The Sun. — London, England, 1848-10-16 00:00:00

MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY). Ann Benfield, a middle-aged woman, was placed be fore Mr. Bingham, charged with having stolen from the shop of Mr. Litchfield, china and curiosity dealer, 21, Hanway-yard, a silver casket, value 31. The prosecutor stated that on Thursday morning last the prisoner came into his shop and asked the price of some china cups and saucers. Witness showed her seve ral, which she said were too dear, and wished to see some cheaper. lie then showed her a great many dif ferent pstierns, but the whole of them she said were too high-priced, and would not suit her. She the❑ left the 'flop, and shortly after her departure he missed a silver casket from out of a glass case, close to where the priso ner was standing, and which he had seen safe in the case just before the prisoner came in. Witness then gavo in formation to the p.liee, who succeeded in apprehending Vie prisoner on Sunday morning. Oetavius Falkland, assistant to Mr. William Whistler, silversmith, Strand, said, on Thursday afternoon last the prisoner came into his shop and offered a silver casket for sale. It was a filagree casket, inlaid with enamel, and had a torquoise stone at either corner, and one on the top. Witness told the prisoner that he would pur chase it of her if the would bring him a memorandum from the person to whom it belonged. She then took up the casket and ran out of the shop. West, 7 F, proved taking the prisoner into custody on Sunday morning, ut her lodgings in Long's-court, Leicester-square. Ho told her that she was charged with stealing a silver casket from prosecutor's shop. She denied all knowledge of the robbery, and said she never was in the shop in her life. He then took her to the station. The casket had not been found. _ The prosecutor said ho could swear to the casket from the description given of it by Mr. Folkland. The prisoner, in :defence, said she never saw the pro . - 'mentor before in her life. She had a witness who, if present, would prove that she never left her house du ring the whole of Thursday last. Mr. BINGHAM remanded her till Thursday next. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. PERTH RACES.—THURSDAY. The Member's Plate of 50 sow., three yrs old, 7st 51b; four, 9st 91b; five, 10st 21b; six and aged, lOst 51b. Twice round. Mr. Carter's The Premier, 4 yrs... ...(W. Oates) 1 Mr. Ryan ns Tom-tit, 4 yrs ... ... 2 Mr. Knoll's Baronet, 5 yrs ... 3 Mr. Merry's Pilot, 6 yrs ... ... 4 Sweepstakes of 5 sous. each, with 25 add e d, for hunters; four yrs old, 7st 21b; five, 1 Ist 11lb; six and aged, 12st 31b; half-bred horses allowed 71b, &c Heats, once round and a distance. Mr. Merry's Inglewood, 5 yrs 2 1 1 Mr. Campbell's Waverley, aged ... 1 3 3 Mr. Knoll's The Baronet (h b), 5 yrs ... 3 2 2 A Plate of 50/. for three yrs olds, 7st [4lb; four, Bst 51b; five, Bst 121 b; six and aged, 9st 21b; mares and geldings allowed 31b, winners extra. Heats, once round and a distance. Mr. Carter's Premier, 4 yrs ... , (W. Oates) 1 1 Mi. Ramplin's Headsman, 5 yrs „. 2 3 Mr. Ryan's ns Tom Tit, 4 yrs ••• •• 0 2 Mr. Knoll's Tenby, 4 yrs ... 0 0 Mr. Merry's Glitter, 3 yrs. .., „ 3dr Lottery Stakes of 5 soya each, with 25 edded; three yrs olds, Bst; four, gat 71b; fire, lOst; six and aged, 10.4 51h, Twice round and a distance. Mr. Hendesson's Louisa Newell, 4 yrs (W. Oates) 1 Mr. Mc Keuzie's John Harris, 6 yrs ... 2 Mr. Robertson, us Shakspeare, 4 yrs ... 3 FRIDAY. Plate of 501., three yrs old, 7st 71b; four, Bst 71b; five, 9st llb; six and aged, 9st 61b, mares and geldings allowed 31b. Twice round. Mr. Ramplin's 'leadsmen, 5 yrs .(11. Robertson) 1 Mr. Ramsay's Hornpipe, 3 yrs ... 2 Mr. Binnes Titus Oates, 5 1 rs 0 Mr. Merry's Glitter, 3 y rs 0 Mr. Knoll's Tenby, 4 yrs ... A Challenge Cup of 7 5 sot's. added to a sweepstakes of 5 soya. each for hunters. 12st 71b each. Once round and a distance. Mr. Merry's Pilot, 6 yrs ...(Col. Richardson) 1 1 Mr. Knoll's Baronet, 5 yrs ... 2 2 Mr. H. Johnstone's Turn Tit, 4 yrs ... odr A Handicap Stake of 5 soya. each, with 25 added. Heats. Once round and a distance, was won, in three heats, by Mr. N. Johnstone's Tom Tit, 4 yrs, Bst 11b, beating Louisa Newell, 4 yrs, Bst 101 h; The Premier, 4 yrs, Bst 71b; Headsman, 5 yrs, Bst ; John Harris, 6 yrs, 7st 121 b; and Inglewood, 5 yrs, Bst 71h. The Hurdle Stakes of 5 sous. each, with 20 added. Once round and a distance, was won by Sir Charles, aged, beating Magpie, 5 yrs, and The Don, aged. On Saturday forenoon the British and North Ame rican Royal Mail steam-ship Europa, Captain Lott, took her departure from Liverpool for New York, vitt Halifax, having on board the usual weekly mails, and a fair complement of passengers. FATAL ACCIDENT.—About ten o'clock on Satur day morning last an intelligent little girl, aged about four years, whose name was Alice Baugh, the child of poor but honest and respectable parents, who reside in a cottage at the back of Bye-street, was missed by her mother ; and, throughout the day, the most diligent search was made for the missing one, which proved of no avail till about five o'clock in the evening, when the of flicted mother's worst anticipations were realised. Hav ing made the most diligent search, in every direction, for her lost one, and having been to the crier to proclaim her loss, a thought struck her that perchance sho might have fallen into the privy, which was in a most dangerous state of dilapidation, and which belongs to three other cottages, in common with that of Thomas Baugh, the deceased child's father. She accordingly went thither with a hoe, and on searching thought she could feel something heavy. Eliza Fuller, a woman who (accom panied h er , too k t h e h oe an d commence d searching, an d shortly afterwards saw the poor child's hand appear above the surface of the soil. The body was imme diately got out by a baker, but life was extinct. 0n Monday morning last Peter Warburton, Esq ., an d lre spectable jury, of which Mr. Thomas Fre der ick was foreman, held an inquest at the Coach and Ho rses, in Bye-street, on the body of the unfortunate c hild, when a verdict of " Accidental death " was recorded. — Liverpool Times. SHIPWRECIC.—A correspondent at St. Margaret's Hope sends us the following :—On Sunday night, the Ist of October, the ship Penang, of Liverpool, from Cron stadt, with a cargo of 500 casks of tallow, 100 bales of hemp, and 270 quarters of wheat, struck upon Strose Head, in the island of South Ronaldshay. She had been endeavouring to make the passage of the Pentland Firth, but owing to a dense fog she lost the Skerry Lights, and struck at ten o'clock. In half an hour she was on her beam ends. The crew, consisting of twenty, including the captain and mate, were all saved. Three of them got into the long boat when the ship went over, and were tossed about in her until morning; another swam ashore, and the rest were clinging to the side of the ship, ex p ect i ng every minute to clinging dashed to pieces, until eight o'clock next morning, when they were brought off by boats with much difficulty. Whether it was owing t o t h e heedlessness said to be natural to sea men, or to joy at having escaped a watery grave, it was striking to observe the cheerful aspect of the poor fel lows when they came into the village of St. Margaret's Hope, although barefooted and half naked, after having lost their all. The ship was a splendid vessel of 370 tons burthen. She is breaking up fast, and little, if any, of her valable cargo will be saved.—lnverness Courier. AThENZUM SOIREB.—This annual festival is fixed for Thursday the 16th of November next, in the Free trade Hall. The president for the evening, Lord Vis count Mahon, eldest son of the Earl of Stanhop e , h as already attained a high position in English literature, by his " Hi s t ory o f E urope, from the peace of Utrecht to the peace of Paris," and other works of eminence ; and it is gratifying in the highest degree, to see a nobleman, a descendant of one of the greatest families in England, and a distinguished writer, thus coming forward and supporting an institution thoroughly popular in its cha racter, and destined, we trust, to produce a most bene ficial influence upon: the characters and fortunes of the large class of young men who mainly support it. No less gratifying is it to see so distinguished a list of Vice- Presidents; for, in addition to his Worship the Mayor, the Members for Manchester and North and South Lan cashire, we see a long list of the names of parties who have always been amongst the foremost to promote everything having for its object the good of our city. Amongst the guests, including his Grace the Arch bishop of Dublin, the ardent and tried friend of educa tion, we notice some of the greatest of our English writers—Archibald Alison, the distinguished author of the History of Europe during the first French Revolu tion; Lord Nugent, author of the Life of Hampden ; George L. Craik, one of the authors of the Pictorial History of England ; and many others of deserved celebrity.—Manchester Guardian. METALLIC LAVA FOR STONE, BRICK, TILE, CE SENT, &c.—A patent has been taken out by Mr. J. Orsi for a composition of gravel, or stone broken into small pieces, 3 parts; pounded chalk, 2 parts; tar, 1 part; wax, 1-10th. The tar is first melted in a cauldron, and the wax, gravel, or broken stone, chalk, and mineral colour are successively added. The artificial stone, or metalie lava, thus formed, is cast in moulds, either into solid block of any required form, or into hollow vessels, as troughs and tanks. It is also made into pipes, by roll ing on a circular core of wood, enveloped in paper, three or more iron ribs being attached lengthways above the first elating, by winding wire round them, when a second coating is added, by rolling as before. Also for orna mental tiles, bricks, and quarries, a combination of firound flint, 2 parts ; marble broken into small pieces, 8 a rts; resin 1 part; wax, 1-10th part; and some mine ral colour, 2-10th parts.—Also for cement from either co mbination in a comminuted state, and used while DEPRECIATION OP NEWSPAPER PROPERTY AT SHEFFIELD.—O n Saturday was published the last num ber of the Sheffield Mercury, a newspaper which has for the last, forty-three years been the able advocate of Conservative principles in Sheffield. A few weeks ago, the Sheffield Iris, a Liberal paper, expired in the sixty first year of its age. - FRESH HERRINGS.—The herring harvest in the Solway continues. No exertions are spared to make ihe most of opportunity, so rarely vouchsafed, so long as the finny nations are pleased to patronise by peopling our waters. The barn yards, as the bard of Annan says— we beg his pardon, sings —are literally rinning o'er; and now that the sea is rivalling the earth in fertility, we are ill pleased with the tubers for not growing better, seeing mealy potatoes and thumping herrings are viands that not only grat if y all palates, but appear to have been formed by nature to mense one another. Apart from the large quantities salted, and lesser that find their way to different markets, four cartloads of fish brought every day to Dumfries are sold readily at the marvellously low price of eighteen for a penny. More herrings have been caught at lowness in the last two or three days than RI the last twenty-fire yearn.--Dumfries Courier. TILE NOBLE WHIG STATESMAN'S SOLICITA'T'ION OF REBELLION. (From the Examiner.) The three black crows hive been reduced to the small atom of truth which serves as the foundation of every well-built lie. It turns out that no nobleman high in office wrote to Colonel Napier, inviting him to put himself at the head of 150,000 men at Birming ham, and to march on London ; but that Mr. Thomas Young, then private secretary to Lord Melbourne, the Home Secretary, having given a frank to Mr. J. Parkes, which he was afterwards informed was in tended for a 1,-tter on the sulkct of the leadership of the Union in the event of extremities, had the curiosity to write to the Colonel to know what answer he would have sent to the proposal had it been made to him. And this inquiry was accompanied by the avowal of the dissuasions which Mr. Young would have interposed had Mr. Parkes's letter been forwarded. The passage runs thus : " Ate you aware that, in the event of a fight, you were to be invited to take the command at Birmingham. Parkes got a frank from me for you with that view, but had no occasion to send it. Had lie written I should have fired a dispatch at you with try friendly and anxious counsel and entreaty to keep you quiet, and not to stir from Freshford. It is Lot well to enter early into revolutions; the first fall victims. What do you think would have happened? The Reformers (Place, &e.) talked big to me, and felt assured of success. The run upon the banks and the barricading of the populous country towns would have brought matters to a crisis, and a week they—the Reformers—thought would have finished the business. They meant so to agitate here that no soldier could have been spared from London, and the army is too small elsewhere to have put down rebels. In Scotland, I believe, the most effectual blow would have been struck, and it seems difficult to have resisted the popular movement. The Tories, however, say the Duke would have succeeded. No doubt the discipline under which soWers live might have proved a stronger element than the public enthusiasm, un• less the latter was universal or extensive, and then it would have carried all before it. The task would have been to bring back society to its former quiet state! Thank God, we have been spared the trial; but, as a matter of speculation, tell me what you think would have been the result. Am I right in my conjecture that you would ,have refused the Birmingham invite, and kept your sword in its scabbard?" Now we assert upon sure grounds that Mr. Young did not know the use intended to be made or the frank, and that it was not till the crisis was passed that Mr. Parkes informed him of the purpose in tended. Mr. Young's part in the affair is then re duced simply to some knowledge of the talk of the Radical agitators, and an idle curiosity as to how Colonel Napier, then a reel-hot Reformer, would have dealt with an overture which might have been made to him. As for Mr. Parkes, it is notorious that he did much, very much, to keep the political unions within bounds, and to control the disposition to violence ; but at the same time it is not to be denied on his part and the part of many other Reformers, that there was the firm resolution to carry the Reform Bill, and that their measures would have been adapted to the extremities to be dealt with. The Reformers had with them two of the three estates of the realm, and they would not have succumbed tamely to the obstinacy of the Lords interested in the corruption of the Commons. In the last resort grave resolutions were contemplated un doubtedly, and we believe the least fervid and de termined at the time was not the present Lord Stan ley. But it was not the Reformers only who con templated the possibility of a struggle out of the bounds of the laws. The Tories, too, talked freely of fighting—the Duke of Newcastle proclaimed re sistance by force of arms to be justifiable, and set about fortifying Chamber and arming his retainers. The Tories denounced the Reform Bill as a revo lution fraught with greater revolutions, the Liberals accepted it as a revolution estopping greater revolu tions; but a revolution in the view of both contend ing, it was not to be effected without irregular means and exertions. Many things were said and done in t s iu s the struggle, the justification of whi c h i s on l y to be found in the peculiar circumstanc es an d th e success— b ,th immediate, and in the benefi c i a l consequences— the great criterion in all such m i g ht y j unctures. Upon the breaking out of th e F renc h revolution of February, and the subsequent an d consequent Char tist attempts, the prevailing senti men t o f the Conser vatives was one of thankful ness th at t h e Reform Bill had been carried. But it cou ld not h ave been carried without the organizations a n d th reaten i ng demon strations; to which they a re now reverting back with a prudish horror. To the bl oo dl ess revolution of ' 32 em t r h epas e rnoel p yu e pt o a ir : c o n e bt hai ebn o i3ot E b2y n eh g Lra l o a van n end d dbo eni theen n incendiary,iad would 48. last b r spring h a e nr with beenis owing le streaming i binloaoldl l , the the country plunged in commotion, or torn with civil war. To complain now of the means by which the peaceful revolution was effected, which has averted violent and extreme revolution, is like the impeach ment of Gulliver for having saved the city of Lilliput from destruction by means not in conformity with the strict laws of etiquette. The argument that the extremities to which Whigs went or were prepared to go to carry Reform in capacitates them morally for the prosecution of trea son or the suppression of rebellion is of monstrous absurdity. Did the expulsion of Tames afford carte blanche for treason in the reign of William, or were the hands of Cromwell tied against revolt because he had waged war againit a king ? Or to put a nearer case—have we held the Provisional Government of France bound to submit passively to insurrection because its members had overthrown the authority of Louis Philippe ? We have cited these extreme examples for the broadest 'trial of the ques tion. If the Whigs had carried the Reform Bill by force of arms, the fact would not a whit have inca pacitated them morally for the suppression of rebel l io n and the punishment of treason. To hold the contrary is virtually to contend that revolution once begun is to he revolution without end, the right to resist re bellion being forfeited by whatever party through force has obtained ascendancy. But the parity alleged between the proceedings of the Reformers in '32 and the Irish Confederates in '4B is utterly false. There is no parallel or approach to parallel. The Confederates have not a cause sanctioned by two of the three estates. The object they have proposed has not been one sanctioned by one of the two Houses of Parliament, and approved by the Sovereign. The means have differed as much as the end. The Reformers did not invest the Duke of Newcastle in Clumber, or besiege the Duke of Wellington in Strathfieldsaye. They had organiza tion, and had their resolution in the event of extremi ties; but the might of a just cause, and the might which could belong to none but a great and just cause, enabled them to carry their object by peaceful means. If Ireland had the same sense of grievance which moved England in '3l-'32, the will of nine millions of people would prevail without any overt act of rebellion ; and it is because the cause is so weak that it has endeavoured to prop itself precipi tately with arms, and has so abjectly fallen. It is curious to observe how the Conservative or gans have fastened upon and distorted the purport of this letter to Colonel Napier to discredit political op ponents, even at the cost of sanctioning and encourag ing Irish rebels. - The loyal Morning Post enriches its columns with an extract from an Irish paper, in which it is asserted that the Whigs dzompremised, as alleged, in seditious . incitements, dare not punish Mr. Smith O'B rien, who, it adds, "is n ever p re t en d e d to b e guiltT,4iiave\- as the great, the good, 'the ;llustrious are, r guilty." The great, the good, the 'illustrious, thenAefy the laws, and at the head of an armed rabble call upon the police to ahandoritheir allegiance and desert from their duty, and upon refusal, attempt to murder them, and failing, run away and hide. Upon the conduct of General Napier in disclosing the contents of a letter written in the indiscretion of confiding friendship, we need not offer one word of remark—every one knows what to think of it. MR. J. PARKES'S PART IN THE STRUGGLE FOR TIIE REFORM BILL. The Birmingham Political Union was constituted on the2sth January, 1830, at a Town's Meeting, Mr. Muntz in the chair. Mr. Joseph Parkes attended that meeting, and opposed the organization of the associati on . lei s speech, we see, stated that the object of the then local leaders was an action on the currency; and that tfic Marquis of Blandfoid's proposed Bill of Parliamentary Reform, the Union programme, was not the proper creed of the Reformers. Mr. Parkes also urged that " Politi cal clubs were generally composed of the extre mes o f different parties, with different ends in view. E xcept i ng the Catholic Association, an exception to the general rule, they did not succeed in their pretensions. They were landmarks of division among common friends; they were always perverted from their original intent; and they had this general effect, that they tempted G overn _ merit to make laws which invariably abridged the liber ties these clubs intended to promote." By the subsequent proceedings of the Birmingham Reformers, we find that Mr. Parkes first took any part in their proceedings in December, 1830 (after the French Revolution and the Duke of Wellington's " unfortunate" declaration against all Reform), and when on the 13th of that month he moved the adoption of the Ballot by resolution at a Town's Meeting. Mr. Parkes never ad vocated Parliamentary Reform as a demagogue. %\T extract his words on that public occasion : " He would now merely say, that they must not de ceive themselves, even on the value of Parliamentary Reform. It was only a means for an end. It c annot with a talisman cure at once, direct?y, accumulated evils. A Reformed House of Commons would be only the means of obtaining reformed and now institutions ; of the difficulties of the country being met like the em barrassments of an honourable individual, boldly and equitably ; of establishing municipal institutions for local justice ; restoring and improvin . g corporations, those dens of stagnant corruption ; of carrying on the reformation of the Church, and of commutation of its tithes ; in short, of fearless and general reforms." In November, 1831, we find Mr. Parkes attending a meeting of the Union Council, though not a member, honestly and toldly contending against a plan of arming THE SUN, LONDON, and local organization propounded to the Union. His speech induced a unanimous resolution b abandon an illegal and mischievous project. Mr. Parkes denounced the inchoate scheme as necessarily tending to revolu tion. He received a public vote of thanks on that occa sion, advertised in all the London newspapers ; and his speech, circulated throughout the kingdom by the press, had great effect ,in arresting the popular indignation caused by the first ill-success of the Ministerial Reform Bill. At that period ho was still not a member of the Union, but he pledged himself to join the Association if thereafter the Reform Bills were again in peril. Oa the sth of May, 1832, at a great Union Reform meeting of Birmingham and the midland districts, we find Mr. Parkes addressing bold but constitutional language to an assembled and excited multitude. " I appear before yen with mingled feelings of hope and fear (the Lords had just passed the second reading of the English Bill), and the predominance of the latter corn mends my attendance here this day. The vote amounts only to the concession that their Lordships will take the Ministerial measure into consideration ; and when I see the balanced state of parties in the Upper House of Legislature, I cannot but discern that we are yet in the hands of our political enemies. It is there fore that I come forward with a resolution in my hand, and although not a member of the political unions, having been, as you know, early in this contest opposed to their formation, and disliking two governments, yet I should feel degraded if I did not now admit the powerful effect the associations have produced on the public mind, and how much is due to that Chairman (Mr. Attwood) who is their great parent, and who now presides over a public meeting, unparalleled, I believe, for numbers and real political zeal and intelligence. Fellow-countrymen, having said thus much of my opinions on political unions, I will now tell the Peers of the United Empire, that if the great national measure of Reform is ultimately rejected, and Lord Grey driven from office—or if it be mutilated or rendered inoperative, the unions will be trebled and quadrupled in numbers ;—I speak from personal knowledge, and I know that the majority of young men of all classes in this town and neighbour hood, not now members, are resolved to enrol them selves in your ranks, and to stick by you in the breach. Friends and fellow-countrymen, God forbid I should ex cite you to the 'fernier resort of a civil and physical con tention for your liberties as Englishmen, or that I should seek to influence British noblemen by any unworthy or false terror of revolution. lam one of those who fore see that a violent revolution in this country might destroy public credit, might depose the borough mongers, and utterly destroy their wicked domination. But, my countrymen, the mass of the people might . be plunged into the most woful want and personal strife. Who can think of the channels of industry choked up in this vast ocean of manufacturing labour?—who can con template a complete cessation of the demand for labour, without discerning that this generation would make a tremendous sacrifice for the liberties of posterity? But Ido solemnly warn—l implore the House of Lords not to force the Reformers to a civil contest. I call on the Peers to open their closed eyes to the revolution, which for six months, since their fatal rejection of the Bill in October last, has ,filled the public mind on the subject of Here ditary Legislators and Spiritual Lords. I ask them whether an insane indisposition to this great renovation of the British Constitution will not produce a certain and ultimate disaffection to, !andA , dissolution of our boasted form of Government." The success of Lord Lyndhurst's motion in the Lords only tested the firmness and good sense of the British people. In Birmingham, on the day following that motion, Mr. Parkes, and every Reformer of every grade and quality, from the clerk to the merchant and the banker, appear to have instantly joined the Birmingham Union; and a similar increase of numbers in the London National Union and throughout the kingdom simulta neously took place. The Reformers waited for their opponents to precede them in any illegal or unconstitu tional acts; but the good sense, sagacity, and fears of the Tory leaders happily came to the rescue of the Constitution. On the great me( ting in Birmingham on the 16th of May, 1832, for the purpose of presenting an address to Lon' Grey on his reinstatement to office, Mr. Parkes, in his last words to the Union, justly charac • terized the popular victory: "This great national strug gle stood unexampled in the history of nations. It afforded the most signal example of what a people could accomplish who were worthy to be free! We had been the last ten days within the crater of a political volcano, the eruptions of which might have momentarily covered with devastation all that was valuable in this great coun try in the common ruin of corruption." Is Mr. Parkes, or such liko men who abounded throughout Great Britain, now to be stigmatised as "revolutionary?" (From the Times of this day.) Sir,—l beg leave to state, through the medium of your journal, that a letter written in the confidence of private friendship, and of a gossiping nature, which recently appeared in your columns as having been ad dressed to Colonel Napier in June, 1832, in a moment of giddy excitement, was written without the knowledge of Lord Melbourne, who was completely ignorant of the matters alluded to in it, relating to the wild views of certain Radical Reformers, with which I did not become acquainted till after the crisis in the first or second week of May, 1832. I alone am responsible for the contents of the letter in question. The indiscretion of my making (in a familiar note) a communication so inconsiderate I readily admit, but the construction now attempted to be fastened upon my care less expressions was as remote from my mind, and as alien from my sentiments, as was the idea of the possi bility that a letter so written should become public, and the subject of ungenerous and unfair interpretation, after a period of sixteen years.—l remain, Sir, your obedient servant, THOMAS YOUNG. Londoq Oct. 14. ~~.>; -SONXIXTS ON THU SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAILWAY. 'PEAR, FRIDAY.—More than ordinary indignation has belpn evinced towards the officials at the Scottish Central Railway, in consequence of the unwarrantable, if not unfeeling conduct they displayed, in declining to convoy her Greco the Duchess of Sutherland along their line on Sunday last, on the occasion of her being sum moned to the bedside of her dying parent, the Earl of Carlisle, at Castle Howard, in Yorkshire. On the Friday evening previous, the Duchess, who was sojourn ing at Dunrobin Castle, in Sutherlandsbire, received in telligence of the alarming and dangerous illness of her venerable parent, and summoning her Grace with all speed to Castle Howard. She instantly posted off to Montrose, where she arrived on Saturday evening, and taking the last train reached Perth on Sunday morning. The mail train for the south was then preparing for de parture, but to the astonishment of her Grace and attend ants, on applying for seats in the train they were told they could not be allowed to travel by it or by any other train on a Sabbath, it being against the regulation of the directors. Letters having been previously sent to all the stations to have engines ready to convey the Duchess through, it was imagined some mistake had occurred at Perth, and the secretary was immediately communicated with, and the sorrowing circumstances which compelled her Graee's attendance at Castle Howard. The train was delayed for a short time in order to have a final answer from the secretary. But the reply was " No; the rules of the company could not be departed from." The mail train started with the empty coaches besides the ne cessary mail carriage, leaving the Duchess standing upon the platform actually crying. Nothing was left but to post onwards. She hired a steamer and crossed the ferry on to Edinburgh, which occupied the whole day. By the time her Grace reached Castle Howard the Earl of Carlisle was no more. Her Majesty recently travelled toLondon on a Sabbath morning, and that fact so vividly in our remembrance leads us to presume to think that her Majesty cannot but be indignant at the treatment her Mistress of the Robes has received at the hands of the majority of the Scottish Central Railway Directors. —Glasgow Scotch Reformers' Gait le. 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Observe:—None are genuine unless Mr. Kaye's coat of arms, and a fac-simile of his signature, are found on the directions for use wrapped round each box. Price ls. 1 Ad., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. per box. Sold by all respectable Chemists and Medicine Venders. EMIGRATION.—PLYMOIITEr, OoT. 14.—The Har binger, 751 tons, Captain D. M. Sampson, arrived here yesterday morning, bringing with her 161 souls, infants and adults. On the passage down the Channel the wife of one of the passengers was delivered of a son, and both she and the child are doing well. Since arriving here 105 souls have been shipped, and about 50 more are wanted to complete the complement. There are 104 females on board at present. This vessel is the property of Mr. E. 11. Chapman, of London. She will probably sail for Australia on Tuesday next. The Thetis, an other vessel, about the same tonnage, sailed from London on Monday last, and arrived here yesterday morning. She has on board souls equal to 110:4 adults, 24 being single women, the remainder married people. She is to take on board at Plymouth 97 souls. She is expected to sail on Thursday next. Tho Trafalgar, 715 tons, Captain Richardson, was abreast of Deal on Saturday last, and after weathering some very rough gales, arrived in the Sound yesterday morning. She has on board souls equal to 159 adults, and when her complement is full will have in all about 236 adults. The Candahar, another emigrant ship, bound for Australia, the property of Messrs. Marshall and Edridge, also arrived yesterday. The passengers have all paid their fares out. Mr. Woods, one of the Emigration Commissioners, accom panied by the Hon. Mr. Wellesley and the Government emigration agent here, inspected the ship to-day. She will probably sail early in the forthcoming week. POST- OFFICE APPOINTMENT..---Mr. John Tilley has been appointed Assistant-Secretary to the General Post-office, in the room of Mr. James Campbell, deceased. The assistant-secretary ship is a lucrative and important office. Mr. Tilley has hitherto filled the situation of surveyor to tho General Post office for the northern dis trict of England, the duties of which will be performed in future by Mr. J. P. Good. PROBABLE MITIGATION or MR. O'BRIEN'S SEN TENCE.—We understand that soon after the verdict of the jury was given against Mr. O'Brien, his family re ceivedmeueniteeanteioenefthtahteitlwawas not e in e t t e fe n e d t e . d tow W e are the extreme acm sentence ' glad that ilia life will be opued.--,Leeds Mercury. INSTITUTE OF ACTUARIES. A meeting of the members of this recently orga nized arid useful institution was held on Saturday, in the board-room of the Guardian Life and Fire Assurance Office, Lombard street,. The actuaries, of nearly all the assurance offices in London, arid many of those connected with offices in the provinces, were present. Among them we observed Mr. Fin laison, of the National Debt Office, Mr. Griffith Davies, Mr. Laurence, Mr. Peter Hardy, Mr. David Jones, Mr. Jenkyn Jones, Mr. Farren, Mr. Tucker, Mr. Robertson, Mr. Iligham, Mr. Neison, Mr. Scratchley, and a number of others. Mr. PETER HARDY was called to the chair. He said that was the first meeting of the actuaries of Great Britain and Ireland, and that they had assem bled for the purpose of electing the officers of the institution. Mr. CLEGHORN, of the Guardian office, and the Hon. Secretary, read the report, which was adopted unanimously. Mr. General" Davies said he believed he was the senior actuary connected with an assurance office present. Ile might, therefore, be permitted to sub mit a motion for their adoption—namely, that Mr. Finlaison, the Government actuary, who was second to none in his estimation of the value of the institute, be elected the president for the ensuing year.—(Loud cheers.) He (Mr. Davies) might take that oppor tunity of stating that ill• health, and the multifarious nature of his pursuits, would prevent his taking any active part in the management of the institution. This expla nation was due to the members who had so licited him to take office. lie had known Mr. Fin laison for many years, and he assured them that his talents and his position would shed a lustre upon the institute.—(Cheers.) Mr. LODGE seconded the motion, which was car ried unanimously ; and Mr. Finlaison took the Presi dent's seat amidst the most enthusiastic applause. The Hon. Gentleman was much affected. The PRESIDENT said no occasion in his whole past life could match the gratification be felt that moment at the high honour they had conferred upon him. At all times he was an indifferent orator, but at that moment he felt wholly inadequate to express his deep sense of gratitude to his friend Mr. Davies for the terms in which he had nominated him, and to the meeting for the cordial manner in which they had elected him. Mr. Davies and himself had been long in harness together, and it would be, he fancied, a difficult thing to say who was the senior. They thought they might truly consider themselvts the oldest' men in the profession. He assured them, his brethren, that nothing should be left undone on his part which could promote by any possibility the success and importance of the institute.—(Hear,: hear.) He could not boast much of his abilities, but he believed he should be warmly seconded by those whose abilities had rendered them famous. Of this,- however, he could assure them that he should not bewpenting in good intentions. Allow me to add, said 11Se President, that by the act you have just performed you have constituted the insti tute. We are now constituted a society.—(Cheers.) On the motion of Mr. GairrernlDAvies,Sseconded by Mr. FARREN, Mr. David Jones, Mr. Peter Hardy, Mr. Laurence, Mr. J. C. Sylvester, Mr. Jellicoe, Mr. G. P. Neison, Mr. Jenkyn Jones, Mr. Tucker, Mr. Scratchley, Mr. W. T. Rubinson Mi • - nerve ; Mr. Rattray, Mr. Hilman, Mr. Le Rubinson, W. M. Brown, Mr. W.T. Thompson,:and Mr. 'Finlay were elected as the council for a the ensuing year. The 10th rule was here amended to enable Mr. Cleghorn, whose zeal on behalf of the institute was much complimented by se veral of the speakers, to be elected registrar, he having respectfully declined to be a member of the council, believing, as he said , that there were many others fitted to fill the place more worthily than him. That gentleman, therefore, was unanimously elected to the office of registrar. Mr. RATTRAY moved that the following gentlemen be elected vice-presidents :—Mr. David Jones, Mr. Peter Hardy, Mr. Sylvester, and Mr. Jellicoe, which was seconded by Mr. ROBINSON and carried. Mr. JELLICOE, in returning thanks, adverted to the great public necessity of such an institution as that of the Actuaries of the. United Kingdom. Many years ago he and Mr. Hardy discussed the necessity of such a society. They did so because actuaries did not receive that support and estimation in public which they conceived so important a body deserved. They saw no reason why they should not occupy a recognised position, equal to that of the professors of law or physic, and with those well known for their learning and acquirements.—(Hear, hear.) Nothing, he conceived, could more effectually accomplish this than this institute, because it would bring before the public the real nature of the business and duty of an actuary, of which they were pro foundly ignorant at present.—(Hear, hear.) It would stamp their calculations with authority, which was alike necessary for their own reputation as for that of the corporations with which they were re spectively connected.—(Hear.) If sufficient weight was not attached to the bead of an office everything went wrong. He could not but deeply regret that there had seen a want of co-operation on the. parts of the actuaries, of one or two offices ; but he was sure the time was not far distant when they would give it their hearty support.—(Hear, hear.) When he saw how the institue was supported, and the unanimity that prevailed, he was sure their non co-operation could do it no harm, but if they would not, of this they might be satisfied that its members would do all in their power to make the profession more highly estimated than heretofore. (Loud cheers.) He trusted they would all work together for one common end—the general benefit of the science. —(Hear, hear.) The PRESIDENT perfectly concurred in every word uttered by Mr. Jellicoe. He (the President) twenty years ago saw the great necessity for such an insti tution as this. Perhaps many present were not aware that the profession of an actuary bad been repeatedly recognised by the Legislature.—(Hear, hear.) So long ago as 1819 an Act to this effect was passed. When the Legislature seriously took into its consi deration the best mode of conducting benefit and friendly societies, an Act was passed for the protection of such societies, in which p rov i s ion was made f or th e employm en t of competent actuaries to test their qualifications In 1825 he was appointed actuary to the National Debt -office by Act of Parliament. Thus the profession was recognised by Act of Parliament a second time. A not h er Act enacted that actuaries of six years standing should certify the accu racy of the tables of these societies. In the Committee which sat on the matter in 1825 the necessity of actuaries examining the tables and plans of societies projected for the benefit of the poor was much insisted upon. He might say, there fore, with truth that no profession had been so clearly and repeatedly recognised by the Acts of the Legis lature as that of the actuary—not excepting even the Royal or Geological Societies. It was fit and proper, therefore, that they should form themselves into a society, sled be enabled through it to inform the public whom their brethren consider actuaries, on the plan adopted with so much success and public benefit by the College of Surgeons and other bodies.—(Hear.) At present every little clerk called himself an actuary, and the public had no means of discriminating between the qualifications of the two. —(llear, hear)—but he hoped the day was not far distant 'when the profession would take i's position among the learned bodies of the kingdom.—(Hear, hear.) In forming themselves into such a body they were merely following out the behests of the Legis lature.—(Bear.) Mr. Jenkyn Jones and M. r. Tucker were th en elected the honorary secretaries. Mr. F Henderson and Mr. G. Smith were elected the actuaries. p . roposed that a vote of thanks Mr. P ETER HARDY be awarded to Mr. Griffith Davies for his valuable services to the institute. No one cou ld enterta i n more sincere feeling s for the institute, and nothing b u t ill health prevented him . from taking an activehear.) His contributions part in its affairs to the science of life assurance could n o t b e t oo hi g hl y estimated, and his great book, which had never bee n formally published Jo the world, was to be found in all the assurance offices of London.— (H ear , h ear .) a Mr. J. JONES seconded the • motion, which was carried by acclamation. The PRESIDENT suggested that th e rVi ce- P res i dents should draw up a n address to Mr. Davi es. Mr. DAvies briefly expressed his acknowledgments. The unanimity tha t had characterised their proceed ings augured well for the success of th e i ns ti tute ; and he trusted it mig ht never be di s t ur b e d . Thanks were then voted to . the Pre s id en t , t h e enrol ment committee, Mr. Cleghorn, to the dir ec t ors o f use of the offices ; and a motion having been the " Guardian" for t he passed recom m ending the c ounc il t o t a k e whatever steps might seem expedi en t t o o b ta i n t h e co-operation of, those_ . who had not j o i ne d t h e i nst i tute, the meeting separate d. The inauguration dinner of the society was held in the evening, at the London Coffee-house; the Pre sident being in the chair, supported by Messrs. Peter Hardy and Mr. Dated Jones. Abo u t f orty gent l emen were present. The gatheri!ig was one of the most c o rdial and friendly na t Success to the Ac tuaries Institute," was drunk with great enthusiasm. The company did n ot se p arate unti l late. NO PENALTIES TO EXCISE OFFICEBS.—In the Spirit Dealers' ne w Act, which has just come into operation, it is declared that officers of the E xc i se s hall not participate in penalties and forfeitures under the Act. The penalties are to go to the Cr own , an d not, as hitherto, in part to the Excise officers. This is a very excellent provision. A rumour prevailed in town last week th a t a vesse l arrived in port had had signalled to h er , b y t h e steamer in which Macready took his passage fur America, the death of that celebrated tragedian. [We believe there i s no foundation for the report.—Liverpool Chronicle.] MON DAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1 ' THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. The Haymarket Theatre, which opened for the season on Saturday night, certainly required re-deco ration, and with Mr. Webster's usual enterprise and liberality he appears to have determined to do it effectually, for which purpose he availed himself of the wel• known talents and artistic skill of Mr. Sang, who has now worked so long among us as to have be come one of us, and nobly he has fulfilled his under taking in this case, for he has produced at the same time or:e of the richest end most elegant interiors that has ever been combined in this metropolis ; and under the superintendence of Mr. C. Manby the general alterations and improvements of the theatre are as complete and effective as those at the Adelphi, which emanated from the same source. The entrance has been generally improved, and it is intended to erect an internal porch to keep out the wind, and to convert the present hall into a crush room. The lobbies are all of a fresh cool green colour, with crimson lines round the doors. Backs have been added to all the seats in the circle ; the ugly square columns which formerly impeded the view from the corner boxes are replaced by elegant palm tree stems of white and gold. The hand rests on all the tiers are amber and crimson satin. The furniture of the dress circle is cerise and straw cos loured damask, and that of the stalls, pit, and upper circles a rich crimson damask, according with the flock paper of the private boxes, which have rich crim son damask curtains and fringe. The centre chandelier and those round the circle have been improved by additional glass drop, and we were glad to perceive by the gilded network in the centre of the ceiling that increased ventilation had been attended to. The general tone of the house is cream colour and gold. The ceiling and the proscenium alone aspire to high artistic decoration. The ceiling forms a coup d'ceil surprising and beautiful by its elegant outline, its brilliant colouring, and the original distribution of the architectural part. The pervading tint is an aerial blue, gracefully intermingled with gold, and ornamental and figurative painting. In the spandrils of the four corners are depicted the Seasons, with their architectural accompaniments beautifully studied, and in tone of colouring only to be surpassed by the group of Tragedy and Comedy in the centre of the proscenium, which emulates some of the best works of the old masters. The inner proscenium contains the royal arms branching off into arabesques and groups of figures, flowers, and birds, managed in a most masterly style. The hideous columns which formerly encumbered the proscenium, and circumscribed the space on the stage, have been removed, and are replaced by well proportioned pilasters, which are decorated with a running pattern of the Indian cane with its graceful falling leaves en twined with bright flowers. The fronts of the pro scenium boxes present a rich and refined effect, glittering with gold and arabesques, containing the royal arms and the Prince's plume. The only gap we perceived was the royal box, which as yet is not decorated at W all. The reason of this is, we understand, because it is not Mr. Webster's property, but remains is the hands of the proprietress, who reaps the benefit of the royal visits, and who, when so much appears to have been done by her liberal tenant, ought not, in our opinion, to evince such want of loyalty and taste as to permit the royal box to be the only blot in so fair a building. The new drop painted by Mr. P. Phillips evinces much of that poetic feeling and artistic repose, for which English landscape and scene painters receive such general and merited praise. The centre repre sents the church at Stratford, where rest the ashes of our immortal bard, and as a landscape has a chaste and mellow effect. It forms the centre of a rich screen of the best period of the renaissance architec ture, surmounted by a bust of Shakspere, and flanked on either hand by two beautiful groups of Tragedy and Comedy. The former is from the well known engraving of Mrs. Siddons, and the latter is an original composition fully equal to it. In these as in the architectural portion of the drop we fancied that we could detect the pure taste and facile pencil of Lewis Haghe, which alone is a guarantee for the excellence of the production. Two minor compart ments contain views of the Globe Theatre and of Shakspere's house, and the whole is surrounded by an arabesque border upon tapestry. We never re member to have seen a drop that generally pleased us so well, or that so perfectly harmonised with the in terior decorations of the house, and were glad to see this system followed, which has been recently so suc cessfully adopted at the Adelphi. Altogether, this is perhaps the most successful of Mr. Phillips's produc tions, and he must paint well now to keep up his ordinary scenery to the level of this artistic work. Tt . e company engaged is a strong one, and from its composition it is evident that it is not the intention of Mr. Webster to pay such exclusive attention to comedy as has hitherto been his wont, but that we are occasionally to be indulged in the representation of tragedy also at this, the only legitimate theatre now devoted to the representation of the legitimate drama. The company will comprise the following distin guished artiets : Mr. Charles Kean and Mrs. Charles Kean (late Miss Ellen Tree), Miss Laura Addison (her first appearance at this theatre), Mr. James Wall ac k (hi s fi rst appearance these five years), Mr. Webster, Mr. Keeley, Mr. Cres wick, Mr. Hudson, Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. H. Holl, Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Howe, Mr. H. Vandenhoff, Mr. James Bland, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Brindal, Mr. Clark, Mr. Braid, Mr. Caulfield, Mr. Coe, &c., &c., &c.; Mrs. Glo v er, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Julia Bennett, Miss I'. Horton, Miss Reynolds, Mrs. W. Clifford, Mrs. H um by, M rs . L. S. Buckingham, Mrs. Stanley, Miss E. Messent, Mrs. A. Wigan Mrs. Caulfield, Miss W ou ld s , Mi ss E. W ou ld s , Mrs. doe, &c., &c. All honour to Mr. Webster for having engaged Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, not as stars, but as members of the general company, and ;all honour to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean for having so engaged themselves. This is the first decisive blOw that has been struck at the abominable star system which has been the bane and the destruction of the drama, and the grateful thanks of every playgoer who likes to see a good play well performed as a whole are due to Mr. Webster for his conduct in this matter. The play chosen for the opening was Romeo and Juliet, with the following cast : Prince Escalus... ... Mr. Caulfield. Paris, Mr. 11. Vandenhoff ... Montague, Mr. Gough. Capulet ... Mr. James Bland. Romeo ... Mr. Creswiek. Mercutio ... Mr. H. Roll. Ty bait ... Mr. Howe. Benvolio... Mr. Braid. Friar Lawrence ... Mr. Rogers. Friar John ... ... Mr. Seater. Peter .-- ... Mr. Keeley. ... Mr. Brindal. ••• ••• Mr. Clark. ••• ••• Miss Laura Addison. (Her first appearance at this Theatre). Lady Capulet Mrs. Stanley. Lady Montague ... Miss Brooks. Nurse ... ... Mrs. Glover. The great novelty of the evening was the first ap pearance of Miss Laura Addison at this theatre in the character of Juliet. She had acquired a very high reputation at Sadler's Wells for her imperso nation of the heroines of Shakspere, and that reputa tion she will, we doubt not, judging from her per formance of Saturday, more than sustain at the Hay- market. She has a sweet and expressive voice (an exquisite thing in woman), an admirable stage figure, features full of expression, and an intensity, a power. and an earnestness in all she does that exactly fit het for distinction in the high path she has chosen ; she has not only the intellect to conceive, but the power and the will to embody the characters of Shakspere. Never was there, for example, a greater instanceof will triumphing over all obstacles than was ex hibited by Miss Laura Addison on Saturday night. From the moment of her appearance it was evident that she was not only suffering most painfully from intense nervousness, but that she was also labouring under physical indisposition, against which she was struggling courageously. In the balcony scene it was evident that the physical indis psition was mastering the strong will, and she fainted—the curtain fell, but in a few minutes again rose—the stout will defeated for an instant had con quered, and she went through the remainder of the play triumphantly. Her powers seemed to rise witi: the occasion —in the third act, the feeble, timid girl of the balcony scene, had become the intensely impassioned woman. The whole of the third and fourth acts were given with a degree of impassioned power which corn pletely embodied the conception of Shakspere. The soliloquy over the poison was magnificently given. Since the days of O'Neil that soliloquy has never been so admirably rendered as it was on Saturday. At the conclusion of the play Miss Laura Addison was called for and led on by Mr. Creswick, who as Romeo had affbrded her most efficient support throughout the piece, and received the enthusiastic congratulations of the audience. Of the Nurse of Mrs. Glover how shall we speak in terms of sufficient eulogy 2 It,is faultless, and the intense pathos which she infuses into the part when she discovers Juliet's death is the finest and most artistical piece of acting on ping the tone stage. the gradual change f rom t h e gossip theold nurse to the st rong agony of the broken-hearted woman was so exquisitely given on Saturday that it took the audience quite aback, convulsive sobs were heard in many parts of the house, and at the conclusion Mrs. Gl over rece i ved three distinct rounds of the heartiest and most richly deserved applause that ever enraptured audience be stowed. Mr. Rogers's Lawrence was a careful piece of acting. Keeley's Peter was as quaint as ever, and Howe's Tybalt was excellent. At the conclusion, " God save the Queen" was sung by the company, and the performance concluded with the farce of The Pus de Fascination, in which the clever Keeleys kept the audience in a roar. (From the Times.) This house opened on Saturday, shining with all the splendour of renovation. It is scarcely a fortnight since the Adelphi company quitted it, a worn out dirty-look. Samson ... Apothecary Juliet s 1848. ing edifice, and now, thanks to the exertions of Mr. Charles Ma: by (also the good genius of the Adelphi), it i s c o m pl e t e ly new In m top to bottom. The hom e opened with Romeo and Juliet, in vs Meta the principal feature was the appearance of Miss Laura Addison; as the heroine. This young lady had gained con siderable reputation by her performance at Sad ler's Wells, during two successive seasons, but she was so extremely nervous at acting before a West-end audience, that she cannot, as yet, he said to have given them a real specimen of her powers. In the middle of the balcony-scene she fainted, and the curtain was suddenly let down. On her recovery, which took place in the course of a few minutes, it was again raised for th© continuance of the lavers' interview, and she acted to the end of the play without other interruption. 'The best point she made was in the bedchamber scene, and here she produced a favourable impression on her audience. Miss Addison has a great deal of profes sional zeal, but there are two faults which she should especially mend, and which we mention here because they cannot be attributed to tho nervousness of Satur day. One is a certain peculiarity of tone, which has a monotonous effect; the other is a tendency to make every word too isolated. This has doubtless arisen from a laudable attempt at high elaboration, but its result is a redundancy of emphasis. The Romeo of Mr. Creswick is not without intelligence, while the Mercutio of Mr. Hull is more lively than finished. Mrs. Glover's Nurse was the gem of the whole tragedy, and her burst of grief at the supposed death of Juliet was one of those bits of strong genuine acting which are only to be found among the well-trained representatives of the old school. Mr. Keeley, by his humorous impersonation of Peter, gave prominence to that part. The marked applause which was bestowed on Mrs. Glover and Mr. Keeley on their first entrance should be noticed as a well-merited and distinguishing mark of respect to two genuine artists and established favourites. A word in praise of Mr. Rogers, whose Friar Lawrence was carefully read and excellently made up. Mr. Rogers has generally played subordinate characters; but all that he has done has been marked by that real histrionic feeling which is every day becoming more rare in the profession. At the conclusion of the tragedy Miss Addison was called, and was led on by Mr. Creswick. Mr. Webster ap peared as the central figure in his company when the National Anthem was sung. Mrs. Keeley was as wel come as ever in the Pas dc Fascination, and her Cachuca with Mr. Tilbury gained an unanimous encore. (Frosts the Chronicle.) On Saturday evening this theatre opened for the season with Romeo and Juliet, and the farce of the Pas de Fascination. On this occasion Shakspere's muse introduced to the footlights of a west-end theatre a rising aspirant for Thespian fame, who heretofore has acquired some reputation among the denizens of that far-north locality the dramatic capital of which is known as Sadler's Wells, or " The Wells." The performance of Saturday evening, upon the whole, was an interesting one, and creditable to the establishment. Miss Laura Addison enacted the part of the loving, hapless Juliet with great intensity of passion ; but she showed more of the impulse of native fervour than of deep and mature study of the Juliet of Shakespere's creation. Tho scene where she drinks the sleeping draught was, upon the whole, her beat ; the terrible subject was prominently in her mind, and she forgot her affected style—for that is the term to give it—forgot herself, and thought only of her author. In the last act also (which, by the way, was very properly given according to the text of Shaks pere) she acted with great truthfulness and genuine feeling. Miss Addison suffered considerably from ner vousness in her earlier scenes, but recovered herself-pos session as the play proceeded. She was warmly ap plauded in many of her scenes, and called for with acclamation at tho fall of the curtain. Mr. Creswick did the part of Rumeo carefully, but not very passionately, affording, in this respect, a marked contrast to his young lady love. his nbite dress in the earlier scenes was not becoming. Mr. lloll's Mercu io was an unpretend ing performance, and therefore calls fur no particular remark. For the rest of the cast, it was in many re spects admirable. Mrs. Glover is the Queen of Nurses; her acting throughout was marked with careful study, and exquisite finish. The scene where she discovers the supposed dead b.Nly of her young mistress was the per fection of natural feeling. Keeley's Peter has well been known as an inimitable morceau of its kind. Mr. Rogers did the part of Friar Lawrence with great care and scrupulous exactness. lie was rather hard withal, par ticularly in his speech discoursing upon the merits of the herbs in his basket, which gives opportunity for a display of elocution of the very highest order. The play generally was extremely well mounted, many of the scenes being new for the occasion. After the tragedy the National Anthem was sung, Mr. Webster appearing in the front, in the midst of his " little Haymarket " family. (From the Post.) The season commenced on Saturday night with Shak pere's tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, restored, in all its material respects, to its original form, the alteration of the last scene by Garrick, and its melo-dramatic effects, with other absurdities and impertinences, being very judi ciously cast aside. The special novelty of the night was the first appearance of Miss Laura Addison, who had earned considerable celebrity at Sadler's Wells in the part of Juliet. The material which the histrionic pro fession affords for tragedy is net extensive. It presents, in the whole, but few names, and of th ose none are asso ciated is the public mind with achievements of high and undoubted success. Mr. Webster has, there fore, to find out the successors to Kemble, to Kean, to Garrick, and to Siddons. In this task, difficult in its nature, and not sudden in its accom plishment, it is for the public at once to sympathise and to assist. The effort is noble, and worthy of all praise. May the triumph be complete! That Miss Laura Addison possesses genius there are few , we think, will ga i nsay . Sh e man i festly thinks for her self, and eschews the old conventional stamps of the character. There was, throughout the portraiture, in tellectuality and a deep study of the various phases of the emotions and passions evolved by chet.palsing incidents. There is also intensity and ab stpttion—qualities potent in securing the half-belief so vital to the dramatic illusion. But to countervail these great means, there is so great elaboration, that Much of the potency of the deep passion and spirit of the golden poesy is lost in the process. Of the design of the new Juliet it is impossible to speak in terms of too high praise. In parts of the execution there were points which justice equally to the artist and to the public re quires to be noticed. There was one manifest evil which marred, especially in the earlier part of the play, many of the effects, This was either an excess of nervous timidity, not unnatural nor even undesirable on a first appearance, or the oppression of considerable indisposition. Under this Miss Addison's strength failed her in the balcony scene ; she seemed to struggle heroically with some strong attack, but the enemy prevailed, and she sunk down in a swoon. The curtain fell, but in a few minutes rose again, and the aot was finished with apparent con straint or feebleness. In the next act, however, Miss Addison seemed to recover her powers, and in the im passioned scenes which followed, particularly that in which she learns the fate of her lover and her cousin, and in the great soliloquy over the fatal potion, she rose to a grandeur which it was delightful to rewelcomo to the English stage. The whole of this soliloquy, and the words "I will do it," in the interview with the Friar, were given with energy, and yet with " temperance which doth give it smoothness," which Shakspere tells us is the actor's perfection. Mrs. Glover's Nurse is one of the most faultless dramatic pictures which an enraptured audience ever contemplated, and never was it given with more perfection of let ling and spirit than on Saturday night. It is of itself a refreshing memorial of the best days of the stage. Next to this was unquestionably the Friar of Mr. Rogers, a gentleman of consummate talent and taste—Mr. Keeley's Peter—and Mr. Llowe's Tybalt. Miss Addison was recalled before the curtain, and saluted with loud applause. The National Anthem was then sung by the entire company. The farce called the Pas de Fascination followed, and received its usual hearty welcome. The application for a divorce in the Philadelphia Courts, by Mr. Pierce Butler, against his wife, Fanny Kemble Butler, is cn the ground that she has deserted him tor two years, having been abroad for that time in Europe. Mrs. Butler resists the application, and as a large tbrtutte is depending on the question, whether Lhe wife shall have her legal portion or be cut off' by a divorce, the case will be ono of interest. Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler is among the visitors at the Revere [louse, Boston. She will soon reappear, it is said, on :he boards of the Park Theatre, New Yolk.—llloritreal Pilot. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—OR Satur day, in the Bloomsbury County Court, an action was brought by Ann Elliott, the daughter of a laundress re siding in Hart street, Chelsea, against a person to re cover the sum of 201. as a compensation for a breach of promise of marriage, the circumstances of the plaintiff not being adequate to the expense of entering an action in a superior court. It appeared from the evidence that the deendant, wh o was a solicitor residing in Randolph terrace, Caniden-town, was one afternoon, during the summer of 1835, walking through the Lowther-arcade, when he accosted the plaintiff, to whom, alter a little conversation, he made a proposal of marriage, and of fered to allow her 251. per annum as pin -money. A re sult very common to this kind of courtship followed, and ultimately the defendant refused to perform his promise, and was united to another. His Honour having fully entered into the evidence of the case, the hearing of which occupied several hours, allowed the plaintiff the full amount claimed, with cost, at the same time ex pressing regret that a person bred to the profession of a gentleman should have taken so mean an advantage of the plaintiff. PREVENTION OF FIRE IN HOUSE-BUILDING.— A correspondent of the Builder says :—" I have to pro pose that, in the erection of dwelling-houses, no open timber floors, ceilings or partitions, be admitted, as it is well known that fire without draft to assist it, is not a dangerously destructive element, but that, with this ally, there is no limit to the range of its greedy and devour ing appetite. I would therefore insist that all internal partitions be composed either entirely of brickwork, or of brick Dogging or pugging; that the floors, if not com posed entirely of fire-proof materials, should in like manner, be filled in solid with some incombustible ma terials; and that the stairs, if not of stone (which they might be without any great increase of expense), should be (that is the steps and risers) fixed upon some solid and almost wholly incombustible material, the construc tio❑ of which might follow that adapted for the floors. SPOT ON TUE SUN.—The large spot on the sun which attracted attention about a fortnight since is again brought into view by the rotation of the sun on its axis, and was observed on the 13th of October as a fine dark line upon the extreme edge of the sun's disk, towards the south-east. The spot is likely to be visible till about the 26th of this month, and will probably appear again so large as to be visible without a telescope, about the 17th, for several days. ~.__ IT LITERATURE. t TILE ZOIST : a Journal of CerebialeysicAyy_ ana Mesmerism. At length mesmerism has been submitted to the caperignentum crucis, and has not been found wanting. It has cured an organic disease which *,4 Aitrcito always been considered incurable. It . hh4`etfreti cancer. The case of cure of a true cancer of the female breast with mesmerism, by Dr. Elliotson, which appears i n thi s number' of the Zoist, is one of the most of important papers ever published in the medical science, demonstrating as it does that th e curat i ve powers of mesmerism exceed those of any other therapeutic agent with mankind h as as yet become acquainted. "Thh which echs ease cured was , " says Dr. Elliotson, " malignant and structural, and such as the art of medicine has never been known to cure, nor the powers of nature to shake off." The patient, Miss Barber, i s a dress-maker, residing a t present a t No. 12, New-street, Dorset-square. She first applied to Dr. Elliotson, on the Gth March, 1843, and at that time was labouring under decided cancer in a state of schirrus. Dr. Elliotson proposed mesmerism to her, with a view of rendering her insensible to the pain of the surgical operation for the removal of the part, and accordingly she placed herself under his care, she being unacquainted at the time with the nature of her disease. After she had been some time under the care of Dr. Elliotson, she was induced to consult Mr. Brown, surgeon, of the Edgware-road, who pronounced it to be cancer, she then consulted Mr. Powell, surgeon, of Great Coram street, who gave a similar opinion, and concluded by recommending an immediate operation. Dr. Elliot son was at this time out of town. Mr. Powell took her to Mr. Samuel Cooper, the professor of surgery at University College, and the most learned surgeon in this or any other country. "Poor thing," said Mr. Cooper, "if she wishes to wait for Dr. Elliotson's return she may, but it must be cut away then." She did await Dr. Elliston's return, who found that during his absence she had not been mesmerised as much as he could wish, and who again took her in hand himself, and produced a state of sleep-waking, and by the constant, and assiduous, and scientific application of mesmerism, for upwards of five years, succeeded in dissipating painlessly and imperceptibly, but perfectly and com pletely, the diseased mass, thus for the first time, in the history of the medical profession, curing cancer. There can be no mistake as to the nature of the disease, for Dr. Ashburner, Dr. Engledue, Mr. Symes, Mr. Hands, Mr. Powell, Mr. Brown, and Mr. Samuel Cooper, all certify to the nature of the disease and the present state of the patient. The three latter gentlemen are not mesmerists, and Mr. Samuel Cooper, it is believed, has never seen a mesmeric phenomenon. The following observations, with which Dr. Elliotson concludes his narrative of this case, may, perhaps, in some measure, account for the failure of the earlier mesmerists, and for the desue tude into which the practice of mesmerism fell soon after its first discovery. " This case proves the necessity of perseverance in mesmerising. Five years and upwards was Miss Barber mesmerised, and for the greater part of the period three times a day: remaining in the happy trance some hours each time, and the part being locally mesmerised in her morning and evening mesmeric sleep, which took place in bed; and in the night the mesmeric passed into the natural sleep. Most patients and some mesmerists have no idea of the necessity of perseverance. I have no patience with half tho people who make a trial of mes• merism, expecting it to act as though its powers were miraculous and not natural. They almost deserve to suffer on, _ _ _ For miracles arc ceased, And therefore we must needs admit the means, now things are perfected.' Abp. Canterbury, Henry V., Act. i. Sc. ii. But I know mesmerists who give up a case if there is not improvement or some sensible effect after a mcsmerisa tion of a quarter of an hour for a few days: and who also mesmerise far too many persons. Greatrakes and Mr. Loutherbourg committed these faults, and thus at length fell into disrepute. " I shall continue the mesmerism with Miss Barber for months to come." The present number of the Zoist also contains an-in teresting narrative of the cure of a supposed case of hydrophobia by mesmerism, by Mr. H. S. Thompson, but as other remedies were exhibited in that case we do not insist upon it as we do upon the case of Miss Barber, which at once and for ever sets at rest all question as to the therapeutic powers of mesmerism. A MAN MADE OF MONEY. By Douglas Jer rold. With Plates by John Leech. Part I. This is the first part of a new serial (to be com pleted in six numbers), which promises well. Mr. Jericho, " the man made of money," is a character of which Jerrold will, we doubt not, make much. The following extract will at once show the state of Mr. Jericho's affairs : " What shall we say of a man of a decent and com pact figure, a man of middle height ; who nevertheless wishing to stand two inches taller in the world than fairly beseems him, consents to be stretched by the rack in the hope of walking the higher for the pulline— Now Mr. Jericho was this foolish man. Ho wanted to stand higher in the world than his simple means allowed him; and he had submitted himself to the rack of debt, to be handsomely drawn out. To get appearance upon debt is, no doubt, every bit as comfortable as to get height upon the rack. The figure may be expanded; but how the muscle of the heart, how all the joints are made to crack for it." Tormented by his wife, and by his wife's family (Jericho has married a widow), the unfortunate man imprudently gives utterance to a wish. " I wish I was made of money," says Jericho, and a busy fiend hovering near takes him at his word. Jericho falls into a deep sleep, and even as the rib of Adam was extracted, so is the heart of Jericho, but instead of being made his wife, it is transformed into a bundle of bank notes, and restored to his side, for the use of his wife. For a description of the manner in which this was per formed Nt e refer our readers to an interesting conver sation between two fleas who, perched on Jericho's nightcap, beheld the whole operation, which conver sation is faithfully reported in this the first part of A Man Made of Money. THE POTTLETON LEGACY. By Albert Smith. . __ Parts I. and 11. This new serial promises to be the best novel that Albert Smith has yet produced. There is the foun dation laid for a most interesting narrative in the manner in which the legacy is left, and the death-bed scene of the miserly old woman, who leaves this legacy, is described with great power. Ilis descrip tions of rural scenery are extremely picturesque, in fact, they are word-paintings, and his characters are well conceived and admirably contrasted. The hero ine Annie Mailland is one of the gentlest, most warm hearted, and most unsophisticated of human beings ; being a complete contrast to the Misses Twinch, with whom she is thrown into contact, and who, sisters of the village attorney, are, par excellence, the ladies of Pottleton. These ladies are thus described : " There were the two Misses Twincb, sisters of the lawyer, who, conceiving that they had been neglected through life, revenged themselves upon a smal l portion of mankind, by visiting the poor, but never giv ing them anything except advice : and would stop small children in the road when taking their fat . her's dinner to the field, and ask them, with great sever ity, the hardest parts of the Catechism, such as "1 .desire, ' and their duty to wards their neighbour, of v. Inch personage each one had a different notion according to their residence. The eldest Miss Twinch had lately taken some strange reli• gious fancies into her head— at least, so th e vi ll agers thought, who had great belief in the creed their fathers had professed before them. They attended their morn ing and evening service on the Sundays with constant zeal, when the pleasant bells called them to worship; but this was not enough for Miss Twinch. She would watch the old woman who went in to beat the hassocks and clean the church, and steal in too, for what she called her private devotions. Indeed, once shim was nearly cured by being locked iu by mistake, and passed a win ter's night in the old carved oak family pew, formerly belonging to the Grange, where she was found the next morning on the occasion of a wedding, more dead than alive. She had also worked something with a hard Latin name, to put upon the a lt ar , f or l ac k o f employment in the slipper and brace embroidery line—the young men of the locality having cea scd to throw out even any straws of hints that they want( d such things, fur Miss Twinch's sinking hopes to clutch at. She had betides been more than once suspected of having once waked to the site of the abbey with uncomfortable pebbles in her shoes, after she thought,that she hadidone wrong in going to a party at Farmer Grant's; at which, by the way, no one asked her to dance, even in Sir Roger de Coverley, which we take to be always a great asylum fur the neglected. But finding that the pebbles all cut holes in her stockings she had given up the pilgrimage for the future." We have Sherrard a rough villain, a railway gauger, plotting against Philip Hammond, who is evidently intended to be the hero of the story, and aided and assisted in his machinations by Mr. Wyndham Flitter a thorough bred cockney, swell scamp, who amuses himself episodically by pigeoning Mr. Tiddy Spooner, an exceedingly flat" young gentleman just " let loose" upon town from the university, where he has previously been kept rather tight in hand. Here is a goodly assemblage of personages, and Mr. Albcrt Smith will manage them after a fashion so effective as to amuse the reading public for many months to come, or we are much mistaken. The illustrations by Phiz are admirable ; there are two to each part. POST-OFFICE ACCELERATION IN THE NORTH.-- This expression will be best understood when we men tion that our papers and letters from Edinburgh, which formerly wore delivered at four o'clock in the afternoon, are not now delivered, under the new arrangement, till next morning, making an acceleration, in Post-office phraseology, but a delay, according to our notions of common sense, of no less than twenty or twenty-two hours. Further, all letters now arriving at seven o'clock A.M., per the morning mail from the so u th, in tended fur the Mearns, have to lie in our post-office till next morning at five o'clock, making a delay iu this case also of twenty-two hours. In all o ur exper i ence of Post-office acceleration we must say that the present is the most extraordinary we ever heard of, and it is really Such that it is beyond human forbearance.—Montrose Standard.