The Sun. — London, England, 1855-11-28 00:00:00

• MADAME JENNY GOLDSCHMIDT - LIN D. —Mr. MITCHELL has the honour to announce that Mr. and Mme. GOLDSCHMIDT have arrived in this country ti t the intention of giving a Series or CONCERTS AND ORATORIOS ; and it is respectfully announced that on Mo nda y Evening, Dec. 10, Haydn's Oratorio of THE CREATION will be given at EXETER HALL ; and on Monday Evening, Dec. 17, Mendelrsohn's Oratorio of ELLTALI; in wbich Madame JENNY GOLDSCHMIDT-LIND will sing the principal Sopr?no pmts (her first appearance before the public since 1849). Conductor, M. Benedict. Full particulars will be duly announced. All applications in reference to Mr. and Madame Goldschmidt's intended Concerts, either in Lon doner the provinces, to be addressed to Mr. Mitchell, Royal Library. 33, Old Bond-street. J IILLIEN'S CONCERTS. - ROYAL M. ITALIAI.X OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. —Last Week but Two.—THE MENDELSSOHN FESTIVAL—THIS EVENING. Jullien has the honour to announce that the MENDELSSOHN FESTIVAL will take place This Evening (Wednesday, Nov. 28), on which occasion the first part of the Concert will consist exclusively of the following works of Mendelssohn : Overture, Ruy Bias (first time at these Concerts) ; Rondo in E fiat, for pianoforte, performed by Mons. A. Billet; Symphony in A major (the complete work); Grand Concerto in E, for Violin (the complete work), performed by M. Sainton ; and the whole of the incidental descriptive Music to Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream ; con cluding with the Grand Wedding March. The Second Part will be Miscellaneous, and include The Fall of Sebastopol Quadrille, assisted by the Military Bands ; The Forest Fairy, sung by Madame Gassier ; the Mont Blanc Polka; Quatuor for Four Violoncellos, Hymne a l'Harmonie, by MM. Montigny, Vieux temps, Larnoury, and Eleyne ; Solo, Flute, by Herr Reichai t ; and the Atlantic Galop (first time this season). Commence at 8. Promenade and boxes, Is. ; dress circle, 23. 6d.; private boxes, 121., 11.15., and 1/. II s. 6d. M. Tullien's Grand Anneal Bal Masque will take place on Mon day, Dec. 17, 1855. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING. Will be performed A GAME OF SPECULATION. After which, NUMBER ONE ROUSID THE CORNER. Followed by Madame Labarrere's Troupe of Lions, Bears, &c. To he followed by NITOCRIS. Characters by Messrs. E. F. Ed gar, Stuart, B. Sullivan, G. Wild, C. Vincent, ; Miss Glyn, Mrs. Selby, Miss De Vere, Miss Anderton, Miss Cleveland, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING. Will be performed GUY M ANNERING. Characters by Mc.srs. Tillers, Compton, and Rowe ; and Miss Swanborough and Miss Cushman. • Followed by THE LITTLE TREASURE. To conclude vilth A SISIS IN THE DARK. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Omura; /Cwt. THIS EVENING Will be performel HOW STOUT YOU'RE GETTING; After which, KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Queen Katha. rine. Mrs. C. Kean; Cardinal Wolsey, Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with A GAME OF ROMPS. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed MARIE DUCANGE ; or, The Jersey Girl. Followed by VALENTINE AND ORSON. To conclude with TWICE KILLED. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. J. U. Anderson, IS, Norfolk-street, Strand. LAST WEEK BUT TWO. Increased Attractions, and success in equal ratio TIIIi, AND EVERY EVENING, at Eight o'Clock, Will be presented, with entirely New and Magnificent Anpoint monte, 1r strife and .11 1 STF.itY, in twelve acts, arranged in two parts, by Professor Anderson. After which, the startling illustrations of Spirit-Rapping. HALF AN-EIOUR WlTri 'VIE SPIRITS, being the moat surprising and interesting series 01experimenta ever given within the walls of any theatre. _ -•- • ----- Revival, in an improved form, of the astounding novelty which tartled London 10 years ago, tte GREAT GUN TRICK Prices of admission:—Private BlXe9, li. I Is. 64. and 1/. Is. ; Orchestra Stalls, 4s. ; Dress Boxes, 33.; Upper ISoxes, 23.; Pit, Is ; Gallery, 6d. Ne Half-price. Box-office open from 11 to 5 daily. Grand Morning Performance ou Saturday Next at Two o'Clock. Doors open at II:of-past One. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Under the direction of 31r. Payne. TIIIS EVENING, Will be performel NICHOLAS NICKLERY. After which, a AP.+_NTSTI BALLET, by the Spanish Dancers. To be follo.yed by 310NiIEUR JACQUE ,I . To which will be added THE (3.~LICI.►Y Followed by NITOCRIS. R)YAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. THI3 EVE MING, Will he performed POOR PILLTCODDY. Characters by Messrs F. Robsm and Emery, Miss Marston, Miss Castle`on, and Miss Tt ra3n. After which, TUE JEALOUS WIFE. Followed by CATCHING A MERMAID. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manner, Mr. Wm. Cooke. Engagement of Starr Johann Endersohn, the great Continent:'.' Grotesque. Tremendous effect produced by Mademoiselle CLEMENTIS E. BOULLIER, the first Equestrian in the World ! Last Six Nights of the Fall of Sebastopol. THIS EVENING. The FALL of SEBASTOPOL, which will shortly be replaced by pi entirely new and original equidrama, in which the whole of Mr Win Cooke's trained horses will appee After which, each night, the novel ACTS in the CIRCLE, Includ in; the Sant des Objets, by Mlle. Clementine Soullier. To conclude with a Melange of Amusements. l!ox.office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, air. W. Cooke. jun. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tiil DAY—Morn. 27 min. aft. 4—Evening 47 min. aft. 4 T 1-NIORROW—Morn. 9 min.aft. s—Evening 30 ir'n. aft. 5 THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Nov. 27. TIIICASIOIIETEIL, IN THE StiA.DE. 50 -htliest since noon yesterday. 46 _lowest this morning and during the night. 48 -this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30.11—rising again WlNis, N.—Light, with mild dull weather. , gib C. SAM LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1855 The English Monarch who laid his crown at the feet of the Papal Legate had also to sign Magna Charta. HEAVEN grant that the stupid young bigot who now degrades the Austrian throne may be driven to a like deed. Probably few of our readers had patience to wade through the Papal a llocution which we thought right to g i ve th em entire yesterday, for we confess nothing but the duty of honest journalists sustained us in the task. It is no mere accumulation of epithets to say that, for sanctimoniousness, ecclesiastical as zmnption, arrogance, sleek hypocrisy, and greedy ambition, we have not for a long time seen any thing, even from the Vatican, to surpass this dis- H ere we have the Pops, gusting document. scarcely concealing indecent exultation, in forming his own Coasistory how completely he has set his hoof on the young EN/PEROR. The Concordat itself we have already had ; now we have the official interpretation of it—a disgrace which Pope Pius IX. might well have spared his humbled son. But no ; Rome knows no limit to her am bition but that, not only of abject submission to her demands, but of undergoing the penance of being pilloried in the face of all Europe. Poor FaeNeis Jowl( ! Hungary has now its revenge. The brutal young hangman of her heroes—heroes whom his sword could never have reached—is now degraded for all history by his own act. The day will came wh en they will be numbered with WALLACES an d 11 411tPDENS, and will as surely come when the odious bully and coward tyrant w ill be numbered with the parallel we can furnish in our JOHN LA.CKLAND. What a pleasure will it b e to th e Hungarian mothers of anoth er g eneratio n to Point to FRANCIS wi JoEr.fr and his Concordat, axci toidentify cowardice and bigotry w hich si g n ed it th the tho stolid brutality and m eanness, which eve n in boy hood could revel in th e blood of the n oblest patriots. When Hungary s hall sin g her . " Scot's wha hae wi' W a ll a ce bled," L , r i song will commemorate an anta g onist not el ei y cruel, tyrannical, and proud, but one of the ignclilest of the monarch kind, one who, trem blin,, ~, for fear of Russia, of Prussia, of France, of England, of Hungary, o and of Lombardy, base l y sold his of Rome, at, ,i d, s :o f u l and body to the effete Pontiff as in him lay, the souls and liberties of his subjects too. Austria bodies, the m issunk d indeed if she do not give him a revised edition of 1848. t. r e ally. seems no marvel that FRANCIS JOSEPH should be slow to quarrel with Russia, He wag slow to stretch his charity far enough to tolerate THE SUN, _LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1855 a Pori' in the East, seeing he was about to make his western POPE Lord paramount of his own do minions. Why quarrel with the POPE of the Muscovites, Slavonians, and Greeks, when the POPE of Italians and Austrians was to receive at his hands the sacrifice of the Holy Roman Em pire. NICHOLAS and Pars had both the same object in their respective domains ; to make the Church the instrument of secular rule. FRANCIS JOSEPH was, as he felt, willing to become the POPE'S lieutenant, how could he resist the CZAR'S wish to convert all the East into lieutenantcies of the Greek Church, with himself at the head? It remains to be seen whether the hereditary states of Austria and all the countries subjugated to its hateful oppression will patiently sit down by the infamous bargain now contracted by their EMPEROR. If the language of the Concordat could have left any room to doubt the intentions of Rome, none is left now. The POPE explicitly tells his comrades that the instrument applies to each of the States comprised under the term Aus ' tria ; that in those States all power over Church men, and Church affairs, all education, the censor ship of the press, the choice of even the professors of belles lettres, the arrangement and creation of parishes and dioceses belongs henceforth to Rome herself. As an act of grace, the Monarch is per mitted to punish ecclesiastics if they rob or steal, that is otherwise than by ecclesiastical arts ; it is also permitted him to select one of three men, presented him by the bishop, for certain offices ; but, on the other hand, the Church is to be a com plete imperium imperio ; every law in contra riety to the Concordat is declared ipso facto void, and all power in ecclesiastical matters is entirely renounced by the EMPEROR. The State is literally prostrate before the Church—rather Austria at the feet of Rome All this, in the nineteenth century ! when almost every nation is strengthening the civil power and reducing the ecclesiastical ; when the Autocrat of Popery is, moreover, living but a day's life of it in his own capital ; a capital where his Government, having made itself detested for every species of corruption and cruelty, is hardly upheld by some thousands of French bayonets. Austria, herself ruling over the best parts of her dominions by military occupation only, kisses the foot of the decrepit little antique, who occupies his own metropolis with other people's soldiers, and but for that would have been transported for life. Let Lord PALMERSTON compare this ser vility to Rome with the audacity to England, which strips the British uniform from the back of her servants. The recent intelligence from America affords powerful corroboration to the views we have already put forward respecting the undignified and unprofessional conduct of Mr. Attorney- General CALEB CUSHING, and the various hostile demonstrations on the part of some of the worst specimens of our Trans-Atlantic brethren. They mean nothing but mere election tricks, calculated to secure a few doubtful votes, and thereby to add something to the very precarious chances in favour of Messrs. PIERCE, CUSHING, and Co. It is needless to speak of the extreme danger of such demonstrations —and the serious nature of the proceedings of those, who for personal, and we may add very unworthy, motives, have been in duced to introduce such extraordinary elements into the civil contest. They must be felt and appreciated by all right-minded men, and inas much as we believe the great majority of the true Americans to be persons of sound judgment and plain common sense, we be lieve that the results of the exp erimont will turn out very differently from what had been anticipated by its framers. We know that the Americans are proud and sen sitive. We honour them for being so it ! They should not submit to a single intentional insult, or to the slightest real injury to their national interests. Neither will we. But, conscious of their own strength, they cannot demand from others anything which, under different circuru stances, they would not themselves willingly assent to. In this respect the ?nom/ and the gentlemanly code are identical. We should " Do unto others as we would they should do unto us !" In that spirit ample reparatio n would be made for any unintentional injury, while those who had received the wrong would exhibit the consciousness of strength in the tem perate character of their demands for reparation. Men of true courage never think it necessary to resort to bullying and bravado. A man must be a coward at heart to demand what none but cowards could grant. And, as we have already stated, cowardice is not the characteristic of our American brethren—nor do we suppose that they ' would willingly accept a compliment to their cou rage at the expense of their integrity. It would therefore be an unwarrantable imputation to state that they desired to acquire political advantages which they could not justly or honestly demand. All the rumours respecting piratical or "filibuster ing" expeditions to Cuba, St. Domingo, or Nica ragua may therefore be treated with the contempt which they so justly merit ; although they may, for a special and unworthy purpose, be connived at by certain parties, they will not receive the sanc tion of " the People." It is only " the un worthy" who will be influenced by unworthy motives—the lowest class of the community, who can be affected by a bribe of such a description. There is apparently an effort made to excite jealousy on account of the strengthening of the West India squadron. Without entering into any of the numerous reasons that may justify such a course, without reference to any American question, we may say that the tone of Mr. Attor ney-General CUSHING'S letters, unnoticed and unceusured by the Executive, are quite sufficient to justify such precautions. Governments can only deal with Governments ; while we, as of the people, c an speak of matters relating to the p eop l e of both countries. It is true t hat we do not want nor do we wish to quarrel with America. It would be regarded here as a calamity far more serious th an th e cc difficulty" with Russia. But while we avoid any just provocation it must be obvious that, under existing circumstances, we cannot "bat © a single inch" of that wherein the national honour is involved. There is but little necessity of warn ing the American people, for we have n o com plaint to make against them ; but we may tell their pettifogging officials of the danger they in cur by their unjustifiable proceedings—a danger far more formidable than they may have hitherto contemplated. Ta 4 QUEEN'S V I SIT T O CH ATHAM .—The train con veying her Majesty left the Bricklayers' Arms station at about 11 o'clock, this day, and arrived at the Strood station at 10 minutes to 12, where the heads of departments and officers commanding corps were prc• sent. A. guard of honour was furnished by the Royal Marines of the Chatham division. On arriving at Fort Pitt the Royal standard was hoisted at Fort Amherst, and a Royal salute from one of its batteries. A guard of honour was furnished by the depot of the 91st Regi ment. Her Majesty pas received at Brompton Bar racksgua"d of ho nour from the Provisional T Battalion.a E G by a 0 VERNOR-GENERAL OF INDa.--Viscount and Viscoutess Canning, attended by their suite, and accom panied by Lord De Tabley and Mr. Alexander, sailed from England yesterday morning, ei& route for Marseilles and India. THE KING OF SARDINIA. PORTSMOUTH, Tuesday Night.--Her Majesty's steam yacht Osborne is ordered to coal and prepare for a voy age to France, and will leave Portsmouth on Wednesday evening to embark his Majesty the King of Sardinia and bring him to England. Captain C. T. Gordon, of the flag-ship Victory, is superintending and directing the yacht's equipment, and making the other necessary arrangements. Between 200 and 300 men have been at work upon the yacht all day, and will work all night to get her ready for this special Royal service. We believe that the following arrangements have also been made. On Saturday morning, at ten o'clock, her most gracious Majesty, accompanied by her august visitor, Prince Albert, and their respective suites, will leave Windsor by the South-Western Railway for the Royal station at the Nine Elms. From thence they will visit the Crystal Palace, where the wonders of that truly national establishment will be minutely inspected by the Royal guest. The distinguished party subse. quently return to the Nine Elms Station, and thence to Windsor. On Monday Prince Albert will escort King Victor Emmanuel, by the Great Western Railway, to Basing stoke, and thence by the South-Western to Gosport and Portsmouth, where the Royal Arsenal will afford a clear indication of the almost miraculous resources of Great Britain. Unequivocal evidence will thus be afforded of the strength and power of the nation with which the magnanimous monarch had allied himself before he had received such convincing proofs of its stability and grandeur. The Royal party will return to Windsor the same evening. We believe that no other arrangements have as yet been definitively entered into. THE PRINCE OF PRUSSIA AND THE LATE EMPEROR NICHOLAS. The Prince of Prussia, who is the patron of the society for relieving aged soldiers of the Prussian army and their families, has addressed the following letter to the Count de Blankensee : " The ever-to-be-regretted death of his Majesty Ni cholas the First, Emperor of Russia, has inspired you to write a poem full of elevated thoughts and fine senti ments, the proceeds of which you intend to present to the fund for the relief of the invalids of the army. The president of the administrative council of the society, General de Malisscewsky, having requested my authority to receive from you the first instalment of 100 thalers to be added to the fund especially devoted to the 6th regi ment of Cuirassiers, which bears the name of the Em peror Nicholas, I have to inform you that I have given such authority, and that at the same time I have signed the necessary order for placing the money to the especial credit of the regiment named. I thank you most warmly for having employed your fine talents to solace the last days of the veterans of a regiment which bears the historic name of the great Emperor, who was so dear to me ; and I beg of you to believe that I am sen sibly touched by the noble homage that you have thus rendered to his august memory. "PRINCE 05' PRUSSIA." General Canrobert's Mission. The following is from the Times (Second Edition) Paris correspondent's letter, dated yesterday : The following letter from Berlin, dated the 24th, relative to the mission of Count Munster to St. Petersburg, corroborates what I have already said on the subject, notwithstanding the denial given to it : " Without noticing otherwise the denials given to the intelligence of a pacific mission entrused to Count Munster by the Kiug of Prussia, I maintain what I have already communicated to you on the subject. It is cei tain that that military Plenipotentiary followed the Emperor Alex ander in his journey to the Crimea, and it is equally cer tain that he has made to the Czar, in the name of his Government, overtures of a pacific nature, and which do not appear to have been definitively rejected. " The other important part of my letter, namely, that which alluded to General Canrobert, has also, I find, been disputed. The assurance that the gallant General had not gone to Sweden simply for the purpose of deliver ing the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour to the King stated in the Times, has bcen boldly contradicted by another English journal, which is supposed to receive occasionally semi-official communications. This latter journal, it is true, admitted that the French Envoy might have had for mission to study the military re sources of the countries he was about to visit. That concession is not, however, sufficient. On this point also I am enabled to maintain all I have said, without diminishing it by a single syllable. Sweden has con tracted positive engagements, and there is every reason to hope that Denmark will do the same. Letters from Odessa state that all the recommen dations of General Gortschakoff have been acceded to by the Czar, and that several changes in the various commands are taking place. The General declares that no uneasiness need be felt respecting the Crimea during the winter, and the Emperor, it is said, has satisfied himself personally that not only were the Russian positions well fortified, but amply supplied with everything that could be re quired." COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, Nov. 27. Major• General Knollys, commanding the troops at Aldershott Camp, arrived yesterday on a visit. The dinner party in the evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Spaeth, Sir George Couper, and Major-General Knollys. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting this morning. Lord Bloomfield, her Majesty's Minister from the Court of Prussia, Mr. H. Howard, and Sir Hamilton Seymour had audiences of her Majesty to-day, and were introduced by the Earl of Clarendon. Sir Edward Ryan, Mr. Lefevre, and Mr. Romilly bad an interview with Viscount Palmerston yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes terday in the Council Chamber, Whitehall. Judgment was given on an appeal from New South Wales " De vine v. Wilson." Judgment was also given in an appeal from Jersey, " Lefevre v. Sullivan." A motion and some petitions were disposed of. An appeal from Malta, " Castrique v. Buttigieg," was commenced. The Lords present were--the Lord Justice Knight Bruce, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, Sir J. Pattison, and Sir W. Mamie. MADAME JENNY GOLDSCLIMIDT-LIND The public will be delighted to hear that, through the exertions of Mr. Mitchell, of Old Bond-street, Madame Jenny Lind will again be heard in London. Yielding to the solicitations of this gentleman, she has consented to appear at Exeter-hall, in a series of ora torios and concerts—the first of which, Haydn's ms,goi ficent oratorio The Creation, will be performed on Monday, the 10th of December, and on the succeeding Monday Mendel6soliii's Eliiuh w:11 he given, In reel, of which Madame Goldschmidt-Lind will sing the prin cipal soprano parts. The baton of conductor has been confided to Mr. Benedict, which will insure every jus tice being done to the sublime compositions ; a better selection could not have been made, as a more accomplished musician does not exist. The public are under a deep debt of gratitude to Mr. Mitchell, for no sooner has he despatched Madame Rachel from England than he in duces Madame Lind to pay us a ♦isit. Why should he not make up the glorious trio and give us Ristori ? After what he has already accomplished nothing could be an impossibility to him. We shall wait patiently. ARRIVAL OF THE WRITE STAR. LIVERPOOL, Tuesday.—The White Star clipper, Capt. Drown, which left Melbourne on the Ist of September, errived in port to-day. She had on board 170 passen gers, 85,195 ounces 12 dwts. of gold, in addition to the following cargo :-70 bales of wool, 11 packages of mer chandise, 126 packages Kauri gum, 239 iron pillars, 30 iron gates, 89 iron plates, 1 case of ribbons, 90 bales sheepskins, and 1 case of haberdashery. The advices per the White Star have been anticipated by the Overland Mail. On her homeward passage the White Star spoke, on the 7th of October, the N. B. Palmer, lat. 22 N., long. 45 W. ; Oct. 8, War Eagle, from Ornanville to Bombay, lat. 23 S., long. 23 W. ; Oct. 14, Oliver Lang, from Melbourne to Liverpool, lat. 17 S., long. 22 W. ; Nov. 15, Chinsura, lat. 16 S., long. 25 W. ; Oct. 23, Canute, bound N., lat. 4 N., long. 24 W. DIE AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—The Black Ball royal mail ship Schomberg, Capt. J. N. Forbes, was boarded on the 27th of October in ]at. 7 N., long. 27 W., by the clipper ship Vision, Capt. Douglas, arrived of Crook haven. The Vision brought home a mail from the Schimberg. THE DEATH OF ADMIRAL BRUAT. The Moniteur of yesterday gives the official no tification of this melancholy event. It will be seen that the original despatch was inaccurate, as it was cholera that deprived the French navy of this dis tinguished officer : " To the Minister of Marine and Colonies : " On Beard the Montebello, at Sea, Nov. 20, 1855. "Admiral Bruat expired yesterday, at three o'clock in the afternoon, from an attack of cholera, the general sanatory state of the squadron being at the time excellent. M. Bruat, Lieutenant in the Imperial navy, his naval secretary, who carries this despatch to France, will hasten to present himself in Paris." "All France," adds the Moniteur, " will join in the grief which pervades the navy, for she loses in Admiral Bruat one of the men who have raised highest the glory of her flag in all parts of the world." The lamented Admiral was educated at the Ecole de Brest, and was an aspirant of the first class in 1815, an ensign in 1819, a lieutenant in 1827, and commanded a frigate in 1831. He obtained the rank of ♦ice-admiral in 1852, and was a full admiral in 1855. He was known in the French navy as a brave, indefatigable, and gene rous officer. He was early in life engaged •n the African coast, when he was wrecked, and taken as a prisoner of war to Algiers. On his return to France he commanded the Jena and the Triton, first class ships. Afterwards he was named governor of two French co lonies, and subsequently occupied important naval posts under the government of General Cavaignac. During the present war he was second in command with Ad miral Hamelin, and was present at the bombardment of Sebastopol, October 17. When Admiral Hamelin re turned he took command of the allied squadrons. France has lost a faithful servant, and the British navy will lament the absence of an officer on whom they could depend, and with whom they had co-operated in many arduous expeditions. THE AUSTRALIAN DIRECT STEAM NAVIGATION COM PANY. —At a meeting of this company, held yesterday, it was proposed to wind up, owi ng to an inability to co mplete further arrangements. A not h er meeting will be called in three weeks to adopt definite measures to accomplish this object, unless the charter be meanwhile disposed of. It is expected that, if a dissolution be finally agreed to, the amount to be returned to the share holders will reach 19s. out of 2/. paid. ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH BETWEEN BALAKLAVA AND KERTCH.—A letter from Sebastopol, of the lOLI2 inst., mentions the arrival of the English i vessel Elba, on board of which was an electric wire, intended to estab lish a telegraphic communication between Balakl ava an d Yertch. It was also the intention of the General s -i n - Chief to open a similar communication with . Kinburn, via Eupatoria. By this means the Allies will be regu7 larly apprised of - the movements of the Russians, and enabled to send immediate assistance to any point menaced by the enemy. CITY SEWERS COMMISSION. Yesterday a Court was held for the despatch of the ordinary business of the Commission. The attendance was necessarily small, in consequence of several of the members being absent upon the entertainment commit tee, connected with the visit of his Majesty the King of Sardinia. The minutes of the preceding meeting having been read by the junior clerk, Mr. H. Blake, jun., several applications were made, and the parties instructed ac cordingly. lIIIIST PRODICED BY THE CITY TRAFFIC. Mr. ABRAHAM then gave notice of the following mo tion, which will be discussed at an early Court, viz.:- - - "That the clouds of dust constantly being produced by the traffic in the unwatered streets in hot and dry weather, soil and damage the houses, furniture, and goods of the ratepayers of the City of London ; and that this Court do make the necessary arrangements for watering the streets generally in the City, in the year ensuing, as provided for by the City of London Sewers Act, 1848.' The notice of motion was agreed to. The clause referred to by Mr. Abraham in the above notice is the 147th of the Sewers Act, 1843, and is as follows : _ " And be it enacted that the commissioners shall have full power and authority to cause the streets to be watered as often as they shall think fit, t and also to cause any wellsto be dug, and sunk in such places as they shall think proper, and also to erect and fix any pumps in any public places for the effectual supply water to the inhabitants of the City." By clause 55 of the sates act it is enacted "That every present and future water company, having any mains or pipes within the City, shall, if they shall be re quired by the commissioners so to do, furnish to the commissioners a sufficient supply of water for the pur pose of watering the streets, and for cleansing, flush ing, &c." The reports of the several inspectors of pavements and nuisances having been examined and agreed to, Reddin, the dust contractor, was fined in a large sum for the non-removal of dust from Christ's Hospital, and some other places, after which the commissioners ad journed for a fortnight, in consequence of the visit of the King of Sardinia to the City on Tuesday next, their customary day of meeting. Adjourned. The King of Prussia has conferred the Order of the Red Eagle, of the third class, upon Dr. Barth, the African ti aveller. RUSSIAN PRIZES.—The Fermaun, Nyberg ; the Char lotte, Petersen ; and the Aotiv, Petersen ; all frora Wisby, with grain cargoes, have arrived here prizes to the British fleet.' CIVILISATION requires that the lives and treasures of the nations should not be spent in vain. Such a war as that now waged can only be undertaken once in a cen tury, and it must therefore be , continued until the results are such that the necessity for another war shall be next to impossible. The right is on the side of the Western Powers, and in the opinion of the nations of Europe they are fully jus ified in taking advantage of it.— Prank,for.; Post Gazette. THE FRENCH " LONDON OMNIBUS COMPANY."—It appears that the proposed new Parisian Omnibus Com pany, formed for the purpose of working the London roads, is not, as was supposed, defunct, as the prospec tuses are to be issuod during the current week. It is calculated that the whole of the work may be done with 600 vehicles. For sd. the company propose to take a person from any part of London to any other part. Fourpence will be the first fare, and an extra penny for the " Correspondence," that is, the transfer from one omnibus to another in the event of a passenger wishing to proceed further than the first vehicle runs. THE HUME TZSTIMONIAL.----At a meeting held yester day afternoon at Radley's Hotel, under the presidency of Mr. Roebuck, a resolution was agreed to requesting the executive committee to put themselves in communi cation with the various mechanics' institutes of the king dom, with a view to the organization of local committees in connexion with the above memorial. A subscription was entered into and arrangements made for holding a large meeting in the Marylebone Court-house, over which Sir B. Hall has promised to preside. Tem ATTACK ON THE REDAN.—In the address made by Captain Townshend at the dinner given to the ex mayor of Tamworth, the gallant captain, alluding to the attack on the Redan, said :—" Contrary to the account given by the correspondent of the Times, General Wind ham went to General Codrington for the express pur pose of requesting that not another man might be sent to the Redan, as such was the destructive fire of the enemy that it was impossible for a man to live there. The account given by the Tines correspondent had not been contradicted, but he (Captain To wnshend) had ac cidental facilities for knowing the truth of his own state ment, and could produce abundant evidence of its accu racy." RUSSIAN PRONIBITIOS OF GRAIN EXPORTS.—The Petersburg Jour-tal of Commerce announces "the prohi bition of the export of grain across the entire European frontier of the empire of Russia, as well as of the king dom of Poland, with the exception of wheat, which is still allowed to be exported from the kingdom of Po land." This is a correction of previous semi-official an nouncements. Sweden is reported to be on the point of adopting a similar step, snd a proposition to the same effect is about to be brought forward in Belgium. Prussia has prohibited the distillation of spirits from grain. The Pays, a lluding to the extraordinary assertio n of the London Press of last Sunday that the Emperor Na poleon has lately transmitted to the English Cabinet propositions of peace made by Russia, which appear to him acceptable, says :—"lt must not b e f orgo t ten t h at the Press is the organ of Mr. Disraeli, the partisan, the most absolute, of peace-at any-price, and that this journal takes every opportunity of compromising Lord Palmer ston's Ministry, by representing it as determined syste matically to repudiate aey and every pacific arrange. ment. We are bound to add that no fact has come to our knowledge of a nature to give the slightest :proba bility to the statement ofthe Press. THE FRIEND OF THE CLERGY.—Thie excellent insti tution, which was established for the purpose of grant ing pensions to the widows and daughters of clergymen of the established church, held a meeting yesterday of its friends and supporters, at the London Tavern, for the purpose of electing four in addition to those already upon the funds. R. Baxter, Esq., presided ; and in opening the business of the day expatiated at some length upon the necessity of such an institution as evidenced by be large number of unsuccessful candidates at each election, and further pointed out the great advantages which had already resulted ; concluding by expressing a hope that such accession might be made to the funds as would enable the committee to admit all the candidates. from a very long list of candidates four were elected, and after the declaration of the result of the ballot, the thanks of the meeting were unanimously accorded to the chairman, as also to the Rev. J. E. Cox and the other scrutineers, when the proceedings closed. WORCESTER AND HEREFORD RAILWAY.—A meetingof the inhabitants of Malvern and the neighbourhood, was held on Monday, in opposition to the proposed aban donment by the Worcester and Hereford Company of that portion of the line between Malvern and Hereford. It appeared that, owing to want of funds, the company were about to apply to Parlianlent for permission to con struct the line between Worcester and Malvern only. The meeting was numerously and influentially attended, and resolutions were adopted pledging those present to oppose the contemplated application of the company, and every other which failed to connect Malvern with Here ford and the mineral district of south Wales. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, A SH LINCOLNSHIRE RAIL WAY.—The working expenses and other outgoings of this company's railways (exclusive of the Manchester South Junction and Altrinchaol) stated below) have amounted in the fortnight ending Nov. 18, to 9,2611. 12s. 4d., making, with the 85,5141. Is. 2d. already stated, a total of 94,7751. 13s. 6d. for the first 10 fortnights of the half-year or at the rate of 52-25 per cent. on the railway traffic for the same period- The proportion of the South Junction, &c., receipts ac cruin g to this com pany for the fortnight ending Nov, 18 amounts to 7071. 11s. 7d., making, with the 7,5991. 16s. 2d. previously stated, a total for the first 10 fortnights of 8,307/. 7s. 9d.; while the expenses being 3581. 2s, 10d. for this, and 3,3231. Bs. sd. for the 9 previous fortnights, amount to 3,631/. 11s. 3d., or at the rate of 44.3 1 per cent. THE VICTORIA AND COMMERCIAL DOCKS.—The fol lowing letter relating to the relative capacities of the Victoria and Commercial Docks, has been addressed to the Time :—"Sir,—l observe in year City Article this day a notice of the opening of the Victoria Docks by the admission of a ship of 2,000 tons, and it is stated to be said that the size and draught of this vessel would have prevented her admittance into any other dock in Lon don. May I ask the favour of your correcting this statement, as at the new entrance to the Commercial Docks there is a depth of 27 feet of Water over the ell of the lock at high water, and the new dock is of the Same depth throughout, so that the largest vessels are readily admitted without breaking bulk.—l am, &0., H. K. SMITFLERS, jun., Secretary.", LATEST NEWS. MARSEILLES, Nov. 27. Several vessels laden with corn have arrived at this port. The Simois steam-packet brings ac counts from Constantinople to the 19th. In consequence of the continued increase in the price of bread, the Ottoman Government has de cided that it shall be regulated by a periodical tariff. Sefer Pacha has returned to the Crimea. The English squadron left on the 15th. Accounts from the Crimea state that the Rus sians continue a violent fire against the southern side of Sebastopol. Rear-Admiral Oda Pellion has hoisted his flag on board the Napoleon. The Wagram is at Ka miesh, and the Fleurus in the Bay of Streleska. Omer Pacha, at the date of the last accounts, ,hreatened Zugudidi, a town about six miles from the Ingour, on the road to Kutais. BERLIN, TUESDAY EVENING. The Czar's visit to the Crimea was only under taken after the most urgent representations from Prince Gortschakoff. At the councils of war held during his presence the idea of evacuation was given up, and posses sion of the Crimea is to be maintained as long as possible. Prince Gortsohakoff's head-quarters are to be at Simpheropol, as a central point. The Russian infantry must be recruited from the militia, but the cavalry in the Crimea will be numerous and good by the spring. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. The Grand Review in the Champ do Mars went off splendidly. The Emperor, the Empress, and the King of Sardinia were present, and were re ceived with the utmost enthusiasm. The Moniteur publishes an announcement from the Minister of the Marino that the blockade of the Russian ports by the allied squadrons was raised on the 9th ult. The Paris correspondent of the Austrian Gazette of Vienna, in one of his recent letters, affirms on what he represents to be the very best authority that the Emperor Napoleon, on returning to the Tuileries from the closing the Universal Exhibition, spoke as follows to some personages of distinction who accompanied him : " Thank God ! My conscience to-day testifies that I was right in following the policy I adopted in the Eastern question. Since the commencement of the war against Russia, I have often asked my self if the eclat of the throne, or the insinuations of self-love, would not prevent me from recog nising at the decisive moment if I am in the right path or not. But the echo which my words have this day met with, in the heart, not only of my own people, but of the representatives of all the nations in the world, who were collected in the Exhibition Palace has given me the most confident convict 4 on that our cause is just and sacred, and I am determined to assure the triumph of it." The following is an extract from a letter from Kamiesh, published in the Gazette dm Midi : "By next spring Sebastopol will have shared the same fate as Tyre, Persepelis, and other great towns of antiquity, of which not a stone remains standing. The loss will be great for the Russians, and almost nothing for the Allies. The traders who intended establishing them selves in the conquered town will be disappointed, and we must now bid farewell to all ideas of cafes, restaurants, balls, and theatres. Meanwhile the firing from one side to the other still continues, but is of the most ridiculous description. Our fleet in Kamiesh and Kazatch has been tried by a no vel epidemic, which attacks, not the men, but the - vessels. Their keels are attacked by large worms, h w ich gnaw the wood and menace the ships far more than have done the Russians. It seems that these worms are peculiar to these shores, and this eighth plague of Egypt extends all along the Crimea as far as Nicolaieff." BOURSE, Nov. 2T.—The following are the last quotations : Cash. fr. e. End of Month. 11; per Cents P,3 50 —f. --c. 3 per Cents 65 70 65 60 Ne .br Loan 66 40 Bank Shares 3160 Roman Credit Mobilier 1240 A istrian Belgian Five 5........ 93 3 - Spanish Threes — Piedmontese B5 Home Debt 3l RULWA YS-YOB CASH. fr. c. c. Othans ... l l lO Western 752 50 Northern Lyons ...... 1142 50 New Ditto 752 50 Mediterranean 1270 Grand Central 582 50 Lyons Geneva — TPste Cette 763 Austrian C0rn....... 710 - THE BALTIC. KIEL, Nov. 24.—The Royal George has go t orders to prepare for sea this evening or to-morrow morning, and it is probable that she will be accom panied by either the Colossus or Nile. The Duke of Wellington, Orion, James Watt, and Majestic, as well as the French ships Tourville and Duquesne, will remain awhile. When the ships arrived leave of absence to the extent of ten days was in some instances given, but this is now reduced to three, so that the officers who wish to make an excursion cannot now extend their visit beyond Hamburg, while those who were more prompt managed to get as far as Berlin, and even in some instances they contrived to see Dres den, which was a great relief from the monotony of a sea life, especially when it has been characterised, like that in the Baltic, by the tediousness of block ade duty, or otherwise by comparative inaction. The officers of the Duke of Wellington have re cently erected a handsome monument to the me mory of their late First Lieutenant Hannant, who died of small-pox, and was buried at Faro ; and a like tribute is about to be paid here to that of Lieutenant Ouseley, who was formerly in the same ship, but latterly in the Pembroke, by several of his former messmates. Yesterday the thermometer was as low as 25 de grees Fahrenheit ; the frost has, however, disap peared, and it stands to-day at 35 degrees ; but at no time this season has the temperature of the water in the bay been below 45 degrees, and there is never ice on it until the thermometer falls to 18 degrees, and that rarely happens until after Christmas. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Nov. 24. It is now positively known hero that the whole of the first levy of militiamen in Russia is to be put into the regular army.. . The Emperor Alexander has given orders by tele graph that no impediment is to be offered to M. Gopcevich in getting his corn on board his ships. It is credibly related that enormous quantities of corn aro being bought up by Prussian houses, on account of the Russian Government. RUSSIA. We have received the St. Petersburg journals of the 18th inst. The Journal de St. Petersbourg has the follow ing "By an order of the day of his Majesty the Emperor, dated 26th of October last, Aide de - Camp - General Luders, of the Infantry, charged with the command of the army of the South, is at the same time charged with the com mand of the maritime service at Nicolaieff, under the orders of the Commander-in-Chief of the army of the south and of the troops in the Crimea. " By the same order of the day Lieut.-General de Kiesmer, First Commandant of the fortress of Sebastopol, is appointed First Commandant of Moscow." The Emperor has published an order of the day thanking the Grand Duke Michael, General Tod tleben, and the officers and men who had assisted in constructing and arming, with so much speed, the fortifications of Nicolaieff. A sum of one rouble (not quite 4fr.) was given to each private soldier. . . The Wanderer of Vienna contains the following: —" It has been for some time past announced that Russia was disposed to make concessions to the Court of St. Peter, but it is now evident that no hopes are to be entertained by the Catholic Church of receiving concessions from Russia. Orthodox Russia fears Catholicism and would look upon a concession as a defeat." A letter from Vienna, in the Post Ampt Gazette, says :—The visit of the Emperor Alexander to the Crimea is beginning already to produce its effects. GREECE. It will be remembered that about a month ago the Moniteur published an account of the visit paid by the King and Queen of Greece to the Russian church at Athens, under circumstances which, as they were exhibited by the official journal, gave their presence on the occasion the aspect of a de. monstration of Russian sympathies. The Court of Athens has instructed its Charge d'Affaires at Paris to solicit the following account of the incident in the Moniteur The visit of their Hellenic Majesties to the church cif St. Nicodemus had merely an artistic object. The members of the Russian legation were not in uniform. M. Persiany was alone present, but not in uniform. The almoner and the two choristers, who live in a house adjoining the church, went t• it when they saw the court arriving. No Te Deum was sung, the tapers were not lit, there were no prayers, and no ceremonies of worship. Lastly, it is to be observed that the Queen, who was re turning with the King from the usual ride, wore a riding habit, which marks yet more strongly the strictly private character of this visit. ROME. A letter from Rome, of the 22d, in the Univers, says :—" It is positively stated that the Consistory of the month of December is fixed for the 21st, and that the promotion of the Cardinals, which has been so often postpon e d, w ill th en take place. Among the candidates spoken of for promotion are the Archbishop of Vienna, who conducted the negotiations of the Concordate ; and Monsignor di Pietro, formerly Papal Nuncio at Lisbon. The Emperor of Austria, in order to show his satis faction at the conclusion of the Concordate, has lately sent to the Pope, as he had some time back promised, the sum of 250,000 f. towards the con struction of the monument of the Inaniaculaie Con ception. Several decorations have also been con ferred on the high dignitaries who took part in drawing up that document, and among others on Cardinal Santucci and Mgr. Valenziani. Among the persons recently arrested here is said to be a direct emissary of Mazzini." The Pope has just created Mgr. Villecourt, Bishop of La Rochelle, a resident Cardinal. The new Cardinal is stated to be noted for his piety and learning, and to be a personal friend of the Pope. THE UNITED STATES. NEW YORK, Nov. 14. The November elections have terminated, gene rally in favour of the Know- nothings. In Mary land they have carried the city of Baltimore, and also the State. In Massachusetts, although opposed by the Whigs, the Democrats, the Anti-Liquour Law Party, and the Republican s , they have elected a large majority o f the Legislature, , and their Governor by 15,000 votes over every other can didate ; and in this State they have prevailed, by a majority of from 15,000 to 20,000 votes over the Republicans, 35,000 over the Soft Demo crats, and 60,000 over the Hards. A Legislature strongly Anti-republican is elected, and the advo cates of a separate Northern party are put hors de combat for a year to come. But the vote by which this victory is gained is so much b e l ow th e regu l ar vote of the State, that this apparextly decisive re sult really indicates little. The total vote of last year was over 470,000. The vote of this year is only about 300,000 ; and the Know-nothing vote itself, with their perfect organisation, is 22,000 less than their vote of last year, and is out-numbered nearly 10,000 by the United Democratic vote. In fact, they can hardly be said to have a majority in the country districts, since they go out of the city of New York with a majority of 15,000, and stand about even with the Republicans in the rest of the State. These details may seem dry, but I observe that the progress of this party is watched with some interest in England, and I wish to explain, if pos sible, where their strength lies, and where their danger. The effect of European emigration upon the elections is felt more sensibly in the towns than in the country, and hence in cities like New York, notwithstanding the number of foreigners, and the manufacture of them into voters on the eve of an election (2,500 voters were made here two weeks ago) the native vote preponderates so largely. The feeling in the town (the democratic party being di vided) has been strong enoughto overcome t'ie anti slavery prejudices of the country, and to put the Know-nothing candidate into nearly all the offices. As the meeting of Congress approaches the posi tion which the Know-nothing members will take upon the admission of Kanzas begins to be ques tioned. The _Herald classes the members thus : Democrats Bl Southern Whigs Union Know-nothings 6O Abolition Know-nothings Northern Whigs, or Abolition Republicans 68 Vacancies but says, with justice, that this division cannot be taken as true on the Kanzas vote. Two of the Know-nothing members elect have issued the fol lowing circular to the members of that party : " TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. "New York, Nov. 1. " Sir,—As it is now clearly known that the American representatives to the coming Congress will constitute a large plurality in the house, it is eminently desirable that a conference be had prior to the commencement of the session. In this view the undersigned solicit the privilege of inviting, through the medium of your co lumns, the several members of Congress who have been chosdn as the representatives of the American policy to meet for conference at the Hall of Representatives on Thursday, the 29th day of November inst., at the hour of noon. By giving this invitation au insertion in your widely circulated columns you will :confer a favour on your:very obedient servants, " THos. R. WHITNEY, Fifth N. Y. District. " BAYARD CLARKE, Ninth N. Y. District." The Know-nothings of Union sympathies will have the balance of power, and can make pretty much their own terms. Their defeat in Virginia andidestructive victory in Kentucky in the summer lost them their prestige ; but the rec en t e l ect i ons have more than restored it, and enable them to go into the new session with a bold front. President making begins to be rife . Amon g th e D emocrats put forward by his friends is Mr. Wise, of Virginia, who writes a characteristic letter, from which I extract the following : " But if the Democracy can again succeed, and can not again unite upon a better man than I am, and they will unite upon me, I can only say that I will—a la mode Jackson—fervently and effectually rule Black Republicanism. I will rule them. But the idea of ruling or not ruling, them shall not turn me a hair's breadth from my own convictions as to what my duty as a patriot requires. I will write, speak, act as I think right, and leave the consequences to God and ' the country,' without thinking of the Presidency." The Nicaragua steamer brings news of the fur ther success of Walker, and the cessation of hosti lities. A treaty has been entered into which leaves Walker in power, with his army to uphold it, and at the last accounts the miners and floating popula tion of California were coming to San Francisco in greater numbers than vessels could be found to take them on to San Juan. The newspapers and their Washington correspon dents have a great deal to say about the abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, generally viewing it with favour, and but little of the movement of the British fleet to the West Indies. The latter step does not excite any fear of further misunderstand ing, although it is attributed by the press to other reasons er reasons than those given for it. The idea of an in vasion of Ireland from this country is regarded as visionary. The bank statement shows a specie decline of 250,000 dols. since last week, and a decline in de posits of 2,000,000 dols. This statement is not re garded as unfavourable. The line of loans exceeds that of the corresponding period of last year by several millions. The California steamer brings about 1,650,000 dols. specie, with draughts for 1,500,000 dols. against it. The week has been marked by . unusual fluctuatio ns i n s t oc k s. N ew York and Erie sold, on the 2d, at 49 ; on the 6th, at 40i ; on the Bth, at 442 ; and yesterday at 49k. Panama sold a week since at 100, yesterday at 103, and other stocks and securities in proportion. The doubts about the future in Europe have caused these fluctuations. The stock market of New York has responded to the fears of London and Paris, without any reason at home for the response ; and the recovery from the panic has been as marked and rapid as was the fall. I enclose some interesting statistics from the Treasury department concerning the commerce of the country for the year ending June 30, 1855. The total imports for the year were $261,382, 960 against $305,780,253 in the year previous. The total exports for the same year were $275,156,84 6 (including specie and bullion to the amount of $56,247,343), against a total of $278,241,06 4 the previous year. Mr. Thackeray's lectures have been so accept able that he has consented to repeat them, begin ning the repetition this week. THE RUSSIAN LOAN.—The agents of the Russian G o . vernmeut have advertised the particulars of the bonds of the Four-and-aalalf per Cent. Loan, drawn in oonfor. IxtitY with the operation of the sinking ftuidi LITERATURE. Popular Astronomy. By Francois Arago. Trans lated from the Original and Edited by Admiral W. H. Smyth, and Robert Grant, Esq. Vol. I. Longman and Company. During eighteen years, consecutively, Francois Arago, one of the most illustrious of modern astro nomers, and eminently distinguished in almost every department of natural philosophy, annually delivered a course of Lectures on Astronomy in the hall of the Paris Observatory. Those celebrated Lectures are at length happily passing through the ordeal of collective republication. The introductory volume of the English version, translated, edited, and revised by Admiral Smyth, assisted by Mr. Grant, his gifted collaborateur, has very recently been issued from the press by the Messrs. Long mans, in pursuance of their project of publishing one by one the various scientific works of Arago, in a series of authentic and authoritative transla tions- Already there has been given to the world, as a foretaste of the cumulative excellence of this brilliant literary enterprise, the initial volume—. (complete in itself)—a volume comprising the whole of the Meteorological Essays, translated under the personal superintendence of Lieut.-Col. Sabine, and preceded by a noble dissertation upon the life and writings of the author, an eloquent, and masterly, and affectionate memorial from the hand of Arago's devoted friend, the venerable and illustrious Alexander Von Hum boldt. We are promised, moreover, the satisfac tion of reviewing, later on, companion-versions of the Lives of Distinguished Scientific Men, biogra phies now announced as in preparation. At present the English admirers of the genius of Arago are afforde4he privilege of possessing accurate copies is the vernacular, of the two noble octavo volumes in which the Popular Astronomy is to be comprised. Perhaps, of all Arago's works, this is the one upon which his fame as a philosopher may the most se curely repose as upon its most ample and indestruc tible foundation. It is to Arago what the Novunt‘ Organum was to Bacon, or the Principia to New ton—his undoubted mast3rpiece. As such it is acceptable gratefully, we had almost added. reverently. In it the great French astro nomer may be said to stand forth as the appointed exponent of the starry universe to those among the vast mass of his fellow-crea tures who may listen to the echoes of his voice in the dim hereafter, as well as to those who hearkened to his actual utterance as among the privileged number of his immediate contemporaries. The origin of these famous Lectures is very easily re lated. They arose out of a law of the 7th Messidor in the year 111, 25th June, 1795, a law formally constituting the " Bureau des Longitudes." In obedience to the sixth Article of which enactment one of the fifteen members or associates of which the Bureau is composed, is annually obliged to deliver a course of Lectures on Astronomy. For eighteen years consecutively Arago was the chosen associate, the member invariably selected by his colleagues for thus delivering the astronomical prelections so appointed to be delivered. And so from the acorn, as it were, of the first sentence of the first lecture in the first course of these lectures numbering at last as we have said no lees than eighteen altogether—there gradually grew up this grand umbrageous " giant of the woods," ramifying into a thousand branches, striking its roots abroad far and wide, and flourishing, so to speak, in leaves innumerable. Its flowers, the flowers of rhetoric. Its fruit, the stars—fruit glittering under its shade in clusters, in nebulm . , in constel:ations. How ex quisitely the whole glorious theme discoursed of, rises in symmetrical order before us under the author's wise and vigilant supervision 1 Everything prepared by the lucid definition of certain essential fundamental ideas upon Geometry :—ideas in re gard to the use of a circle, in regard to the propor tion of the circumference to the diameter, in regard to the theorem relative to the angles formed about a point, in regard to the sum of the angles of a triangle, in regard to the proposition of the square of the hypothenuse 1 Wonderful indeed, in the abstract, is the manifold beauty opened up to the student's contemplation by the rudiments of astro nomical inquiry—associating the most celestial of the sciences as those rudiments do so very intimately and even inextricably with the root-laws of geome try and mathematics ! And doubly marvellous the beauty thus revealed appears to be when un folded to view by the magical touch of the wand of a genius like that of Arago. How the mind pauses with a sense of indescribable enjoyment over such a bewitching revelation, for example, as that dis closed to the intellect of Newton, when he dis covered the answer to the problem of the planetary orbits in that mystical algebraic expression, em bracing the whole of the exquisite curves called the Conic sections, curves known of old to the ancient Greek mathematicians I Copernicus having sur mised these planetary orbits to be circular—Kepler having suggested afterwards that each formed, on the contrary, not a circle, but an ellipsis—Newton resolved the inquiry into a problem thus pro pounded : To determine the motion of the curve which a body would describe in its revolution about a fixed centre to which it was attached by a force proportionate to the mass of the attracting body, and decreasing with the distance accord ing to the law of gravitation. That the pro blem : and this (as we have remarked) the answer the algebraic expression, embracing all the conic sections collectively! Every planet revolving in an ellipsis—every satellite in a circle—every comet either in a parabola or a hyper bola. The " circle " being produced from the section of the cone (as every tyro knows familiarly) by the cut horizontal : the "ellipsis" by the cut oblique : the " parabola" by the cut parallel-to the-slope : and the " hyperbola" by the cut parallel-to-the-axis. The equilateral triangle formed by the division of a sufficiently trun cated cone vertically down the centre—remain ing, after all is said, the loveliest symbol of the crea tive GOD ever presented to the imagination of man! The loveliest type of the adorable Trinity, at least excepting one—that afforded by the equal blending together of the three primitive colours of the Prism—Blue, Red, Yellow—for the formation of Pure White Light ! Fancies such as these are net of course the fancies put forth by Francois Arago: but they are fancies which naturally grow out of the study of a work such as this matchless treatise of Arago's upon the glory, and the mystery, and the grandeur, and the loveliness of the divine and ineffable science of Astronomy. Lingering over these pages of heavenly lore as penned by the hand of the great French astronomer, the reader finds his imagination sensibly expanding and be coming more and more fructuous under the in fluence of the stores of elevated and elevating knowledge poured into his intellect from the cornucopeian genius of the author— dreams of wonder and majesty rising succes sively from the examination of the selected facts herein recorded so bewitchi ng l y , i n reference to Mechanics, to Horology, to Optics, as affecting the awful mechanism of the Heavens 1 And so, from step to step, in most alluring gradation, the student advances to the consideration in due sequence, of the isolated stars, and the multiple stars, and the nebulae, and the constellations, and the milky way, and the zodiacal light, until he sets foot with Arago, in imagination, at the centre of the solar system, upon the gigantic orb of the sun, and thence, orbit by orbit, proceeds to each of the wonderful planets in succession. Planets so various in size that (if we may here so speak familiarly in explanation) two of them " Mars" and "Mercury," might be symbolised as currants, while " Venus" and the " Earth" are typified as cherries, and " Uranus" as a plum, and " Neptune" as an orange, and " Saturn" as a melon, and "Jupiter" as a pumpkin ! Viewing their dimensions, that is, comparatively. Dimen sions, nevertheless, so trivial, as contrasted with that of the glorious star round which they are re volving, that all these planets massed together would be to the sun but as a sphere might be when dwarfed in aspect by the side of one more than 500 times larger the diameter of the solar orb being, in fact, upwards of 887,0G0 miles in the aggregate 1 Over themes such as these, discoursed of as they are here discoursed of by Francois Arago, we linger in awe, and wonder, and admiration, and bewilderment —. confronted as we close the work penned thus re verently by the hand of the meek-eyed philosopher, confronted by an adoring sense of the unutterable wisdom, from which all these miracles of the uni verse have emanated as an effluence, the glory of the Godhead, " bright effluence of bright essence increate," the visible attestation of the Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent 1 TESTIMONIAL OF RESPECT.—The members of the War wick-lire Agricultural Society have determined to set apart 100 guineas out of their funds for the purpose of giving a testimonial to Mr. J. Moore, for his services to the cause of agriculture in that county. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY, &0., BELONGING TO LADY OLIVIA SPARROW.—Yesterday morning infor mation of an extensive robbery of jewellery, Jac., with a description of the articles stolen, was forwarded to the various city and metropolitan police-stations. The rob. bery was effected at Claridge's Hotel, Brook-street, St. Jamess, where Lady Olivia R. Sparrow had for some time past been a visitor. She possessed a large quantity of valuable property, and, amongst other articles a rose wood dressing-case, filled • with a choice collection of costly jewellery, articles worked in hair, gold, and silver, and an enamel portrait of a gentleman—the latter being of considerable value, and greatly prized by her lady. ship. The box was suddenly missed ; and a strict search for it proving unsuccessful, the proprietors of the hotel obtained the assistance of the police, who are at the pre sent time exerting themselves to trace the property and discover the perpetrators of the robbery. • 1 i I I