The Sun. — London, England, 1855-12-06 00:00:00

MADAME JENNY GOLDSCHMIDT-LIND. -Mr. MITCHELL has the horiour to announce that Mr. and Mme..GOLDSCHMIDT have arrived in this country with the intention Of giving a Series of CONCERTS AND ORATORIOS; Dec. 10 and it is r c spectfully announced that on 3londay Evening, Haydn's '..ratorio of THE CREATION will be g iven at EXETER HALL; a lid on Monday Evening, Dec. 17, Mendelssohn's Oratorio of ELIJAII i; in both of which Madame JENNY GOLDSCHMIDT-LIND will sing llie principal Sopr sno parts (her first appearance before the public sine 'e 1819). Conductor, M. Benedict. PriCeS of admission : —Stalls (3 Cumbered and Reserved), One Gu inea il ; unrandeserved pence seats (Body of :the Hall) and West Gallery Ten . Shillings SLx Area (uncier the West Gallery), Seven Shillings All appj Ications in reference to Mr. and Madame Goldschmidt's intendd C !oncets, either in London or the Province to be addressed to Mr. e Mb tchell,r Royal Library , 33, Old Bond-street, s, London. Si MITITS GRIND BAL MASQUE at DRURY LANE, for the MILLION. R - edacts:d prices, but increased amusement.—Promenade, 7s fd ; pr i v ate b ores, ftr two persons, IN. 6d. ; for four, one guinea ; dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; boxes and galleries, Is. Mr. I'. Smith, Lessee, respectfully informs the Nobility, Gen try, and. :Public, that a GRAND BAL MASQUE will take place at the above Th eatre on WEDNESDAY, December 12, on a scale of inag mad expense never before attempted. A superb salon de nitude danse, 460 feet in length, embellished and decorated with illuminated r owers, variegated lamps, and novel devices. Enlarged orchestra, wiell-appointed masters of the ceremonies, all the new dances, music, scam, Tickets, 7s. 6d. each, to be obtained at the principal music sellers and librarians, ani at the theatre. Several thousand varle g ited lamps, by Duffell. The whole of the novel gas fittings under the superintendence of Ur. Jones, of Bow-street, assisted by Mr. p timer. The decorations by Dickwynken, assisted by Mr. Need him. The Bowers and scenery arranged by Mr. Tucker. The re fret hments by Messrs. Scott and Watling, of Piccadilly and Plmlico. Met sters of the Ceremonies under the direction of Mr. Jarvis. The police under Superintendant Hancock. The Box-office under the Sup Tintendenee of Mr. Chatterton. JITLLIEN'S CONCERTS. - ROYAL t• ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Last Night bat k :fight. Maiame Gassier. Il Trovatore.—The Programme for TIM EVENING (Thursday, Dec. 6) will include—Overture, BuY Bias : Quadrille from Zampa ; Scherzo Presto from Beethoven's Symphony in A ; La Belle du Village Valse ; Alf non giunge, and The F orest Fairy, sung by Madame Gassier; Quatuor for Four Violoncellos, performed by MM. 3lontigny, Lamoury, Kleyne, and Vieuxtcmps ; the Cossack Polka ; Solo, Cornet-a-pistons, by Herr Kcenig ; New Grand Quadrille, the Fall of Sebastopol, assisted by the Military Bands; Grand Operatic Selection from Il Trovatore ; Troika Song (.r Russian Carriage Song) ; Scherzo in G Minor from Men lelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream ; Solo, Flute, by Herr Iteichardt ; and Galop, Vivo l'EFnpereur. Commence at 8. Promenade and boxes, Is. ; dress circle, 2s. 6d. ; private boxes, 125., 11.11., and 17. 11 s . 6d. M. JULLIEN'S ANNUAL BENEFIT.—On Saturday next, Dec. 8, M. Jullien's Annual Benefit will take place. .The Beethoven Festival will be given on Monday, Dec. 10. It. Jullten's Grand Annual Bal Masqu6 will take place on Mon day , Dec. 17, 1855. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. For the BENEFE r of Mr. E. T. SMITH, the Lessee. THIS EVENING, Will be performed KATHERINE AND PETRUCIIIO. Kathe rine, Miss Glyn ; Petruchio, Mr. Barry minivan. After which, TAKE THAT GAL AWAY, in which Mr. Cha: Mathews will appea Followed oy PATTER VERSUS CLATTER. Captain Patter, 31r. C. Mathews. Madame Lsbarrere's Troupe of Lions, Bears, &c. To conclude with a ' , illicit Divertissement. THE CHF, IWYAL, MARK Under the Management of Mr. Buckstone. EVENING►, Will be performed THE MAN OF MANY FRIEND!. Princi. pal characters by Mesra. 13u k tone, Compton, W. Farren, Bowe Reyn.,ds anti Chapin, and Mrs. Poynter. After which, the Spanish Dances. Followed by l'IlE LITTLE TitEASURE. After which, a BALLET, by the Spanish Dancers. To conclude with A DAU 3EITE R. TO MARRY. r‘tlf ettI*IPISNA f OXFOstD-WrltC CT Under the Management of Mr. CHARLES iCs.Ax. • THIS EVENING Will be performed DON'T JIFIVIE RY APPE OUNCES. After which, the comedy of EVERY ONE HAS HIS F triLT. Characters by Mrs C. Kean, Messrs F. qatth,,,ws, C Lacy, Ryder, and Fisher; and Mrs Daly, Misses Heath, Stu . rav and K. Terry. To conclude with THE MULETEER OF TOLEDO. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHT. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, will be performed JANE ^ P •ZIDE Chara,ters by Messrs It Webster, P. Bedford, Sel , y, Bland, !Storeland, Garden, C. J. Sul' tit and Keeley ; Madame Celeste, Miss Mary Keeley. To conclude with TWICE KII.LEE). ROYAL :irltAN 17116ATRif:. Under the direction of Mr. Payne. THIS EVENING, Will be performed GUY MANNERIN - G. After which, a SPANISfI BALLET, by the Spanish Dancers. To conclule with TIIE SOLDIER'S DAUGII fE R. ROYAL OLY.UPIC THEATRE. THI3 EVENING, Will be performed THE JEALOUS WIFE (compressed int) three acts). Followed by £•i REWARD. To conclude with CATCIIING A 31ERNIAID. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. J. IL Anderson, Is, Norfolk-street, Strand. LAST WEEK BU r ONE. Increased Attractions, and success in equal ratio THIS, AND EVERY EVENING, at Eight o'Clock, WUI be presented, with entirely New and :Magnificent .1.2p1in..- Ments, MAGIC and MYSTERY, in twelve acts, arranged In two parts, by Professor Anderson. After which, the startlin4 illustrations of Spirit-Rapping. TEA LF AN-EIOUR WI PEI TIE SPIRIT, being th 3 most surprising an I interesting series of experiments ever given with!n the wi.114 of any theatre. Revival, in an Improved form, of the aitoundiqz novelty will :11 tartled London 10 years ago, the GREAT GUN TRICK ! Prices of a linission:—Privits 11 )3c:‘,s, 1/. lls. ani U. ; Orchestra Stalls, 43. ; Dress B mei, 33 ; Up7n Rotes, 2.5.; Pit, 13. ; Gallery, 6d. No Half-price. ilox-ofllze open from 11 to 5 daily. Grand Morning Performance on Saturday Next at Two o'Clock Doors open at lialf-past One. ASTLEY'S ROYIT. A.MP , II CH& &TRY: Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. rooke. Fourth Night of a New Equestrian Spectacle. Last Week of Mademoiselle CLEMENTINE OIII". LI E R THIS EVENING, First Week of an Equestrian Spectacle called TURPIN"S RIDE to YORK, or the Heir of Rookwo d, with the wh le of Mr. W. enoke's hiighly-traine4 Horses, toe celebrated " Ride," and the Death of Black Bess ! After which (the L 'et Week) 3flle. Clementine Soullier's perfor mance In the WONDERS of the CIRCLE. To conclude with an 011 a Podrida of Amusements. N.B.—Extensive preparations are makin; for the Chriatma3 Ilar lequinacle. 1:,...),r1ee open from Elevon till Four. ?itage 3danager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Dirv.;or, 3S Cookr. an. SIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TRIPS DAY—Morn. 49 min. aft. 11—Evming 0 min aft TJ - ItOßßOW—Niorn. 10 cnin.aft.l2 —Eveling 20 win aft.l2 THE WEI I'HEII—SuN OFFICE, Dec. 6. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 46 - hignext since neon yesterday. 39 -lowest This morning and during the night. 43 dar at noon. BAROMETER, 29.41—5ti1l ',Vizqr, variable, W. to W.N.W.—Light, with fi ne co ld w eather. Some snow fell in the night. , 0 .. At..,41, - ;- tx„, LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1855. It was long since—even before the commence ment of the War—clearly shown that Russia had two classes of State Papers, one for Foreign Powers comparatively moderate, and the other for its own subjects, exhibiting the arrogance and audacity for which the Government of St. Peters burg had become so notorious, and the high tone by which the AUTOCRAT was accustomed to issue his ukases to those to whom they had all the effect of an ascertained and irrevocable law, or to others whom he might hope to influence by the dread of his displeasure. Such an apology was actually put forward in the British Parliament by an English Minister, for a document that attracted much attention at the time, and excited much indignation amongst persons of all classes and sta tions in society. When the CZAR himself and his Ministers could descend to such discreditable Subterfuges, we can not feel greatly surprised at any de gree of false hood or equivocation adventured on by any Russian journal, which, though deriving its in from Ministerial sourc es , does spir a tion directly not bind the Cabinet by its assertions, which may be regarded as official by every Muscovite, b u t can be repudiated at pleasure should they unfor tunately attract diplomatic notice, or be found disadvantageous in any negotiations that may hereafter be opened. The miserable serfs by whorl the army is recruited may thus reoeive very erroneous views respecting the true state of affairs, while the CZAR himself and his Generals are contented with merely glozing over and putting the best possible construction on the real facts. The article recently extracted into our co lumns f rom the Northern Bee under the " The War Beginning in _ h e ading, g n Earnest," is of this description. It is characterised not ruerelY by gross exaggeration, but by - It. isy in. fact, akexpag. unequivocal ,mondaeitY• iion of the "Munch Ausen " narratives of the veracious Dr. DATE r fat, and clearly proves that rather notorious peitsori age to be a Russian agent, who has fully carried cr ut th© instructions which he received from head-. quarters, and well earned the infamous wages for which he has sacrificed character and honour. The explanation of the withdrawal of the Rus sian troops from the south side of Sebastopol, for " strategetical reasons," is exactly that given by the notorious Doctor. It was really a triumph in place of a defeat a brilliant movement, which completely checkmated the besiegers ! It asks, triumphantly, Where are the trophies of victory the crown, the standards, the prisoners ? boldly asserting that the Allies were so intimidated that they did not venture into the city for three whole days, and then only with the greatest precaution, and with fear and trembling. The Russians merely crossed over to the Northern Side, " as one changes one's dress, or selects another path !" To be sure it was a pity to put off the beautiful purple dress of Sebastopol, but it was only for a time, and the CZAR will soon give it another one far more mag nificent than the former ! If the statement had the slightest foundation, it would indeed be a singular movement—a very serious sacrifice of a very costly dress. But the writer shows that he does not credit his own statements, or why should he allude to " the loss of Moscow as not being the loss of Russia." It shows the real weight of the blow, and that it may be felt as something equi valent to the memorable conflagration of 1812. It is unnecessary to refer to the unmitigated falsehocds respecting England. They only show the intense soreness of Russia at the injuries she has sustained. The article is clearly intended to obtain better terms in the anticipated negotia tions. In this we believe they will be grievously disappointed. The only conclusion that can be drawn from the article is that Russia is tottering, and that the sound policy for the Allied Powers is to destroy everything Russian—her commercial ports and arsenals, so as to prevent the possibility of the most besotted serfs being deceived by the lying vaunts of Russian triumphs or English de feats. Who can refute a sneer ? asks PALEY, and with almost equal propriety we may ask " who can re fute a rumour ?" This hundred-tongued authority has been very busy just of late. " Our own Cor respondent" at Paris, who but the other day knew almost the letter of a treaty with Sweden, the copy of which as well as the original, if there ever was one, General CANROBERT must have left at Stockholm, is now quite confident that peace , proposals are worming their way through Austria and Prussia to the Western Allies. Again, al most the details are certified, concurring pretty well with what the " Leading Journal" had a few days ago declared to be something the Allies might take i uto consideration. Then the PALMERSTON organ intimates that tangible propositions must of course be considered, come from what quarter they might. A well-known Conservative weekly also uses very positive language, and anon it is hawked about the streets, and at the tails of omnibuses, that "we have exclusive official in formation" (mirabile dictu) that Lord PALMER STON is to resign, and Lord JOHN RUSSELL to come in ! That the terms of peace are, the evacua tion of the Crimea by the Allies ! Sebastopol to become a free Russian port ; the Euxine to be a purely commercial sea, and that the King of SA.RDINIA. came here to press this peace on the two Western Allies ! ! Such is the crescit eundo of the peace rumour. )" Exclusive information," especially when sold for a penny, it were of course impossible to gain say. " The best information," "authorities" on which " own correspondents" tell us "we may rely'' are equally intangible ; it happens, how ever, that our reliance, had it been given to pre vious similar declarations, would oftener by far have been misplaced than warranted. It is use less to play at blind-man's buff with these rumour manufacturers, and we shall not attempt it. Our ' old friends, however, united in a new firm of Tory, Cotton, and Co., with a sleeping partner whose name must not be public, we better know how to deal with, and most of their move• meats are tolerably manifest to us all. The first of them, we regret to say, shows a facrious and party spirit which we were not prepared for, but which we are pleased to see neutralised by the thoroughly national feeling and language of the best inen of that section of politicians. The ultra-peace party, the union of cottou-spinners and Quakers, are na turally in high feather with the rumours adverted to and the rise in the funds, but they cannot get their resolutions carried at public meetings, and are sometimes, we regret to see it, for a good cause needs no such help, rather rudely treated besides. The influential sleeping partner, with the aid of the leading Whigs in and out of the Cabinet, the men most likely to have set these rumoursafloat through their agents, has vast power throughout the whole circle of diplomacy and Court intrigue ; and it has already done, as we believe, incalculable mischief, and can only be successfully controlled by the determined front of the whole nation. The only circumstance of weight which we can note is one to which we have so incessantly called the attention of the public, that our readers are not likely to see in it any specially-pacific result, but, indeed, rather the contrary. We refer to the " spare-Russia" policy of the War. From the beginnin g we denounced the traitorous de claration of Lord Joan RussELL, who then spoke with Cabinet authority, that we did not want r l y n . e a n s W a e n show en e d d , t h too,a t to lessenwaßsUstshiae proper oPfolatnhde War, and that to hit, without mercy and without cessation, was the true course to save the effusion of blood, and to bring about th ov at er on t l o y o often The reverse of all this his been a speedy peace. the the case ; not, however, wej grievous facts,yest erday asjust notice to go morning the Times itself came out wi th a vigor ous denunciation of the ungeneral-like proceed ings of the Allies since the fall of Sebastopol, even comparing it all, as we had previously done, with the manifestly superior generalship, under every disadvantage, of the great Turkish commander. The Times, indeed, fixes the blame on General PELISSIER—in which we have no idea that our contemporary speaks his real opinion, but the real culprits are not to be named yet, for which it may have very good reasons. We must own that had the neglecting to drive the Russians out of the Crimea before winter been an isolated neglect of an obvious advantage, we too should have con chided that peace must be thought of. It ap pears, however, but as a part of a settled policy. iVe had quite as much reason to look for peace because Odessa was spared, the Austrians let into the Principalities, the Sea of Azoff left so long, the success at Kinbourn not followed up, and the Baltic campaign s o shamefully m i smanage d , as we now have because the Ge nera l s declined to fol l ow up the fugitives from South-Sebas topol, or even to take possession of Arabat and Kertch. We do not .think P ELISSIER and CODRINGTON the equals of Om& Pa,.sx ,A , in strategic genius, but we do,t4ink them, with the ) , y fleets at their command, much more than equal 1 to the task of killing or catching every Russian i, who remained in the Crimea after the Bth Septem ber. It must have been the telegraph which said " Stop." The Crimean Generals had half-a-dozen plans before them, any one of which would have been better than the dull and demoralising course they have actually taken. One of the Peace orators, Mr. MULL, has just been addressing his constituents at Rochdale. His logic was singular. He believess in the occa sional necessity of war, but thinks this war might have been averted. He believes that when a trial of strength once began it was neces sary that Russia should know which is the stronger, Western civilised power or her own semi-barbarous power ; but he thinks she now knows that abundantly, therefore we ought to make peace. One mis-statement alone vitiates the conclusion. He should have said it was re quisite for Russia not only to know, but practi cally to confess, which is the stronger. When Russia beat Turkey, Persia, or Sweden, she made them practically confess her superior strength. She required the cession of Bessarabia, the Crimea, Georgia, Finland, and other pro vinces. This is Russia's own test of vic tory and defeat. Unless she accept that test herself, the War will have been brought to a useless conclusion. The peace men will quickly taunt their old opponents with the folly of such vast sacri fices for such small results, and the Allies will be ashamed of themselves before all Europe. Russia will soon resume aggression, at first by piecemeal and by stealth, then more openly ; England and France will feel that they have an old disgrace to wipe off ; and a ten years' sanguinary war will conclude the present brief and disgraceful one. Disgraceful we certainly think the gonduct of the War has been hitherto. In personal gallantry our troops and officers have sustained the credit of their respective countries. But in generalship it is notorious that the Russian and Turkish Com manders-in-Chief have quite borne away thepalm. If it comes to a speedy diplomatic termination, we are confident tke Russian genius will beat us in that. At length Monetary Reformers are bestirring themselves. The meeting last night held at the London Tavern will undoubtedly have its effect. Never was there a time when agitation was more wanting, or would be more beneficial for the coun try. The iniquitous Act of 1844 has virtually expired. It now only awaits the notice which the Government are authorised to give at any moment, and which will completely get rid of these mon strous enactments. The country wants a really National Note, the profits whereof will accrue to the public exchequer, which will have all the security of Consols, being guaranteed not only by all the accumulated and realised property of the country, but by its in dustry, and which will also be received in payment of taxes and every public liability. By the issue of thirty millions of these notes, as sometime since proposed by Mr. HAMER STANSFELD, the same amount of sovereigns would become avail able for the maintenance of the War, and our foreign trade, and a far better and more con venient currency would be brought into general use—a currency which would accomplish all that could be required or desired—what the Act of 1844 aimed at but signally failed in achiev ing. By its means we should avoid these con stant fluctuations in the value of money, so highly injurious to commerce and to the productive power of the country. Let Monetary Reformers steadily demand a national note, insist that the regulation of the circulation shall be placed under a Minister of the Crown respon sible to Parliament, and taken from the hands of a private establishment, to whom a monopoly is given in a most important commodity, and one of the Royal prerogatives— that of making money—handed over. The Bank of England has no claim on the country to entitle it to a renewal of privileges which, if it has not abused, it has certainly not turned to the best advantage, either for itself or for the country. It is always a pleasing task to independent journalists to record the ultimate triumph of per secuted merit over its detractors, and doubly gratifying when the announcement is coupled with the consciousness that, from the first, they were to be found in the foremost rank of its de fenders. It is therefore with more than usual pleasure we call the attention of our readers to the fact that the colonelcy of the Bth Hussars has been conferred on Lord LUCAN, whom, on his return from the Crimea, we were almost alone among our daily and evening contemporaries in pronouncing an ill-used man. To be sure, this act of justice does not altogether satisfy his equi table claims, but it certainly must be regarded as an indisputable verdict in his favour. It is by no means our intention to rip up an unpleasant affair, nor to offer any remarks that , may be dis torted into the indulgence of personal feeling ; all that we shall add, therefore, is the expression of a hope that, as in this instance, and in the case of General, whilome Colonel THOMPSON, whose name having been placed in the brevet almost at the foot of the list of Generals, was awhile back elevated to its rightful position, the claims of meritorious officers will henceforth meet with that respect the interests of the country no less than the dictates of justice require they should receive. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVEN IN tv, DECEMBER 6 1855. THE KING OF SARDINIA, DEPARTURE —(This Day.) The King of Sardinia took his departure from Windsor Castle this moroing, a few minutes before five o'clock, accompanied by Prince Albert, the Duke of Cambridge, and suite, and escorted by a squadron of Life Guards. Arrived at the Queen's private station at ten minutes past 5 a.m., his Majesty found a guard of honour of Ow 22d Regiment, under the command of Col. Boileau, in waiting, the band of which regiment hailed his appear ance by striking up the Sardinian National Anthem. His Majesty was received at the station by the Mayor of Windsor, and several members of the Corporation together with Mr. Crombie, the indefatigable secretary ; Mr. Scott, manager of the traffic department, and other officers connected with the South -Western line of railway. At Vauxhall his Majesty was received by a Guard of Honour furnished by the Scots Fu silier Guards. The royal cortege having taken its departure arrived at the Bricklayers' Arms station at 6.27 a.m., and were received by the Hon. James Byng, Mr. Rich, M.P., Coles Child and Gordon Thompson, Esq 4., direc tors of the company. From this station the Royal train proceeded with rapidity towards Folkestone, where his Majesty was received by Lord Panmure, General Wetherell, Colonel Kinloch, and Baron Stutterheim. (Br ELEOTRIO TELEGRAPH.) FOLKESTONE, 9.30. A.M. His Majesty the King of Sardinia, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert and his Royal High ness the Duke of Cambridge, arrived at Folkestone Harbour at 8.40 a.m. His Majesty was received by Lord Panmure, General `Vestal], Baron Stutterheim, and the naval and military authorities who had been sent to receive him. A royal salute was fired from the Cliffs, and from her Majesty's ship Blenheim, which wag anchored off the port. A guard of honour of the 91st Regiment and the North Lincolnshire Militia lined the whole of the route from the railway station to the Pavilion Hotel, to which his Majesty proceeded in one of the Queen's carriages. The King returned from the hotel and embarked on board the Vivid at 9 a.m., and proceeded direct to Bou logne, followed by the Fire Queen and Osborne, and saluted from the cliffs and from the ships of war i❑ the roads as before. Oa reaching the shores of France the King of Sar dinia and suite would proceed to GJmpeigne where his Majesty would be received by the Emperor of the French, with whom, according to previous arrangement, 11.4 was engaged to dine on his arrival. His Royal Highness Prince Albert and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge we nt to the camp at Stiorncliffe to review the Foreign Legion, at 11 a.m., and returned to Folkestone from whence he took his departure for Windsor at 1.45 p.m., arriving at the Castle at 3.15 p.m. THE COVENT GARDEN PANTOMIME. Under the chivalric title of The Field of the Cloth of Gold, a pantomime is in preparation for the approaching holidays, under the auspices of the " Wizard of the North," which bids fair to surpass any entertainment of that class which has been produced in the metropolis for many years. The preparations are on a gigantic and costly scale, calculated to dazzle and delight the lieges, and commensurate with the unrivalled capabilities and resources of the magnificent theatre. A host of such efficient and sparkling talent is engaged by Mr. Anderson as must, if genius and experience aught avail, ensure a snpremn success. Thns, , the pantomime is wholly "got up " under the superin tendence of Mr. Augustus Harris ; the composition and management of the ballet devolve upon Mr. Benjamin Barnett ; the scenery is by Mr. Beverley—raczzimus ill 'assisted by Messrs. Cuthbert, Adams, Shalders, &c.; Flexmore, the best of clowns, and Barnes, the best of pantaloons, sustain the leading parts, with Miss Emma , Horne as columbine ; G. A. Sala and the Brothers Brough concoct the comic dialogue ; Loder looks to the music ; in short, such a group of worthies are congregated round the commander-i n - c hi ef of the Christmas cam paign at Cevent-garden, that, howe ver hi g h pu b lic ex pectation may be raised, a signal and special triumph will on this occa4ion eclipse the pa4t ovations of the Mighty Magician. The subject is eminently national, and admits of much military display. On the whole, we look forward to Mr. Anderson's magic panto m i me as one of the greatest and most popular theatrical treats that the playgoing world has been presented with in the memory of " the oldest inhabitant"—one that will rejoice the general eye, ard give many a salutary shake to the sides of infancy and age. Of " The Field of the Cloth of Gold" we venture to predicate that the impressive words of the comprehensive popularity : Roman poet will be found veritab l y appl i cable to its "A lee pauperibas prodest, locopletibus aique • lEque neglecturn pueris, senibusque nocebi.t . " CRYSTAL PALACE—ONE SHILLING DAY, Dec. s.—Ad. missions on payment, 671 ; admission by season ticketF, 394, Total-visitors, 1,062. Corresponding day last Year, 1,575. WYLD'S PLAN OF KAI?S. An excellent plan of the famous Siege of Kars has this day been issued from Mr. Wyld's great geographical establishment. It is another and a very valuable addi tion to the now extensive series of maps and plans illus trative of the progress of the war, for which the Englisi, public generally are so largely indebted to the skill and enterprise of the indefatigable ex-member for Bodrnin. The plan before us di-plays almost at a glance the cha racteristics of that memorable Siege of Kars, which ter minated with the signal defeat and repulse of the Rus sians on the 29th of September. It will be understood clearly enough, even upon a merely cursory view of this timely publication, how the opposing forces were situated in regard to each other—the Turks under General Wil liams and the Russians under General Mouravieff. The Muscovite reserve awaiting the issue of events about midway between Shorak and Usun Kilissa, the latter place on the highroad to Erzeroum. The Russian head quarters being immediately north of the bend of the Kars-Chai River. The head-quarters of General Wil liams being south of the same stream—his reserve ad vancing thence across it by means of temporary bridges, and so onwards to the famous Tahmasb Heights, where the repulse of the Russian reserve was effected under the orders of General Kmety—the Muscovites being driven round the base of Tetek Tabia into the Valley of Tcbakmak. The whole sketch, we doubt not, will be " perused" with the deepest interest by every one except the sympathisers with the despicable peace-at-any-price movement. JENNY LIND. The issue of tickets for seats at the approaching ora torio at Exeter Hall began on Tuesday morning at Mr. Mitchell's library. In a few hours not one was left un sold, and the tickets for the next oratorio, on Monday week, are already largely bespoken. This is a proof of great expectation, and rumour speaks with certa i nty of powers which the lapse of time has in no way diminished. HAYMARKET THEATRE.—Mrs. Macnamara, late of the Lyceum Theatre, an old and very worthy member of the theatrical profession, is, we are sorry to hear, in a very sad htite of destitution. Some parties, who are ever the first in any charitable and philanthropic object, have projected an entertainment for her benefit, which takes place at the Haymarket on the 18th instant. The performances will be very attractive, as, in addition to Mr. Buck etone, Miss Cushman, and the Haymarket company, Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Murray, Mr. Anderson, Miss Rosina Wright, Miss Els,yonliy, and other arti,tes, will app ear ; an d Mr. Albert Smith, we hear, writes and delivers an address on the occasion. To Mr. A. Arcedeckne and Mr. Mark. well, we believe, the credit is due of carrying out this really praiseworthy object. It is understood that the amount of gold taken to the flank out of the recent Australian arrivals is about 300,0001. MESSRS. STRAHAN, PAUL, AND BATES.—Mesq.s. Strahan, Paul, and Bates have been removed to Mill. hank Penitentiary, where they are fulfilling their sen tence in the ordinary way. THE VACANT ALDERMANIC GOWN.—The Lord Mayor has fixed to-morrow (Friday) for the election of an alder. man for Bread-street Ward, in the room of Mr. Law rence, deceased. The contest lies between Mr. NV. Law rence, the son of the late alderman, and Mr. Donald Nicoll. BREAD•STREET WARD.—Mr. Donald Nicoll is the fa. vourite candidate for the vacant aldermanic gown of this ward. Mr. Nicoll has promised, in event of election, to bestow the patronage he may acquire in respect •f the office upon the ward, and to become a resident therein —not by having a ground floor workshop, but by having a suitable residence. DISAPPEARANCE OF A PORTUGUESE MINISTER._" A considerable sensation," says a letter from Copenhagen, " has been caused here for some days past by the disap pearance of the Portuguese minister at this court. H e has been for some time subject to occasional attacks of melancholy, and the Sunday before last left his residence and has not since hem heard of." EXPORTATION OF POTATOES.—The Northern Whig of yesterday says :—" For some time past our quays have been literally crowded with carts of potatoes, brought into Belfast from the surrounding country for export. Six vessels were sent off yesterday, loaded exclusively with potatoes. Of these, two were for Cardiff, one for Plymouth, and one for Swansea ; and the Matilda, 101 tons, and Faugh-a-Ballagh, 129 tons, were despatched direct for Malta, where their cargoes will probably form part of the reserves for the victualling of the Crimean army during the winter.* ROYAL PANOPTIOON OF SCIENCE.—A day or two ago an interesting sight was witnessed at this very popular institution. It was a visit of the elder boys of the Bread street Ward Schools, London-wall, accompanied by their master, Mr. W. A. Evans. The children appeared highly delighted with what they saw, and will no doubt retain it in their memories for some time to come. The treat was designed as a reward of merit, and it is to be hoped that other similar educational establishments will enable their children and preceptors to spend a few hours at the Panopticon occasionally, and to improve their taste of mind in the enjoyment of holiday recreation, which this institution is fully calculated to do. THE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. s.—The United States mail shin Hermann, Captain Higgins, sailed this afternoon for New York with the German, French, and English mails, about 100 passengers, and a full general cargo of English and French merchandise. The Penin sular and Oriental Company's steamship Indus, Captain Brooks, left yesterday for Gibraltar, Malta, and Alex andria, with the India, China, and Mediterranean mails, 122 first class and 27 second class passengers, 518,4121. 4s. 2d. in specie for India and China, 13,0001. for Alex andria—total, 531,4121. 4s. 2d., and a full general cargo. Among the passengers are the Bishop of Batavia, Mrs. Colonel Reid, Hon. Mrs. Gisborne, Lieut.-Colonel and Mrs. Simpson, Colonel and Mrs. Babington, Majors Birch, Richards, and Brooks ; Hon. G. Grey, Captains Twigs, Blunt, Western, Drummond, and Balfour ; and Lieuts. Bolton, Wyatt, a.al Clarke. The Tagus, Capt. J. Weeks, will leave on Friday with the mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar. The Euxine, Capt. Joy, with the next mails from India and the Me diterranean, is expected to-morrow. The Royal Mail Company's steamer Avon, Capt. Revett, is preparing to convey the next Brazilian and River Plate mails, on the 9th inst. The Tamar, Capt. Bevis, with the homeward portion of these malls, is expected about the 12th. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's new screw steam ship Pera, which is appointed tox.envey the next heavy portion of the India mail, which leaves this port on the 20th inst., will probably arrive at Southampton, from the Thames, about Sunday. She is mcst elaborately finished, and is considered the finest vessel belonging to the Pecipeular and Oriental Company's Beet. LATEST NEWS. THE CRIMEA. (From Special Correspondent of the Morning Herald.) BALAKLAVA, SATURDAY MORNING, Nov. 24. Passing by our Post-office, I have found the fol lowing frowning notice ou its " outward wall," and bearing the recent date of Wednesday, the 21st inst., which, by the bye, was the anniversary of the birthday of the Princess Royal, born in 1840, and, as such, honoured with all due libations in camp. Many of the camp followers, however, who then made unholy profits f rom the villanous liquors vended sub rosy to oar soldiery, must soon, under this notice, have a stop p 4 to their too lucr a ti ve vocation. This " Notice to Mariners," for so it is headed, includes all classes. It runs thus : " PASSPORT REGULATIONS. " Balaklava being a military port in the hostile occupation of the allied forces, masters of all ships and vessels are hereby informed that they are held responsible for every person they may bring to it who does not belong to the naval or military ser vices of the allies. Any person objected to by the naval authorities, or passport officer, is to be pro vided with an immediate passage from the Cri mea, at the expense of the master bringing him, and such master and vessel are liable to be ex pelled the port. No master of any ship or vessel arriving at this port will allow any private per son to be landed until he has duly delivered a list of such passengers, and permission has been given by the passport officer to their disembarking to receive from him a Permis de Sejour,' without the production of which, again, at the Passport Office, they cannot re-embark to leave the Crimea. No master of any ship whatever is to receive on board any person for a passage without the regulated passport, bearing date of not more than three days antecedent. Masters infringing these regulations render themselves liable to mar tial law. (Signed) " CHAS. H. FREMANTLE, Rear-Admiral H.M.S. Leander, Balaklava." Major-General C. A. Windham, now chief of the staff (of whose appointment I informed you by the last post), has, in reference to the preceding notice, issued another from head- quarters, which acquaints the public, that— "No stranger or camp follower will be permitted to reside in, or visit the British camp, without having previously obtained a ticket of residence (Permis do Sejour) from the Passport Office at Balaklava. All strangers and camp followers, not in the Government service, now (Nov. 21) living in the British camps, are directed to present them selves at the Passport Office, without delay, for the purpose of receiving the regulated ticket of resi dence. Any stranger, or camp follower, who after the sth of December shall be found in any part of the British camp without a ticket of residence, or Permis de Sejour, will be arrested." In regard to the above long-threatened regula tions, passports and tickets of residence were for the first time issued yesterday at the Passport Office, situate near the main guard and Post Office, and the delivery of passports will be there con tinued daily, from ten a.m. till three p.m., until further notice. hile on the subject of port regula, ions relative to Balaklava, I may as well subjoin at once a para graph explanatory of the supplemental " signals established for the guidance of vessels approaching the port," and state that such signals are made from Castle Point. This is the situation of the old Genoese castle which protects the narrow entrance to the port. The flags now used, in addition to Marryat's Code, are four—namely, the union jack and blue peter, a pendant quartered red and white, and a swallow-tail flag, white before blue, that is, white to the mast and blue in the fly. The union jack indicates that the " Harbour is clear, and vessels, having obtained permission, may enter, half an hour after each other." The swallow tail (white before blue) means " Harbour is foul. Vessels not to enter." No ♦essel should enter the harbour without having a kedge anchor ready astern, boats lowered down, hawsers prepared for each bow and quarter, yards topped, or ready to be topped, and anchors a-cock-bill. When Marryatt's rendezvous flag is hoisted above a ship's number, that vessel is to come in or to get ready to be brought in. (Steam tugs are, in most cases, employed). The red and white pendant, quartered, indicates that "a vessel is coming in ; tug not to proceed with vessel in tow." When the swallow-tail, white before blue, is hoisted under this pendant, it signifies, " Entrance clear. Proceed." When vessels are cleared of cargo they must hoist their ensign and keep it at the fore till ready for sea, and then replace it by the blue peter. The harbour master of Balaklava resides on board her Majesty's ship Leander. The port is not so full of merchantmen as it has been recently. The arrivals and departures of transports will be given below. Among the craft remaining, perhaps the most useful, as well as the most interesting, are the Abundance and Bruiser, the latter being a floating flour mill and the for mer 'a floating commissariat bakery. I west over the Abundance yesterday. She is commanded by Captain Johnson, and his chief officer is Mr. G.V. Gideon; Mr. J. W. Don is the clerk in charge. While going round the ship I learnt from these officers that the Abundance makes no less than 6,000 three pound loaves a day; and, though the base of the loaf must not be enlarged from its present size, could, by increasing the height of the loaf, much increase this quantity of bread ; but three.pound loaves are said to be the most exact and convenient size for ration bread. The staff for " the staff of life " consists on board the Abundance of one master baker, two foremen, and 24 working men, who are now divided into three watches of eight hours each, instead of twelve hours, as originally. One poor fellow was struck down by a fit while I was on l i board. The heat below was necessarily great, and he succumbed, but by the instant assistance of his comrades, was removed into a more airy quarter, and soon recovered. The bread made is excellent, but we are still obliged every now and then (notwith standing the milling perseverance of Capt. Comyn, of the Bruiser) to purchase flour from the French. The loaves when made, and the steam apparatus for the several necessary operations is most ine:enious, and through the high order maintained in the ship most easily to be examined and understood. The loaves, I may repeat, are rapidly delivered over the side to the Land Transport Corps, by means of a floating stage connecting the ship with the shore, which stage is the happy invention of Capt. John son. It is prudently removed, or at least discon nected, every night, but by day it often renders a service to the flower of our army, as well as to the flour of the commissariat ; for our wounded or in valided men can and do, through this stage, dis pense with boats, and walk across it into or from the steam-tug in which they are to be embarked when proceeding to the large trans ports bound to Scutari or England. And, of course, reinforcements or returning convalescents can also avail themselves of the accommodation. A curious question has arisen as to whether the offi cers of the Abundance and Bruiser are to obtain Crimean medals. Assistant storekeepers (non-militants) have, it is said, already received such medals, and, if so, the officers in question seem to have a sound and per fectly equal claim for the distinction they desire. Men whose exertions turn out about 40,000 loaves a week for the good of the army ought not to re ceive the cold shoulder in any quarter. If you want our red-coats to fight you must feed them, and may therefore well reward those who insure them that food with punctuality, and good faith as to weight and quality. Miss Nightingale has left Balaklava this week for Scutari, where the cholera has unfortunately broken out, and, among others, carried off Dr. Macgregor. This lady left by the Indiana. (From th,e Correspondent of the Morning Post.) An English sailor was murdered at Kazatch on the 17th inst. His body was completely ripped open. POSTSCRIPT.—The winter clothing has been issued, but is to be returned into store. Is this peace ? - Nothing has to-day happened out of our usual course. I saw the Alliance locomotive running this morning at a pace far exceeding the limit that was assigned to it by the constructors of the line, and astonishing the natives not a little; and as the work of enclosing the rails seems to be discontinued, I shall not be surprised to hear of an accident, as it is quite possible that an apathetic Turk might stand in its way, and expect, were he capable of antici pating anything, that it would turn aside instead of smashing over him. Nov. 21.—The thermometer, in a very comfort able tent, has been this morning as low as 38 deg. I was glad, however, on arising, to find that symptoms of rain bad disappeared, and although the hills have remained all day white with snow, it has been fine, although cold. Nov. 22.—1 t has been somewhat amusing, to day, to see the men walking► about in their winter clothing ; that the first symptoms of cold induced the general order for its being taken into use. Every man has been served out with a very nice light tweed jacket, lined with rabbit skin, and a far cap of portentous dimensions ; alid as for re cognising the British soldier, no one accustomed to a barrack-square from the days of infancy would, of his own natural sagacity, be so far induced. At this moment a stranger, or rather a person unac quainted, ,with Crimean life, might take a soldier for a -South Sea Islander. There is a generally received opinion this day that the Russians aro evacuating the notheru forts ; what are the posi tive indications 1 have not been able to ascertain. A rumour of a defeat that they have had at Eupa toria is supposed to be one reason for it ; but I sometime ago gave it as a conviction, forced by ♦arious circumstances, that the Russians would not remain in this part of the Crimea during the winter. Nov. 23.—Most magnificent weather appears again to have settled after the threatened change. All available transport is at present employed in conveying huts to the front; and I think that ere long few officers and men, if the fine weather con tinues, will be left under canvass. FRANCE. Our letter from Paris, dated yesterday, had not arrived when we went to press. RUSSIA. The Tnvalide Russe publishes a brief report from General Mouravieff, dated from Tchivtli- tchai, 15th (27th) of October. It simply states that at that date the blockade of Kars continued, and gives an account of a few unimportant outpost skirmishes. The passage of the Ingour took place, it will be remembered, on the 6th of November. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Dec. I.—As the question of the re-orga nisation of the Danubian Principalities is now under discussion, some further information which has been acquired on the subject will now be communi cated. There is a very great diversity of opinion between the great Powers and Turkey in respect to the future Hospodar or Hospodars of Moldavia and Wallachia. The candidate who enjoys the pro tection of Lord Redcliffe is said to be M. John Ghika, but persons who know him well are of opi nion that be would not make such a good Hospodar as Stirbey, who is acknowledged to be a first-rate administrator and an experienced financier. M. Ghika, on the contrary, has no idea whatever of political economy, and knows as much about finan cial matters as the man in the moon. Turkey and France protect M. Callimachi, but he will not be acceptable to the inhabitants of either Principality, who have most unpleasant reminiscences con nected with the Fanariote Hospodars for merly appointed by the Porte. As to Aus tria, she remains faithful to Stirbey and his Administrative Council, who, being her very humble servants, act according to her directions. How the matter will eventually be settled no one can say, but France and Turkey will perhaps do well to remember that the Wallachians and Molda vians have a kind cf charter, which empowers the Boyards of each province to elect from among them selves one of the most experienced aad capable men, " who shall be invested as Hospodar by the Sultan if he approves of the individual chosen." If the Porte has good reason to object to the person elected by the Boyards, the latter must choose a more suitable person. The best way to settle the question of the two Principalities would perhaps be to unite them under one native Hospodar, to build a certain number of strong fortresses along the Pruth and Danube, and to declare Galatz a neutral free port. The four great Powers could at once guarantee the territorial independence of the newly-formed State, and leave the protocol open, so that Russia might accede to it when peace was about to be concluded. According to some of the German papers, Prince Gortschakoff, in the name of his Government, has protested against any resolutions which may be taken in respect to the Danubian Principalities without the consent of Russia having been previously obtained ; and it is highly probable that they are well-informed, as the Austrian Government professes to think that no thing can be definitively settled in Moldavia and Wallachia until after peace has been concluded. Ignatius, Bishop of St. Polten, has addressed a pastoral letter to his flock, and in it ho thanks the Most High for three things :-1. That the Imma culate Conception of the Holy Virgin has been a dogma of the Roman Catholic Church. 2. That at the intercession of the Virgin the cholera has (teased. 3. That, as a consequence of the interces sion (Fursprache) of the Holy Virgin, his Majesty the Emperor Francis Joseph 11. has been pleased to conclude a Concordat with his Holiness Pope Pius IX. The right reverend gentleman also an nounces that he is about to establish a seminary for boys in his diocese, and says that the sum of 33,111f1. 51k., which has been contributed by va rious true believers, is insufficient for the purpose. THE SCANDINAVIAN POWERS. The following is a portion of the Times' Paris correspondent's letter, dated yesterday, 6 p.m. : " I have already announced the return of Gene ral Canrobert to Paris. He left, as you are aware, Stockholm on the 19th ult., and I am this moment informed that the day after his departure an act, convention, or protocol was signed between the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs on one side, and the English and French Ministers Plenipoten tiary on the other, and that the articles of that convention, or by whatever other name it be called, are, as I stated in a former letter, most satisfactory to the allies and advantageous to Sweden. The Moniteur will, no doubt, say something about it in a few days. Is it waiting for the adhesion of Denmark ?" (Prom the Morning Post of this day.) General Canrobert has returned to Paris, and it is now allowed that we were right when we stated that he neither signed any treaty with Sweden, nor had any mission to sign any convention, mili tary or otherwise, with that Power. A contemporary who, however, gave currency to assertions to the contrary, now publishes a state ment that " a convention or protocol was signed the day after the departure of General Canrobert from Stockholm by the Representatives of England and France and the Swedish Minister." But this is " a day after the fair," as far as the accuracy of our contemporary's assertions is concerned. And now, again, he blunders even in calling the deed to which it is asserted signatures were attached " an act, a convention, or a protocol," and appears as unable to perceive the distinction between these as between that which is and that which is not, or between General Canrobert's having a mission to treat and to sign, and his having a mission to lay the bases of future arrangements. We repeat again, thereis no present convention with Sweden in existence. STATE OF TRADE. (Frout the Illanchester Guardian of yesterday.) As the rumours about renewed negotiations for peace have given an impulse to Consols, so have they also some what strengthened the previous hardening tendency of prices, both in cotton and in our own staples. The buyers of yarns find that they cannot generally do quite so well for themselves to-day as they could have done last week. The bias is against them in 16's to 24's water twist, and still more evidently in 30's ; also in mule of certain middle counts and very low qualities of coarse numbers. We here refer to epinnings for exportation. The merchants for Northern Europe are ready to give out orders on the condition of immediate delivery. The barrenness of the market as to stocks, and the degree in which spinners are under contract, interfere very much with the placing of such orders ; yet, with all this, it is difficult to get a little more from the buyers, who defer the execution of all but the more pressing commissions of their correspondents. The manufacturers purchase very cautiously, and we are very backward at paying any ad vance. On the whole, therefore, yarns mast be de scribed as slightly dearer, but the day's business is only moderate in amount. The tendency to harden in price is more partially observable in goods, and is still less successful ; very great firmness, however, characterises the whole of this department. Whatever may be the difficulty of adding the smallest fraction to prices, the fact that there is a demand for all the yarns and goods produced is so palpable that, at all events, a prevalent and apparently well-grounde I firmness exists. Th e Greek houses are not doing muoh for Constantinople ; but they are buying to a fair extent in various articles adapted to the Alexandria trade. The Bombay accounts state that the anxiety occasioned by the long-continued drought in the interior had been happily relieved at length by genial rain where it was wanted. A good effect upon business was anticipated. At Calcutta, the long holidays had spoiled the month for commerce. The rate of exchange, being still very high—rather higher than before—was answering the purpose of the sellers of goods and yarns very well. At a meeting of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, held yesterday, Admiral Thornton presiding, a dividend at the rate of' 7 per cent. per an num, exclusive of a payment of 30s. per share from the underwriting account, was agreed to, and the report aas adopted. The ordinary proceedings having concluded, the presentation of the plate voted by the proprietors to Mr. A. Anderson and Mr. B. M. Wilcox took place. The private advices from St. Petersburg d. not sup port the prevailing rumours of a tendency on the part of Russia to submission. They are not, however, tu he r 3 larded as less probable on that account, since it is a common deceit at St.. Petersburg with respect to politi cal matters to attempt to spread by these means an im pression directly at variance with the real state of affairs. It is unquestionable, however, that the profits of the overland trade keep off in a remarkable degree the die content which would otherwise become overwhelming, and that Prussia may actually be regarded as the so . l- . cause of the war b e i ng p ro l on ged. The extra sums paid for transit enrich a very large body of persons through a wide district 'while at the same time, the general neral tradc of the c oun t r y i s k e pt u p to a mach e more e favonrb.ble the rate of point th an h a d b een an ti c ip a ted. Hencenc ex change, it is said, is again showing firmness, money at Moscow is in good supply a t 7 per cent., and the Go- Nernment paper wapee any oeriouti depreci a t ion. HAWKER v. SEALE, BART. TRIAL BY JURY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIM SlB,—lnto the general question of the extraordinary character of that portion of our legal system, which ap plies to the seeking of pecuniary compensation in cases which clearly have no connection whatever with pounds, shillings, and pence, it is not my province to enter, nor will I stop to descant upon the cruelty and injustice which are often incidental to those fictions of law that are part and parcel of the peculiar procedure alluded to. But '.here is one anomaly that it may, perhaps, be useful to notice ; and the case of Hawker v. Scale, Bart., tried (n the Court of Common Pleas last Monday, and re ported in the papers of the next day, seems to afford a fitting opportunity for its brief indication. In actions )nought to recover damages for criminal conversation the parties principally concerned in the issue of the trial ire not represented at all. Hence it is only reason able to conclude that—as in the case which elicits these observations a frightful amount of in justice must sometimes be done. Nor is the gravity of this gross injustice in any degree lightened by the consideration that its victim is woman —woman, I may add, whose actual positive helplessness in the business of life, and still more in the labyrinth of law, we are too [ouch addicted to overlook. In certain crises most of us have felt that she is a ministering angel. We appre ciate and understand tleat—it is a result of common ex perience ; but the legal inaptitude, the business helpless. ness of woman seldom, nay never, enters our head, as it should do in the proper breadth of its significance. A. woman, more especially of the higher class, is in reality a child, and nothing but a child in regard to law and business. She knows nothing, absolutely nothing about either. But I mention this point only incidentally. The main purpose in view is to invite public attention to a fact—" a great fact," and a very cruel fact, some wise men have considered it—namely, that the persons whose mtereste are most deeply concerned in the issue of a trial are not represented. Mrs. Hawker, the other day, was not represented at all. The forms of law forbade a not only full and fair representation, but all representa tion whatever of her interests—her vital, dearest inte rests. Against that lady the doors of the Court of Common Pleas were virtually closed. And yet she was de facto on her trial. Surely, surely this is net am it should be. It is, I know, law, but it is not justice. When the issue to her was infinitely more serious than life and death, she was put aside—gagged and bound, it may be added, since for all practical purposes of assert ing her innocence, and of vindicating her character from the foul aspersions cast upon it, the law took no more account of her interests, or her honour, than a herd of elephants may be supposed to take in the existence of a grasshopper. De ntinimiB lex non curat. Who will be hardy enough to contend that, if the much injured lady, who, I firmly believe, after a careful perusal of the evidence, as reported in the papers, is as pure and spotless as any woman in the world ; who will be so intrepid, I ask, as to deny that, if her in terests had been represented as they ought to have been, justice would have been done her ? Her wrongs would have been redressed, and instead of standing before the world as she now appears, to the crass and callous mul titude, blighted and branded, she would stand forth to the world in her proper and only character. Were the Mate of the law what law reformers urge that it ought to be her fair fame would not have been thus sullied, her feelings would not have been thus outraged, nor would her heart have been pierced by anguish inch as woman alone can suffer from. But jus tice has not been done her. She has been condemned, unheard and unrepresented, the forma of law precluding her from establishing her innocence. I impugn those forms, in order that the Hon. Mr. Locke and other law eformers may perhaps be induced to look into this de partment of injustice, and provide an amendment. At any rate, in this case, which is but a sample of the sack, we see an accomplished young lady, of great beauty and high birth and breeding, by a curious kind of second-hand process, indirectly convicted of a crime for which no excuse ever is, or ever ought to be, made. She is thus condemned, too, only on the evidence, if not entirely, chiefly, of a lodging house keeper, living in a kitchen, and her ser cant, one Perin de Marsli4. How any jury, on the evi dence of these two women, could arrive at the conclu sion conveyed by their verdict must be, to most men, perfectly incomprehensible. But verdicts, such as are now an every-day scandal, will soon bring into contempt trial by jury. Some machinery more efficient for the administration of justice than the obsolete fiction of 12 good men and true must be devised. For verdicts are nowadays not seldom a solemn mockery ; they are in deed an outrage alike on intelligence and on justice.— I am, Sir, your obedient servant, LAW REFORMER. THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—An imperfect version of the evidence alleged to have been given by me, before the committee of investi gation of the Eastern Counties Railway, having been published, I am compelled to trouble you with the real facts of the case. I was appointed by Mr. R. Stephenson (the referee be tween the Eastern Counties Railway Company and Mr. J. V. Go, eh) to examine and make myself thoroughly acquainted with the state of the rolling stock of the lines, in order to its being maintained in a state of efficiency during the term of Mr. Gooch's contract. I was there fore requested to attend upon the committee on the 29ti October, and to afford them all the information in my power. This I did in an interview lasting one hour and three-qu irtere, when subjects of great interest and importance were discussed. I was surprised that a short hand writer was not employed, but that notes of my evidence were made by or under the dictation of the chairman, and these not, in all cases, in accordance with my replies, besides omitting much which, in my opinion, was essential to elucidating the truth. I therefore applied for a copy of the notes taken, in order to their being corrected ; my request wa., how ever, refused, and when I wrote on the following day to the committee the letter (copy of which is enclosed), "offering to revise the notes," and thus to " furnish full nod accurate information " as " my evidence was so imperfectly recorded as to be liable to mislead any who might read it," the only reply I received was that the committee " considered the evidence so little important," that they would either "send it for re vision," or, " what appeared to them preferable, ex punge it altogether," and stating that my evidence had, at my request, been read over to me before I left the room, and that I approved it. To this my reply was, "that the committee were at liberty to decide whether my evidence should be expunged, but I denied that the notes had been approved by me." The evidence was not sent for correction ; but to my surprise it is pub lished in the incomplete form objected to by me as cal culated to mislead and to produce a false impression. Now, as the trustworthy character of the report must mainly depend upon the truthfulness and completeness of the minutes of evidence, if the statements of other witnesses have been treated as mine were, and appear in as incomplete and distorted a form, the report cannot be worthy of much credence, or be of any value to the shareholders of the Eastern Counties Railway. —I arn, &c., GEORGE BERKLEY. Enclosed are copies of the correspondence. 24, Great George-street, Westminster, Dec. 6th, 1855. 24, Great George-street, Westminster, 30th October, 1855. SlR,—Referring to what took place at the Committee of Investigation yesterday, I beg again to offer to revise the notes you made of what I said, and thus to furnish you full and accurate information, as I am sure that my evidence is so imperfectly recorded as to be liable to mis- lead any who may read that part of it which you noted. I must respectfully express my surprise that a short-hand writer is not employed, as then you would be able to record what was really said, instead of your own version of it.—Your obedient servant, (Signed) GEORGE BERKLEY. Horatio Love, Esq. Eastern Counties Railway, Bishopsgate-street, Committee of Investigation, 31st Oct., 1855. Sir,—ln reply to your letter of the 30th inst., the committee beg to observe that they consider your evi dence so little important that they will, as you m a y determine, either send it for yourirevision, or, what ap. pears to them preferable, expunge it altogether. Th e other portions of your letter, and its suggestions, the committee corsider deserving no fu rth er notice. You ought to have recollected tha t, at your own request, your evidence was read over to you before you left the room, and that you approved the same.—l am , s i r , your obedient servant, (Signed) HORATIO LOVE, Chairman. Gesrge Berkley, Esq. 24, Great George-street, Westminster, Ist November, 1855. Sin, —It is for the commatee to determine whether the information I was enabled, by a ()Ireful and impar tial examination during several months of the stock management and accounts of the locomotive department of the Eastern Counties Railway, to give them, is, in their opinion, of sufficient importance to be stated fully and accurately, or whether it should be expunged altogether. I do not recollect, nor is it the fact, that I requested "evidence" to he read over to me, nor that I ap• proved it as a faithful record of all I had said ; but, on the contrary, I do remember that I requested that I might have a copy of the notes you had made for revi toon.—Your obedient servant, (Signed) GEORGE BERKLEY. ' Horatio Loye, Esq.