The Sun. — London, England, 1855-12-14 00:00:00

MADAM JENNY GOLDSCIMIDT - LIN D. EXETER-HALL, Monday Evening ne.xt, Dec 17. Mr. MITCHELL respectfully announces that Mendelssohn's Ora torio of ELIJAH will be performed on Monday next. Principal Singers : Madame GOLDSCHMiIDT, ss Lenient, Mr. Lawler, and Hiss Dolby, Mr. Lockey, Mr. 11. Draham. Doors open at Seven, to commence at Eight o'clock. Ilaydn's Oratorio of THE CREATION will be repeated on Thurs- day, Dec. 27, in which Madame Goldschmidt will slug the principal Soprano part. The Chorus and Orchestra for these performances will consist of more than 600 performers. Conductor, M. Benedict. Prices of admission. —Seats in tit Area, s e ven pm,. „„__. Gallery and Body of t he Hall, Ten Shillings and sup,enTeTN:sery,-, and Numbered Seats, 11. Is. Tickets and full particuls may be obtained at Mr. Mitchell's R o y a l Library, 23, Old Bond-s ar treet, London. NIJIILLIEN'S CONCERTS ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Most positively the Last Night but One. The Sebastopol Quadrille—Les Huguenots—Madame Gassier. The Programme for THIS EVENING (Friday Dee., 14), will include :—Overture, Ruy Blas (last time) ; Quadrille from Zampa ; La Belle du Village Valse ; Scherzo Presto from Beethoven's Sym phony in A ; All non giunge, and Una voce, sung by Madame Gassier; the Warsaw Varsovien • Solo, Oboe, by M. Lavigne ; Grand Quadrille, the Fall of Sebastopol, assisted by the Military Bands; grand Operatic Se'ection from Les Huguenots (last time); the Sleigh Polka; Solo, viol'n, Mr. V. Collins; and Vive l'Empereur Galop. Commence at S. Promenade and boxes, Is. ; dress circle, 2s. 6(1. ; private boxes, 125., 1/.15., and 11. lls . 6d. B kL MASQUE, NEXT MONDAY. M. Jullien's Grand Annual Bal Masque will take place on Mon day next, Dec. 17, 1855. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY.LA.NE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, Will be performed KATHERINE AND PETRUCHIO. Bathe rine, Miss Glyn ; Petruzhlo, Mr. Barry Sullivan. After which, TAKE THAT GAL AWAY, in which Mr. Chan. Mathews will appeal. Followed by PATTER VERSUS CLATrEtt. Captain Patter, Mr. C. Mathews: To conclude with a Ballet Divertissement. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY3IARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING. Will be performed THE MAN OF MANY FRIENDS. Princi pal characters by Messrs. Back tone, Compton, W. Farren, Howe, Mi3ses Reynolds and Chaplin, and Mrs. Poynter. After which, the Spanish Dances. Followed by THE LITTLE TREASURE. After which, a BALLET, by the Spanish Dancers. To conclude with FISEI OUT OF WATE/t. itOTAL Par.iCESTS THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of {r. Cuanza KEA,. THIS EVENING Will be performed HOW STOUT YOU'RE GETTING. After which, KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Queen Kathl• rine, Mrs. C. Kean; Cardinal Wolsey, Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with A GAME OF ROMPS. TIIEATRE ROYAL ADELPEV. Proprietor, Mr. 23. Webster.—Directress, Madame Ce?este. THIS EVENING, Will be performed MARIE DUCANGE ; or, The Jersey Girl. Followed by THE CAMP AT CIIOBHAM. To conclude with VALENTINE AND ORSON. ROYAL GLY lIPIC TIIEATRE. TEIIS EVENING. Will be performed STILL WATERS DEEP. Followed by .£5 REWARD. To conclude with CATCIIING A MERVAID. ROYAL LYCECrIf THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. J. 11. Anderson, 18, Norfolk-street, Strand. LAST FEW DAYS. Increased Attractions, and success in equal ratio ' THIS, AND EVERY EVENING, at Eight o'Clock, Will s)e presentel, with entirely New and Ntagnificent Appoin.- manta, MAGIC and WYS rERY, in twelve acts, arranged in two parts, by Professor Anderson. After which, the startling iihstrations of Spirit-Rapping. TI - AN-HOUR Wlril TILE .4PIRIT4, being the most surprising an 1 interesting series of experiments ever given within the walls of any theatre. Revival, in an irtrffoved form, of the astounding novelty v. - 111 , A1 tartled London 10 years ago, the GREXT GUN TRICK Prices of sArnission:—Private 11)xe3, IZ. its. 6d. ant 11. Is. ; Orchestra Stalls, 45.; Dress 13)xes, 33 ; Uppor ?loxes, 23.; Pit, s.; Gallery, 6,1. No Half-price. BOX-Offi3C open erom II to 5 daily. Grand Morning Performance on Saturday Next at Two o'Clock. Doors open at Ilalf-past One. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITHEATRZ. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. Immense success of Roekwood This spirited and exciting Hippodrome (with Turpin's Ride to York) embraces the principal events of Ainsworth's Rookwood. TIIIS EVENING, TURPIN'S RIDE to YORK ; or, the Heir of Rookwood. Hair breadth escapes of Turpin. Terrific leap over a five-barred gate by the mare Black " Bess," trained by Mr. William Cooke. Last Week of Mile. Clementine Soullier in the SCENES of the CIRCLE. Mr. J. 11. Cooke's FLIGHT of the BRIDGE, &c. To conclude with a number of Amusing Entertainments. Gigantic preparations are making for the Grand Christmas Panto mime, written by Mr. Nelson Lee. opng from Tilleyen till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, ;,I^. W. Cooke. inn. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TiF!R DAY—Morn. 3 min. aft. s—Evening 29 mi❑ aft. 5 To-MORRO cv—Morn. 55 min. aft. s—Evening 21 min. aft. 6 THE "WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, Dec. 11. THERNOIRTER, IN THE SHADE. 38 - hthest since noon yesterday. 32 --olvE , st this morning and daring the night. 43 -this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29 - 98. Westerly.—Light, with dull weather and thaw. It has begun to rain at noon slightly. Tri N t ip §IIII, LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1855. THE RUMOURED FALL OF KARS, Nothing further even now is known, positively, onoway or the other, as to the reported fall of Kars. It is still—this bruited "Fall of Kars"—when the very utmost has been said upon the matter, only —rumoured ! Advices two days later from the coast of Armenia, communications, that is to say, dated from Trebizond upon the 21st of Novem ber, still breathe not a whisper about the flight of ISMAIL PACHA before the victorious troops of General MOURAVIEFF, or about the capitulation of General WlLLtems and his heroic garrison. Not an inkling of any such disaster is permitted to escape the sealed lips of the Cabinet. Vague re• ports have alone been audible to the effect that Kars has actually fallen. Until these same re ports shall have been confirmed in some credible manner, by reliable information derived from some authoritative source, we must still remain perversely and incorrigibly incredulous. We have been so, very wilfully, no doubt, even from the outset—while our daily contemporaries, one and all, have chorused their credence in the calamity. To-day, however, there is a somewhat tardy glim mering of unbelief even from the Times—the Times, whose first leader commenced point blank only yesterday, with " Kars has Fallen." Thi4 morning, on the contrary, there peeps forth, however, in the Times, the admission through "Our Vienna Correspondent," speaking from the Austrian capital as recently as yesterday (Decem ber 13th, 11 a.m.), through the sententious medium of the submarine telegraph, " Nothing is known here (Vienna), in official circles, of the fall of K ars." Soh ! as yet nothing is known about the Fall of Ka rs , in official circles—at Vienna— at Paris at Lo ndon ! Kars is still only rumoured to have fallen —upon no authority of any note, upon no authority at all that is deafly traceable. There is still, consequently, as wo have maintained from the beginning, a possibility th a t Kars has—even now —not fallen. Let us p hope so to the very last—rem embering that uto the present moment the " Fall of K ars ', u . only vaguely, dimly, mysteriously reported. Not stated anywhere upon authority—but merel y reported ! There is confusion at the Horse Guards ! The line, which so long complained against the supe rior privilege s a ll owe d t o cer t a i n favoured regi ments of Guards, has had its grievances partially removed, and the Guards are naturally indignant at the abolition of any of the advantages to which they may consider themselves entitled by severe duty at London and Windsor, their highly aristo c ratio commanders, and the large amounts of hard cash paid for their respective commis ions. They can not by any i means p erce i ve the grounds on which " mere infantry fell ows " could hope to he same footing w ith themselves, or placed on the why hard service in the field should be weighed t in the same scale with "playing at soldiers" in - Hyde-park, to the intense admiration of a large body of nursery maids and too susceptible females. A very pretty argument—we shall not call it dis pute—has therefore arisen between these respec tive branches of the military service, and a move ment has recently been made on behalf of the Guards, which has occasioned considerable excite ment, and may lead to very important results. A memorial has, it appears, been presented to her MAJESTY within the last few days praying her to rescind the warrant which she had been pleased to issue, respecting promotions in the Army, and under the provisions whereof the Guards affect to consider themselves injured. It is asserted that the originators of this movement have maintained strict secrecy respecting the business in which they were engaged, and suffered nothing to tran spire beyond the limits of the initiated and those interested in the result. Some very high per sonages were concerned, and the signatures to the petition or memorial were headed by the name of the Prince Consort, whose " prayer" might be considered to have almost the weight of a " com mand." Prince ALBERT interfered in his capacity as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards ; but he should have remembered that he was a pluralist, and was also Colonel-in-Chief of the Rifle Bri gade, so that the influence which he exerted in favour of those whom he commanded as Colonel of Grenadier Guards was used ad versely to his companions of the Rifle Bri gade and the Albert Hussars, whom he so long commanded. It is said, however, that the weakest invariably goes to the wall, and H.R.H. may have valued the 3, 0001. per annum which he receives as a Grenadier far better than one-third of the amount payable to the gallant Rifleman. He therefore yielded to the superior attraction ; and, notwithstanding the mystery in which the matter has been so carefully enveloped, we have seen the result. It is, to Fay the least of it, unfortunate that the name of the Prince Consort should have been so unadvisedly introduced into the discussion. The appointment of H.R.H. to what has been justly termed by a contemporary "a highly lucra tive military sinecure, expressly reserved for the re ward of officers of long and distinguished service in the field," created considerable excitement at the time. An excitement renewed and increased by the statements respecting the interference of the Prince Consort in matters which, properly speaking, should have been reserved for the exclusive consi deration of the SOVEREIGN, and her responsible ad visers and Ministers. All these matters will be renewed, and there is some danger that the ques tion raised may be extended to greater length than could be desired. We should wish to pre serve the name of our most Gracious QUEEN from any invidious remarks, and therefore would respectfully, but earnestly urge the pro priety of the Prince abstaining from any demonstrations that may bring the " alter ego" of her MAJESTY into any degree of disrepute. " The QUEEN can do no wrong," and the principle should not be brought in question in any possible way. If the emolument of those positions which seem incompatible with that of Consort be the object—if 30,0001. per annum, in addition to sundry Constableships and Ranger ships, Field-Marshal's pay, &c., &c., now enjoyed by the Prince, be not sufficient remuneration for his services, far better that there should be an additional grant, sufficient to cover all that he could require, and to permit his exemption from matters that may occasion controversy, and bring him into discredit with any class of herMaJEsTY's subjects. The newspaper editors and writers are more generous than Mr. DRUMMOND. They don't get angry with the Honourable Member for Surrey, however personal he may be. The worst they do, and they don't always do that, is to laugh at his whimsicalities, and lay bare the ab surdity of his statements, while they are at all times prepared to give him credit for the utter ance of a good thing. Yesterday, it will be seen in our present impression, he " came cut rather strong" in relation to the War in the capa oity of Chairman at the Guildford Agricultural Society's annual dinner. A perusal of his speech will show that, as usual, among a good deal of amusing chaff, he threw out a few grains of wheat, and most of these in the direc -1 tion of Austria. In dealing with the claims of that great European humbug to join with us in promoting the progress of civilisation, he gave utterance, it must be admitted, to some hard if somewhat exaggerated truths. " What!" he indignantly remarked, " Austria, that has now, for the first time in the world, given up the whole of its subjects bound hand and foot and body and soul unto the POPE. Is that part of the progress of civilisation 1" To this inquiry we would emphatically answer—No ! The deliver. ante of any people over to the absolute dominion of the spiritual, as opposed to the temporal, power, is fraught with evils the most prolific imagination would find it difficult to enumerate. Without civil liberty, dissociating it if you can from religious liberty, the case of a people is bad enough, but when deprived of the latter it is well nigh hopeless. There can be no progress in civilisation, in the development of the moral and intellectual faculties of a people placed under such a regime. Deprived of these blessings, their only hope, the only chance for them, is revolu tion. So strongly do we feel this, that we can almost go along with Mr. DRUMMOND, when he adds, " Why, Turkey, bad as she is --Russia, bad as she is—are infinitely better than Austria ;" for really what we know of history leads us to anticipate less toleration of opinion, of the active exercise of man's noblest faculties in Austria, under the Concordat, than even in Russia, little, HEAVEN knows, as is to be found there. A purely spiritual dominion may be of a nature sufficiently deplorable to excite pity, but when we see the civil power virtually commpteteetdteoatthe :hiheahnedvseryof priests, we contemplate a spectacle feeling of our nature rises in unmitigated revo l t. In connection with the above speech, it will be well for the reader to peruse that of Mr. MANGLES, who, it will be seen, puts the policy of the War in relation to the progress of civilisation in its true light. The attention of the reader may further be directed to the speeches of Cap tain SCOBELL and Mr. TITE, the members for Bath, delivered at the annual meeting of the Bath and West of England Agricultural Asso ciation. These gentlemen, it will be seen, are for such an earnest and active prosecution of the War as will lead to a solid peace, and not a merely patched-up truce, to be broken when Russia has recovered from her exhaustion, which she may possibly do in a few years. The claims of JOSEPH HUME to a testimonial for distinguished services to the cause of liberty and good government in this country and else where are too eminent to need much advocacy. Abler politicians and more distinguished orators there unquestionably have been, but one more honest, consistent, and plain spoken never. Fall away from th• good cause who might he was ever to be found at his post—zealous, enlightened, What determined, and doing good service. storms of disapprobation, what bitter persona ties, what misrepresentation, and what ridicule he had to encounter in the discharge of duty, we need not attempt to describe. Suffice it to repeat, what we said some time back when his claims were canvassed, that the moral fortitude displayed throughout his career was positively heroic. Nothing appalled, nothing de terred him. Through evil report and through good report he was still 'Thum HUME—the friend of the people—the advocate of judicious retrenchment, and none other—and the ♦igorous champion of liberty and progress. That he had faults, is certain ; but they were faults into which he was led through judging others by his honest self. Would to HEAVEN we had more politicians of his stamp, for England is in sore need of them at the present moment. Entertaining these opinions of the man and his career, it need hardly be said that we cordially sympathised with the proceedings at Marylebone Court House yester day, and feel deeply gratified with the result. A testimonial to such a man is bat a bare discharge of an incumbent duty. Let us add to it a hearty resolution to follow, each after his particular fashion, in the steps of a patriot so zealous, yet so discreet and determined. We have always vindicated the character and conduct of Sir JAMES BROOKE from the charges which have been so pertinaciously urged against him. It is satisfactory to find that the views which we have entertained have been fully con firmed by the Report of the Commissioners ap• pointed to inquire into matters connected with the Rajah, and the unequivocal approval by Lord CLARENDON of what has already taken place. The chief points relate to the undoubted piratical habits of the Serebas and Sakarran tribes, which have been clearly established. The charge of having wantonly and without cause attacked these so-called innocents has therefore "fallen completely to the ground !" Lord CLARENDON also expresses the satisfaction of the Government at learning that the Commissioners were of opinion that Sir JAS. BROOKE had not traded in the produce of the ter ritory under his control in any manner incompa tible with his duties as Consul-General and Com- LATEST NEWS, THE REPORTED FALL OF KARS. VIENNA, THURSDAY, DEC. 13, 11 A.m. Nothing is known here in official circles of the fall of Kars. Asays a desp a t c h j us t rece i ve d fromt Te Frankfort, k i fOrt de ,wasit rumoured on the 21st of November that Omer Pacha had attacked Kutais. The reinforcements he had received were not very considerable. The Shah Bender of Trebi• zonde has placed between 400 and E5OO beasts o: burden at the disposal of the Porte. A letter from Redout Kale, in the Post Gazette of Frankfort, says :—" The Circassians have not fulfilled the expectations of Omer Pacha by co operating with him, and the relations between him and Schamyl are not friendly ; indeed he fears that if ho were to march on the capital of Georgia, Schamyl would attack him in the rear." THE BRITISH EXPEDITION. (From the Tinzes Correspondent.) CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, Nov. 24. The statements which you copied from a contem porary respecting the strength of the British army next year we all received with satisfaction, not altogether free from apprehension that the writer may be mistaken. On ono point he certainly has miscalculated, and that is the strength of the regi ments out here. He has assumed an average which is considerably too high. For example, the 30th has received very few draughts, and we all know how it suffered at the Alma, at Inker man, in the trenches, and at the two assaults on the Redan. Its present effective strength would tell on an average very materially. There are several regiments in the same category, while others are very strong in men, though not perhaps containing so many old soldiers as could be desired. There are four months, however, before us, and the drill serjeant is busy all day. Every camp resounds to his voice and to the tramp of the awkward squad. Recruits have little time to spend in idleness and drinking, and steps are taken to provide soldiers with the means of reading, which they will so much need and enjoy in the long winter nights before us. But cannot Government be a little more liberal in the matter of candles ? The issue of light is one ration to every 12 men—that is, one ration for each tent or serjeant's guard. Now, good public, do you know what one ration consists of? It is just two-thirds of an ounce of sperm candle or two ounces of tallow candle—that is, of a bit very like what economic housewives are familiar with under the name of "save-ails." No one need ever say "Put out the light" in a British camp, for the candle is not lit very long before it dies of its own accord. An officer receives the same ration as is given to 12 men, lout ho can afford to buy candles, and if he is a field officer his rations are increased, on the principle, I suppose, that th ere is more necessity for his keeping wide awake than exists in the case of a subaltern. The libraries are well filled with books, but there is little time to use them by day, and it falls dark before 6 o'clock; but 12 men are not likely to make much way in a novel, a tract, or au entertaining miscellany by the aid of two-thirds of an ounce of candle. They club their little pieces of candle together, and resort to many ingenious devices for keeping the lights in. Some of them, like the Russian or Dutch sailors at Spitzbergen, of whose very uncomfortable residence vs e all have read,use the extra fat of mutton in lamps, but in general they are obliged to purchase what extra candles they like. And all this time there are the canteens alight till an hour or more after "retreat." We have had "balls" at Kamiesh lately, which were, I hear, distinguished by remarkably good conduct on the part of all present. Of the progress of the libraries and of the lectures you will hear from other persons. There are hotels esta blished. at Kamiesh, and restaurants, at which excellent fare is to be had at high but not extrava gant prices. The lines at Kamiesh are nearly completed. Eight heavy redoubts and a splendid profile of parapet and trench enclosing the place will remain as lasting monuments of French military skill, and will enable them to retain the ports of Kamiesh and Kazatch when the bulk of the army has retired. Colonel Wetherall will, it is understood, succeed Colonel M'Murdo, till the latter can return to his command. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. The Ottoman Ambassador at Paris has notified to Prince Napoleon that the Sultan, desirous of giving a proof of his gratitude to the French army, offers to his Imperial High ness a ll the articles sent by the Ottoman Empire to the Paris Exhibition of 1855, to he sold for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the army in the East. The Aroniteur has the following : I t will be remembered that in the letter addres . sed by the Emperor to Marshal Pelissier, to congratulate him upon the victory at Traktir, his Majesty announced his resolution of successively relieving the regiments of the army of the East by new regiments from France. " The execution of that measure has already com menced. Two new divisions, the one under the orders of General Chasseloup-Laubat, the other, consisting of the brigades Jamin and Labodie, which left Marseilles some weeks since, have already arrived in the Crimea. On the other band, two divisions of the Crimea, one con sisting of the Imperial Guard, the other of the 20th, 39th, 50th, and 97th Regiments of the Line, return to France, and in a few days will have arrived at Park " Since the end of April, 1855, the date of its arrival in the Crimea,up to the fall o f S e b astopol, the division of the Imperial Guard took a glorious part in all the combats fought under the walls of that place. "On the 2d of May, in the defence of our trenches, attacked by a f9riniciable sortie of the garrison ; on the 22d of May, at the capture of the cemetery ; on the 7th of June, at the Mamelon Vert ; on the 18th of June, at the attack on the Malakhoff ; finally on th e memo rable Bth of September, the Imperial Guard, by its heroism, showed itself worthy of the rank which the confidence of the Emperor bad beforehand assigned to it in the army. The amount of its losses proves the part it took. It lost in killed an d wounded 140 officers and. 2,471 non-commissioned officers and rank and file. 4t A s r egards the four regiments of the Line which return with the Guard, they are among the first that went to the East. They arrived at Gallipoli in April and May, 1854 ; they fought successively in the Do brudscba, at Alma, at Inkerrran, at Kertch, at the Mamelon Vert, at Traktir-bridge at Malakhoff. They bore all the fatigues of the war, they shed their blood on every battle-field ;it was reasonabe that these regiments should at length have some repos e , and cede to others the place which they bad so long aad so nobly occupied in the ranks of the army in the East." BOURSE, Dec. 13.—Th© follcwing aro the las' quotations : Cash. fY. s. 41 per Cents 9l 60 3 per Cents 64 65 New Loan 65 40 Bank Shares 3210 /nd of Month —f. 65 15 noman ..., Credit Mohilier 1305 Austrian . 83 Belgian Five 5......., 94i Spanish Thl ees 39i Piedmontese B7 Home Debt 34 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1855; missioner. The results may be very briefly summed up. Lord CLARENDON declares that " the inquiry which has ended in the complete exculpation of Sir J. BROOKE from the charges made against him, has, at the same time, brought to light abundant evidence of the beneficial results of his administration of the affairs of Sarawak, which are exhibited by the establishment of confidence and the increase of trade, and are such as to de serve the approbation of her MAJESTY'S Govern ment." It may be assumed that the very unpleasant controversy which has so long been carried on has now terminated, and that all unprejudiced persons may rejoice in the unequivocal and honourable acquittal of a very meritorious public servant, and the clear and distinct acknowledg ments of the benefits he has conferred on his country, and those in whose affairs he has so energetically and usefully concerned himself. THE STAFF IN ME CRIMEA. The Head-quarters Staff is now as follows : Commander-in-Chief—Sir W. J. Codrington, K.C.B. Aides-de-Camp to the Commander-in-Chief— Captain the Hon. H. W. Campbell, Rifle Brigade ; and Captain Ponsonby, Grenadier Guards. Chief of the Staff—Major-General C. A. Wind ham, C.B. Aides-de-Camp to the Chief of the Staff—Major Lewis and Captain Erle. Quartermaster-General—Colonel the Hon. Percy Herbert. Assistant-Quartermaster-General—Col. the Hon A. Hardinge.. Deputy Assistant Quarterma3tors-General—Cap tain Willes, 77th ; Captain Torrens, 23d ; Captain Vacher, 33d ; and Captain Hammersley, 14th. Military Secretary—Lieut.-Colonel Blane. Assistant Military Secretary—Major Coyle, 89th. Surgeon to Commander-in-Chief--Dr. Fowler Smith. Adjutant-General—Colonel Pakenham, C.B. Deputy Adjutant-General, and Deputy Assist ant Adjutants-General—Lieut.-Colonel Kennedy, 18th ; Captain Thompson, 4th ; Captain Luard, 77th ; Major Dowbiggin. Principal Medical Officer—Dr. Hall. The escort consists of a troop of the 11th Hus sars, under Captain Vansittart, and of two com panies of the Rifle Brigade, under Major Fyers. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, DEC. 13. The Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Royal children took their usual exercise yesterday. The Queen and Prince have not left the grounds of Osborne. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Claren don, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll. The Council sat two hours and a half. Mr. Cunard had an interview with Mr. Secretary La bouchere yesterday, at the C ,, lonial-office. A deputation from the Luton Union, consisting of Messrs. Benning, Medland, Lockhart, and Burgess, had an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. E. P. Bou ♦erie, the President of the Poor-Law Board, at White hall, on the subject of the division of the union. The Duke of Newcastle has been offered the Garter, vacant by the death of the late Duke of Somerset. The Duke of Sutherland left Lilleshall, on Tuesday last, for Trentham, where his grace was joined, the same evening, by the Duchess of Sutherland from Stafford House. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and family are pass ing the season at their villa at Campde❑ Hill. Among the visitors to thsi Duke and Duchess of Nor folk, at Arundel Castle, are Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Drummond, Mr. and Miss Sloane Stanley, and Mr. Lyons. The Earl and Countess of Perth have:left town for Brighton. Viscountess Palmerston will receive company to-mor row evening, at the family mansion, on the Terrace, Pic cadilly. Lady Molesworth has returned to her residence in Eaton-place, from Folkestone. The marriage of Miss Blanche Seymour, daughter of Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, to Captain Dawson, 93d Highlander; will, it is said, take place in the course of the next week. His Excellency M. Fontis di Mello, the Portuguese Financial Minister, has returned to Claridge's Hotel. The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge has given notice that the first examination for the prize medal for legal stadies offered to the University by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Chancellor,!will take place in Lent Term, 1857. The London Cattle Show Excursion-trains answered very well on the South-Western line. Nearly 700 persons started from Southampton, who had been collected which on h itchhe collected p a passengers e n D e g . ers also with excursionists from There was also a heavy train o fr u o t m h, Salisbury along and the up-line P°rs 1 Winohester. near EMPRESS OF THE F RENCH wineighbour of the aritc the determined Bantle the It is said that L or d Brougham will shortly h ave a d hi s ii induce mentsghes highest distinction salubrity ; andfo r itscenery see ms lordship originally to fix upon Ca nnes , i n ment of Var, as his continental resid ence, have also epart fluenced the Emperor of the French t o select thesaniin" delightful vicinage of the Mediterranean co as t for the approaching accouchement of the Empress Eugenie. MAGISTRATES FOR SWANSEA.—The Lord Chancellor has added the names of George Grant Francis, Jam es Walters, Evan M. Richards, John W. James, T. B. Essery, and M. M. Williams, Esqs., to the Commis sioners of the Peace for the Borough of Swansea. THE PARIS EXHIBITION.—In our list of the prizes awarded the names of Messrs. Baker, Tuckers, and Co., silk handkerchief printers, of Gresham-street, to whom a medal was given, were omitted ; and, Fourteenth Class, Civil Construction, "C. E. Leather, London , might to have been " John W. Leather, C.E., Leeds." CRYSTAL PALACE—SHILLING DAY, Dec. 113.—Ad missions on payment, 967 ; ditto by season tickets, 1 241; total, 1,211. C o rrespo n ding day last year, 700. BiILWAYS-701i CASH. Or/qans Northern - Strasburg Lyons ....... ............ 1145 Now Ditto Mediterranean 1257 50 Grand Central ..... 582 50 Lyons Geneva 670 Teste ...... ,... 630 Cette 7OO Austrian C0m...,.. 730 _ TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 3.—Now that wilter has set in, and with it inaction, the thougits and anxieties of all interested in the welfare of our army in the East are diverted into fresh chknnels. We no longer anticipate engagements, and str a i n our hearing across the sullen Euxine to catch the boom of the cannonade. Our present concern i s greater with the winter quarters and comforts pro vided for the soldier, and with other means taken for the preservation of his physical health and im provement of his moral condition. Avery considerable depot is forming at Scutari and in its vicinity, where, within a few days from this time, at least 12,000 men will be assembled to be quartered there during the winter. The greater part of the cavalry has already arrived, both from Balaklava and from Eupatoria, and the rest is coming down daily. General Collingwood Dickson, of Crimean fame, has arrived here on his way to Kertch, to take command of the artillery of the Contingent. A letter from Kinbourn, in the _Presse d'Orient, dated November 26, mentions the commencement of severe cold. There is floating ice upon the sea, and the vessels at anchor off Oczakoff are fringed with icicles. AUSTRIA. The four extraordinary commissaries of England, Austria, France, and Turkey, who were to com mence an examination of the state of the Danubian principalities, and whose arrival ab Bucharest was prematurely announced, have received counter orders, and everything remains in. state quo. Meanwhile candidates for the hospodarat are not wanting. These are, according to the Vienna Fremden, Blatt, Prince Alex. Ghika ; George Bi besco, brother to Prince Stirbey ; Prince Calimaki, former ambassador of the Porte at Paris, a Molda vian by birth • and Zauza Ghika, a c t ua lly governor of Samos. The Ottoman Ministry would find it difficult to choose with judgment amongst so many candidates representing services rendered, or re commendations from foreign powers, and it is for that reason that it adjourned the question until the termination of the war, when its choice will be less governed by influences which it must respect at present. THE OVERLAND MAIL. (Prom, the Timcs) By the arrival of the Overland Mail we have re ceived our private correspondence from Bombay of the 15th of November, and Calcutta of the Bth of November. There is no China mail by this arrival. The following is the letter of our Calcutta cor• respondent : " CALCUTTA, Nov. 8. " The Sonthal rebellion has not been subdued. The rebels are still in possession of Beerbhoom, and still devastating every pergunnah not ac tually occupied by troops. Their career, however, is drawing to a close. The Supreme Council has at last determined to act with vigour. Whether they are influenced by Lord Dalhousie, by the English press, or by a growing sense of the danger of fur ther vacillation, is of course uaknown. The fact, however, lam assured is certain. Martial law is to be immediately proclaimed. 6,000 troops are to be permanently added to the force stationed in Ben gal. Half of them will be posted at Dinapore, Ber hampore, and Barrackpore. The other half will be planted in the centre of the disturbed district. Meanwhile, Gen. Lloyd, with his force, is marching down the Grand Trunk-row:1, anal sweeping 1 , 1 , - son thals De utaiw nrds. Gen. Bird's force, stationed at and about Raneegunge, will intercept their flight, and the savages, thus surrounded, must submit or be exterminated. The cold weather has arrived, and the jungles can be entered. Meanwhile, an act even more stringent than the one applied to Malabar will be passed for the Sonthals. The entire tribe will be condemned, for 10 years, to work out their own subjugation. They will be required to open out by forced labour the whole of their country, to carry broad roads into the centre of their fastnesses, to clear the hill side of the jungle, and to build bridges over the infinity of creeks. Such a punishment, while it will live for ever in the history of the tribe, will effectually prevent a second revolt. It com pletely anticipates also a design now attributed to them. It is affirmed that they will yield to the troops, and next year repeat the experiment of rebellion with the Coles at their back. A rliing of all the jungle tribes, who can bring half-a-million athletic savages into the field, would indeed be a formidable affair. They are, however, powerless the moment the jungles are penetrated by roads. These measures ought to have been adopted just four months ago. " The signs of disturbance in other districts of India still continue. " The Home authorities have committed a ♦ery curious mistake. Early in the year the Legislative Council passed an act regulating the emoluments of the Administrator-General. The Court of Direc tors it is understood sanctioned the act. Unfortu nately the name of the Administrator-General is Hogg. The Board of Control, either fancying they had detected a job or moved by other representa tions, annulled the Directors' approval, and sent out a despatch ordering the Legislature to pass a new act. By the charter the Legislature is inde pendent, and the Chief Justice of Bengal was loudly cheered as he stated that fact. The despatch will pass unnoticed, but Mr. Vernon Smith had obviously forgotten that he himself had helped to take away the legislative power from the Execu tive Council. " We have had but little domestic news in the fortnight. Lord Dalhousie is on his way from Ootacamund to Rangoon, but he is not, however, expected in Calcutta for a month. - z` The news of the fall of Sebastopol arrived here in dribblets, and created therefore no excite ment. If a contingent were called for, every officer would volunteer, but he will neither shout nor illuminate. It is still unintelligible to people here why England does not call for some of our light cavalry. We could send 10,000 horsemen whose backs no Russian will ever see." THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL ON OUR SUC CESSES IN THE CRIMEA. The following Bombay Government Gazette Extraordi nary was issued on the 13th Nov.:— " PROCLAMATION. " General Department, 13th Nov. "The Right Hon. the Governor in Council is pleased to republish for general information the following proclama tion, issued by the Most Noble the Gevernor-General of India on the sth inst., and directs that a Royal salute be fired on receipt thereof at every artillery station under this Presidency. " As resolved in the penultimate paragraph of the pro clamation, Sunday, the 2d proximo, will be set apart nutter this Presidency as a day of Public Thanksgiving to Al mighty God for the signal and repeated successes with which, during the present war, the British and Allied Forces have, through His mercy, been crowned. " By order of the Right Hon. the Governor in Council, " H. YOUNG, Officiating Chief Secretary. " Bombay Castle, 13th Nov. 1855." g ‘ PROCLAMATION. " The Governor-General has the highest satisfaction in announcing to the army and people of India the capture of the town of Sebastopol, with its forts, and arsenals, and munitions of war. _ " When, during the past year, the Russian forces in vaded the dominions of his Highness the Sultan, the So vereigns of England and France, in close alliance, de spatched their fleets and armies, to save him from the danger by which he was threatened. "From the day when war was declared, the Russian fleets sought safety within their fortified ports, and have never dared to meet the allied force upon the sea. "The defences of Boma rsund have been captured and destroyed. The great Naval Arsenal of Sweaborg has been bombarded, its magazines exploded, its stores of ma terial and its buildings burned. " The coasts of Russia have everywhere been block aded, her commerce has been extinguished, and her mer chantnavy no longer exists. " The Russian army was speedily compelled to retire from tho Turkish provinces which it bad invaded ; and the Russian territories were invaded in their turn. " Since that time the allies have defeated the Russians in three great battles within the Crimea ; have forced them to abandon their forts along the whole Circassian shore ; and have swept and ravaged all their coasts ; while at the same time they have been laying constant siege to the mighty fortress of Sebastopol. "This great siege, without a parallel in the annals of war, has now been crowned with triumphant success. " Garrisoned by a numerous army, stored with un bounded resources, and defended by our enemies with the utmost gallantry, determination, and skill, Sebastopol has nevertheless been compelled to yield. Tho town, the dock yard, the arsenals, and forts have fallen into the hands of the allies. Four thousand pieces of artillery, and enor mous quantities of warlike stores, have been captured in the place. Lastly, the Russian navy in the Black Sea, which consisted of more than 100 ships of war, carrying upwards of 2,000 guns, has been utterly demolished, and all its vessels have been burnt, sunk, or destroyed. " For the great and glorious victory which has thus been vouchsafed to their arms, the allied Sovereigns have already offered up their sacrifice of gratitude to Almighty God. " The Governor-General, desirous that their example should be followed throughout the British dominions in the East, proposes that on the 2d of December public thanksgiving should be offered to Almighty God for the signal and repeated successes which have been gained dur ing the present war by her Majesty's forces, and by those of her allies, and especially for tho capture of the town of Sebastopol. " The Governor-General directs that this proclamation shall be read to all the troops, and promulgated through out the country; and that the glorious tidings which it conveys shall be welcomed by a Royal salute in every sta tion of the Indian army. " DALHOUSIE. " Bengalore, Nov. 5, 1855." COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. THE BOMBAY MARKETS. FROM THE 2D TO THE 15TH OF NOVEMBER. The Overland Mail of the 10th October was received at Bombay by the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Madras on the 7th inst. Our money market during the fortnight has become tighter. On date of departure of last mail the banks raised their rates of interest 1 per cent., and, judging from the present state of the market, wo aro of opinion a further rise must take place soon. Transactions in Government and other securities have been limited, and for which prices generally had given way. Business was suspended entirely for half the period that has intervened since the despatch of the last mail owing to the Dowallee holidays. LORD DIINDONALD.-It is said that his lordship has at last obtained a settlement of his undeniable claims at the hands of the Mexican Government, and that he is to receive a sum of 30,0001. down, and an annuity of 2,0001. a year. The Belgian journals contradict the rumour, published in the German journals, that King Leopold was about to purchase an estate in Hungary. ifISIIMONGERS'-11ALL,-- CO6RT DINNER.—The quar terly court dinner of the Hon. Fishmongers' Company was hold yesterday at the company's hall, London bridge, under the presidency of James Wansey, Esq., prime warden. Amongst the company were J. Morley, Esq. (deputy warden), the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Admiral Sir Charles Napier, Colonel Pip on , Ald erman Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P., Alderman Sir F. G. Moon, Bart., the Hen. Spring Rice, Petti grew, Esq., J. A. Roebuck, Esq., M.P., Alderman Wilson, Alderman Wire, Sir John Key, Bart. (Cham berlain), the Chairman of the East and West India Dock Company, tha Master of the Mercers' Company, the Master of the Drapers' Company, the Principal of the Goldsmiths' Company, the Master of the Merchant Tailors' Company, Mr, Keating, M.P., Mr. Atherton, M,P., R, Clumsy, Esq., Q. 0., &c, MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT IN ST. JAMES'S PARK. Shortly after 3 o'clock yesterdayafternoon a deplorable accident took place upon the ornamental water in St. James's-park—the thin surface of ice suddenly breAking away, and some ten or twelve unfortunates being in stantly immersed. Through the stupidity of the by standers, or the negligence of the Humane Society's arrangements, at least two unhappy creatures have pet ished. One Society's man alone was visible on the spot, armed with his drag, calling almost frantically to these on the bank " For God's sake " to push off the float, as "every minute might co-t a life." Several seconds how ever elapsed between each haul for the wretched crea tures, as slowly, one by one the solitary dragsinan brought them to the surface. In this manner eight per sons were brought to land. Six were immediately con veyed to the marquee of the society, which was erected on the usual soot, and the remedies ap plied. One only of the number was found to be ix danger, and after some time had been occupied in applying friction to the body life was found to be extinct. The deceased l a d- was ver y respect ably attired, but nothing whatever could be learned as to his place of residence. Two other individuals were get out of the water and conveyed to the hospital; and on arrival there it was found that one of these, a lad about 14 years of age was also dead. One of the boys that was unfortunately drowned, pre vious to his disappearance under the ice, called out to his companion, who was also in the water, saying, "Good bye, Joe ; I don't suppose they'll get me out." He had scarcely uttered these words before he sank to rise no more. It appears to us first of all, grievous cruelty that the boys and idlers should be allowed to go at all upon the ice when in its present brittle condition ; and, secondly, a monstrous inhumanity that one or two officials of the Humane Society should alone be present on the spot in case of any casualty. This morning the process of dragging was re-com menced, but no more bodies were found, which leads to the presumption that the sufferers on the late melan choly occasion have been confined to those above enume rated. THE OVERLAND RUSSIAN TRADE. The mercantile advices from the Russian ports con tinue to confirm the accounts of the great exertions being made by Russia for the overland trade throughout the winter. It is also stated that she is losing no oppor tunity of preparing at all points of her coast such de fences as may be available against the apprehended at tacks next spring. According to one report 100 vessels of various sizes had left Cronstadt after the departure of the allied squadrons, and arrived safely at Svreaborg with munitions of war and materials for the reconstruc tion of hospitals, barracks, &c. The early setting in of frost and closing in of the navigation would, however, prevent a repetition of the movement. In some of these advices it is asserted that public opinion in Russia is undergoing a singular alteration. The German Liberal and the old Russian, or Conservative parties, are said to be changing sides, the former now desiring a continu ance of the war in order that it may ultimately break up the iniquitous and worse than Chinese system which shuts out all possibility of progress, while the Musco vite aristocracy, seeing The defeat of their long-indulged dreams of universal dominion and European slavery, and fearing the loss of their serfs and the growth of new ideas, are turning in favour of peace. These results, it is observed, moreover, would have been extraordinarily rapid but for the virtual alliance between Prussia and Russia, and the consequent activity of the overland traffic, which, while it prevents the immediate ruin of the landed proprietors, serves also to enrich a new class of the community by the constant employment of be tween 20,000 and 30,000 men and horse-, besides an im mense quantity of river craft. It is affirmed on similar grounds that the statements of the Russian manu facturers being crippled for want of raw material are all incorrect, since as the export is greatly in excess of the import trade the return carriage is comparatively inex pensive, and foreign goods are thus brought into the country at a rate not exceeding one-half of that which is paid for the transportation of produce out of it, and which, sometimes amounting on hemp and tallow to be twee❑ 25 and 50 per cent, of their cost, has to be met by the English consumer. CITY OF LONDON T.NEATEE. The opera company continue their triumphant career. Each new opera increases the attraction of this most favoured establishment. Mr. Augustus Braham, Mr. Leffler, Miss Rebecca Isaacs, and Miss Dyer are gair,ing " ulden opinions" from all sorts of people in the Eat, Th 3 Spirit of Pantomime is hovering over this theatre, which is known as the house of call for pantomime. Mr. Nelson Lee, the successful author of Christmas sports, is certain to reserve for himself the best pantomime. We understand the grand transformation will cost upwards of 500/. We know the pantomime has bee❑ in prepara tion since last July. Thera is no doubt this production will stand A 1. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(l'his Day.) LONDON, Dec. 14.—Wind this day at noon, W. ; light breeze and dull cloudy weather, with rain. PORTSMOUTH, Dec.l3. Wind N. to N. W. —Arrived— Jenny, from Cuba, for Hamburg; Hamburg (s. tpt.) and Edina (s. tpt.), Constantinople. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 13.—The Garland, hence to Jamaica, which was on Glasgorman Bank, 9th inst., floated off and was take❑ into Kingstown. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 13.—Wind N.E,—Arrived—lnca, from Calcutta. Sailed—Europa (s.), Balaklava. FALMOUTH, Dec. 13.—Wind E.N.E., fresh breezes.— Arrived—Jane Frances, from ISlaulinain, for Havre; Con queror, Rio Grande ; Eclipse, New York. (PER ELEOTRIO TELEGRAPH.) PLYMOUTH, Friday Morning. Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam•frigate Mngicienne, Captain Nicholas Vansittart, four days and a-half from Elsinore, arrived in Plymouth Sound this morning. SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning. Arrived—Laura, from Sunderland ; Naiad, Kirkaldy ; South• Western, steamer, Jersey. Sailed—City of Limerick, steamer, for Dublin ; Jessie and Friends, Newport ; John Wesley, Bartley, and Light Sign, Sunderland. (BY SIIBMARINB AND BRITISH TELEGRAM) GRAVESEND, Friday, 9.55 Et.tia. Wind W. ; tide last hour's ebb; weather cloudy. Arrived, Dec. 13.—Elizabeth, from Akyab ; Wards, Havre. Arrived, Dec. 14.—Rolf Agesen, from Leer ; Vemel ; Freya, Mollerup ; Commodore, Stockholm ; Pre ciosa, Gottenborg; Dorothea Elizabeth, Assens ; Weasel, St. Michael's. DEAL, Friday, 9.32 a.m. Wind W.N.W., moderate and hazy. Anchored—lda, from Australia, for London; Kensi ng . ton, from London, for Cardiff. Passed—Coquette, from London, for Malta ; William Hammond, from London, for Swan River; Canada, from London, for Madras; Naiad, from London, for Jamaica. THE QUEEN OF THE WEST.—This fine vessel, of 2,500 tons burden, which was wrecked some months since on the Langhorne Sands, off the coast of Carmartheeshire, has been thoroughly repaired. She was got eff by great exertions, and docked at Llaneily, where 3,0001 have been expended in repairs. She is once more an efficient vessel, and is now the property of Messrs. Johnson and Major, of Liverpool, who purchased her from the former owners, Messrs. Luckraft and Co. She has been sent to Cardiff to be coppered and loaded with iron for New Orleans. MEMORIAL TO HIS LATE ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF SUSSEX.—In this age of " testimonials " it is some thing refreshing to be told how the good name and qualities of worth may be transmitted to posterity, as sociated with a work of practical benevolence. When the committee of the "Sussex Memorial " decided on appro priating the funds collected to the erection of a new wing to the Royal Free Hospital, they adopted the best course to perpetuate the name and philanthropic cha racter of H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex. It is only a few months since we noticed the ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of an addition to this excellent charity, to be called the " Sussex Wing," and now we see a hand some pile, nearly complete, which when opened in the spring will afford additional hospital accommodation to nearly 150 patients. It is a oharity in the strict sense of the word, for all persons seeking relief are immedi ately attended to without delay and ceremony of a go vernor's letter, and on that aczount alone worthy of support. It must indeed be a consolation to the bene volent founder to witness the great success of nearly a quarter of a century's charitable labours in behalf of the destitute of this metropolis. Over 40,000 s i c k an d destitute poor have been relieved at the Royal Free Hospital this year. SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. JOSEPH BARKER. —The New York Herald trings intelligence of the death of Mr. Jos. Barker, a man well known in Leeds. and indeed through. out Yorkshire. Mr. Barker was formerly an accredited ' minister of the Wesleyan New Connexion. He many years ago left that body ana embraced the principles of the Unitarians, but at length became a free thinker. While a resident in thi s l oca li ty, he was a prominent pc litical character, and often s p o k e at election and other meetings in advocacy of the principles of the Charti-ts. His earnest inculcations of his views in the year 1848, at a meeting held on Ski rcoat Moor, near Halifax, led to his being indicted at the Liverpool assizes, at the in stance of the Government, for alleged instigation to phy sical force, but the indictment was withdrawn before the day of trial. It is but just, however, to state that though Mr. Barker often used strong and inciting lan guage, he invariablyrepudiated physical force, as not only impolitic, but as likely to be attended with failure if re sorted to. His career of change and vicissitude closed at Philadelphia, where he died suddenly after address ing an anti-slavery meeting for upwards of three hours. He appears to have expired at the meeting, but whe ther death arose from over-exertion or some other cause is not stated. Mr. Barker possessed remarkable power as a popular speaker and writer, arising from his extreme clearness and plainness, his perfect collectedness, s his boldness, his readinsss in reply, his aptness in illustra tion, his talent for ridicule, and his never failing flow vernacular language. We are sorry to be compelled eminently d nty to l add that these qualifications made his influen ce prejudicial, inasmuch as be devoted a gre a t portion of his time and writings to attacks upon Scripture and Christianity, and was the means of turning many half informed persons from the truth to infid e v ity. W e see no reason to doubt that he was the i sincere friend of liberty and popular rights, though h . e was often injudi cious and extreme ; but in the all-important ma t ter of religion he was as mischievous as he was audacious.— Leeds Mercury TSB, HUME MTIMONIAL. Yesterday a public meeting, the first of a series of meetings to be held in the metropolis and throughout the country, was convened at the Court House, Mary febone, for the purpose of raising a fund as a tribute of public respect to the late Mr. Joseph Hume. Sir Bea jimin Hall, Bart., M.P., took the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the mee ing, said the last time he had the honour of presiding in that room was for a similar object to that which was the purpose of the present meeting—paying a compli ment to the memory of a man who had faithfully repre sented the borough for upwards of given years. (Hear, hear.) They were met at present for the purpose of con sidering the best means of erecting a testimonial to the memory of Mr. Joseph Hume, who had so well earned the esteem and the gratitude of the people of this country. (Hear, hear.) The present meeting, he might remark, was the first of a series of meet ings, intended to he held throughout the country for carrying out the praiseworthy object he had stated. The right hon. baronet then proceeded to give.a sketch of the political career of Mr. Hume-, pointing out to the attention of the meeting the more prominent of those acts in which he had been so actively engaged. The right hon. gentleman, in conclusion, said it was wel worthy of remark that this movement had originated with the working classes. (Hear, hear.) Mr. STRATTON moved the filet resolution, which was to the effect that a testimonial should be dedicated to the memory of the late Mr. Hume, in order to evince the nation's gia'itude for the services he had rendered to the country during a long life spent in her service. Mr. R. OSBORNE, M.P., said, in seconding the reso lution, he begged to state that he had attended that day to show his regard to the memory of Mr. Hume, whose loss was so deeply felt by the country. (Hear, hear.) In every public movement Mr. Hume was the active originator of every valuable reform, and was foremost in promoting the principles of toleration, and of securing to the country, as far as he could possibly accomplish it, economy and retrenchment in every department of the State. (Hear.) The loss of such a man could not be t o much deplored. (Hear, hear.) Mr. ROEBUCK, M.P., said he felt very deeply in th 4 matter ; but it was not from personal motives that he came forward to advocate the erection of a testimonial to thy memory of that great man whose loss tiny all deplored. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Hume was a reformer, when reform wag not fashionable. He preached re trenchment, and with success, in an unreformed House of Commons. (Hear, hear.) He persevered in contend ing for economy and reform in the face of enormous ditfis celtiee, and he obtained power in the House of Com mons without practising any of the arts of the House of Commons, and he (Mr. Roebuck) knew that House well. (Hear, and laughter.) Mr. Hume, by courage and determination, obtained pow e r in the House of Com mons through the support he received from the people. IS was now fashionable to speak considerately of the people, but Mr. Hume was their friend when it was not the fashion to be so. (Hear. hear.) Yet he failed not to oppose the working men when he felt they were in the wrong ; and he equally supported masters and men as he believed them to be in the right. The hon. gentle man concluded by saying he gave his cordial support to the resolution. (Hear, hear.) Mr. W. WILLIAMS, M.P., bore testimony, as his honourable friends had done, to the great services Mr. Hume had rendered to the country. The resolution was then agreed to. Mr. SANGER moved the second resolution, for setting on foot a subscription for carrying out the bject of the meeting, and briefly eulogised the public conduct of Mr. Hume. Mr. BARNETT seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN announced a number of subscriptions which amounted to 1401., and the proceedings termi• nated. RAJAH BROOKE. The following letter may be considered as the result of the investigation held at Singapore into ' the conduct of Rajah Brooke in his proceedings against the native tribes of the Indian Archi pelago "Foreign-office, August 6. " Sir,—Her Majesty's Government have had under their consideration the reports made by the Commis sioners appointed by the Government of India to inquire into certain matters connected with the position of Sir James Brooke, her Majesty's Consul-General and Como missioner in Borneo, which were transmitted to this office in. Mr. Seymour's letter of April 10 ; and I hays to request the Court of Directors may be moved to in struct the Governor-General of India to acquaint the Commis, loners that her Majesty's Government approve their proceedings, and to convey to them the thanks of her Majesty's Government for the manner in which they have conducted this inquiry. "Her Majesty's Government learn with mach Natio+ faction from these reports that, as there can be no doubt of the piratical habits of the Serebas and Sakarrart tribes, the charge which has been made against Sir James Brooke, of baying wantonly and without cause attacked these tribes, has fallen completely to the ground. They also learn with satisfaction that the Commissioners were of opinion that Sir James Brooke had not traded in the produce of the territory under his control igi any manner incompatible with his duty as Consul-General and Commissioner. "Her Majesty's Government consider that the Com* mi- , sioners acted rightly in declining to go into the charge brought by Mr. Woods and Mr. Napier against Sir James Brooke ; and, with respect to the charge brought against Sir James Brooke by the Eastern Archi pelago Company, in their endeavours to procure a re duction of the dollar a-ton duty levied upon British vee• sell by the Sultan of Borneo, as Sir James Brooke hirn• self informed the Commissioners that he had given ad' vice to the Sultan not to accede to the wishes of the COte' pany without a full settlement of the matters remaining unsettled between the Sultan and the company, her Majesty's Government concur in the opinion expressed by Mr. Devereux, that the fact alleged being thee acknowledged there did not appear to be prima /acid any matter to inquire into ; and under all the circum stances of the case they are not disposed to question the decision come to by the Commissioners. "Her Majesty's Government agree with Mr. Doe' reux that, without an exact knowledge of the terms which have been finally agreed upon between the Sultae of B , rneo and Sir James Brooke, the actual position of Sir James Brooke at Sarawak cannot be determined. " The inquiry, which has ended in the complete ex culpation of Sir James Brooke from the charges made against him, has, at the same time, brought to light abundant evidence of the benefic'al results of his ad ministration in the affairs of Sarawak, which are er hibited by the establishment of confidence and the increase of trade, and are such as to deserve the apprir bation of her Majesty's Government. "As it may be pre•itned that the fact of the long pending inquiry which has taken place can hardly have failed to produce among native communities an impree fl ion unfavourable to Sir James Brooke, it is desirable that, in order to remove such impression, all fit means should be taken to cause the result of the inquiry to be fully and extensively known.—l have the honour to be, &c., "CLARENDON. "The Right Hon. A. Vernon Smith, &c." THE GUARDS' MEMORIAL.--" Fair Play," writing to a co❑temporary, says :—" With reference to the asset• tion in Colonel Wood's letter, published in to-day's Times, that the Memorial of the Guards has been lying for some time on the tables of most of the club-houses in London, I beg to state that I have made inquiries at ell tie military clubs (except the Guards) in London, and fix l that none of them have received a copy of the me" rnorial in question." The King of Sardinia has sent to Messrs. Staple, of the Albion, through the Marquis D'Azeglio, a letter expressing his Majesty's satisfaction of the arrange' ments connected with their department on the occasion of his Majesty's visit to the city of London, on the 6th instant, accompanied by a valuable gold watch and chain, which the King presents to them as a memorial of that event. The committee of the Corporation for emducting the entertainment have passed a unanimoni vote of thanks to Messrs. Staples, for the very satisfac tory manner in which they furnished the entertainment at Guildhall on the 6th inst., and expressing the entire approval of the Corporation for their services. SAVAGE BRETALITY.—At the petty sessions held at Lutterworth yesterday, the Rev. Edward Elmhirst pre siding, Thomas White, a butcher, of Lutterworth, was charged, at the instance of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with having wan tonly ill-treated and tortured a ram. From the evidence of several witnesses it appeared that, on the 6th instant, the defendant, having purchase] the animal in question, brought it home in a cart and deposited it in a hovel adjoining his slaughter-house. He then fetched a large butcher's knife used in the ordi nary process of killing, and, having first firmly secured the ram's head, he inserted the knife beneath each Of the animal's eyes as far as the bone would allow. The blood spirted out from both wounds, and defendant then stabbed the knife into the creature's nostrils in three dig- net places, producing jagged wounds of a frightful cha• racter, from which the blood flowed freely. 'Some by. standers having remonstrated with the defendant he burst out into a loud laugh, and adding some coarse ob servation left the animal in the state described. Shortly afterwards the ram was observed by Mr. Fox, a solicitor, of Lutterwortb, with its head against a wall, in an almost torpid state, licking into its mouth the blood which poure3 down its cheeks and nostrils. Mr. Fos called the attention of a police-constable to the suf. , tohfetahneimdeafienadnand the officer at once , t, who was found at a fpe ' r p roi u cn b eg l e i d e c - eo h dn o d u i drinking in s ti e soenaro cfh with a number of his companion s. On being desired to kill the ram at once by the constable, defendant refused to do so, remarking that he should do it when he liked and how he liked, and asking derisive!): w hether he could "not d o as he l i ked with his own I' The officer appealed to his superintendent, who, u pon the circumstances becoming known to him at once ap prehended the defendant on the charge of cruelly ill-using the ram, which was at length killed, after suffering ex" treme agony for more than three hours. These facts having been proved, Mr. Nash, solicitor for the defence, admitted them, but relied on showing that the barbarous practice complained of was commonly adopted by butchers in Leicestershire and the adjoining counties in order to make the carcases of animals dress better. For this purpose he called three butchers, who in some measure corroborated his statement ; but all admitted that, although they might have bled the animal before killing it, they should not have mangled it in the manner de• fendant had done with five wounds. The magistrates ordered the defendant to pay a penalty of Si., together with Si. 2s. 6d. costs, or suffer one ropiidei imprison! :neat in the Rouse of Correction. oth It i whi will tem tiler mar] ever Frit] by t nee Ban She. fran esti ficie horn beet of ti Baa stoo real] curi cap , has ann resc tion bee] Pay post mat cent earl has abs , lays the