions of English life. The chief difficulty at present is, how ever, to settle if it is best at once to destroy the affected animals or to remove them to places where the different modes of treatment can be fairly tried. On all grounds the establishment of sanitoriums seems to be the wisest course to pursue, since it is quite evident that we shall never grow wiser, or more capable of dealing with the disease, or guarding against it, if we abandon the attempt in despair, and refuse to make any effort. A great many diseases might fairly have been de clared incurable by medical science some years ago which are now under scientific control, at least in some measure. Small-pox, most especially, owes its cure and its prevention to a quite unex pected discovery, but it needed observa tion and labour to bring the discovery to fruition. Had Dr. JENNE R refused to attempt to deal with the evil vaccination would not have been heard of. How can we tell then that there may not be some beneficial secret in nature which can protect our herds from the de stroyer? There are naturally many objections to the establishment of sanitoriums. The cattle owners who have the misfortune to see the disease enter their premises are eager to destroy the affected ani mal, in the hope of getting rid of it before their credit is damaged, while there is a general preju dice against their removal for fear of spreading the infection. But, in reality, such an arrange ment would be likely to diminish the risk because if compensation were given for the, animals brought to the place there would be no temptation to keep infected animals in sheds along with other cattle. The means adopted to arrest the spread of the plague have certainly not hitherto proved successful. Would it not be well, therefore, to try another mode, and see if it would not be to one's feelings at last if only, by somebody or L ATEST IIiTELLIGENCE another, he were either kicked or bonnetted. There • is in the mere delicacy with which the lips of this (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) immaculate person (clad all in black even to his gloves) are wiped at intervals by him with a snow-white handkerchief—evidently to clear away the oozings of the milk of human kindness welling up from his bosom—an amount of aggravation that seems to us wholly beyond the powers either of description or of assuagement. The performance last night was in many respects rather extraordinary. It consisted exclusively of one piece upon that the first night of its representation. Yet, beginning though the entertainment did, very punctually at seven o'clock, it was not completed until after midnight. A play of four acts, thus, occupying (intervals and all included) more than five hours in its perform ance ! And the attractions, in regard to the drama, were, it must be allowed, very numerous, and some of them even remarkable. A celebrated Novelist had therein dramatized, with his own hand, one of his most famous productions—a narrative-fiction pub lished originally, if we are accurate in our remem brance of it, in four rather large volumes, en- AUSTRIA. VIENNA, OCT. 5. The appointment of Baron Hubner, as Ambas sador at Rome in the place of Baron Bach, which has been spoken of for several days is now an accomplished fact. titled "It Is Never Too Late To Mend." This Dramatized version of the Novel, moreover, was not only known to have been done by the Author of the Work himself, but it was produced upon the stage of one of the most popular of the London Theatres—the characters being distributed among the members of one of the best companies in the metropolis, under the direction of one of the most successful theatrical managers of the day. The scenery lavished upon the piece, again, was such as, even in these days of sensational effects in that department, the audience recognised as having about it, every now and then, something quite exceptional in its splendour. Instance this, the English village-scene in the first, and again, (under another aspect) in the last Act—to say nothing of the Log Hut, and, still more, of the cascade among the gold diggings in the far southern interior of Australasia. The prin cipal character was entrusted to Mr. Vining himself, Tom Robinson, the London Thief. The next best character being awarded to one of the cleverest actors in the whole company, Mr. Dominick Murray, to wit, who, in the con genial part of Crawley, added another leaf, as the phrase is, to the laurels already won by him through his impersonation of the despicable Process- Server in Arrah-na-Pogue. Mr. George Mel ville was the hero of the dramatic tale, George Fielding Miss Rodgers representing George's rustic sweetheart. As the scheming attorney, Meadows, Mr. Villiers looked for all the world very much like Mr. Gladstone-ground young again, while Mr. Mead's make up as Isaac Levi, the Jew, was sufficiently picturesque. Nevertheless—after all has been said in re gard to the great, and, as we conceive, really heinous mistake manifested in the whole conception and execution of this Second Act—let but the author at once make up his mind, let but the manager at once issue his fiat for the elision of the whole of it—not of part merely, but of the whole of it—and " Never Too Late to Mend" may yet have a run. Not otherwise ! It is only fair to add that the curtain descended at last amidst signs of feeble but uninterrupted approbation, the author being summoned to the front of one of the stage boxes to bow his acknowledgments. So far as the words uttered by the manager could be caught through the hisses and exclamations of PLYMOU rH, OCT. 5. Her Majesty's training brig Squirrel went ashore in stays this morning in Long Room Point. A strong easterly wind is blowing. THE CAPE MAIL. " Shame !" excited by the exhibition to which we have thus referred at so much length because of its having rendered the whole of the Second Act of the Play so intensely repulsive, Mr. VINING was understood to have spoken as follows : Ladies and Gentlemen,—The drama we are representing to-night is an adaptation from a novel which it is believed has done a vast amount of good. (Applause.) We are not representing a system as it exists, but the abuse of a system —(applauso)--and for the truth of our representation I re fer you to the blue-book. (Hissing, cries of "Off, off," and "We don't want the blue-books.") I do not desire that this question should be discussed in a theatre; but if an evil does exist, it is but right that it should be rooted out. (Aprlause.) If there has been an amount of sibillation from those who dissent from the piece, it must be admitted it has received a groat FALMOUTH, OCT. 5. The Kaffraria from the Cape of Good Hope, September Ist ; St. Helena, September 9th ; and Madeira, September 28th, arrived here this morn ing. She brings seven passengers, the Cape mails, two boxes of specie, 1,181 bales of wool, 53 bundles of skins, 195 hides, 10 cases of ostrich feathers, seven packages of ivory, 141 bundles and eight casks of old copper. The Basuto war was being continued, but the Boers had failed in taking Moshesh's stronghold, Thaba Bosigor. The Boers had displayed more military spirit than in their former wars, but were still in a very undisciplined state. In the first attack on the Bth of August Com mandant Tick, with 1,100 men, ascended the heights under the protection of the guns, but afterwards wavered and gave up the attack, with only 10 men slightly wounded, none were killed. The men who were to support the attacking party left their post to capture some cattle. Some of the Boers retired sc rapidly that several had their horses, saddles, and cloaks captured by the enemy. A second attack was made on the 15th August, when the Boers received a serious repulse. Of 1,200 Boers told off only 600 actually fought. Some exhibited great gallantry, but a large number are said to have displayed great cowardice. Com mander Wippe-naar, the hero of Vechtkop, who throughout the war had proved himself the most gallant and dashing Burgher in the field, and nine others were killed, and ele'ren wounded. A large number of Boers declined to do anything beyond deal of support from those who approve of it. I have always had, and I hope I always shall have, the greatest respect for the opinion of the public ; but I don't think the opinion expressed to-night is a correct or disinterested one, especially as a great majority of those dissentients have not come to the theatre free. (Cheers and hisses.) I, there fore, hope that the piece may be permitted to proceed Ladies and gentlemen, until Ihave a correct expression of public feeling in this matter, and beg to announce that this drama will be repeated every evening until further notice. Since writing the above we have examined the columns of our morning contemporaries in order to learn how far our own ideas and theirs, in regard to that most odious Second Act, coincide. And from these, our morning contemporaries, we are tempted to give, in evidence of the unanimity of feeling excited among theatrical critics upon the subject, the following brief fragmentary passages : (The Times) The second act, representing the interior of a prison, with the horrors of penal servitude, heightened by abuses on the part of tho governor, was so exceedingly revolting to tho more refined portion of the audience, that it nearly led to one, of those theatrical "rows" that were familiar in the times of our fathers, but are almost unknown to ourselves. Two or three gentlemen in the stalls vigorously, and correctly, de nounced the performance as "revolting ;" and the manager showed admirable " pluck " while pleading on the side of the defence, though he hazarded two or three expres sions which in cooler moments he might not have uttered. The piece has been magnificently put upon the stage, and a mountainous view in Australia, with a fall of real water, may rank among the wonders of modern stage manage ment. But it would be folly to commend a piece the second act of which is almost as repulsive as an accurate represen tation of the tortures of the Spanish Inquisition. Whether the abuses exposed belong to the past or the present is of little moment, neither is more truth a sufficient reason for stage representation. Lithotomy is a fact, but we do not wish to see it imitated in the hours set apart for recreation. Fortunately this detestable second act may be cut out with out detriment to the plot of the piece. It is the mistake of an extremely clever novelist, who, in his honest hatred of abuses, has boen mistaken in the tribunal before which they are to be tried. Easily may he profit by the title o his own play,lt is Never Too Late to Mend. (The Star.) cattle capturing. The cutter and pinnace of H.M.S. Wasp, after a gallant engagement, captured an Arab Dhow, con taining 287 slaves, at Sechelles. The coxswain of the pinnace was killed, and Lieutenant Rising and several seamen were wounded. The piece, which is in four acts, occupied more than five hours in representation, though at one period it seemed probable that its performance would be brought prema turely to a close. The repulsive brutality of sundry elabo rate details of prison tyranny in the second act elicited from a large proportion of the audience very hearty mani festations of indignation and disgust, and the features thus protested against were in themselves so objectionable that the applause with which it was sought to drown the voices of the malcontents could be ascribed only to the indiscre tion of friendly zeal. (The Daily News.) It is quite impossible, in recording the production of the piece, to say more at present than that it may be pro nounced successful ; but this result was much alloyed by some strongly expressed objections that were raised by a portion of the audience to certain scenes in the second act, representing in a painfully practical manner the supposed errors in the prison system of this country. At this junc ture, Mr. Vining, the manager, was compelled to come for ward to pacify the dissentients, and at the end of the play the applause was unmingled with expressions of condem nation. The Daily Telegraph. The second part, which shows how Robinson has paid the penalty of his loose life, is devoted to a minute illustra tion of the horrors of prison discipline under a system which is certainly not practised at the present day, and which the audience indignantly refused to recognise as belonging to any period whatever. The convicts are exhibited working on the treadmill, the brutzlity of the "governor" and the warders is depicted in the coarest and most repulsive style, and the penalties of oakum-picking and weaving are practically shown in operation for the instruction of those who happily require to be enlightened as to the economy of a prison interior. The prisoners, with their names absorbed in the registered numbers, are introduced with their black masks on their faces, and their brass badges on their breasts, marched into their cells, to show the com bined machinery of the silent and the solitary system ; and the whole details of penal servitude aro exposed to view in a manner more likely to shock the sensibility of the spec tators than afford the sensation that was evidently antici pated. The protracted presentation of cruelties that have ceased to be practised, not having the only excuse that could be made of exerting an influence to check an existing evil, at last aroused the strong remonstrances of the audience, and enforced an expostulatory address from the manager. (The Morning Advertiser.) The details of this scene were so dismal and revolting, and so evidently one-sided in their representation, that the better part of the audience were disgusted with it, and the critical were equally annoyed at this episodical and politi cal diatribe being thrust into the middle of the piece to the entire suspension of the dramatic interest and story. The expression and contest of opinion became so strong that the . performance was for a time §uspended. THEATRE ROYAL PRINCESS'S. "Never Too Late to lend." A remarkable scene was last evening witnessed by a crowded and at times a very excited audience, at the Princess's Theatre. Mr. Charles Reade's dramatised version of his own well-known story, entitled " Never Too Late to Mend," was the attraction of the night. It turned out to be— in the Second Act at least—a very repulsive demon stration against Penal Servitude and its accompani- ments, as they happen to be regarded from the novelist's own particular point of view. According to Mr. Reade's way of putting forward his argument against the system and its working, he would actually seem to insist upon it—that all the Felons in our Convict prisons are Saints, and that the gentlemen who are acting thero as Governors, together with the warders under them, who are their tools, are so many Monsters of Iniquity. Now we for our own part believe—quite calmly and deliberately—that exactly the converse of all this is the case. We believe that the felons crowding our great convict establishments—massed together in formidable gangs at Pentonville, and -Milbank, and Portland, and Dartmoor, and elsewhere, are the very pick and cream, or rather the very scum and dregs of the greatest ruffians and blackguards on the face of the earth. We believe that the officers of our great convict establishments, from the Go vernors down to the very humblest of the officials, down to the very doorkeepers and messengers, are there energetically carrying out their duties to the utmost of their several powers, and with the most conscientious solicitude. We would go further than that, even, and say that it is our firm and unhesitating conviction that Con- victs really repentant and patient and chastened in character, that Governors malignantly harsh and cruel and unjust are the rare and hardly produci , ,- able exceptions. A Governor of a Convict Prison, such as the one represented last evening at the Princess's, we assert to be a wholly impossible and apochryphal personage. We regard the repre sentation as nothingless than a libellous and c alum nious portraiture, or, to put it in other words, as a wholly unjustifiable caricature of as honourable, and intelligent, and highly educated, and, we doubt not, also, as concientious a class of gentlemen as could be found anywhere else upon our Govern- ment establishments. It is a matter of as tonish ment to us that a man of Mr. Charles Reade's ability should allow himself to indulge so frequently in such flagrant outbursts of a perversely wrongheaded onesidedness. It was only the other day that he gave full swing to an equally extravagant craze of his about our Lunatic Asylums—writing of them in his powerful story en titled " Hard Cash" as though his pen were a sti- Letto, and the ink in which he dipped it the deadliest poison. We no more believe that the officials of our convict prisons are the blackhearted rascals that Mr. Charles Reade would have us believe them to be, than we could ever credit, upon the same autho rity (according to the inferences which were alone deducible from some of the most astounding chapters of " Hard Cash") that our Commissioners de lunatico inquirendo are little better than so many drivelling idiots, and the Masters in Lunacy either purblind dolts or connivers at, or compounders of, felony ! One of those same Masters being to this day one of the shrewdest among contemporary novelists, one of those same Commissioners having been for many years, until very recently, one of the most amiable, vene rable, and accomplished among contemporary poets —the Master being the author of " Ten Thousand a Year "—the Commissioner, Mr. Bryan Procter, better known as " Barry Cornwall." Abuses there may be—there doubtless—are still admitting of being weeded out, here in our Convict Establish ments, here in our Lunatic Asylums. But they are certainly not to be got rid of, we may rest assured of that, by means of any such monstrous and wholesale misrepresentation as that applied to the world of Mad-houses in "Hard Cash," and to the almost equally grimly world of Convict Prisons in " Never too Late to Mend." Not thus—not after this fashion—has Mr. Charles Dickens applied his genial, cordial, powerful pen to the sweeping away of abuses in a hundred different directions. The refined sarcasm applied to the weaknesses of the powers that be, by that greatest of all humpurists—as he is, also, none the less distinctly to our thinking, about the most practical among all living Social Reformers and Philanthropists—the exquisitely refined sarcasm ap plied by him to the Powers that Be when dubbing their haunts by the generic name of the Circumlo cution Office, and their hereditary occupants by the cognomen of the Tite-Barnacles—touched into 1 inimitable ridiculousness by such fantastic little touches as that of the wild search after the eyeglass by the infatuated stickler for tonnage, the polishing of the gun-barrel with a silk handkerchief, and the spreading of marmalade with a paper-knife in the august regions sacred to the inner mysteries of Red Tape—all this, one might infer, must be so much mere idle babble and preposterous small-talk to one whose irony rages into vituperation, and whose rhetoric raves into bullyragging. According to Mr. Reade, there is habitually installed in power at the Home Office, under the polite desig nation of Old Circumbendibus, a Demon of State Darkness, who has, sometimes, but only, upon very rare and fitful occasions, freaks of compunction in ducing him to come down upon some arch-delin quent, such as Hawkes like a very Dens, or rather Diabolus ex-Machin i. The representation of the system upon which, according to Mr. Charles Reade, penal servitude is, or was (we cannot rightly catch which he really means), carried out, or in flicted, or endured (however we may like to put it), in our Convict Establishments is—so far as we can comprehend the purport of the dark and dismal picture presented to view by Act the Second of " Never too Late to Mend," —to all intents and purposes very much like the ill-directed blow of an insensate axe levelled at the very roots of Social Order! It is, according to our belief and apprehension, an elaborate, and distorting, and libellous misrepresentation of one of not the least important departments or divisions of our common Government. If there be any power of histrionic Censorship left remaining at the command of the administrators in the Lord Chamberlain's office, it is incomprehensible to us why it cannot be applied to the sweeping out of view of such a manifestation as that marking the ghastly Second Act of " Never Too Late to Mend." And in saying this we attach but small blame, if any, to the manager of the Princess's —the responsibility, as it ap pears to us, appertaining to the author—that is, to the author's astonishing want of judgment, to the author's astounding violation of good taste. As far as the management of the Princess's iu regard to this play is concerned, the piece from first to last has been put upon the stage magnificently. And this is, if possible, more conspicuous in the Second Act than in any other portion of the drama—a Second Act that we feel convinced, nevertheless, ought at once to be swept from public view alto gether. As a piece of stage illusion the building-up of the two scenes of the prison interior, the Tread - mill, that is, and the Corridors, are simply marvel- But--in those scenes, the spectacle presented to observation, is, to put it just as simply, to our thinking at any rate, absolutely sickening and re volting. Maledictions the most hideous, brutal curses and brutal blows, the fiendish tormenting of angelic prisoners by a Demoniac Governor, an attempt at murder, and a. still more desperate and imminent at tempt at suicide (all but accomplished !) are among the choicest morgeaux of this unparalleled laying bare of the secrets of the prison house. And—through it all—between the Demon Governor and his Myr midons on the one hand and those etherialised and almost beatific Felons on the other--there moves serenely the form of a Prison Chaplain, so incon ceivably and preternaturally perfect of his kind, so intensely, not to say nauseatingly " goody" in every hair of his whiskers, and in every flagiolet like cadence of his dulcifluous voice that, with all possible respect for him, it would really be a relief FRANCE. BOURSE, Oct. 4.—Two o'Clock.—Now that the struggle unavoidable during the settlement is over, the market exhibits a very calm appearance, but with lower quotations. Threes are doing at 68f. 40c., with a decline of 10c. Italian Fives are better sustained to-day, being quoted at 64f. 95c., an advance of sc. Credit Alobilier shares are quoted at 870 f., showing a decline of sf. Mexican remains at 521. Comptoir d'Escompte are quoted at 1,000 f., and Immobiliere shares at 537 f. 50c. Three o'Clock.—The market has closed on the fol lowing quotations : 41 per Cents 96 50 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. Do. end month 6B 40 Credit Mobilier 865 Do. end month 865 Bank Shares 3585 Credit Foncier 1320 -- Italian Loan 65 75 Do. end month 65 - BAIL' Ditto Threes Roman Mexican Loan 5l 75 Do. Bonds 322 50 Russian - Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred 'AY& Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern Western Eastern Sardinian . Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roman Cash. Acct. - 840 - ... 1098 75 865 - - ... 565 - - ... 545 - - 535 - - ... 237 50 411 25 ... 443 75 210 290 212 50 Railway Traffic Returns for the Week. The last week's railway receipts ascertained up :o this day are in round figures as under : Great Western ... North Western ... South-Western ... Brighton Midland 1865. 1864. ... £78,848 £77,114 ... 123,690 116,421 ... 27,721 26;175 ... 27,177 23,351 53,818 52,568 South Eastern 32,001 80,364 Great Northern 40,841 39,644 Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 43,315 39,184 Bristol and Exeter ... 7,810 7,275 North Eastern 73,463 69,357 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 20,508 18,728 Great Eastern 36,065 35,831 London, Chatham, and Dover ... 10,012 10,829 These returns, when compared with those of the corresponding period of last year, are generally of a very satisfactory character. On the Great West ern there is an increase of £1,734; on the North Western of £7,269 ; on the South Western of £1,546; on the Brighton of £3,826; on the Mid land of £1,250; on the South Eastern of £1,637; on the Great Northern of £1,197 ; on the Lanca shire and Yorkshire of £4,131; on the Bristol and Exeter of £535 ; on the North Eastern of £4,106 ; on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln of £1,780; on the Great Eastern of £234 ; and on the London, Chatham, and Dover of £2,183. DARING ROBRERY AT HAMPSTEAD.—At the Hampstead police-court yesterday, three young men , named Davis, Taylor, and Leather, were charged with stealing articles of jewelry from the house of a gen tleman named Squires, at Upper-terrace, Hampstead-heath, to the value of between £7O and £BO. The prisoners were observed on Tuesday afternoon by some workmen engaged in repairing the house of a lady named Coates, near to the residence of the Squires, and from suspicions they enter tained they watched the young men. The passage win dow, opening at the top, was raised up, two of the work men rang the bell violently, and two of the prisoners jumped out of the window, and were captured' by the workmen. The other prisoner, Leather, ran away, and was captured by another workman. A policeman was not to be found, and the prisoners were taken by the workmen to the police station. Another man, who had been seen in company with the prisoners watching, escaped. One of the prisoners on his way to the station threw a box away containing several gold rings, and on another was found a gold watch, several bracelets, and other articles, worth CO3 which Mr. Squires identified as his property. The two female servants in the house heard no noise, and was not aware of the robbery until the men were in custody. Mr. Inspector Ayliffe asked for a remand. Mr. Prance, the magistrate, said the conduct of the workmen was most praiseworthy. The prisoners were remanded. A case of suspected murder has just occurred near Rouen. Two mornings since the body of a woman unknown, about 50 years of age, was found on the shore of the Seine, having apparently been left b y the receding tide. There was a large wound on the forehead, and blood blood even ing, as thathad issued o fi m -o a m n twhohonhosead. beTenhese en, body cni w th a e previous was recognised walking along th e banks of the river from Rouen to Sotteville. Near St. Etienne -du Rouvray she was over taken by a labourer of Oissel, who walked with her as far over to the island, and she going along the road. This as the Ile Longboel, where th . ey parted, the man passing man when arrested and interrogated, declared that the womanl was a total stranger to him, that she had merely asked her way, after which they took different roads, and he saw her no more. As his account, however, appears to involve certain contradictions, he is detained in custody and the police are still investigating the affair. The Journal de Charleroi gives an account of the accident which occurred onMonday week during the procession of Feuillen, at Fosses, near Namur :—" About six in the evening, Capt. William, of the British navy, who is staying at Namur was walking, accompanied by a lady, along the road where the procession was to pass. As the foothpath was crowded by Zouaves from Malonne, Captain William, in endeavouring to clear a passage, pushed aside the musket of a Zouave, who immediately struck him with his bayonet, and wounded him in the temple. As the captain attempted to defend himself ho was assailed by a number of Zouaves, and an officer cut him in the hand with a sword, At last the captain got clear of his assailants, but sprained his ankle in doing so. Captain William complains that he appealed in vain for help to the gendarmerie forming part of the procession. A judicial investigation into the affair has been commenced." r~ , -- k• r t 4,64 t 11 HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, Oct. 2. The Queen went out in the morning with Prin cess Louis of Hesse, and in the afternoon her Ma- jesty went out driving with Princess Louise, attended by the Marchioness of Ely. Sir Charles Wood had the honour of dining with the Queen and royal family. ~. The Royal Family in the Highlands. Prince John of Glucksburg, 'who has been on a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales, left Abergeldie Castle on Monday forenoon for the south. On Saturday her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, Prince John of Glucksburg, the Princess Hilda of Anhalt, and several of the suite, joined a party from Cordavon Lodge at Lochbuilg, and en joyed boating and fishing for some hours. The party also had a pic-nic on the shores of the loch. The royal visitors returned home about six in the evening. ---Dundee Advertiser. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale and the Prince de Conde have, during the last few days, been honouring the Countess (Frances) Walde grave and the Right Hon Chichester Fortescue, M.P., with their company at Chewton Priory, the countess's seat in Somersetshire. A select company had the honour to meet the royal party. The Maharajah and Maharanee Duleep Singh have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Hartrop Castle, Gloucestershire. Their Highnesses the Prince and Princess Gage rine have left Claridge's Hotel for Pavia. Field-Marshal his Highness Prince Alexander and Princess Bariatinsky have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Paris. The Duke of Northumberland and Lady Louisa Percy arrived at their residence in Portman-square yester day evening from Alnwick Castle. The Duke of Hamilton arrived yesterday at the family mansion in Arlington-street from Paris. The Marquis of Westminster has arrived at Grosvenor House from Eaton Hall, Cheshire. The Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare left the Duke of Leinster's residence on Carlton-house-terrace yes terday for Worksop Manor, on a visit to Lord and Lady Foley, before they proceed to Ireland. The Earl of Derby is considerably improved in health, and is gradually regaining his strength. Some short time must elapse before he can resume walking exercise, as he was much weakened by his recent attack of gout. The Earl and Countess of Charlemont left town on Saturday for their seat in Ireland. The Earl and Countess of Enniskillen and Lady Charlotte Cole have joined the party assembled at Ormond° Castle, Kilkenny. The Earl and Countess Russell and Lady Mary Russell left Dublin on Tuesday morning for Holyhead, on their return home to Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park. The Earl and Countess Delawarr have removed to Knowle Park, from Buckhurst Park, Sussex. The Earl and Countess of Cardigan have been entertaining a select circle at Deene Park, including Mr. and Lady Evelyn Bruce, Colonel the Hon. D. Finch, Hon. Arthur Morgan, Colonel Jenyns, and Major Mackenzie, A.D.C., &c. _ _ _ Lord and Lady Charles Percy have arrived at Keele Hall, from Bishopthorpe Palace. The funeral of Lady Raglan is to take place to day. In accordance with the wishes of her husband the funeral will be strictly private. Baron and Baroness de Blue have arrived at their residence at Wimbledon from a tour of visits in Ire land. Baroness de Clifford, Mr.W. H. Schneider, M.P., Mrs. Schneider, and Mr. and Mrs. Kelynge Greenway have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square. The Right Hon. Edward Cardwell is in Scotland, and will succeed Sir Charles Wood in attendance on the Queen. THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER AT AN OTTER lIuNT.—On Thursday and Friday last the Duke of Argyll and a distinguished party, including the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Marquis of Lorn, Lord Archibald and Lord Walter Campbell, Mr. W. 11. Gladstone, 'M.P., Col. Campbell of Skipnoss, Capt. Morton of Fairlie, Capt. Campbell of Glendaruel, Capt. Scott, of her Majesty's ship Victory, &c., joined in the exciting sport of otter hunt ing. On both days the party started shortly after 5 a.m. A large body of professionals were in attendance, with the Fairley pack, numbering some 13 hounds. On Thursday the river Aray, one of the fine streams flowing through his grace's property, was searched without success, the only scent met with leading into a covered drain which opens on the river near the Maitland. On l'Aday the meet was in Glenshira, where, after a keen search of a four-mile stretch, in the course of which the hounds several times gave tongue without leading to a view, a fine otter was dislodged from a cairn neat Rob Roy 's House; at the head of the glen. The creature at once made for the river, and a most exciting chase ensued. Owing to the low state of the river much dodging in the water was out of the ques tion, made up for by the steep and rug ged theas fullyriver banks and the rocky character of the nature 'his After a hot run for some distance down the river, bed. h s of w "fishines s " was b roug ht t o b ay, an d am id muc h but clamour of men and dogs fairly secured. He measured upwards of two feet, and weighed close upon 201 b. Capt. Morton wielded the horn with great spirit throughout, and was ably seconded by those who took an active part in the sport. GALLANT RESCUE.—Mr. George Dodson, who so gallantly rescued Edwin Deane on the 10th of June from drowning, while bathing in a large pond near Hurstpier point, has been presented with the Royal Humane Society's bronze medal. The father of the lad has also presented Mr. Dodson with a handsome gold lever chronometer watch. Mr. Dodson is one of the under-masters at St. John's College, Hurstpierpoint. EXCITING SCENE BETWEEN A CLERGYMAN AND HIS PARISHIONERS. — Evenwood, a colliery village, some six miles south of Bishop Auckland, was on Thursday the scene of unusual excitement. Some two years ago the Rev. C. Palmer was appointed incumbent of the parish, which is the centre of a large coal district ; and, there being neither church nor school connected with the Church of England, he was desirous of erecting suitable edifices both for reli gious and educational purposes as soon as practicable Subscriptions were obtained, and a piece of ground given by Col. Stobart, of Etherley, on which 12 months ago a commodious school was built. This work completed, the rev. gentleman at once set about erecting a church, and for this object a site on the village green was granted by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Some of the parishioners disputed the legality of this means of disposing of the ground, and on its being rumoured that formal possession of the green would be taken on Thursday for the purpose of building a church, with a cemetery attached, the vil lagers gathered in considerable numbers about the m iddle of the day. Amongst the company were some of the prin cipal inhabitants, who expressed their determination to prevent, by every possible means, any attempt to de prive them of their place of recreation by turning it into a graveyard. The Rev. C. Palmer arrived on the green shortly after twelve o'clock, accompanied by Mr. Evers, of Darlington, agent to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and stated to those assembled that the ground belonged to the commissioners, who had the power to grant leave to build a church upon it, with a cemetery attached. Mr . Eivers stated that the commissioners derived their power from the 52d and 53d Grorge 111. The whole assembly then declared that they disputed the right, and would do all they could to prevent the consummation of the under taking. The Messrs. Vart, sen. and jun., Mr. J. Wright, Mr. Browbank, and Mr. M. Bowman were the principal speakers on the side of the public, and the Rev. C. Palmer and Mr. Eivers on the other. Mr. Palmer spoke of the seriousexpense of building ground, whereas he was getting the place in question as a free grant from the commission ers. To this there was a general cry by the dissentients that they would raise a subscription to buy ground in a suitable place, but they would not have their green made into a graveyard. Mr. Palmer, however, persisted, and about 6 o'clock, Mr. Ross, architect, from Darlington, ar rived, and having procured " stobs," proceeded to place them in the ground at which he intended to be the four corners of the church ; but as soon as he attempted to drive in the first one, Mr. Bowman stepped forward and said, " We don't intend to allow that," and suiting the action to the word, he kicked the piece of wood, and broke it to pieces, and following Mr. Rose to the other three corners, made all the " stobs " disappear b/ tha same process. Mr. Palmer requested Superinten" dent Henderson to take Mr. Bowman into custody, but Mr. Henderson suggested that the more judicious course would be for a summons to be taken out against Mr. BOW' man for wilful damage, so that the case might be tried in a proper manner—a proposition which was approved of bf many present. The incumbent then stated that he would write to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners; and the opposi" tion party intimated their intention of memorialising the Bishop of Durham on the subject. Accordingly, on Satur day morning, a deputation of the most influential inhabi tants and principal landed proprietors of the neighbourhoo d waited on the right reverend prelate, at Auckland Castle , and his lordship promised them to go to Evenwood to see the place, and to do all he could to amicably and peaceably settle the dispute ; and here the matter now rests.--lee" castle Chronicle. ing a cent. gene] papa Bon now eaus( Tues posit to re tern( dull, price TI very discc 26i- Spar ConJ Ai Rent 68f.