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In consequence of the continued and unprece dented success of the comedy of Married for Money, and the enthusiastic applause with which Mr. Charles Mathews and the Lyceum Company are nightly received, the comedy will be repeated every evening this week.—The extraordinary suc cess and unparalleled hit of the new Egyptian drama, Nito cris, pronounced the most complete and magnificent specta e ever produced, the new scenery, splendid dresses, and gorgeous appointments being the theme of universal admira tion, induce the lessee to announce it for repetition every evening (Saturday excepted) till further notice. THIS EVENING and during the Week (Saturday excepted) the successful comedy Jay, Lines• then, .stle ; LONDON, TUES.DAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1855. )use; N o . 19,6'6.] [PRICE 4D. STAMPED SD• iday, Selon- :ilna •ood ; seats himself will be under the magic spell, and appear to the audience, under circumstanen least expected, in a posi tion as peculiar as perplexing. Act. 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the Nucleus of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the audience will have the goodness to observe, in an earlier part of the evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin) in m4l-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which all will produced. . . PUBLICATIONS. 100 ; Berlin, 182 to 100 ; and in Catholic Florence, 370 to 100. (" Oh, oh," and cries of " the Madiai to wit.") For Copenhagen he found the proportion to be 460 to 100. With these few observations he begged to second the resolution. On the 15th instant will be published, in Bvo., with coloured illustraaorg, THE STORY of the CAMPAIGN of SEBASTOPOL. Written in the Camp. By Lieut.-Col. E. BRUCE HAIN LEY, Capt., R.A. (Originally imbllv,ed in Bla3Lwccd's Magazine.) Wm. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. A RATEPAYER asked whether the City of London had not already a free library in the Guildhall ? (Cries of " Yes, yes," and " Hear, hear.") Several persons rose to speak at once, but at last gave way to MARRIED FOR MONEY. Characters by Messrs. Chas. Mathews, R. Roxby, A. Younge ; Mrs. F. Matthews, Miss Oliver, and Miss Mason. To be followedby (Eighth time) a new interlude, entitled TWENTY MINUTES WITH A TIGER. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, A. Younge, Swan ; Miss De Vere and Miss Wadham. ossclude with (each evening) the Grand Egyptian Spectacle, NEW WORK ON EGYPT AND THE * IIOLY LAND. Just published, in 1 vol. post 8v . 0.. price 10s. 6(1., ASTERN EXPERIENCES collected during a WINTER TOUR in EGYPT and the HOLY LAND. By ADAM STEINMETZ KENNARD. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman. KAN OJ 9J oa 8 :old 8 sold sold 3 sold 12ths 12tbs AllO e. 8 01 la Oci Ocl otl label is 01 is 03 33 6(1 2e 61 2s 63 2t , 6d 4i 61 3t. Od to 954 to 71 D 2s Oct Os 10t1 to '4d ) Os Bcl )-day. were :ndia►n 2.6 1 ; )eseed, sake r6' 46s 0d It-0210. Wael. ue in N. 14 certain r. 6 v: 16 v. 1! ..:ortsin r. 15 Th.?. at. 1,. daily . 25 hofman v. 20 ic: dall.; r. 15 OPitaltl (Pert. 6 mon 16 mon hP de -41 (Tie ti been lower e and isbire, [I, 631 Dutch r dull -Mid • ss io n Gas "ortii p shire been tshi re, >n and thorn, 87:1- -- e per 87i-- 48 84i g Co. ife of ife of k, the Geo. itiaro, 1, son ester, asely, art T. %ugh• urns, D. to lotto- PI as uisa, arlos 140 1 idge, Limo, Mrs. Vest - croDI ...N.. ____---"" ' 112 , y Of NITOCRIS. Principal characters by Miss Glynn, Miss Cleveland, Miss Anderton, Mrs. Selby ; Messrs. Barry Sullivan, Stuart, F. Edgar, G. Wild, &c., introducing an Egyptian Dance, in which Misses Rosina Wright, Charles, Brown, and the ladies of the Corps de Ballet will appear. On Saturday, after the Comedy, Married for Money, Sheri- On dramatic piece, The Critic, or a Tragedy Rehearsal, in which Mr. Charles Mathews will sustain the characters of Sir Fretful Plagiary and Pu ff ; supported by Messrs. Stuart, Vincent, R. Bexley, A. Younge, G. Wild, Swan, Templeton, Worrell; Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Wadham, &c. To conclude with a new Ballet Divertissement, in which Miss Rosina Wright and the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet will appear. N ic o Tß ig.—Mr. E. Smith, anxious to make the spectacle instructive as well as amusing to the patrons of this Theatre, has obtained, at considerable trouble, the Description of the Grand Egyptian Coronation Procession, arranged and adapted to this stage by " Dykwynkyn," from the works of Clemens, Herodotus, Strabo, Plutarch, Diodorus Siculus, Jablonski, Lepsius, Deaon, Champolion, Rosellini, Savary, Wilkinson, end other authorities in the British Museum, the publishing of which may prove interesting to the numerous patrons wit zeal* the spectacle, and can be had in the Theatre for one penny. Military Entree—Egyptian Soldiery in full costume, marching three deep, with Baud of Trumpets and Tympanum, OP Mind Drum. The Agathodmmon, or " Good Genius" (Winged Mob.), under whose protection the persons of ITloge and Temples of Gods were placed, is borne first, and in succession the other Symbolic, Royal, and War Standards. The Lybian Forces, Allies of the Egyptians, with Band and Symbolic Standards respectively. The Ethio pian Guard, with Characteristic Symbols, Standards, &c. Idolatrous Procession. Note—Every City, Month, Day, and Hour had its presiding Genius. Singer, with the Book of I " Hermes." Horus Copus with Palm Branch and Hone Glass. " The Hierogrammat," or Sacred Scribe (in his hand the Book, Ruler, Papyrus, and Palette). Two Functionaries with Emblems of " Power" and " Stability." No. 1. The Ark, or " Shrine of Knounais," called also "Knoum," "Neph," or "Num," i.e. " Water."—The primary form of" Amnon," and styled " The Leader of Gods"--" The Creating Intelli ence"—" The Spirit of God"—" The Spirit of t h e ( Vernal) Deity"—" The Soul of the Sun," and by the Greeks "Jupiter Chnumis." Worshipped by the inhabitants of Thebais (Plu tarch). The asp was sacred to this god. The Ark, bearing his hieroglyph, with that of the beetle, or " Creative Power," is also decorated with this emblem. Symbolic standard of "Athor" (Venus), the oracle of Night or Darkness (? chaos), whence arose all created things (Egyptian belief ). Symbolic standard of ditto. The Sybil, bearing the emblematic rush • I wand, with " Heka," " The Frog," the son of " Num," and type of the first state of man. No. 2 "Ma," " Meii," or " Thmei ;" or " Truth," " the Blind Goddess, represented with her eyes closed or blinded. The priests bearing this god dess have libation buckets and simpula. " Thmei," or Truth, or Justice. This deity has also a twofold character as the God dess of Truth and Justice. The small image of this god was worn by the Chief Judge while engaged in listening to cases brought before him. A similar emblem was worn by the High Priests of the Jews, and it is remarkable that the word " Thummin" is not only translated "Truth," but, being a plural or dual word, corresponds to the Egyptian word of " Two Truths"—i. e. "Light and Truth "—breastplate4 hav ing the figures of the two gods, " Re" (Light) and " Thmei " (Truth) represented upon them have been discovered. Priests with Scarabeei. The Searabmus may be considered as an em blem of " The Sun"—of " The Creative Power," and of the God " Phthah" (Vulcan). Incense Bearer, waving his incense patera before the god. The incense was in the shape of a small globe or pill ; and, upon modern analysis, is found to consist of aromatic substances with gum, and gave out co loured light or flame when thrown into the burning cup. No. 3. " Apis ;" His titles were " The Sacred Bull of Memphis." " The Bull of Abundance," " Adored by the People," " The Sacred Bull of Pthah," " Guardian of the Solar Year," " Apis renowned over the world," " The Symbol of Inunda tion." Richly draped and on a car led by Priests bearing the emblems of " Serapis" or " Sari Api," " The Pillar of Mensu ration, " Column of Measurement," or " Nilometer" of wood divided into cubits. Attendant priests also fen the idol and offer homage as it passes forward. The festivals in honour of Apis lasted 7 days, on which occasion a large concourse of people assembled at Memphis—the priests led the Sacred (living) Bull in solemn procession, every ono coming forward from their houses to welcome him. Pliny and Solinus affirm that children who smelt his breath were thought thereby • gifted with the power of predicting future events. The tokens which distinguished this Sacred Bull at its birth were a white tse. spot resembling a crescent on its right side, and a lump under t s ' its tougue.in the form ota,...lagotio,as pretended by the priests. The people bene.veo him to be the cause of the swelling and inundation of the Nile, which produced fertility and abund ance, and celebrated his festival at about the period of this annual occurrence with every demonstration of rejoicing and literal abandonment to the intoxication of joy all over the kingdom. Many temples were erected and dedicated to " Apis," and also to " Serapis," the divinity of the Column of Measurement—the Nilometer ! N.B. The decorations of the drapery upon the bull and carriage are principally com posed of the first flowers that spring from the earth after the recession of the flood—i.e., the Lotus and Meliolotus. Priests with the pretended God " Canopus," or Water Offering to the God of the Nile. "It is said that the Chaldeans, trans porting the fire, which was their God, into all the provinces, offered to let him combat with those of other nations, on condition that if he remained the conqueror they should adore him. The priests of Canopus accepted the challenge and devised this stratagem. They fabricate in Egypt pitchers of au extremely porous earth, through which the water filtrates and is purified. The Arch-priest took one of them, stopped the pores with wax, and painting it of various colours filled it with water, and made it his god. He covered it with the head of au ancient statue, said to be that of the pilot of Menelaus. The Chaldeans presented themselves ; the contest began ; they lighted their fires around the vase ; the wax melts, the water runs through the vase and extinguishes the fire. The fraud of the priest gave the victory to Canopus over the Chaldean deity. From that moment his image has been re presented with very short feet, a narrow back, and the belly and back rounded like a pitcher. It is under this form that he is worshipped as the vanquisher of all the gods."—Ruffin Histoire de l'Eglise, Eyre second. No. 4. The Goddess " Pash-t," " The Memphian Lioness," " The Beloved of Pthah," "The Goddess of Fire," " Bubastes" (the Diana of the Greeks) preceded by sacred dancers. The Idol carried by priests in their leopard-skin dresses, with red incense flaming before her, and surrounded by " Symbolic Divinities," " Winged Geniuses," &c. One or the principal festivities held in Egypt was at Bubastis. in honour of the Pash-t -700,000 persons of both sexes being present. A great num ber of victims were sacrificed, wine was profusely drunk, dancing of the wildest character went forward, men played flutes; women sang and shrieked as loud as possible, struck the " Crotola" (cymbals) or clappers of wood and metal, &c. Lotus Dancers (Females). Incense Bearers. No. 5. Tim god " Osiris," as " Osiris Pethempamentes" (the Pluto of the Greeks). "He who is resident in the Hades," " Presi dent of the Amenti," " Receiver and Giver," " The Sun," " The Eye of the World," " The Source of the Nile," " He who has many Eyes," a form of Ammon, wearing the " Ati," and having the Crook and Flagellum ; regarded as the author of Time, from the word, " Osch-Iri," " the maker of Time." The principle office of this deity was to judge the dead, and to rule over that_ kingdom where the souls of good men were admitted to eternal felicity. This deity was very famous- his temples and priests were to be found in al most every part of Egypt; the sacred rites of Osiris were a profound mystery, never revealed. His name was even avoided, as of too august a nature to be mentioned. The "Ivy," with which the Priests decorated themselves, was sacred to him, and also the " Meliolotus." No. 6. The Sacred Boat of the Amenti, or Lower Regions, with the four genii, or demi gods (bearing emblems of life and power) and their vases of " Amenti," or that subterraneous region where they (the Egyptians) imagined the souls of the dead to go after their decease. The first genius is " Amset," " Judge of the Amenti" (human-headed). The second is " Hepi," " Con cealed Number" (baboon-headed). The third is " Tuautmutf," " Adorer of his Mother" (jackall-headed), The fourth is " Kabh-senuf," " Refresher of his Brethren" (hawk-headed). The Sepulchral Vases have heads in shape of the four genii of the dead, and each was employed for holding a portion of the • viscera of the deceased, embalmed separately and deposited in • them. On the " Amset" Vase is inscribed the speech of " Isis" to the dead ; on that of " Hepi" is a similar speech t-om " Nepthys ;" on that of "Tuautmutf, one from "Neith;" and on that of " ICabh-senuf," one from " Selk ;" the purport of each being a.nassnrance of protection, and of being "near thee," " beside thee," or " t lrme to be beside thee." The Sacred Boat is followed b y h "The Sun," emble ms of thesy ll bolic " Eyes of Osiris," or of -seeing presence of h Di vinity. Note.—Besides the Crimes, from herewere t 42 e As sessors or Judges of the 42 from which a good man should be five ; and these also differ from the 36 Demons men tioned by Origen that presided over o human body, and pe o. 7. culiar member we re invoked to cure the infirmities of tNlthepecul iar imme di a t e ly under their protection. dedicated Queen c u alt n e e t her n. Egypt," "The "Isis," or " Th e Seat." The hieroglyphic head, and followe d b y the p riestesses and virgins thronee Goddess g “ h elssi 1 her worship. I sis was styled also " The Be g i nn i ng " ( as he - i, sister, f' Nepthys ' " was " The End"), and Goddess of the Moon," "Defender of her Brother," dee. (The " Ceres" of the Greeks.) " The festival," says Herodotus, " which' they celebrate at Bu se . rig in honour of Isis is magnificent. After prayers a bull is sacri iced, which the - priests cut up and afterwards burn, pouring oil on the fire while the victim is con suming. Kneeling and striking themselves in honour of Osiris,' they afterwards eat what remains of the sacrifice." Tamarisk and Dancers. No. S. The God " Horus" (or Khons- Horns, the Apollo of the Greeks, In-hieroglyph " The Warmth of the Sun," " The Path" (of the Sun), " The Sup port," a " Defender of his Father," See., the Son of Osiris and Isis. He is represented with the single mystic lock of Hair of Childhood slaying his evil geniuses, under the forms of the lion, the gazelle, scorpions, vipers, &.c., while Typho, Typhon, Seth, or Baal, " The Evil Spirit," is escaping from beneath his feet in the shape of a crocodile. He is attended by his sacred emblems and standards. The Hawk was dedicated to him, the Tamarisk Tree, the Testudo (Lyre), dic. • One of the principal duties of " Horns," was that of introducing the souls of the d ea d i n t o th e presence of " Osiris," after they had passed the ordeal of final judgment. lie also assisted "Amset" in weighing and ascertaining their good conduct during life, previous to their admission into the august presence of his Father in the blessed regions of the Amenti. Incense Bearers. No. 9. The Goddess " Nep thys", „ (t , rrosei pine of the Greeks), called also "The End," " The Sister Goddess," " Th e S av i our Si s t er G o dd ess ," o . The Barren," " Reetrix of the Lower Regions." On her head the hieroglyphic emblem of her name, a bowl and basket, called g, N o b, ' placed upon a house, answering to " Ei " or " Tel," " Neb-tei" or "Nob - thy," " The L a dy of the Abode." " The Sistrum, having the face of Isis on one side, and Nepthys on the other, hieroglyphically represents the beginning and the end, or generation and corruption.' "- Plutarch. No. 10. The Goddess " Neith " (the " Minerva " of the Greeks,) en throned with sceptre, and wearing the " Teshr," preceded by Musicians, Male and Female Bearers of Incense with green flame, and Surrounded by symbolic divinities, "Neith" was 4:7 ; • . ~*~.~ ~~~. . .~ ~' ~~ styled " The Mother Goddess" or " Mother of Gods," " The Deified personification of Air."—(Diodorus.) She presided over the Upper Hemisphere, and was partieularlyworshipped at Sais. Musical instruments stringed (the Buoni or harp of 17 strings, especially) were dedicated to her. " Neith," or " Neth," is the supposed origin of the Greek name, " Theta," or "Athena." The belief of the Egyptians in " the Existence of a Supreme Being " is proved by the inscription over. the Temple of Minerva (Neith), in hieroglyphic characters. viz. : —" lam that which is, which was, and shall be. No Mortal has lifted up my veil—the offspring of my power is the Sum." And the " Immortality of the Soul," by the prayer recited at the time of death, by an Egyptian, expressing his desire to be received into the presence of the deities. Symbols of Mau and Tefnu, and YEgis or Athor. No. 11. " Mcrsekar," the Snake Goddess, called also " Melsigor," or " Mersokar"— " Ruler of the Lower Regions." No. 12. The Great God " Amnion," or " Hamman," " Amon," " Amen-re," " Amoun," " The King of Gods," "The Concealed," " The Hid den," " The Intellectual Sun," wearing on his right head the "Tester," surmounted by the Disc and Pinnies. In hisright hand the "Tau," or emblem of life, and in his left the " Coin," or sceptre of power. A large Altar of Burning Incense is car ried before him; on either side arc his symbols of "creative power," the Sacred Urous, or Serpent of Amnon, Priests with crooks and fans, in their habits and insignia of the high est order, with the cEgis of the God— " The Intellectual San" _ . containing the symbolic " All-teeing Eyes," " The Divine Searabreus," and the Ram-headed God, " Chroumis," the vernal creative intelligence or divinity. The King and Queen Crowned. The King bears iu his hand the sceptre of " Truth, Justice, and Mercy." The Queen that of the Sovereignty of the Nile. They are preceded by Dancers and Musicians, La dies and Officers of the Court and Household ; the God " Eilethyla,'7 or Sacred Vulture, " The Protectress of Kings" —" The Pure," borne immediately in front of the Royal per sonages. The State Flabella, behind and over their heads, together witk the banners of Nitocris and Egypt, flanked by the Royal disks of "Re " (the Sun) ; sacred symbols, with various insignia, royal and military standards, Sze. OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. THIS EVENING, and every evening during the week, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC and MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great Wizard of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety of incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary effects. . Magic and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos sessing distinctive - characteristics and peediiar phases of amusement. It is not a monologue, for the auflieuce them selves perform their parts with the principal actor, some of them on the stage and others iu front ; it is no'. an exhibition, though everything becomes metamorphosed before the eyes of the visitors no one can be poqitive that he sees P - iy one thing ; lmt it is a comedy really performed by the com pany ; a melodrama replete with startling positions and nnex- ...._— . . . pected denouements ; a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of the public every night to apptar as auxiliaries ; and an ex travaganza, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond the bounds of probability. Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and fashion-ble audiences which have nightly filled the Lyceum Theatre to overflow, and by means of whose g - nerous aid he has been enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for con tinuous repetition. He believes that no processor of his art has a:; any time or in any place been honoured with an amount of success so extensive, so decided, and so unusual. He would attribute that success to three CallSo3 ; first, tirt in his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors the results of a life sedu'olsly devoted to the attainment of perfected skill in one peculiar art, and to perfect which lie has travelled the globe in every clime ; secondly, that he has spared no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on the stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment of the first mechanicians and artists of the day ;• and thirdly, that, while endeavouring to provide amusement for those who hoooar him with their presence, he lies pot forqotten that it is possib'e to afford information also, and that the oppor tunity should not be neglected of exposing conjuring where ever it has been used for nefarious purposes, or whenever by resorting to the conjuror's arts, in an illegitimate manner, the designing have succeeded in making dupes of 'the credulous. The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro fessor Anderson has received, from the time of opening the theatre up to the present date, bear witness to the great in terest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst many of them hear melancholy evidence to the dangers which at:;end a belief in the superstitious nonsense of the " Spiri tualists." Judging simply by the correspondence which has resulted, Professor Anderson's expos() of spirit-rapping and his illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro duced a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt to ex- Pose a mischievous and impudent juggle. It is impossible for Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the communications which reach him on the subject. He regrAs that many of these should. come from ladies and. gentlemen who, from their position in society and their well-k nown tellectual attainments„hewould least have expected to have been converts to a belief so preposterous iu itself, and so easily susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Every evening, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions on spirit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within the Lyceum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited and elucid - ited. It is respectfully requested that this public exposition will be accepted generally as Prof6 - .7,i1; Ainittraores only-. merle of replying at full length to his multitudinous correspondents. He regrets that the names of the great and learned of the land should have been made to figure in the documents emanating from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem ber 20, and taken by that journal from the New York Spirt.-' tual Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David Brewster frankly confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what he has witnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be thoroughly nonplussed. Both of these noted men brought the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the , olution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial, actual hands, and the demonstrative strength of the spirits who thus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate rial objects about the room; proved to be too much of a ques tion for them to master." Mr. D. D. Hume, the author of the above, has recently left England, and the following, account of who, and what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 645: This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and now in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations without apparatus. Barnum, who is w&I-known throughout the Anglo-Saxon world as a splendid humbug, offered him 2,000 dollars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New York. Barnum then took it for granted that mcdiumv could be bought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was refused. Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply and honestly remarked, that the money would have been very acceptable to him, for he was poor, young (under 2e), an or phan, and in very bad health : but he would have been afraid of losing his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose his life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful. He inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is one of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer tainly surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the editorial article of an established journal, the editor of whom might be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe in spirit-rapping—does spirit-rapping gain or lose by this accession to its adherents ? and, with Barnum's endorse ment to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely to be negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not : hut, when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of England have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross a swindle, when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the Rev. N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and writes a book on the subject, he considers it t be time for him to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the Morning Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir David Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel, in company with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that which the Wizard of the North proclaims every night--that spirit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad purposes. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day, however, there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one who was present when he and Lord Brougham had their seance with the spirits, in which the writer says, that " the table (a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most extraordinary manner, and, among other things, a large ac cordion was conveyed by an invisible agency to my hand and then to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship's right hand, apart from any person, it played an air through out." With such a statement, printed for the edification of the people of the 19th century, with the facts before us that the most talented men of the day arc permitting themselves to be deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers—that the greatest novelist of the age is now engaged in making it the subject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention" I has actually been advertised to be held in St. Martin's-hall, Professor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual ists of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will _ . be received by the people of England as genuine honest at tempts to provide au antidote for the bane of the spiritual jugglers. In the course of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have visited the Lyceum Theatre,—a larger number, it is believed, than has ever before been assembled within its walls in so short a period. 'Magic and Mystery is repeated every even. log, the pngramme being continually changed. Grand fashionable Day Performance, or Saturday, November 10, at 2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ; Port I.—Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical Capabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do by magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer ism, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in the air. . , . Act 2, The Aqua-Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the power of producing animated nature from fire and water only, and the possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most complex forms of ornithological existence. Act 3. Le Livre des Recucils Choisies: or, Puck's Own Pocket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the evening's entertainment in the production of the very Vein in bringing minous from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude o fo u r t of minuteness; in developing bulk where no space appears its existence in discovering odd things in odd places, and Act 4. the P • forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely place for to be found. 131 e. In which will ; or, Transition without Troll: Pere will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed ding Ring, in ma t t h io e n p — os b i la ti e o k n vv . scorn o om f a th ß le an m k os Note,inptphreolTlriimantes.for into white, and the Discovery of every Article Act 5. L' Ecrin d ; or, the Casket of Crocsus. Into which, though made elre and suspended so as to entirely be of glass perfectly transparent, visible to the ,eyes of all present, the Wizard will cause the itself, and rain into the moneyeasiet, th oug h it s lid b e c l ose d, c of his visitors to transport possession locked, and the key in the of the audie n c e . Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Transparency of Opacity. Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wine and Spirit Store. An im provement upon th e " i nex h aus tibl e bottle," ' inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will not only be in exhaustible, but will change its contents, ad infinitum, at the word of comp-land, producing soda-water, butter-milk, Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, runs, whisky, uoyeau, or any other wine or spirit required ; and finally proving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry, and occupying the whole space when tightly packed.. Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Expose of Spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping table and tocsin of the invisibles. Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of the Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange metamor phoses, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become transformed into the flags of victory—the banners of Erg land., France, Turkey, and Sardinia. ' Act. 10. Tho Enchanted Chair of COMIIS, in which he who Act. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shortest Route to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of ridding ourclvcs of a troublesome friend, and the advantages of the newly-discovered dia-terrestrial passage from - the west era to the eastern hemisphere. Doors open each evening at half-past 7 ; commence at 8. Private boxes, 1/. Ils. 6€l. and 1/. ls., to be obtained at the Box-office, or at the principal libraries; stalls, 4s. ; dress circle, 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit,' ls. ; gallery, 6d. The Box-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction of Mr. Chattcrton, jun. Grand' fashionable Morning •Per furmance on Saturday. November 10, at 2 o'clock. 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" Mr. Lettis,—As soon as you, send out your genuine bloaters, I shall he glad to have a supply as usual ; those I had last year gave great satisfaction.— t. F. Coarroux, Ambassador's Cost t, Sc. James% Palace.—Oct. 1, 1855." QTAR PACKETS flout the TERRACE PIER, GUIVEAEND, 9, 2. W}IA,W. Er.a.r.RWALL, on the ai rival n• • • ';)Uowing Trains from Fenchurch-street, tO4, 3 1 4, WeAther permit. The Packets will call at tho RoshervlllP, Greenhlthc, Purflee`, and North Wool% :ch Piers. To or rood Gravesend and London... 10(1. .. Is. 2d. „ Gravesend and Blaekwall or Woolwich Bd. .. Os. WI. „ Erith and London ............... ..., Rd. .. Os. 10.1 „ Erith and Blackwall or Woolwich .. .. • • 6d. .. Oa. 8d bet , -Pen Gravasend and Intermediate Piers.. fid. Os. October 23, 1855. 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IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. 7 1 11IESEMAR.—On the 29th of May, 1855, an injunction was granted by the High Court of Chancery, and on the 1 lth June following' was made perpetual, against Joseph ranklin and others, to restrain them, ander a penalty of one thou sand ponads, from imitating this Medicine, which is protected by. aoyal Letters Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the Ecote de rharmanie de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIESEMAR, No. 1, is a remedy for Relaxation, Spermatorrhcen, and Exhaustion of the , y‘tem, whether arising from excesses, accident, or climate. To those persons who are prevented entering the married state by he consequences of early errors it is invaluable. TRIESEMAR, No. 2, afiectually, in the short space. of three days, completely and entirely 3radlcates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and Cubebs lave so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health of a vast portion of the population. 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THE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM FOR THB CITY. A very crowded and rather stormy meeting of rate. payers of th e Cit y o f L ondon was held yesterday in the Egyptian gall, Mansion-house, convened on tie requi sition of the Lord Mayor, to take into consideraliowthe pro:prietuf_bringiog.into aches--in-ihrettro~N* the l'ublic Libraries and Museums Act of last session. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor took the chair at 2 o'clock, and on his right and left we observed Messrs. Tite, M.P., Ewart, M.P., Mechi, G. Moore, Deputy Dekin,Bennoch, Sheriff Kennedy, C. Pearson, Anderton, Major-General Sykes, &c. The hall was densely filled with ratepayers, who evinced a most unmistakeable hostility to the adop tion of the act from the very commencement of the pro ceedings. The - T OWN CLERK having read the section of the act on which it was proposed to proceed, and the advertise ment summoning the meeting, The LORD MAYOR addressed the meeting as follows : Gentlemen—You are aware that this meeting has been convened in accordance with an act of Parliament (which I have before me), to determine whether the ratepayers of London shall tax themselves in order to obtain for their city the advantages to be derived from a library and museum free to all classes of the community. I con fess there are few subjects on which I could call you to gether with more entire satisfact . ion•; and lam sure you will give to it your best consideration—on the one hand 'to avoid any needless addition to the public expendi ture ; and on the other to obtain for yourselves, your families, awl your fellow-citizens, all the available sources of information, and consequent progress, which the in tellectual labours of the world have placed at your dis posal. This act was passed chiefly to enable corporate bodies to discharge other and happier duties than those which too generally fall to their lot (those of repressing or of punishing offences)—and it cannot be otherwise than highly gratifying to the magistrates of any town or city to be called upon to forward an undertaking that must necessarily contribute greatly to lessen their la bours, by extending that general education which is the safest and most certain adversary of crime. In this pp and in this city it requires nu arguments to show that the more a people are educated the better they will be —that in proportion to their c nlightenment, will be their love of order, their social improvement, their do mestic prosperity, and their love of that pure and ra• tional liberty which can be understood and appre ciated only by educated men. Gentlemen, i❑ calling upon you to give to the City of London the vast benefit I anticipate from the establishment of a free library —open to all and for all—l am not asking you to try a vague experiment, the success of which may be even hazardous or doubtful. It has already been tried in several of the great towns and cities of England, and with a succeA's which removes all apprehension of failure, and all dread that our hopes may be followed by disap pointment. Upon this point I will not detain you fur-. ther than to say that in Manchester, during the year ending September, 1355, no fewer than 147,582 persons availed themselves of the facilities afforded by the free library there ; and I have reason to believe that results In proportion have rewarded the ratepayers in the other 12 or 15 corporate towns in whi c h thi s s m a ll but im- mensely beneficial tax was levied. Gentlemen, you are aware, first, that this tax in no case can ever be a rate exceeding one penny in the pound. If we vote it, we do so entirely of free will, and our levy may be so small as to be little more than a nominal tax upon any party. The amount will be arranged according to the mode pro vided fur by act of parliament, and there can be little doubt that in the great and wealthy City of 'London a sufficient sum may be obtained by a pressure so slight as to be almost imperceptible. I need not inform you that to levy this tax at all, it is necessary that its eipediency also be admitted by a large majority (no less than two tuirds) of the ratepayers present at this meeting. I shall, therefore, as is my duty leave this issue in your hands. It is for you entirely to decide whether you will pro vide (that which you can so easily do) another means of giving instruction and enjoyment to tens of thousands of your fellow-men and fellow-citizens, to whom a free library, and its consequent museum, will be a boon of incalculable value. In doing this, it is true, you will only put the City of London, in this respect, on a par with Manchester, Liverpool, Oxford, Sheffield, Norwich, and many other cities of the kingdom ; but you will rescue the metropolis from the reproach of lagging in the rear while the whole world is advancing in the great March of improvement, and of being the only capital in Europe in which education is not free. Gentlemen, I would by no means indelicately press my opinions upon you. I respect this auditory too much to doubt that their liberality and wisdom will determine what is best for themselves and their fellow-citizens ; but I confess it would greatly gratify me, and very largely augment the pride I have felt and the happiness I have enjoyed as your chief magistrate, if the latest act of my year of office was to assist you, my friends and fellow-citizens, in giving effect to this act of Parliament, an d presenting to the City of Lond on a f ree lib rar y and free museum, Kith all their attendant advantages. His LORDSHIP, at the conclusicn of his address, stated of the meeting, and c a ll e d on M r . E w art, that he hal received l et t ers f rom L or d J. Russell, Mr. Grote, Mr. Prescott, an d ot h ers, appro ving of the object a resolution. M.P., to move Mr. EWART said he would not have intruded on the meeting, but from the fact of his having been the means of carrying the act, upon which they were about to pro ceed, through Parliament. He felt that the city of Lon-' don would not refuse an appeal which bad already been so nobly answered by Manchester and Liverpool. Man chester and Salford had each public libraries, and Liver pool had had one for several years, and the latter town was about to erect a magnificent building for its accom modation. The Town Council of Liverpool proposed to contribute 10,0001., and one citizen, Mr. Brown, the member for South Lancashire, would give 6,0001. in ad dition. (Cheers.) In Manchester they had purchased for their public library a large building which had formerly been devoted to the dissemination of socialist doctrines. The 12,0001. bad been raised by the ratepayers, and in it, he was happy to add, was included 8011., contributed by the working men, for whose use the library was prin cipally intended. (Hear, hear.) But it was not the great commercial cities of Liverpool and Manchester alone that had come forward and availed themselves of the act. From the little town of Hertford be had received a letter announcing that the town council had carried the question of a public library unanimously. (Hear, hear.) Surely, then, the greatest city in the world would not lag behind in providing literary sustenance for the poorer and more hard-working classes of its inhabitants. But this was not all. They would probably be surprised to hear that there were public libraries in all the small towns of Italy, and Germany was still more fully provided. He trusted that it the meeting assented to the resolution establishing a free library in the City, they would attach to it a lending library, a branch which had been attended with the utmost success in Liverpool and Manchester. It might be urged against the establishment of a free library that the poor borrowers would injure the books ; but that argument was at once silenced by the facts in their possession. It appeared that out of 110,000 volumes lent in Liverpool in a given period only one was at all injured. (Loud cheers.) Indeed so reverently careful were the poor people of the books that they brought clean napkins to wrap them in when received, and re turned them in the same manner. (Cheers.) So much for the manner in which these institutions were appreci ated by working people, but his great reason for urging the resolution on the meeting was that in the twelve places in which the Libraries Act had been adopted, it had had the beet effect in fusing the various classes of the population, rich and popr, strangers and natives, all becoming more friendly and intimate with each other in consequence of the facilities afforded by the libraries and museums for coming more frequently together. (Hear.) He had been told that both political and religious dis cord were very much diminished in the towns in which the act of last session bad been brought into opera tion. (Cheers.) The hon. member concluded by moving a resolutio npledging the ratepayers of the City of Lon don to the adoption of the Public Libraries and Mu seums Act of last session. Some opposition was made to the moving of the reso lution by Mr. Ewart, on the ground that that gentleman was not a ratepayer, but Mr. Deputy DAKIN contended that it would be most ungracious to reject the services of a gentleman to whom they owed tat, passing of the act. Major-General SYKES said that the task of seconding the resolution might have been given to an abler person, but certainly not to one more earnest in the cause. For many years past he bad taken the warmest interest in providing for the masses of the people the means of ac quiring knowledge which otherwise would be kept from them by the expense. He trusted that the crowded meting of ratepayers he saw before him might be taken as an augury of the success of the motion. (" Oh, oh," and interruption.) Let them remember that the great est amount they could be charged with was a penny in the pound, while it might not be the ghost of a fax thing—(a laugh)—and he trusted, for the honour of the City of London, that the ratepayers would not make• themselves marked men throughout Great Britain by resisting so paltry an expense. (Interruptive cries of "Oh, oh," and uproar.) By a statistical table in his hand, he found that the supply of books in libraries in London was 22 vols. for 100 inhabitants ; Paris, 160 for Mr. Deputy PEACOCK, who rose to move the previous question as an amendment. He said that one would suppose from the speeches they had just heard that the City of London was completely destitute of public libra ries, while the fact was that they had a library of 12,000 volumes in the Guildhall, and how often did they think that library was used by the citizens ? During the month of October the library was visited by seven per sons. (Cheers and laughter.) It had been urged that their library was situated in an awkward corner ; but if so; it was for the corporation to remove it to a suitable place, and make the 12,000 volumes 100,000 if necessary. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) They could do all that with out touching the pockets of the ratepayers. (Renewed cheering.) They should remember how. the people were struggling under the war taxes-andlocal rates. He, as chairman of the Court of Sewers, could state that not a month went over their heads without 90 or 100 warrants for the rates. In addition to this there was a debt of 90,000/., to remove which should be their .first conside saligjaafelk.bouud. to mcklia44.—uraxiams.4p.asticift,.- becatise thouglit the P - ileent moment an unfitting one for increasing the burthens of the people. (Cheers.) Mr. Cox thought that if a public library was neces sary for the City of London, it was the duty of the cor poration to provide it. He should, therefore, vote against any addition to their local taxation. Mr. BOWER supported the amendment, and reminded the ratepayers that, in addition to their present burdens, they would soon have Sir B. Hall's act in full operation. He asked, were they prepared under such circumstances to borrow 200,0001., and build a place for the library They had already 35 public libraries in London, and 27 museums, which were sufficiently accessible for persons who were really of a literary turn. Besides, the circum stances of the City had entirely changed of late years, and all the young men for whose literary instruction they meant to provide slept in the country. The speaker in conclusion reminded the meeting of the bad success of the Birkbeck and other literary institutions in the City. After a few words from Mr. ABRAHAM, _ _ lik• Rev. Mr. MACKENZIE wished to say a word for the honour of the city of London, and for the interests of its young men. He felt that the honour of the City was at stake in the decision to which they were about to come. (Lout cries of " No, no.") It was true they had a library of 12,000 volumes in Guildhall, hilt they were not books of general utility. ("Oh," and laughter.) They were doubtless very important books, but they chiefly concerned the antiquities of the city of London and the privileges of its various officers. They would find in them most excellent accounts of the various pro cessions of the Lord Mayors of London—(laughter ; but they would hardly like to study 12,000 vols. on that subject. He did not mean to say that they were all on that subject. (Laughter.) It should also be recollected that the library was not accessible at hours which would suit the young men. He knew the young men, and he felt for them, and he could assure the meeting that it was a great mistake to suppose that the majority of the City young men slept in the country. He did not think the establishment of public libraries was all that could be done for the working classes, but it was a step in the right direction. Dr. SPARKS suggested that the question should be re ferred to a committee. (No, no.) Mr. P. G. DODD said he had lived 40 years in the City, and it was only very lately ke learned they had a library in the Guildhall. "' Mr. TITE, M.P., said it was quite plain the ratepayers would not submit to any taxation for the establishment of public libraries. (Loud cries of "Hear, hear.") He wished, however, the world to understand that it was with them only a question of time, and was unpopular at present because rates were high and discounts were at 7 per cent. In the meantime, his friend the Alderman of Tower Ward had made an excellent suggestion, which was that the wealthier classes should endeavour to carry the object by subscription. He (Mr. Tite) thought that at least a good beginning might be made in that way. Mr. MECHI reminded the meeting, that of the rate, which would probably be 4,0001. a year, the greatest portion would be levied on the great warehouses—not on the poor ratepayers. (No, no.) Alderman SIDNEY thought that the matter should be left in the hands of the corporation, who might appoint a committee to consider it. He feared that the rato of 4,0001., if levied, would not benefit 2,000 persons, as all the literary institutions hitherto established in the City had been signal failures. The fact was that the working classes required no patronage from the middle or any other class, and would be best pleased in being permitted to act 'independently for themselves. Mr. BENNOCH addressed the meeting in support of the original resolution, but so great was the uproar that his observations c.mid not be dit.tinctly heard ; after which The LORD MAYOR put "the previous question," which was carried by a complete forest of hands. Thanks were then voted by acclamation to the Lord Mayor, and the proceedings terminated. REPRESENTATION OF SOUTHWARK. Last night another muster of the supporters of Sir C. Napier took place at the Literary and Scientific Institu tion in the Borough-road. The assemblage was as large as the dimensions of the building admitted of, and there was apparently about the same proportion of electors to non-electors as is usually to be met with at such gather in7s. The chair was occupied by Dr. EVANS, who opened the proceedings by expressing his regret that there was not in the borough a room sufficiently large to accommo date those who were desirous of being present. He then observed i upon the circumstance of the r e b e i ng t wo can didates n the field, and, while eschewing anything like personalities with reference to the other candidate, he urged in strong terms what he conceived to be the claims of tLe gallant Admiral. He preferred the representative of public interests to him who represented local interests alone, and he put it to the meeting what sort of a place the House of Commons would be if every borough in the kingdom sent only local representatives to the great con gress of the nation. Sir C. NAPIER, who was received with the enthusiasm of a popular f avour i te, sa id that he did no concea l f rom himself the position which he was in. If they did him the honour to return him to Parliament, it would perhaps be one of the greatest triumphs that ever a gentleman or as officer had achieved ; but if, on the other hand, he should not be fo r t una t e enough to be ret ur ne d , h e con f esse d t h a t it would be " a heavy blow and great discouragement." He did hope, however, and he should say that he was almost certain, that they would return him to Parlia ment with a triumphant majority. (Cheers, and cries of " We will.") lie bad seen in a newspaper of that morn ing's date a letter, addressed to the editor, asking whether he were not a decrepit old man l He asked them, did he look very decrepit'? (" No.") Five or six years ago, when the Government thought proper to intrust him with the command of the Channel fleet, they did not think him de crepit ; and again, in the year 1854, when they sent him to command a fleet which was manned by 20,000 men, he was not thought very decrepit. At any rate, he had been able, in spite of storms, fogs, and tempests, to conduct that fleet through the Baltic Sea and into the Gulf of Finland. (Cheers.) He was not ashamed of his age—far from it. Thank God, he had good health and strength, and be had no doubt, if they sent him to Parliament, that he should be able to do his duty as well as many a younger man. (Cheers.) He understood that his opponent (Mr. Scovell) was about to adopt the plan which he (Sir C. Napier) had adopted from the first—that of holding open-air meetings. If Mr. Scovell began holding meetings, he trusted that none of his friends would go there to disturb there. Such conduct was un-English and unfair. Every man, friend or foe, was entitled to a fair hearing, and, if they wanted to beat a man, the best way to do it was to be open and aboveboard with him. (Cheers.) However, if Mr. ScoVell held an open-air meeting, he (Sir Chas. Napier) would be there to hear what had to be said ; because it was best to hear what every one had to say, and then at future meetings he might be able to give to any statements which might be made a triumphant an swer. (Cheers.) After going through the principal points of his address, the gallant Admiral said, with re gard to what was called " Administrative Reform," that he bad been an administrative reformer before the term had become almost a byword. So long as 1816 he had written letters on the subject of naval reform, and he had gone with it almost ever since. He was happy to say that many things which he had recommended had since been carried out ; but, asthey had not been adopted at the time, they were not allowed to appear as reforms of his suggesting, but as emanating from the Govern ment of the day. (Cheers.) He declared that be was not a factious man, that he did not wish to disturb the Government, and that if a Tory Government were in power to-morrow, and conducted the affairs of the coun try properly, he would support it as readily as any other. He believed that on Tuesday next the Speaker's warrant would be issued, fixing the time for the election. The writ would be returned in three days ; it then remained for the High Bailiff to appoint what day he pleased for the election ; and so far as he could judge, he did not believe that it would take place before next Monday week. There was ample time in 14 days for a people to do a great deal towards securing the return of a ca.. his°P y date. Ho trusted and believed that no friend of would use undue influence to insure his success ; for if he thought that he could only be retur' e l by undue or unfair means, he would much rather not be returned to Charley Parliament at all. (Cries of " Bravo !") Unfortunately, the country was not so far advanced in a i electors th e poll. Parliamentary reform as it ought to _ 0, OOO to be ; and,and a Southwark of thi sn, not te abovebel ev , d oo t that out ever of gone That could not be called a full and free representation of the people. Ho hoped that the forthcoming elec tion would be of a different description, and that more electors would be polled than had ever been befor e . A t all events, if a good proportion of those who had s t a y e d away before ' voted now, he should be returned by a triumphant majority, even though Mr. Scovell polled cons id era bly more than at the last election. (Cheers.) So far as local interests were concerned, he really did not see why he should not be able to represent them quite as well as his hon. opponent. It was not very dif ficult to " know" what was wanted—the difficulty, un• fortunately, was to "obtain" it. (Cheers.) He promised, if returned, to be always at his post, to give every at tention to the subject of local interests, to have his door communication oever, h whiche always open to his constituents, and to reply to every the country was f or war , an d h e t rus t e d th a t it would be carried o n w ith a v i gour w hi c h wou ld inflict such heavy blows upo n th e enemy as to compe l hi m , b e f ore mustm might t th b a s t the sent general tnhim. feeling ßeyen o d f this, hw the end of next year,- to come forward and sue for peace. (Applause.) He had' seen with pride and satisfaction the success with which his friend Admiral Lyons had carried on operations in the Black Sea, .and he had no doubt, if the Government came forward as they ought to do, and sent an overwhelming - force to the Baltic, that we might be able to strike such blows against the Emperor of Russia as would make him tremble for him self even in his own palace of St. Petersburg. (Immense cheering, accompanied with .ws.ving of hats and other demonstrations of approval, followed the conclusion of the gallant Admiral's address.) Air. GREGORY moved, and Mr. BRITTEN seconded, a resolution expressive of confidence in Sir C. Napier, and after a brief interval allowed for questions, in the course of . which nothing of any importance was proposed, it was. carried with entllpsiaßtiojkip . ,:.,y ; ,l.,:,,,---H --The isioesodiego-teratiniesMAllW-W,l ihe ehairman,'and an itlivinctioi to the electors to "go early to the poll" Spirit of the Public Joiumals. (From the Times of this day.) The vacancy created in the Cabinet by the death of Sir William Molesworth remains still unsup plied. There are circumstances which render the selection of a Minister for this important office pe culiarly difficult. Sir William Molesworth was not only thoroughly versed in colonial affairs, and better qualified than any other statesman of the day to inaugurate the new imperial policy with re gard to the foreign dependencies of the Crown, but he was also what we fear at this moment is regarded as even of more consequence—an honest and con sistent supporter of the war, ffrmly determined to listen to no terms of peace which should not secure to this Government the most emphatic admission that every object for which we took up arms had been fully and completely obtained. The reputation of his Government, and the credit which he has justly earned by strengthening his Administration with all the available talent that could be found, forbade Lord Palmerston to neglect either of ,hese considerations. Ho must also have been, we imagine, anxious, if possible, to find the new Secretary of State in the House of Commons, where his Ministry certainly requires strength, in order to meet the very powerful opposition that is sure, whatever disclaimers we may now hear, to be ranged against it. If the faculty of speaking well were coincident with that of sound judment, we should certainly have reason to be intimidated at the large amount of Parliamentary talent which is arrayed in favour of a dislionourable peace, and this fact, though it does not shake our conviction, certainly imposes great difficulty in filling up the ranks of an Administra tion. In this position of affairs Lord Palmerston offered the seals of the Colonies to Lord Stanley. The ordinary view of such an advance would be to consider it as a means of breaking up and disunit ing the Opposition, as a Machiavellian policy the aim of which was to draw from the side of Mr. Disraeli and Lord Derby a young nobleman who, independently of his rank and prospects, is cer tainly by far the most promising member of the House of Commons of his age. It has been thought that such a step would break up the Opposition and very materially strengthen the Government. If these were the grounds on which the Colonies were offered to Lord Stanley, we confess we should think the appointment hardly defensible. Public office is not merely the reward for party manwuvre, and ought not to be put up for sale either for money, for Parliamentary influence, or for any other consideration than that of fitness. To appoint an administrator for fifty dependencies and a coun sellor in a crisis of so much difficulty and danger is too serious a duty to be mixed up with consi derations of so low and grovelling a character. We doubt very much whether it be the interest of the present Government to seek at this time ma terially to weaken au Opposition the greatest part of which is prepared to give them a fair and honest, support on the one question of the day—the vigor ous prosecution of the war with Russia ; and whether such a course would not be calculated to create new combinations by which Mr. Gladstone and his friends might turn out to be the only gainers. It may also be a question whether the separation of Lord Stanley from the Tory party— an event sooner or later absolutely certain, from the entire discrepancy of sentiment and opinion which exists between them—would have the effect imputed to it ; or whether any considerable portion of the Conservatives would follow a man whose sympathies carry him far nearer to Mr. Bright than to Lord Derby or to Mr. Disreali. Still there are reasons which make the offer of the Colonies to Lord Stanley both a wise and a creditable pro ceeding to Lord Palmerston. Lord Stanley is not yet 30 years of age, but nobody doubts his talents or his liberality. With a physical defect which places mere oratorical display out of his reach, ho has nevertheless contrived to win the attention and command the respect of the House of Commons. Nobody doubts his ability, his industry, or his honesty. Nobody doubts that in him we have a man destined to play a very remarkable part in the history of the coming time. To have selected such a man for high office, instead of going back to that ever ready depot of recruits, the fourth row behind the Treasury bench, was both bold and wise. It was a gallant attempt to emancipate the Government from mere family con nexion, and give it a basis worthy of the thoroughly popular and liberal principle on which it is founded. The worst that can be said of the attempt to obtain the assistance of Lord Stanley at the present juncture is that it has failed, and there aro some things in which a want of success is a strong argu ment against the wisdom of the attempt. Lord Stanley was at first, wo understand, undecided. but ultimately ho took Lord Derby's advice, and, that advice being adverse to acceptance, he de clined. We are not apprised of the grounds of difference ; but certainly, when we remember the speech made by Lord Stanley on Mr. Disraeli's motion with regard to the Vienna Conferences, we should not be surprised to learn that the refusal arose from the inability of Lord Stanley to acquiesce in the warlike policy of the present Government. If that were so, we can only regret that the prospect of obtaining Lord Stanley's ser vices for the country at the present moment should be lost to us, but we must render justice to the honourable consistency which induced so young a man to refuse so high a position----3 posi tion which many holding similar sentiments would f not hesitate to fill. It is the practice of most of our contemporaries to produce candidates of their ir own for every vacant office, and on the present oc casion Government has been favoured. with S very singular suggestions on the su b j e e some we do not conceive to be the duty of a journa uch list. It is the business of Government to choose ; it is ours to offer an opinion on the choice. But this we have certainly a right to expect—that, to whom soever the seals of the Colonies shall be delivered, he shall be a man in whom the country may thoroughly confide as tot the a e Coloniesquestionsre t rathero Lo of inclined war and d Stan ley t peace. If by offering the Lord Palmerston, .as w o believe, placed a seat in his Cabinet at the di sposal of one who does not go heartily with the people in their anxiety for the prosecution of the war and their ave rsion from a re - opening of th e Confer ences of Vienna, let not the error be committed a second time. We are most anxious the Colonies should be properly administered, but at this mo ment we are still more anxious that the honour of the country should be sacredly and inviolably maintained. A man who aids us on this subject is our friend, be his antecedents what they may ; the man who thwarts us on this subject is our enemy, be his professions and principles never so specious on all other points. We have had enough of divided counsels, and cannot afford to risk the manifest danger to our safety abroad and the stability of our Government at home which will be sure to arise if the people should once more begin to doubt the firmness and unanimity of the Government. We are preparing ourselves for battle, and may reasonably ask that the trumpet we are to follow shall give no uncertain sound. The appointment of the new Minister will be regarded throughout Europe as an index of the present state of opinion in the British Government. No mani festo in favour of war could be so powerful as the appointment of a Minister thoroughly committed to its prosecution. Nothing could be done which would so effectually encourage the schemes of all those who hate and fear us as to raise to high office (From the Morning Herald of this day.) Not long since a committee was appointed by an eminent scientific society to ascertain and report on the best methods of drawing the patronage and consideration of the Government to the pursuit of science under difficulties. It was hoped that I-y urging the claims of men who had devoted time and fortune to pursuits unremunerative to them selves, but of great national importance, the Go vernment might be induced to extend to scientific attainments some portion of those golden smiles now wantonly and exclusively lavished on mere political services. We have no fault to find with the proposal ; whatever is done to urge the claims of genius, literature, or science on the attention of a nation, notoriously indifferent to these claims in its collective capacity, shall command our respect ful consideration. At the same time, we think that such an intention would have had a far bet ter chance of success, and been more likely to gain general sympathy, if, instead of confining its efforts to one class of literary men, it had extended those efforts to all, and used its best endeavours to urge the necessity of some better provision for literary and scientific merits—we are ashamed to add— literary and scientific destitution. These remarks have been drawn from us' . by a correspondence which has taken place between Mr. Hallam, Mr. Macaulay, Mr. Dickens, and others, and the head of her Majesty's Government, rela gtiovdedtaougtwhtoorof thegentlewomen, D r. Samuel Johnson, sisters,oneofthe thmao lexicographer. Singularly enough another letter appears at the same time from Walter Savage Lan dor, in the columns of a contempora, calling at. • ' ' • y Y tention to a James j:),fpe living it :4 Mizreteazs . and. 'smilragees tha.l :ls a r n L y o t n w d o on p " r la e vg o dzvii: the language. It appears that the Misses Lowe, the two ladies alluded to, and James Defoe, have been left friendless and helpless ;—like some few others, they have no stay but the noble thoUghts of their connections and the remembrance of names that England would not willingly let die ; noble but inadequate guardians against those ills which fall hardest on the solitary and the aged. Lord Palmerston, in his reply, did not consider that the Literary Fund, under his disposal, "could be meddled with for a pension to the goddaughter of Dr. Johnson"—and, perhaps, in the strict letter of his interpretation, he was right. It might lead to more trouble than Governments are generally , willing to undergo if the relatives of deceased lite rary men were put forward as objects of the national bounty. And consequently au appeal has been made to the nation ; happily, it may seem, with out Miss Lowe's privity—for age has not been without its effects—to raise in her behalf 4001. That the result will be successful we cannot entertain a doubt ; and, therefore, it would seem superfluous to recommend this proposal to our readers. But we hope that this appeal will not be lost on the nation, and that the efforts of Carlyle, Dickens, and Forster, may lead to some more per manent and extended good than—good as it is— the present case commends. Let any man consi der, for a moment, the literature of this country ; let him consider what it has done for us as a nation—(take that side only)—and then consider what the nation, as such, has done for its literature and literary men. It is not only that we have a larger, a nobler, a purer, a more connected body ( f literature, than any other nation ever had or has, past or present; on this bead we might dilate " until the crack of doom ;" and all this is patimt. What we now insist upon is, that as a nation—and in the lowest national point of view the literature of this country has done more for its well-being and the well-being of its Government than all the laws, the police, the constitutions and.. in stitutions of it put together. As a body the lite rature of this country—all, at all events, which has left any permanent impression on the pub lic mind, has been ou the side of law, of order, . and we are bold to say it, of religion, if that word be truly interpreted. How many feelings of our better nature have been called by it into vigorous and' successful combat against our worse ones ? How many hours otherwise doomed to be wasted in dissipation, in the streets or in the watch-house, has this same literature of ours with noblest alchemy converted into golden moments ? How many riots has it kept down, or moderated when afoot But it is not our purpose to launch out into a needless eulogy on that which every man praises and most men value. What we urge is— that Government, as a Government, is incalculably indebted to it—that but for this literature—with our strong political tendencies and strong political excitements, Government would find it very hard to get on at all. It would have to multiply, its police and double its files of soldiers. Not a dirty job would it do, and hardly a clean one ; did not men know that their own fireside, and locked up in a small bookcase, there was a sedative for the ills of life far better than beer, opium, or politics ; glimpses in comfortable nooks and corners at the invisible world ; prophets and poets, who , had diviner things to tell of law, order, and govern ment than the loudest or the longest of parliamen tary orators. As the best kind of police there fore, we do think that literary an d sc i e ntific ni•a are fully entitled to their retiring pension, moz• than all the civil or military services in the world. Why, then, are they without it ? And why does a nation, not ungenerous in rewarding those who serve it, grudge the least token of its liberality - to those who are at once its best of servants and wisest of masters ? GALES OFF THE COAST. faSNantes ; and SYlan'n; l wararrezocraknseihnr aTi,nhi in LOWESTOFT, Nov. 3.—lt is blowing a strong gale from the east. The Yar, of Whitby, Marmion, of Whitby, Elvira, Ward, of and for Newcastle from Lon don, Talbot, of Sunderland, Watermillock, Sanderson, John and Ann, Bruce, both of Sunderland , from Lon don Balmoral, Wardell, of and from London, for Sun derland,' all in ballast, are on shore on the main at fromK The es s Johni ng 1 anadn, London, d b i su Ann, ashore e h x o r o s c H t n e at d i et to hroe w h ,e same got of pa o lna ff de e w ,f oiatrh total a assistance. s w t ar wreck. ccke Newcastle, .. The Atlantic, of Berwick, from Yarmouth to Swansea, with barley, is also ashore at the same place, and dig • charging her cargo. The Louisa, Mookford, of and from Newha.ven, for Sunderland, timber laden, is aground on the Holm Sand, and expected to become a total wreck. The Legatus, Ord, of and from London, for Shields, is ashore on the Main, but expected off, with assistance. HARWICH, Nov. 4.—About 3 a.m. yesterday a gale sprung up from E.S.E., and in the course of the morning about 300 sail put in for shelter, about 100 of which have lost anchors and chains ; several ves sels are ashore between this port and Lowestoft, some of which have became total wrecks. The Horteusia : Buchholtz, from Skelleftea to London, with tar, sr was i from both anchors and chains in the Medway* a!w obliged to be run on shore on the Guard assista nce ff ; next flood. has been taken and she is expected Mary, Swallow, of The Alexandrina, William Whitby,Hollesl Hartlepool, is Martin Luther, Luther, from Lo nd on e a l h o o is r e e__ , assistance has ashore on the Knoll of Orford R shore, s ---- T s. —The total C r r e w g i re ' wr e ck. Poole o n l in e al ; been sept. Emma, Glen, and Hylton Castle, SOUTEWOLD. — Th e •-- d •th e y and Bay,A u andm, o n likelyad, roify driven no South bae a sz u ho d o r_ h eo le nt l u d ta i ; is Wake, both of Whi t by , and the Nelson, of Cape Horn, Shields, Fraser, war , crews saved. Th gale from south-east ' the John e Pilgrim, of Sunderland, Howe, a nd Bar ker, of Whitby, Stonehouse, both of Sunderland ; Ocean, Carter, and etteOta, crews saved. , A shore at Sizewell ; crews saved. are on from Poole is on shore, a total wreck. There are 10 or 12 vessels on shore on Bawdsey Beach, and several men lost. The Alexander (brig), of Whitby ; Concord, of s o o f f w AE ed l Aberdeen , estl brig '' a i N s r eoovn all Frederic oinl Shields; Fairy, of Arundel;lFvaellisseyel Anne (Dutch vessel); Swale • low, of Plymouth ; Magpie, of Whitby; Wells, of Goole, with a general cargo ; Atlas, of Blyth ; Argo, of Whitby; and the Orwell Lass, of Newcastle, are all on shore. RAMSGIATE, Nov. B.—The Hope, Sewell, of and from Portsmouth, for the north, in ballast, broke from her anchors during a heavy gale, and went ashore near Broadstairs ; the crew landed, and the vessel was taken Possession of by boatmen, and subsequently took fire in the cabin and burnt the whole of the internal fittings. GRIMSBY, Nov. 4.—The Elizabeth and Sarah (brig), Bartels, from Hamburg to Hartlepool, is ashore ..o ata: . z as hore Tetney Haven, with loss of anchors. Theße n (barque), Herlofsen, from Mennel , for Hull, i with loss of anchors near Granthorpe. The Frei z, Jan sen, from Porsgrnnd for Hartlepool, is a l s o ashore d i e. Chapel. masted, and with loss of anchors, at Mar sh A CUNNING ROGUE.—At the co unty sessions h e ld xt"r. Li n ton, the governor o f th e county gaol, gave evidence about a fortnight ago, -- that a prison er named Samuel Musson, comm i tted on a charge of stealing candlesticks at B ag thorpe and Annesley, wa s t oo ill to take his trial, and Dr. Massey, the surgeon, ex pressed his belief that he was a c on fi rmed idiot, and would never recover.lt appear e d th at two months ago he becam e so ill and .helpless that be could not take food, had to be fed with a spoon, and lifted from place to place by the attendants. Under these circum stances the magistrates allowed him to be removed to his friends on satisfactory bail being given that be should appear if called upon at the next sessions. He was ac cJrdingly taken away in a conveyance. When he had reached Radford, and the gaolers bad left him, he opened his eyes and whispered, " Are they gone 1" and finding that the coast was clear, he speedily recovered, call.9d for his pipe and glass, and began to enjoy himself. Be, laughed heartily at his own cleverness, and at the nia?: ner in whi c h h e b ad i mposed upon the surgeon recoveryand otft cers of th e pr i son. T id i ngs of h i s wonderful soon reached th e governor, and an officer was ,s hay q i u n i g cklydespatched t o see a ft er t h e man, but Musson re ceived timely notice of the anticipateden heard of—Nottiv. visit, escaped by be the back way, and has not since leant Journal.