The Sun. — London, England, 1855-10-16 00:00:00

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He, ass as he conduct pp to the 1 and did graceful, his duty Clarke, :*-square, 3 sum Of Spring• )f July, ,otity of te, front 'orttnan - Park, the pri s drawl' Lrture of lan that >tin. him till e found, n, who 2oner 4/. 'atchain• sum of hen you I should drunken atcharn- he vans the pri' louse he ie to the ;e would ittiesses, that the in that rued the n of Vue prisoner drunk, ,re they 'ere the them. _ gs said charge I 16, Rae 'ty, c( n• r of Mr. his ger since he d is co ext( nt, )um ()C- )ropertf some of as been believe ,id that tion orry fur endance MO NEY MA K Ecr.. AND comra . ZPaNAL lIITELLnENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocF In the Liverpool cotton market yesterday there existed a good_ demand, and prices were again slightly higher, all kinds being now id. per lb. iigher than on Friday. The market closed firmly, with less spirit, however, than it opened. The sales were 12,000 bales, including 1,000 on specu lati&i, and 2,000 for export. 150 bales Pernam and. Maranham at 6d. to 7d. ; 20 Bahia at ski. ; 400 Egyptian at sd. to aid. ; 1,200 Surat at 3id. to 4-gd. ; and 103 Sei Islands at 101 d. to 14d., and some few lots at Is. 10d. per lb. In the Railway Share Market then- was a very firm feeling, and a large business was done. Accounts from the Continent mention that the Prussian Government had prevented the Bank of Berlin raising the rate of interest, although the directors of that establishment had come to the resolution to do so. Upon the subject of the Sound Dues it is stated that the approaching Congress will be held at Copenhagen, and the period men tioned in the invitation to the Prussian Govern ment to send a Plenipotentiary is the latter end of November. Some interesting particulars were received yes terday from America, in reference to the shipping , interest. During a long time low rates and unpro fitable engagements have existed, but this state of affairs appears to have become quite changed, in consequence of the large crops and the active demand on foreign account. The scarcity of shipping was felt both in the North and South, and freights were so high that it is mentioned a vessel capable of carrying 200 bales of cotton to Liverpool would earn on its passage about 16,000 dollars. So many vessels belonging to the United States are in the transport service of the Allies, and the trade from America to India, by California, having so much increased, the scarcity will not excite much surprise. Ex porters were rathef afraid that their operations would be interfered with, especially in reference to the cotton trade. A circular has been issued by Messrs. Cunard, Munn, and Co., of Liverpool, the extensive bro kers for the sale of ships, ship valuers, &c., an nouncing their dissolution of partnership ; the business to be carried on in future under the name of Robert A. Munn and Co. The fluctuations of the money market, the eighths and the quarter per cent. of the prices of stock, are, however, of little consequence day by day as they may and will happen. The great and the vital affair comes to this, as every body of common sense must long have understood to be the inevita ble result (so says an old and esteemed correspon dent whose convictions we are recording, and which are in accordance with those of The Sure), that the interminable confusion created by Peel's Bill for annihilating credit and making a god of metallic values,. under the mistaken impression that gold is the sole or the chief representative of capi tal, is approaching its third fulfilment, the last being the crisis of 1847. A morning paper repeats, what should be well known to the readers of The Sun, that the Banks of England and France have,, within three years, lost twenty-eight millions of their metallic capital ; that is, that three or four years ago they held jointly fifty millions of gold and silver, chiefly the former, and now they hold together some millions short of one-half of that amount. There are millions to pay up yet of a thirty million sterling loan in France, and of mil lions more of Turkish and home loans in London. Austria is in the market besides for millions of metallic money ;—the market is flooded with American Railway Securities—and, as some great capitalists well know, there are smaller, but in the aggregate large, European loans undertaken and weighing heavily on the money market besides. This is a gloomy view of affairs, which is given as received. The annihilation of credit, as asserted by a correspondent, by Peel's Bank law, gives the solution of all these recurring financial embarrass ments, of the ruin of wealthy firms, and the inse curity of all property in a realisable sense. In the meantime industrial affairs are far from flourishing. In France manufacturers are some what better off, but the people worse—with famine prices of food. The Banks of France and England, that is the Directors, are cogitating about what is to be done. We await the result of the delibera tions of Count D'Argout and the Governors of the Bank of England. Both the one and the other are selling securities to buy gold, but buyers are getting scarce. The English Stock Market opened this morning at a decline of about g per cent., Consols being 88j to 88/ for November 8. The tightness of money, and the inclination to speculate for the decline, are the circumstances in operation against prices. For money the quotations have been 87i g, but are now 87s a. Bank Stock is at 207 to 209. Exchequer Bills have declined to 7s. and 3s. discount. The New Three per Cents. are 871 g, and the Reduced 86i _ _ Turkish Securities have. been tmfayourably affected by the heaviness of Consols, and the ap proaching instalment on the New Scrip. The old Bonds have been 791 to 80g. The New Scrip is 4 to 31 discount. French Scrip is flat at ± premium. Sardinian Bonds are quoted 85, Dutch 2i per Cents. 64 to 641, Peruvian 3 per Cents. 52, and Mexican 21i. There have been dealings in Cuba 7 per Cents. at 101, in Equador at 41, and in Grenada active at 181. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stooks: Grenada Deferred Bonds, 18 to 20 ; Mexican, 21i to ; Peruvian, 72 to 74 ; ditto Three per Cents., 52 to 54; Poitugudse Four per Cents., 43 to 45 ; Russian Five per Cents., 95 to 98 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 85 to 88 ; Spanish New Deferred, 37/ to 381 ; ditto Three per Cents., 191 to ; ditto Certificates, 4i to ; ditto Passive, 4 to 5. Railway Shares are generally lower, and, ex cept in the principal lines, the transactions are limited. The decline in several cases is 1 per cent., compared with the highest prices of yesterday. The foreign lines are very dull, and mostly nomi nal. Great Western of Canada are now quoted ex dividend. Paiis and Lyons are flat. The Mining, Banking, and Miscellaneous Shares are about the same as previously. BRITISH•FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. (Prom at Official List. ) _ Rusin..., (tea. Bank Stock ••• 11.11• ••• 3 tier cent. Reduced Annuities...... 3 per Cent. Console Annuities B7 t New 3 per Cent. Annuities L.nte Annuities, Expire sth Jan.. IMO . . . ... Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth April, 1885 16i India Bonds, £l000 Ditto, under IA 00 Consols ;or Account, Bth N ovem b er 2 p 87 5 & iltehequer Bills, i 2d. 21000 ............. ... 73 d 73 d 2500 ........................ " ..... 3 6 2 Small 3 Exchequer Bonds 1858, 3A per Cent,.... on A Ditto 1859, „ ... 98i i PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS 'MIS DAY. Brazilian Bonds 5 per Cent. .. .. Ditto New, 1852, 4} per Cent . Newßraziliaußonds, 1829 & 39, 5 per Cent. Ditto Small Cuba 7 per Ct. (Matanzas & Sabanilla Bonds) 101 4 Equador Bonds 181 Grenada Bonds, li per Cent. , 21t Mexican 3 per Cent. Ditto for the account 3 52 Peruvian Bends 4i per Gent...—. 7 Ditto 3 per Cent. Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. .2 St 9 04 Russian Bonds, 4i per Cent Bg S itdtnian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Tarkibb Bonds, 6 per cent BO 7 9 8 9 i t Ditto for the account ' . 4. 79i 8 1 g -i g Ditto New Scrip, 4 per pent. Ditto for the Account Venezuela Bonds, 4i per Cent. . . Dividends on the above payable in London. French Rentes, 3 per Cent. Ditto Scrip 2nd Loan of 1855 1 pm Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Gull 64i 4 i Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifieates ....... THREE O'CLOCK. Consols Ditto for the N (count Bth Nov B7i WRECK OF THE THOR.--The schooner Thor was re cently wrecked near the harbour of Lossiemouth, through the intemperance of the captain and crew. The Coast Guard boarded the vessel, but the captain positively re fused to leave her. They again boarded her, and had to drag the drunken captain on deck, as also a sailor, who refused to leave without him, and having slung the for mer to the hfe-buoy, gave the signal to them on shore, and he was hauled through the surf to the land, The vessel soon after went to pieces. u s I (Front the Boston Journal) The conceit by the Pyne and Harrison troupe, on Wi , deeslay, was possessed of snch great merit, that it deserves a more exteeded notice than we had space to give it at the time ; where all was so generally good, and so little exception could be taken to the perform ance of any one of the participators, it devolves.upon us, in our wish to give credit where it is eminently due, to aid in the encour igernent of true worth, and in so doing render justice to our readers as well as to the par ties spoken of. On this occasion the excellent vocalisa tion in such difficult airs as the "Skylark," and " Cease your funning," as well as the charming rendering of Scotch ballads, by Louisa Pyne, more than counter balanced any shortcomings of any other members of the troupe. She is the great magnet of attraction, and no one can hear her without being willingly forced to the submission of her superior ability. The song of the " Skylark" gave such immense satisfaction that a repe tition was de-nandel, and although she declined this, yet the charming nairette with which " Charlie is my darling" was rendered fairly took the audience by storm, and this received a tremendous encore, when she kindly appeared the third time, and gave them "The piper came to onr door," which only increased the enthusiasm, and nothing but a sense of deference to the fair creator of so much pleasure deterred them from the continuance of applause. Although we felt satisfied with the versatility and talent of this gifts,' songstress, in the different operas performed during the past three weeks, and had no doubts as to her perform ance in the concert room, yet we must confess to being unprepared for so much excellence as was exhibited at this time. Miss Pyne sang a Scotch ballad very prettily, accom panying herself on the piano, and in the concerted pieces shared in the applause, which was freely bestowed. Mr. B9rrani sang his own composition, "Oh ! sing again that mournful strain," in his usual correct style, and so acceptably that, although coming immediately after the enthusiastic greeting to Louisa Pyne, and be forte the beautiful duett from "Crown Diamonds," yet a repetition was called for and granted. He is a plea-, ing singer, and executes his running pa , sages and ca denzas °lei , ly and smoothly. Messrs. Harrison, Horncastle, and May aided in the general effect in songs, glees, etc , and notwithstanding it was a late hour ere the concert was concluded, yet the enthusiasm was continued to the last moment. Saturday afternoon will be the last time we shall hear this talented troupe fora lengthened period. MARKET NEWS.--(THIS DAY.) HAY AtAit.K E PS. SMITEIFTELD.—Meadow hay, 3/ lOs to 6/ 64 clove, ditto, 3115 e to 6/ 12s and straw, 1/ 8, Od to 1113 s Od per load. A moderate supply and a sluggish demand. Cum BERLAND. —Meadow hay, 31 12s to 6/ 64; clove/ 'do., 3/ 18s to 6/ I.os ; and straw, 1/ Si to 1/ 14s per load. ,Trade steady, at full prices. WITITECHAPEL.—Iitoadow hay, 3 1 10s to 6 . 64; cloves dc., 3/ 15s to 61 15s : and straw, 11 8s to 11 13 , ner load. Both hay and straw sold slowly, at our quotations. COLONIAL. TEA.—The market is steady, but with a limited de mand. SUGAR —Fall rates have generally been obtained, but the public sales now in progress will better decide the State of the market. There have been several purchases of colonial on former terms, and refined, though quiet, has ruled firm. There were landed last week at the several docks and wharves and in London 2,913 hhds, 184 trs, 493 brls of West India, and there were taken for home consumption 2,847 Wads, 310 trs, and 676 brie. The stock is 23,502 hhds, 1,748 trs, and 5,856 brie. COFFEE. - Holders of native Ceylon are firm, and the supply is limited. More business has been done in plan tation at last week's rates. Mocha is in good demand. .RlCE.—This article is firm, but dull. Rum.—lmporters ask higher rates, and the market tends upwards. SALTPETRE.—There is scarcely any alteration in the absence of sales. TALLOW.—There has been an advance in the tallow market. The demand has been strong, and following upon the large deliveries of last week, and the evidence we quoted in our statement of last Friday as to the pro bable supply and demand, it has produced a further ad vance to-day. The market was quiet on Saturday, and but little business was done, prices being a little lower than on Friday. To-day we opened firm, and since 'Change higher prices have been paid, and we close spot new Y.C., 63s ; 1854, 62s fid ; all the year, 62st 6d ; De cember and January, 63s ; January and March, 63s 6d. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Oct. 16.—Wind this day at noon, S.W. ; fine weather. _ _ _ PORTSMOUTH, Oct. I.s.—Wind light airs and variable. Cleared -Balaklava, for Calcutta; Imperatrice (s.s. tpt. No. 220), Crimea. PLY KO OTH, Oct. 15.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—London Packet, from Corunna. Sailed—Snake, for St. Michael's ; Marsala, Corunna. JERSEY, Oct. 14.—Wind N.—Arrived—Bens, from La brador. Sailed—Sanda, for Atcy?b._ . . . • BRIDGEWATER, Oct. 14.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Pro mire and Elizabeth, from Quebec. GLOUCESTER, Oct. 15.—Arrived—Oder, from Stettin. Sailed—George Rogers, for Balalclava. NEWPORT, Oct. 15 —Arrived—Tarquin, from Shediac. Sailed—Eliza Buckham, for Grenada ; Harbinger and Ambassador, St. Thomas;. Joseph Howe, Jamaica, . , , WATERFORD, Oct. H.—Winit W.S.W. to W.N.W.— Arrived—San Spiridione and Niobe, from Syra. SWANSEA, Oct. 15.—Sailed—A1e/tandria, for the Cape of Gocd Hope ; Unrestricted, Smyrna. (PAR ELECTRIC TELEGRAM.) SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning. Arrived.—Despatch (s.), from Jersey; Brunswick (a.), Plymouth ; Argyll (s.), Carentan ; Georges, Cherbourg ; Outline (s.), Dublin. • Sailed.—Courier (s.), for Jersey; Wonder (a.), Havre. LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning. Wind W.S.W. Arrived.—Susan Bayley, from Patras ; President, Leg horn. Sailed—Ellen Bltes, for New Orleans; Swathmore, Bombay ; Tippoo Saib, Madras. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPIT.I GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 10.5 a.m. Wind W ; tide, five.hour3' ebb ; weather, fine. Sailed, Oct. 16.—Investigator, Port-Adelaide; Queen of Sheba, Gibraltar ; Governess, Trieste DEAL, Tusday, 9.40 a.m. Wind, • moderate. Passed.—Brig W.N.W.irothesa, from London, for Cardiff; James Ferme, London, for Moreton Bay. Sailed.—Hanover, for Cork; Jane Henry, New York. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.— Tra,ffic return for the week ending o , :t. 1.5,_ __ 1855 216, 51 2 6 Corresponding week last year 15.114 1 10 Total of the half-year to this date, 1855 266,218 15 2 Total of the half-year to this date, 1854 25 i,964 2 1 LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTER S RATLWAY.—Traffic re turn for the week ending Oct. 13, 1855 £24,557 18 11 Corresponding week last year 20,018 16 6 Increase in 1855 GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re turn for the week ending Oat. 6, 1855 .........£6,0 59 19 it `Jorresponding week last year 5,588 2 10 Increase in 1855 £47l 16 10 INQUESTS IN LIVERPOOL.—There were no less than 22 inquests la4t week, being nearly one•balf more than the average of corresponding weeks in previous years. During the year there have been 61 more cases than had been recorded.up to the same period last year. AGRICULTURE IN SCOTLAND.—Never in the recollec tion cf the oldest person living has the agriculturist been favoured with weather more suitable for the cutting down and carrying into the barnyard the cereal crops of the county, the greater part of which are at this moment snugly secured under "thick and rape." Sheep farming being the staple husbandry of the county, we are de lighted to state that from every quarter we .hear the most cheering accounts of the healthy condition of the mountain fleas ; and from the vale of the Ettrick, the Yarrow, and the Meggat, reports speak not less favour ablv."—Edinburgh, Courant. MILITARY ENCAMPMENT NEAR PRESTON.—On Mon• day last the inhabitants of Longridge were surprised by the arrival of about 200 gallant red-coats, who passed through the village oh their way to the encampment, called Forty Acres, noticed in our last. The site of the encampment is much exposed to the north-east winds, bung at a considerable elevation above the. village, and at about the distance of two miles and a half. The force at the camp .consists of 100 of the 18th, and about the same number of the 34th and 97th Regiments. Provi sion is being made for the contingency of wintering there, and as the encampment is not of a temporary nature the men will be hutted.—PrestOn Guardian. ROYAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT SOClETY.—Yesterday the ordinary quarterly court of the governor• of this corpo ration was held at Willis's Rooms, King-sti•eet, St. James's, Rear-Admiral Sir Watkyn Owen Pell, K.C.8,, in the chair. There were also present—Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Captains Richardson, Jay, Dickson, and several other distinguished officers. The minutes of the last quarterly court having been read and confirmed, the secretary read to the court the report of the general committee, from which it appeared that during the last three months they had expended the sum of 4021. in grants, to relieve the necessities of distressed members of the society, and the widows and orphan daughters of deceased subscribers to its funds. They had during the same peri o d rece i ve d lif e su b scr i pt i ons to the extent of 301., and a d onation of Si. from Captain Ramsay, of her Majesty' s ship Rogue. The annual subscriptions re ceived within the same period amounted to 1211. 16s. 6d., which, with 5081. 13s Bd. interest upon 36,334/. in the Three per Cent. Consols, leaves a balance of 4471. Bs. 9d. remaining in hands at the date of the previous audit; and the fore mentioned life subscriptions and do nations made the total inco me of the quarter amount to 1,112 1 . 18 s. lid. The expenses for the same period, including grants, salaries, rents, &c,, was 492/. lls. leaving in hand a balance of 6201. 7s. Id. On the mo tion of Capt. Jay, this report was unanimously adopted, and the secretary was instructed to write to Captain R ams ay, expressing to him the thank s of the society for his donation. On the motion of Capt. Richardson, the e2omWm was, Hu g h memorial of an appli cant for r elief, whose p a p ers , by some irregularity at t he Pest-office, c ame too late for ex. , by special Goul I, of Gosport, was then a pp ointed a gent of the so iotnakbeynthiento memorialconsde consideration.. .Command er and favour, ain at so ciety at that port, and some routine business having 'Yen disposed of, the proceedings terminated with a vot e cf thanks to the gallant chairman. THE Sr! T . ,7, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENIN'a, OCTOBER l6 1855. LIT.ERATURI*. spasmodic versification. tinder the influence of their jangling numbers Crowding in upon us, as they sometimes did simultaneously, we have expert - enced sensations akin to those produced upon one's sense of hearing by hearkening to two ; or three cracked and broken winded barrel i organs grinding away at diihrent tunes toge ther under our windows in a Quiet Street. Fancy the united melodies. of " Pop Goes the Weasle !" "Ah ! Susannah !" and the " Girl I left behind me !" _with a sort of under-tone or diapason accompaniment of the " Old Hundredth,' mingled with exporaneous fantasias - on the drum and pan'spipes—and you may have some notion of the bewitching effects produced by this mingled 'outpouring of warlike strains, pitched in every imaginable key, and carolled in all kinds of time, roared most of them like any sucking dove—with looks of brass and lungs of leather. Remember Fiogarth's famous picture of " The Enraged Musi cian"---frantically grinning despair from his lattice with a finger in each ear, and his - features in a blaze of indign a ti on . ecollect Leech's hardly' less humorous sketch, in his "Pictures of Life and Character"— repre senting at the top of one page a fellow in the garret blowing himself into a state of exhaustion on the cornet-a-piston, and an unfortunate wight of a man-of-letters in a room below, maddened by the uproar, his slippered feet paroxysmed from the carpet as he sits infuriatedly at his writing-table, shreds of his hair still floating in the atmosphere about him like a halo, one hand grasped in anguish over his eyes, the other jobbing a whole sheet* of quills (nibs downwards) on his desk. Call to mind every conceivable image of desperation resulting from noise and discord pro duced in the outraged name of the goddess-muse Euterpe, and some faint conjecture may then be formed of the slowly-prolonged agony with which we have been fated to listen of late to the " most sweet voices" of the would-be war-poets—chant ing the glories of grapeshot and gunpowder in ac cents that might reasonably be mistaken for the veriest catterwauling on the tiles. Some of the Manchester cotton with which Mr. Bright would seem to have deafened himself against all the more persuasive dictates of patriotism would not actually come altogether amiss in the din of this mock heroic hubbub of penny trumpets. Feeling thus acutely under the infliction, we are compelled per force, in very gratitude, to commend whomsoever we may discern among the mob of ballad singers about us, possessing a voice in any way less dis sonant than the harsh and guttural voices of his compeers. It is thus with a sentiment of thank fulness that we hail the appearance of Mr. Story. Listening to him, we feel that there are still left notes of gentle and heroic vibration in that bat tered war trumpet which has latterly, when at the lips of the majority of aspirin g lyrists, emitted nothing better than a gurgli ng blast resembling the hee-haw of honest long-ears yonder cropping his thistle by the wayside. The introductory ode in the present collection is addressed by our author " To Alfred Tennyson, Esq., Poet Laureate"—not with the versified scurrility of the scribe of " The Transcendentalists," but rather in the language of respectful, but earnest expostulation. Mr. Story bids the Laureate— deal no more in fiction ; Trick no hero of the brain ; Measured verse, and gorgeous diction, Spent on Myths, are spent in' vain. Look around. Behold the Real Far transcend the loved Ideal. Adding— alone is distressin;dy provocative of a comparison with the inimitable and incomparable lyric mas terpieces of Thomas Ca.l'pbell. Enough for Mr. Story if he win for himself the credit due to his minor melodies (as he has here won it, from. our,- selves), without thus perversely bringing into con trast the twang of a Jew's harp, and what might be mistaken for the glorious notes from the Clarion of on Archangel. Dramas of Calderon : Tragic, Comic, and Te gendary. Translated front th© Spanish. • B 3 Denis Florence M`Cartity. 2 vols. Cliarlo: Dolman. ' The name of Danis Florence McCarthy is to us as that of an old friend iu contemporary literature. As such it commands from us a welcome of especial cordiality. We greet it heartily, 9 the symbol of a young poet not unworthy of being coupled in our memory with his very promising fellow-country man William Allingham. Several seasons back, the writer of these two attractive volumes pre sented himself before the chair of criticism as the author of a clirming book of " Ballads, Poems, and Lyrics —Original and Translated," which at once secured to themselves our attention, by their mingled evidences of innate capacity and of culti vated scholarship. Several of the compositions comprised in the very miscellaneous collection making up Mr. McCarthy's maiden performance as a man of letters, were not slow in eliciting very • general expressions of admiration, wherever at least the little volume of verse was fortunate enough to have penetrated. It was recognised by the discerning reader to be something better than a mere jumble of school-made stanzas, bearing in their unflawed smoothness the tokens of a glib and fluent mediocrity. It is observ able, moreover, that they extorted, espe cial eulogium from the principal organs of pub lic opinion upon matters of literary taste in the sis- tee kingdom. Some few among the more enthusi astie reviewers, indeed, heaped their praises on the head of the new aspirant for poetic honours, some what in the language of exaggeration. Whereas the Dublin: Review contented itself with hailing the volume of " Ballads" (positively) as at once " hopeful and charming," the more ardent Trinity Magazine avowed of the writer (comparatively) that he felt the " dignity of the bard," while the Irish Quarterly proclaimed its belief (superlatively) that "our only poet now living" was McCarthy. Mean ing, of course, by that widely-embracing pronoun— the only living poet of Irishmen—Moore having then but very recently departed, and Ailingham not having at the time of this impassioned protes tation yet • made his modest but effective appear ance. However, setting aside the over-muchness of Hibernian panegyric as-lavished two or three summers back upon the author of the "Legend of the Bells of Limerick"—making allowance for the zeal of national exultation expressed thus ardently on the advent of the young poet by the Irish Quer : terly and the Dublin Magazine—it would be diffi cult to peruse these "Ballads and Lyrics" of Denis McCarthy without in some manner participating in the pleasure so very loudly articulated by the young poet's reviewing compatriots. It was scarcely surprising, th e ref ore , th a t even in England the book received a welcome of earnest greet ing scarcely less cordial than across St. George's Channel : so that while we ourselves spoke of the author as exhibiting "poetic talent of no ordi nary excellence"—the Literary Gazette observed, i expressively, if not very elegantly, that the volume contained " good stuff and poetry too," the Critic remarking that its verses were " melody itself," and even the Atheneum in its sparsely sprinkled adjectives of praise could yet declare of the pro duction, as a whole ; that they had not failed to re cognise in Mr. McCarthy ;s pages what they con ceived to be " the track of the true poetic mind," though what that track may resemble (as thus rather unpleasantly expressed) it would be difficult to conjecture, unless it might be the slug-like trail ing of the silvery slime of Parnassian snaildom ! Howbeit, passing over these tributes of spontaneous commendation awarded to the first volume issued through the press from the hand of Mr. McCarthy, it will be sufficient for us to observe in reference to that early evidence of his abilities as a lyrist, and, indeed, for that matter as one skilled very largely and generally in the manifold arts of versi fication, that the volume comprised, among other commendable performances, a variety of faithful and melodious translations from the French, from the Italian, but above all from the Spanish. These, it now appears, were little more than prepara-' tive efforts, preliminary to the daring enterprise upon which the writer has since then adventuzed. The translation—" principally in the metre of the original"—of no less than six among the principal dramas of CALDERON The reproduction in our mother tongue of as many as half-a-dozen of the renowned masterpieces of that wonder of the Spanish stage—Dun Pedro Calderon de la Berea ! The great dramatist of the Iberian Peninsula, second only, if not equal iu all respects, to the miraculous Lopez de Vega ! Calderon, like Lopez, we all know, bore arms in his youth, like Lopez was afterwards a wearer of the priestly stole, like Lopez was a prolific and magnifi cent playwright. Scarcely so prolific as Lopez to be sure—but then Lopez, it must be remem bered, was a paragon, a mystery, a marvel, a world-wonder of literary fruitfulness—pouring cut of his magic inkstand from the nib of his wizard, pen, as many as " two thousand" original dramas, according to Bouterwek, or, at any rate, according to the evidence of Montalvan (his intimate friend and fellow-labourer) 1,800 plays and 400 autos sacramentales ! But then Lopez, as we have in timated, was an exception, and an astonishment I Calderon de la Berea, by the side of any other dramatist but Lopez, must needs be looked upon as a wonder of literary fecundity, whether in regard to plot, scene, incident, or character. Flourishing about the year 16 tO, the mere pick of the writings of Calderon, spread out to nine quarto volumes, at the period of their collective republication some 50 years afterwards, namely, in 1689—the three first of these goodly tomes, containing the choicest of his comedies, the rest of the huge volumes being dedicated to the preservation of the religious dramas already mentioned, the dramas known in Spain as the autos sacraraeritales. Out of the rarest of the productions of Don Pedro, his English trans lator has selected, as we have said, six -1, El Principe Constante ; 2, El Secreto a Voces ; 3, El Media() de Su Honra ; 4, Amar despues de la Muerte ; 5, El Purgatorio de San Patricio ; and 6, La Banda yla Flor. It is not by any means, of course, the first time that Calderon has appeared in an English dress before the English reading mul titude. Analyses of sundry among his numerous Autos and Comedias have appeared in the Quarterly, in the Westminster, in Blackwood, in Frazer, and in the Dublin University Magazine. Ticknor has spoken at large of them in his History of Spanish Literature, Hallam has commented upon them at some length in his " Introduction to the Literature of Europe"—J. H. has afforded the English student a glimpse into the beauties of " El Magic° Prodigioso," under the title of "Justine," the very same drama which had al ready been illustrated by the genius of Percyßysshe Shelley. Curiously enough, moreover, a work pre cisely similar in design to the one here under our consideration passed through the press almost si multaneously with these "Six Dramas of Calderon," freely translated by Edward Fitzgerald ! Fortu nately it has so happened, however, that while Mr. McCarthy has taken his six from the "more" famous among the dramas of Calderon, Mr. Fitz gerald has chosen his from the " less" famous—so that the two collections in no way clash with each other, twelve of the great dramas of Calderon in stead of only half that number being thus presented to us in the form of metrical translations. Let us take the gifts the gods have given us thankfully, with proportionate tributes, awarded from the right baud and from the left, to the indus try and taste, the melody and precision of Messrs. McCarthy and Fitzgerald. The former has judiciously accompanied his singularly accurate version of Calderon with notes and introductions distributed to each of the remarkable plays trans lated—in volume i., to The Constant Prince, The Secret in Words, and The Physician of his own Honour, and in volume ii., to Love after Death, The Purgatory of St. Patrick, and The Scarf and the Flower. We are precluded by several conside rations from entering here at large into any more detailed examination of these translated dramas of the great Calderon. The present is no fitting opportunity, adequate space and appropriate occasion are alike wanting for any such analysis. Enough has been already observed, however, to indicate our belief that an ordeal of this kind might be passed through very far from discreditably by the ingenious translator of these six brilliant and eminently attractive compositions. In placing his votive wreath at the foot of the pedestal of the Spanish Euripides, Mr. McCarthy has illustrated anew the reasonableness of his own claim to that bay garland of the ly r i s t t o w hi c h h e di rec t s hi s every modest aspiration. My Exile in Siberia. By Alexander Herzen. flurst and tlackeit. These remarkable volumes are a continuation of the memoirs of a distinguished Russian refugee now in London, where, about a year ago, the first instalment m a d e its appearance in the Russian lan guage, under the title of "Prison and Exile." Portions of this having appeared in a translated form, and been favourably noticed in the "Revue des Deux Mondes" and the " Athenaeum"—a filer man translation also having been published at Hamburg—the author has been induced to resume his pen, and make further revelations of the secrets of that vast prison house, his country, in connec tion with his personal history. At any previous period, and under ordinary circumstances, a work .of this description, from the hands of an intelligen' native, would have been regarded with consider able interest; but at the present time these volumes possess unusual claims on public attention and re spect ; and for these reasons. We are engaged in warwith Russia, and the writer is a Russian author of the highest reputation who has been persecuted for his liberal opinions since his twenty-first year, and has erected a battery in London in the shape of " the first Russian free press," from which he assails it he stronghold of despotism by discharging broadsides of light among his benighted and abused fellow-countrymen, with whom, by the way, he is very popular. The character of the man, and the tone of the memoirs, may be gathered from the notice of him by Madame Pulszky, who, in the preface to a translation of a Russian novel, speaks of him as "a distinguished Russian refugee,.who endeavours to blend German philosophy, French political theory, and English practical common sense with his original Russian nature." A de scription the accuracy of which the readers of the memoirs will never for a moment be inclined to dispute. Having been arrested and sent from Moscow in 1831 as an exile to Siberia for an alleged offence against despotic authority, of which he was innocent, he was again exiled there in 1839, shortly after his return—only succeeding in obtaining a passport abroad in 1847, when he quitted Russia, possibly for ever, after a thirteen years' per secution by the Czar. During this period he had ample experience of Russian official life in its various forms, including the police, all of which he caustically describes," though as the reader feels, without exaggeration, if with heart-wrung bitterness. What sort of life that is, we would refer the reader to the work itself to discover ; but it may be described, in' brief, as one in which the sycophant, the scoundrel, and the slave only can thrive, and from which honest and liberal-minded men reap little other harvest than insult and persecution. This being the, case, the condition•of the people may be inferred; provided no drawback is permitted . the imavination, for it is hardly poSsible to be worse. The reader is intro duced to a host of characters, some of them quite original, others familiar, and all graphically and forcibly delineated, the author succeeding in en abling him to realise what Russian life is, and what a horrible despotism we are contending against. The author's revelations of Nicholas brand the memory of that tyrannical drill-sergeant with a vin dictive meanness, which some may deem incredible, but which is quite in keeping with other phases of his character. The present Emperor figures more respectably, but is not credited with that force of character required to lay the axe to the root of the huge abuses which impede the march of civilisation his do ntaioa3. Take a Boy, by birth connected With Imperial pomp and state, And describe him thence dejected • By aihunderbolt of fate, Which—into Lis young house driven— Strews it to each point of heaven ! Sing the youthful Outcast wandering Over lands that hold but foes; Yet where'er he wanders, pondering To his ills a glorious close ; One sad Spirit hovering o'er him, • And a hero's path before him ! Following the fortunes of his hero, he says— Sing him to a prison taken, And when Fear his life would claim, Lo I his Captor—awed and shaken By the spell-word of his name— Spares it,—the damnation dreading WhiCh would fellow his bloodshedding! After stanzas, implying the celebration Of the 1848 Revolution and the 1852 Coup d'Etat—the heroic act of Manfin February and of One in December —the lyrist bids the Laureate sing of his hero Sing him Power Imperial wielding, Not as one to empire born ; But the Toiling Millions shielding, Whom a king-by-birth might scorn. • Pamper, kings ! the favoured classes— He is Monarch of the Masses ! Sing him—heir to war and glory— Slighting glory gained by war ; • Coveting, for laurels gory, Bloodless palm-wreaths—fairer far; Marshalling—a Moral Movement ; Heading armies of Improvement ! • Sing him thus triumphant—wanting But one peal to fix his sway ; • And his wondrous Fortune` granting • That, too, in her wondrous way— . War.which waked in distant regions, Gratifies his martial legions ; War—to rescue from oppression Weak states, overborne by strong ; War—to check unjust a ggression, Help the Right, and crush the Wrong ; War—to spill men's blood like water, Waged for Ends that hallow Slaughter ! Sing him in that war a Leader, Prompt, for those high Ends, to strike ; Then, concluding, bid thy reader - Show, in tale, -or song, his Like ! Proudly for thy Hero claim him, And the Third Napoleon name him ! Among the "Songs of the War" which follow this earnest but simple Ode upon "The Third Napo leon," we would select--as about the happiest—the following : NAPOLEON RULES AGAIN. The baffled but still glorious Chief Was sent to exile sad and far, And his brave legions, filled with grie,, Laid down their arms, and turned from war. They sat by many a cottage light, • And there, when hours of toil 'were o'er, In earnest tone they, night by night, Told tales of their Great Emperor. They told how first his fame arose, How soon the chief of men was he, And how he passed the Alpine snows, And how he marched through Italy. They told how vanquished Austria sued, How Prussia's king his vassal grew, And how the Northern Czar, subdued, Became his humble suppliant too. They told how, when he held his court, With all the pomp that Empire brings, Thither did Europe's Queens resort, And Europe's far-descended Kings. They told how virtual sway he bore From Moscow to the shores of Spain, And how a prouder crown be wore Than pressed the brows of Charlemagne! All this was drank with greedy ear— E'en boys, their grandsires' knees before, Stood open-mouthed, snd pressed to hear Those tales of the Great Emperor. They told how, to chastise the Czar, In his own land he sought the foe, And how the conquerors in the war Were conquered by the frost and snow. They told how then the Kings-by-right From that disaster courage drew, And how at last their banded might The Hero crushed on Waterloo. They told how, in a distant isle, Tit' illustrious Chief was Captive now, And here an angry flush, a while, Would tinge the speaker's downcast brow ; And then would come a sigh—a pause-- . A deep emphatic whisper then ; " France ne'er will be the France she was, Until Napoleon rules again !" This, too, was drank with greedy ear—. E'en boys, their grandsires' knees before, Stood open-mouthed, an d pressed to hear Those tales of the GR E AT EmpEßou. Those boys grew up to st ripling, bold, And those bold striplings up to men, Who cherished, like their fathers old, Dreams of the Empire back again. They felt---dt deemed—themselves enslaved, They scorned the Bourbon's idle state, And nought but foreign bayonets saved The throne of that Legitiwate. Another and another came Fair France's regal seat to fill ; But still she sighed for one loved Name, The symbol of a mightier will ! At length, and with no dubious voice, That loved Name's HEIR she called to sway ; And well he justifies her choice Who comes as England's Guest today. We greet him with the heart's applause, We echo back his people's strain ; " France is again the France she was, For—her Napoleon rules again !" The commemoration of '‘ is not to be men tioned with that only one among the " War Waits" of Gerald Massey, in which the self-taught " poet and tailor" sang, in a spirit worthy of him self, how— The Third Napoleon : an Ode. To which are added Songs of the War. By Robert Story. Second Edition. John Hearne. A pink pamphlet of 32 pages octavo—presenting to us what Sheridan s p o k e o f as " a r i vu l e t o f r hyme running through a meadow of margin"— is the aspect of this little collection of war lyrics, preceded by an ode celebrating the life and fortunes o f the Third Napoleon. Mr. Story, in spite of being occasionally dull, inartiticial, and inharmo nious, proves nicontestibly hero and there that he has the true " stuff " In him, and that he lacks neither the faculty for the appreciation of the heroic nor the blended enthusiasm and sensibility essential for its adequate inanifestation. There have been several attempts already (we remember the cir cumstance at this moment somewhat painfully) on the part of our very few poets and of our very nu nierous poetasters to cornmeal()) ate the incidents of the present war with Russia, by songs, odes, sonnets, dirges, poems, elegies, and, all manner of England's chosen ones went up Red Alma's hill to glory !" Again, the celebration of the cavalry charge at a,by i ii‘ir.Sto r 7 T , dwindles into insignifi• c ß a a n l c a e k lbayv the tidc, of mennyson's—although the merits of the poem written by the Laureate upon that sublime theme appear, in our judgment, to have been greatly exaggerated by the more infa tuated among his many admirers. As to Mr. Story's Battle of the Baltic," the mere name STRAND THEATAE. November weather having come upon us somewhat prematurely, accompanied with its usual depressing in fluences, we looked about us yesterday for something enlivening, to dispel the gloom which is apt to take pos session of up under such circumstances. Attracted by the announcement of considerable novelty, we deter mined to visit the little Strand Theatre, and had no cause to regret having carried our determination into effect. The company has been strengthened by the ad dition of Mr. G. Cooke, one of the best " old men" upon the stage ; Miss Herbert, from the. Theatre Royal Glas gow; and last, though by no means least, Mr. M'Vicker, the Yankee comedian, who created so great a furore at the Surrey during his engagement there. The first piece, Simpson and Co., was exceedingly well played, and re flected credit on all concerned in it. Mr. Cooke, as Simpson, left nothing to desire ; the little part of Ma dame La Trappe was rendered conspicuous by the judi cious care bestowed upon its representation by Miss Somers ; and Miss Herbert, combining as she does an exceedingly attractive person with a good knowledge of stage business, made 'a most favourable impression. Sans Patch, introducing Mr. M'Vicker to a %Vest-end audence, went off amid roars of laughter, which must have been most gratifying. to "Brother Jonathan." Mr. M'Vicker possesses the happy faculty of being broad without ever descending to vulgarity. His "chicken" scene, in which he was well supported by Miss Cuthbert, was received with perfect screams. Nor was he less worthy of commendation in the part of Diggory, in All the World's a Stage. It was a fine piece of burlesque acting, fully evincing that his excellence as a comedian is not by any means confined to his Yankee impersonations ; his genuine talents fully entitle him to rank am* the foremost English comedians of the day. He and his audience appeared mutually delighted,.and he may justly feel proud of the triumph he achieved. At the end of the piece he was loudly called for, and re turned thanks in a neat speech. The house was crowded. and we think we may venture to prophesy that it will continue to be so during his engagement. CBEMORNE GARDENS. The season of 1855, which came to a close on Satur day evening, has been one of the longest as well as one of the most successful since the proprietorship of these celebrated gardens devolved upon the present lessee. From Easter to the middle of October has that enter prising gentleman invited and secured, without inter mission, the patronage of the metropolitan public, and during that lengthened period of 28 weeks, wet or dry, nut a single night's performance has been omitted. A marked increase has signalised the present year in im portant fetes, meetings, dinners, &c., such reunions as Cremorne is peculiarly adapted for. Among these may be particularly mentioned the Licensed Victuallers ' School fetes, and their great dinner, of which upwards of 1,700 guests partook, on which latter occasion the committee passed a verdict of high approval on the viands and the wines ; the meetings of the South Lon don Floricultural Society, which tended to insure a great augmentation of patronage for the ensuing year to the sons of Flora ; Mr. Simpson's annual benefit, a fete of surpassing brilliancy ; and the Thames Regatta fete and distribution Of prizes by the Lord Mayor. The most striking feature of all, however, was "The Wel lington Fete , " got up with extraordinary promptitude, and attended with great and most gratifying result. The Panorama of Sebastopol, and the manifold appurte nances of the mimic siege, were all painted, prepared, and erected in the brief course' of 14 days, and so great was the attendance on that single night, that it pro duced upwards of 1,1001. for the benefit of the future college, the entire proceeds being munificently devoted to that purpose by Mr. T. B. Simpson. Desirous of following up this triumph he made a recent effort tc excite the sympathies of the public on behalf of the widows and orphans of the British soldiers who fell on the ever-memorable Bth of September, and proposed to dedicate a week's'proceeds to that patriotic object ; but neither was the weather favourable at the assigned period nor was the generous project responded to as it deserved. • The admirable order and propriety of demeanour which have invariably distinguished the Sunday visitors of Cremorne are very probably gall and wormwood to the bitter ultra-Sabbatarians. Not an instance of in toxication or riotous behaviour bas occurred to mar the enjoyment of t'housands upon thousands, and the in creasing attendance of the respectable middle classes on Sunday afternoon serves to demonstrate to the infinite simal amount of influence (may it speedily fall below z-ro) exercised in the rational community by the advo cates of extreme apparent sanctity. The good repute to which Cremorne has attained under the present vigilant management received, in the course of the past summer, a special and most gratifying token of acknowledgment in the highest quarters, their Royal Highnesses the Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales, and Prince Alfred having honoured the gardens with a visit. Mr. Simpson may thus justly boast of having secured the countenance of all ranks, including " Royal patronage and Royal presence." He has fur the time to come but to pursue the even ten our of his way, the laudable course he has all along perseveringly followed, and he may confidently anticipate still greater popularity and emolument, if such be possible, in the season of 1856. Till then, with all good wishes, we bid hint heartily farewell. THE LATE MURDER AT BROMLEY, IN KENT.-Yester day a man named Mark Wheeler, a ticket-of-leave wan and who had a cottage in Gloucestershire, was brough from that place by a London warrant officer to be con veyed to Portsmouth to serve the remainder of his sen tence (seven years) for baying harboured the man now awaiting his trial for the late dreadful murder at Bromley, in Kent. Wheeler's time will expire about Christmas, otiffioceres:d; 1858. SALARIES OP THE JUDGES. —Yesterday morning was were appropriateadm:wthnet amount of sueh issued a return from the Court of Chancery of the names of the judges of the courts and pa the amount of their salaries ; the fund cut of which each salary was paid ; the gross total a mount of fees collected e y e ( t je o fi f e w ie lYc 3 b a in ll exec uses incidental to from suitors, whether by stamps or otherwise ; the pur poses to which such fees id of in a to ll of tho surplus of such fees f F ,e u s nd ; a in na a t i h d e o f f un asl the holding of the ci,urt is defrayed, such as providing court houses and offices, and repairing, DE', sa d cleansing •nis Ih* d cleansing of the same. Spirit of the Public Journals. (From the Morning Herald of this day ) One Conservative journal in London and two or three in the provinces are beginning to raise the question, " Whether enough has not been done ;" "whether the oljects of the war have not been attained ;" and " whether it is not time to consi der what of peace would be reasonable." _ What strikes us with astonishment is, that these. journalists, who possess talent, and who must be supposed to possess common sense, do not see that talking about peace is the very worst way that can be thought of for obtaining it. Our antagonist is haughty and unbending, and has never been accustomed to sue for peace. Even when Napoleon occupied the Kremlin, Alexander, instead of seeking for negociafion, refused to open any while a single French soldier remained on Russian ground. In dealing with such a foe, what can be more un- - wise than to show any anxiety for peace ? Doubt less, peace, must always be desirable ; doubtless, to terminate an outlay of fifty millions per annum, must be an object of anxious hope. All the world knows this, and the Emperor of Russia must know that we are accessible to these feelings and motives. But to be talking already of terms when no nego ciation has yet been proposed on either side, and to he constructing a " peace party"—whit is it but so to excite the enemy's hopes and expectations as to remove the real probabilities of peace to a vast distance. Another thing that strikes us with surprise is, that men do not seem to perceive that between the present costly and aggressive warfare and a treaty of peace there lies a large field of action as yet wholly untrodden, and which, it appears to us, has not been sufficiently thought of. Let us suppose that, after another campaign or two, we have carried our present system of war fare to its full extent; that we have bombarded every fortress which it is possible to approach, and rendered Kussia's whole accessible frontier a long line of " blood-stained ruins." When all this has been accomplished, would any one recommend that we should send a message to the Emperor Alex ander. to say that, having done him all the injury we could, we were now ready. to listen to terms - of peace ? Surely no dreamer has imagined the pos sibility of such a thing. What, then, would happen if every possible ef fort of aggressive warfare should be tried, and Rus sia should still remain unhumbled and silent ? Surely we should then enter upon another course of action—a course more tedious, but perhaps more certain in its results, than that we are now taking. Whenever the allied powers shall be of opinion that enough has been done in the way of taking towns and destroying armies, they can then reduce their forces and their outlay, and deal with Russia in a different but still more humiliating manner. They can say to her—" For your outrageous assaults on an unoffending neighbour, and your evident purposes of universal dominion, you are outlawed and banished from the society of the European powers. We shall no longer chastise or punish you ; but henceforward your own savage territory shall be your prison. From no port in your dominions shall ship or sailor find egress. You shall be cribbed and confined within yourown boundaries, in the sight of all Europe. Trade, by sea, you shall have none ; navy, unless to rot in your own harbours, you shall have none. This is your sentence, passed in the hearing of all the world. We utter it, who have the power to enforce it. From henceforth you are banished." This course, whenever the allied powers shall choose to take it, is an infallible one. To protect Turkey by a subsidiary force of 60,000 men—to keep possession of the Black Sea, and to close the Baltic year by year against the entry or exit of a single Russian—all this could be done at a cost of some twelve or fifteen millions per annum, in lieu of the 60 or 80 millions which France and ngland are now spending. And the great advantage of this mode of action would be, that Russia might be warned that this insulting blockade should be carried on just as long as she pleased, be it five, or ten, or twenty years. At present she hopes that our efforts will, after a while, exhaust us. Apprise her that without effort we mean to imprison her in her own territory till she is repentant and hum bled, and she will begin to despair of her condition. This is the best card in the hand of England and France. It has not yet been played or even shown; but it is there—and it wins the game. The only question is, when will the time come for discon tinuing the present plan of aggressive assault, and resorting to that of strict and punitive blockade. On this question, of the fit time, many opinions may prevail. Our own inclines to the belief, that the time may soon arrive. And let itbe-re marked, that the calmer and less expensive course, while it is more effectual for our purposes, is quite as humiliating to Russia as the more active and vigorous one. At Vienna, Russia would not hear of a limitation of her Black Sea fleet,. Proclaim to her, now, that on the Black Sea the Russian flag shall never more be seen. Tell her, f ur th er , that her Baltic fleet may be a splendid one, but that it shall rot in its own harbours. Tell her that all this is not to be the subject of a treaty; it is a sentence passed upon her, and to which her con sent is not necessary. Tell her all this, and then, indeed, the objects of the war may be considered to be gained. But all this is quite independent of ne gociation—it requires no new Vienna Conference. All that would remain would be for Russia to repent, and to sue for re-admission into the pale of European society. When she does that, with proper dispositions, it will be time enough to consi der upon what condition she might be released from her state of duresse. But until that moment shall arrive, all talk about " terms of peace" is idle ; it is worse—it is absolutely mischievous. (Front the Morning Advertiser of this day.) We cannot find room for the various communi cations which reach us on the subject of the in tended marriage of Prince Frederick William of Prussia, to the Princess Royal of England. Though there can be no doubt, and is none, as to the fact of such an alliance being contemplated by the Royal Families of England and of Prussia, we do trust, for the sake of our Sovereign, as well as for the sake of the institutions of the country, that the projected alliance will never become matter of fact. If her Majesty has faithful and enlightened counsellors around her Throne, she must have been well warned before this time, not only of the ex treme unpopularity of the intended union, but of the imminent jeopardy to which, if carried out, it will expose the monarchy itself. Prussia is, noto riously, to all practical intents and purposes, a portion of the Muscovite empire. It is a province of the Czar ; and the King of Prussia is no more than the veriest vassal of the Monarch who sits on the throne at St. Petersburg. Is it then decent, is it respectful to the people of England, that the Princess Royal should be affianced to the heir pre sumptive to the Crown of Prussia ? Not one whit more unseemly would it have been, had the eldest daughter of our Queen been affianced to the heir presumptive to the throne of Russia, had such a person been eligible for matrimonial purposes. He may be deemed uncourteous who will warn the Sovereign of these realms of the grave perils which will be incurred by carrying out the contemplated marriage ; but he will assuredly prove the most faithful friend, and most enligh toned adviser she ever had, who will speak out plainly on the sub ject. The people of England will not submit to such an alliance. The event, should the match not be broken off, will attest the accuracy of our words. The very idea, the bare possibility of such a con tingency, has awakened feelings in the national mind which none canimiStake, and whiih no well wisher to the prese n t p ossessor s and future expect ants of regal power, can contemplate without the deepest anxiety and the greatest alarm. No one can mix in society without being, forcibly struck with the intense aversion with winch any further matrimonial alliances with Germany is regarded by all classes. It seems as if England existed for n o other purpose than to minister to German cupidity and to furnish food to German ambition. That is not the view which Englishmen themselves enter tain. They have a far d to notion o fulfil.othef missionAn d to which their country is d their convictions on the subject they will one day give an unmistakeable expressionf that d . Let Germans in high places beware o ay. It were well if the results should be confined to them. But such will not be the case. Others will suffer. Institu tions as well as persons will be the victims when ever t h e sturdy and str a i g h t f orward principles of the people of this country come into direct col lision with the Germanism which has insinuated itself into the high places of the land. With regard to the new connexion which it is in contemplation to establish between Germany and this country, it is sought to throw dust in the eyes of the people of England. and to diminish, if not do away with, their hostility to it, by representing the father of the affianced Prince, anu who suceca s the present King on the throne of Prussia, as a loan of Liberal principles, and as being favourable to France and England. This is all a sham—a mere pretext. It is a fraud on the people of this country, to represent the Prince of Prussia as the foe of despotism, and as the friend of the Western Alliance. If the fact were so, how happens it that he has never given any proof of it If There has been no lack of opportunities. These have been furnished in abundance ever since the war corn , menced. The. even now pre-ent themselves with every succeeding hour. What has the father of I the Prince to whom England's Princess Royal is 'affianced done to show that lie is in reality hostile to the Czar, opposed to despotic Governments, or in favour' of representative institutions, and of England ? Literally nothing. What has he ever said ? The answer is the same,—nothing, literally nothing. His sympathies, on the contrary, are with Absolutism and the Czar. Were it otherwise, can any one for a moment imagine that he would be able to remain on friendly terms with his Champagne-drinking brother —the present King of Prussia ? The latter is too much the - slave of the Czar to be suffered to remain on habits -of friendship with the Prince of Prussia, even if so disposed, were that Prince not known to be in his heart in the interest of Russia. We are well aware that the Prince of Prussia did, at one time, make some vague professions of being friendly to free institutions, and in favour of England ; het that, it must be remembered, was - before the breaking out of the present war. Besides, even were he to make. such professions now, we should not attach the slightest credit to them. They would be utterly Worthless. They would be made only to be falsified as soon as circumstances occurred to render, in his view, their falsification expedient. We have ceased to place any faith in the word of Crowned heads, or of those who are the expectants of seats on European thrones. Nor are we peculiar in our want of faith in Royal pledges. Our dis trust is shared by all the nation s o f E uro p e . Ex perience has forced on them the conviction that princes are not to be trusted, nor their word be lieved. What Sovereign is there on a Continental ' throne, at this moment, who has not falsified his promise, deliberately and publicly given f Nay, more, who can name a Continental Sovereign who has not violated his solemn oath ? We only need, as one illustration, to begin with the one nea res t to us ? And who does not remember that Louis .Philippe broke his solemn oath, taken six or seven times over ! Look next at the Emperor of Austria. What case of perjury could be more heinous than his ? The Pone of Rome, too, who is a temporal as well as spiritual prince, stands before the world convicted of flagrant perfidy. And then there is the miserable man who at once disgraces humanity and the, throne of Naples—King Bomba. He is likewise steeped to the ears in perjury. Nor is the present King of Prussia free from the guilt of per fidy ;he also has deceived his people. He has mode promises and given pledges which have been openly violated. But why run over the catalogue of perjured or perfidious Continental monarchs ? The public is al ready sufficiently acquainted with their names. And there is no reason to suppose that the Prince of Prussia, or his son, to whom the eldest daughter of our Queen is affianced, would prove any excep tion to the rule, were either to be raised to the throne of Prussia. There is doe much ground to fear that they would prove the inveterate foes of liberty, and consequently of this country, whose institutions are _liberal, and whose people are free. A marriage, therefore, with Prince Frederick Wil liam would be, in every respect, unfortunate for the Princess Royal, and most dangerous to the liberties of England. Naval and Milit3xy Intelligence. The Powerful, 84, Capt. Massie, left Spithead on Sa• tarday for Lisbon and Jamaica, but brought up at St. Helen's for want of wind. Yesterday she endeavoured to proceed, but brought up again and remained at sun set last evening. The Calcutta, 84, Capt. J. J. Stopford, struck, struck lower yards and topmasts yesterday at Spithead and un bent sails. Her craw, it is reported, are to be appor tioned between the screw bloekships Hawke, Uornwailuil, and Pembroke, to enable such of the crews of those ships as have served in the Black Sea to have pay and leave granted them before again going on foreign service. The Orinoco, steam transport No. 218, wentinto Ports mouth harbour yesterday afternoon to land her invalid troops at the dockyard, whence they were removed to temporary barrack quarters in the garrison. The Hastings, 60, Oapt. E. G. Fanshawe, was taken into dock at Portsmouth yesterday to refit forthwith. The Imperatrice, steam transport, left the Motherbank yesterday morning for London. Orders have been received at Portsmouth to pay wages immediately to the crews of the blockships Pembroke, Cornwallis, Ru , seli, Hawke, and Hastings. The Hawke went back to Portsmouth harbour yesterday afternoon to repair n.ore defects. A. c ,urt-martial, consisting of Capt. G. A. Eliot, of the St. Vincent, President ; Captains J. J. Stopford, of the Calcutta ; G. H. Seymour, of the Pembroke ; Wellesley, of the Cornwallis ; G. T. Gordon, of the Vic tory ; E. Ornmanney, of the Hawke ; T. R. Sulivan, of the Simoom ; F. Scott, of the Russell ; R. Harris, of the Illustrious ; W. Crispin, the junior Captain of the Vic toria and Albert ; Sir W. Wiseman, Bart., of the Pene lope ; and Mr. G. L. Greetham, Deputy Judge-Advo cate of the Fleet, assembled yesterday morning at nine o'clock on board the flag-ship Victory, in Portsmouth harbour, to inquire into tho cause of her Majesty's ship Hastings getting ashore, on the 20th of September, near Odeneholm, in the Gulf of Finland, and to try Mr. Ed ward Youell, master of the said ship, for his conduct on that occasion. After hearing the testimony in sup port of the investigation, and what the master had to allege in explanation, as well as receiving on his`behalf a first-rate character for the possession of every good quality that a naval officer of his grade can possibly poe. sees, the Court were of opinion that no cause could be assigned for her Majesty's ship Hastings having got ashore on the occasion in question, unless it was owing to the variable current in that locality ; and they fur ther found that no blame could be attached to Mr. Youell for his conduct on that occasion. The Nicholas Wood, screw-transport No. 66, and the Sardinian, No. 244, have been draughted into the trans port service for the Crimea. The former has arrived at Woolwich, and has taken up her moorings off the Royal Arsensal. The latter has gone down to Deptford, and has commenced loading there. The Pearl was yesterday morning taken out of Wool mickv dock for the purpose of being masted, and will forthwith receive her engines. The contract entered into for the construction of huts at Woolwich for the Crimea is completed, the last por tion having been shipped on Saturday. It is stated that the crew of her Majesty's ship Eury diae.,7-stationed in the West Indies, are desirous to go to the seat of war. The following appeared in our late edition lagt night:— Lieuteuant Fras. A. Hume has been appointed to the Calcutta. GOOD•SERVICE PENSIONS. Good-service pensions have been conferred upon the following officers : Captain James Hope, C.B. Captain Lord Clarence Paget. Captain Thomas Henderson. Captain Lewis T. Jones, C.B. MEETING IN HYDE-P..4RA. For many many days past large placards have beenepseonsttedhionb. the hoardings about London deploring price of bread, setting remedies for the evil, and calling n on the working men of fo r th eossioie ca t u h s e es p _ r a . nd certain g ensu a nd c a b y a , ng a e t a t r h k eir OnSd o ay n , for the metropolis to meet in "Our t r o the purpose of giving expressioorn . .about feelings the in so sad a state of affairs. subject, and taking measuresAf cc b o n rd n i g n i g n l g y about 2 o'clock, great numbers of persons were f ound to wa y towards the park, wher e a l rea d y not of the best ord er o f society, b h e ad w a e s n s d e i tn ng ble t d he m ir any and of those itinerant gentry who ply their various call ings on such o ccasions. Until three o'clock nothing of an unusual character. occurred, but shortly after the . hour 'named a movement towards the centre of the park gave indication of something exciting, and a rush from all parts to the point of attraction brought together, of a sudden, a crowd that continually increased, until at last as many as 5,000 persons roust have been assembled together, the majority of them being of respectable appearance. All the available men of the police force, and those who otherwise would have been off duty for t h e day, were disposed about the park, in case their services should be required, but not the slightest inter. ference in the subsequent proceeding took place. Pre sently two immense rings were formed, and a man of serious aspect, with a profusion of hair about his face, made his way to one of the spaces thus made, and addressed the people. He said he was a bard-working man ; that it was no vain desire for popularity that had induced him to leave his large family on the Sabbath for the purpose of meeting his fellows in Hyde-park ; it was because he believed he had it in his power to help his fellow-countrymen to a right understanding of the purpose for which they had assembled together. After two of the most plenteous harvests that ever blessed the earth bread was at famine prices. The war wa s set forth -I: as the cause of this. It was no such thing . plenty of corn in Turkey, which could be imported edat 203, a quarter, and Russian corn at 734. perOua was per mitted to be brought over. The speaker, to be an eloquent carpenter, ha d proceeded in this st ra i n for upwards of an hour Nw hen a counter-agitation seemed to be rising within 20 yards of the crowd w hi c h h a d gathered around him. .A. baker by trade was endeavour ing to defend the oo rnfactors and landed prop r i e t ors , against whom his oppositionist had been inveighing ; but the mob was in no humour to listen to the " other side,"a cry of " Out with hi m " h av i ng b een ra i se d, the pushed,. and d ragge d , an d carr i e d off in the ke n r d, was Erection of the 1110,r14 Arch. Two or three gentlemen interfered to defend the unfortunate man from the usage to which his boldness ho.ri subjected him, but he did not escape even then, and he would undoubtedly have re c-i veil some e, - .ugh tre: fitment had not a body of police appeared to the re•cue. T he inireetor on duty at that spot evidently FaAr a. i admirable chance of giving a turn to the events of the day. Eight officers, surround ing the baker, trotte I off with him at a smart pace, fol lowed by an immens e number of persons, among whom were those who app fared to be most bent on mischief; they ran on, following the baker and his guard, I thinned, APsley-gate and o Itside the park. 8. - i-tur:in carpente-r whose ant l ence bail been con,idera con Y continued to he was found to be s till holding forth; he that be" speak and to declaim ~ against " the power s . o _ ix). -turning to the un til dusk, when he bro Pght his harangue t avw I I