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/ '' ---" Zd f .Z--___- E.6 -- -71' , • Il #7 . •w k / , 1 heir estimate so nearly on a par with the p rove d ' ' , a 4 • , • •- •withihis, , : ''4",.,;i4i.-.1-d.:,7, ' . ,l ' 4.. '' 4 • ....:: . ' , st4L-FJA ; i l \ kr i II ...' 4.;t. t, , • • ~..„, ------ \ ',3- !1 4 I ..:•:, ....:'.. 4:!ketAt.- )I, • j - 11EETIN G • NOTICE OF DIVIDEND. RANK of DEPOSIT, 3, Pall-mall East, London. A.D. 1814. The WARRANTS for Esta the bl ished HALF-YEARLY INTEREST, at tae rat ' of 5 per cent. per annum, to the 30th June, are ready for delivery, and Payable Daily between the hours of 11 and 3 o'clock. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. ~'-~ ,411 m • t•-'4 k 4 ` ,r ) irsi • 4il , A ~~:~.:^ .~ • . __~ t. 3lettray. It must, however, be remembered thatNrii\ bay" all much to learn on the subject; and I do not forg.it in the opinion of Capt. Maconochie, 'it Is:easier tOketbrila.‘ .1 %,•.; %%A \ adult than juveDile effanders. wilt own that I haie al. ways egarded this view as paradoxical. Still it may be continued by experience, and may explain away the di culty which now 'nrevents'my yiebling v. complete assent 140 yar ds) ' ' a go, 8 t 7 1I '' by Orlando? ox. I • • 1121 Z '(r~ / t qf, • 7 ~~p ~ I r two-Yr 4l6 , allowed 3 1 . 131 ards). :MY 10, 1855. t io lb ro n. sPectuses and forms for opening accounts sent free on applica- F - 1) 11 7 i, ROIT THE CHANCELLORSVILLE FREEHOLD GOLD MINING COMPANY. The Directors hereby announce to their Shareholders the arrival the Quickstep with 100 Tons of Gold Ore, the first consigmnent from their Mines in Virginia. The tests made by Messrs. Johnson, and Matthey, Mitchell. Claud et, jai; Wright, &c , justify the belief that at least 5 oz. of Gold to the we Will be obtained from this large importation. [ PRICE' 4D. - STAUP.ED to the estimate on which .I have .been commenting Gek thinen, it has been surmised lhat . the tests ot . l which the authorities rely for the r e f orma ti o n of the candidate for a licence are of an unsatisfactorynature. It is said—l know not on what authority—that too much weight is given to LONDON, W IJ:DNESDAY EVENING, OCIOBEft Jo, 1855. ing Dutch-0, mnew) our, Bst Vb; le 2 furloor N o . 19,664.] ST. GEORGE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Offices, 118, PALL-MALL, London. Caartiste.; —Viscount RANELAGII, Park-place, St. James's. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN —HENRY POWNALL, Esq., Ladbrook-square, Notting-hill. Sacarrart—W.C. URQUHART, Esq. POLICIES ABSOLUTELY INDISPUTABLE. Annuities and Endowments for families, children, and others, on he most favourable terms. Premiums payable yearly, half-yearly, or quarterly. No charge for medical fees or stamps. Loans granted for long or short periods, payable by monthly, inarterly, or half-yearly instalments. 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'it , i's 0 110 a the 611 00° lv gin /1' 'ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. - THIS EVENING, and every evening during the ' we ek, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of luau - , itarri MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON , the Great ,d of the N or th, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety of in cidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary effects. M agic and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos sessing distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases of am usement. It is not a monologue, for the audience them selves perform their parts with the principal actor, some of them on the stage and others in front ; it is not an exhibition, for though everything becomes metamorphosed before the e yes of the visitors no one can be positive that he sees any one thing; but it is 'a comedy really performed by the own- PanY ; a melodrama replete with startly positions and unex 3,eted de nouements ; a magn ifi cen t s p ec t ac l e , w ith 2,000 o f the Public every night to appear as auxiliaries ; and an ex 4vaganza, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond t he bounds of probability. 7 '7 l' ,2 4: lessor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and , asu ionable audiences which have nightly filled the Lyceum V a eatre to overflow, and by means of whose generous aid he v s been enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for con tinuous repetition. He believes that no proteaser of his art at anY time or in any place been honohred with an mount of success, so extensive, so decided, and so unusual. Ie would attribute that success to three causes ; first, that 4 " his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors the results of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of Perfected skill in one peculiar art, and to perfect which ho has travelled the globe in every clime ; secondly, that he has spared no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on ,Stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment the me first mechanicians and artists of the day ; and thirdly, t t, while endeavouring to provide amusement for those i ' .l".° honour him with their presence, he has not forgotten that le possible to afford information also, and that the oppor ilaitY should not be neglected of exposing conjuring where ever it has been used for nefarious purposes, or whenever by resorting to the conjuror's arts, in an illegitimate manner, uesigning have succeeded in making dupes of the credulous. f Th e 93 7 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which e Pro - Anderson has received, from the time of opening the theatre up to the present date, bear witness to the great in terest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst . - 4 7,,ay of them bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which t a belief i n th e superstitious nonsense of the " Spiri nalists" Judging simply by the correspondence which has I t l e i sa lt t ed, Professor Anderson's exposé of spirit-rapping and s ill ustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro duced a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt to ex- Pose a mischievous and impudent juggle. It is impossible for Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the !Pranaunications which reach him on the subject. He regrets t hat Many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen W ho, from th e i r pos iti on i n soc i e t y an d th e i r we ll-known in tellectual attainments, he would least have expected to have b een converts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and so ° Rana , susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Every ev ening, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions on !Pirit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within the i-Veum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited and elucidated. It is respectfully requested that this Public exposition will be accepted generally as Professor Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to his M ultitudinous correspondents. He regrets that the names of the great and learned of the land should b ave been made t o fi gure i n th e d ocumen t s emana ting from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem ber 20, and taken by that journal from the New York Spiri tual Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David Brewster frankly confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what he has 'witnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be thoroughly nonplussed. Both of these noted men brought the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the solution of the phenomena ; but the presence of substantial, actual hands, and the demonstrative strength of the spirits who thus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate rial, objects about the room, proved to be too much of a ques tion for them to master." Mr. D. D. Hume, the author of the above, has recently left England, and the following account of Who, and what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 648: This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and now in Italy, is a remarkable medium ter all the manifestations 'without apparatus. Barnum, who is we'l-known throughout t he_ Anglo-Saxon world as a s pl en did h um b ug , o ff ere d him 2.000 cs!9olrlars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could ue b rought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was refused. Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply an d honestly remarked, that the money would havebeen very acceptable to him, for ho was poor, young (under 20), an or- Phan, and in very bad health : but he would have been afraid of losing his ower as a medium, and he would sooner lose t s life. Thep efusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful. e inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is one of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer tainly surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the editorial article of an established journal, the editor of whom might be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe 'n spirit-rapping-- does spirit-rapping g ain or lose by , this accession to its adherents ? and, with Barnum's endorse tient to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely to be negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not : b ut, When he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of England have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross a swindle when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the Rev. N. . Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and , W rites a book on th e su bj ec t, h e co nside r s it is be time for him to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which i t is effected and the mischief to which it tends. In the Ma • ' rn "ig Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir avid Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel, "'L .. s ia ,company with Lord Brougham. He distinctly that ich the Wizard of the North proclaims every nigh *states t—that tlfirit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad Purposes. In the M orn i ng Ad ver tiser of the following day, h owever, there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one Who was present when h e an d L or d B roug h am h a d th e ir %once with the spirits, in which the writer says, that " the tabl e ( a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most e xtraordinary manner, and, among other things, a large ac cordion was conveyed by an invisible agency to my hand and then to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship's right hand, apart from any person, it played an air through out." With such a statement, printed for the edification of t he People of the 19th century, with the facts before us that le 'most talented men of the day are permitting themselves to be deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers—that the greatest novelist of the age is now engaged in making it the subject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention" has actually been advertised to be held in St. Martin's-hall, P rofessor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual ists of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will be received by the people of England as genuine honest at tetopts to provide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual jugglers. In the course of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have -visited the Lyceum Theatro,—a larger number, it is believed, thaalhas ever Wore been assembled within its walls in so short a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even. - big, the programme being continually changed. Grand fashionable Day Performance, or Saturday, October 13, at 2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ; Part I.—Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, tho Clinical s C apabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do ny magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer -18, the,airsll a d n illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in Act 2. The Aqua-Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the power of producing animated nature from fire and water only, and the possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most complex forms of ornithological existence. Act 3. Le Livre des Recueils Choisies : or, Puck's Own Pocket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the evening's entertainment in the production of the very volu minous from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude ,out of minuteness, iu developing bulk where no space appears 'for its existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and in bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely place for to be found. Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; or, Transition without Trou ble. In which will b e comprised the Aaventures of a Wed ' ding Ring, the Peregrination s of a Bank Note, the Transfor mation—black into white, and the Discovery of every Article in the position which would seem the most inappropriate. Act 5. L'Ecrin de Verre; or, the Casket of C r cesus. Into which, though made entirely of glass perfectly transparent, and suspended so as to be visible to the eyes of all present, the Wizard will cause the money of his visitors to transport Itself, and rain into the casket, though its, lid be closed, locked, and the key in the possession of the audience. Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Transparency of Opacity. Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wine and Spirit Store. An improvement upon the " inexhaustible bottle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will not only be in exhaustible, but will change its contents, ad infinitum, at the word of command, producing soda-water, butter-milk, Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, rum, whisky, aoyeau, or any other wine or spirit requir ed ; and _ finally Proving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry, and occupying the whole space when tightly packed. 0 _ f Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Ex p ose Spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping t a ble and tocsin of the invisibles. Act. 9. G ran d My s ti c A ma l gam , in which the property of the Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange metamor phoses, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become transformed into the flags of victory—the banners of Eng land, France, Turkey, and Sardinia. Act. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comus, in which he who seats himself will be under the magic spell, and appear to the audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi tion as peculiar as perplexing. Act. 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the Nucleus of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the audience will have the goodness to observe, in an earlier part of the evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin) in mid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which all will produced. Act. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shortest Route to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of ridding our-elves of a troublesome friend, and the advantages of the newly-discovered dia-terrestrial passage from the west. ern to the eastern hemisphere. Doors open each evening at half-past 7 ; commence at 8. Private boxes, 1/. lls. fid. and 1/. is., to be obtained at the B ox-office, or at the principal libraries ; stalls, 4s. ; dress eircle, 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s: ; •pit, ls. ; gallery, 6d. The B ox-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction ofMr. Chatterton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per formance on Saturday, October 13, at 2 o'clock. Doors open kapastl. '`y ~~ TO LOVERS OF FISH.-100 GENUINE YARMOUTH BLthATERS for Gs., package included. THESE HIGHLY ESTEEMED DELICACIES AND CHEAP ARTICLE OF FOOD forwarded to all parts, on receipt of penny postage stamps or P 0.0. (preferred). Said full and plain dTection, county, and near st sta ti , n.—Address TIIOS. LETTIS. jun., Fish Curer, “t. Yarmouth. " This is the third season Mr. Letts has suppli. d us with Yar mouth b'oaters, and we find the quality excellent.—J. Brashowe, house st, ward, Blenheim Palace.— Oct. 20, 1854." " Mr. Lettis,—As soon as you send out your genuine bloaters, I shall be glad to have a supply as usual; those I had I.st year gave great satlsf4ction. h. F. Courroux, Ambassador's Court, St. James's Palace —Oct. 1, 1855." RGYTA, ROOMS.-LATMENT'S CA.SINO NOW OPEN' for the winter season. The following t :111 nsic will be performed by his celebrated Band during he week : March aux Flambeaux. Waltzes -The Lily f the Valley (D'Albert), Zephir Lufte (Gung'l), Fenelia (Tinney), Ethel Newcome (Laurent), La Sultane (Bosisio). Quadrilles-I.e Rot du Pastel o.amdtte), Les Hugenots (Laurent); Palermo (D'Al -ert), Bride of Lammermoor (Tinnev), Il Trovatore ( futton). Polkas—Des Hulands (Lamotte), Italie (Gaviolo), The Lillian (D'Al- Tri ). Des Coucous (Bou.quet). The Zouaves (Laurent). Galops— the Imperial Guards (Laurent), The Heels (Streather). Schottische —La Guirlande de Fleur; (Bosquet), La Varsoviana (Laurent). Prin. ,1 pal Cornet a Piston, 31. Boulcours.—Doors open at 8. Admission the fIIGARS. REGALIAS. To Noblemen, Officers of the Army and Navy, and Gentlemen. J. L. RICI./DABOUR , K rarttzests a elose inspection of his choice stock of superior FOREIGN H&VASA CIGARS. Sold'in Boxes at wholesale prices-141b. sample boxes'if desired. Warehouse, 30, Walbrook, Mansion-house, City. APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED. r EA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE a. 4 SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, And all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup. Curries, and Salad, And by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to erfectly digest the food. The daily use of this aromatic and delicious . Sauce is the best safe uard to health. _ _ •. . Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrin, 19, Fenchurch-street, London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs. Barclay ,nd Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and mer hants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.B.—To guard against imitations, see that the names of "LEA .nd PERRINS" are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle. ELEG4NT PERSONAL REQUISITES. 'ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL.- The s ceessful results of the la.t half century have proved beyond question that this unique discov.ry rOSS , SRPS peculiarly I - ravishing powers In the growth, restoration, and improvement of the Human Hair. Price 3s. Gd , 75., 'amity bottles (equal to tour small), 10s. 6d., and double that size, 21s. ROWLANDS' RAINDOR, an Oriental Botanical Preparation for improving and beautifying the complexio - i, rendering the skin soft, fair. and blooming, and eradi cating all cutaxeous disfigurements. ice 4s. 61. and Bs. Gd. per bottle. ROWLANDS' ODONTO, or Pearl Dentifrice, prepared from Orient al Herbs with unusual care, transmitted to this country at great expense, and of inestimable vane in preserving: and beautifying the teeth, strengthening the gums, and in rendering the breath sweet and pure. Price 2s. 9d. per box 11 ,;* Beware of spurious imitations. The only genuine of each bears the names f " BOWL ND;" preceding that of the article on the wrapper or label. •iold by A. ROWLAND and RONS, 20, 'atto i-garden, London, and by Chemists snd Perfumers. R. HOWARD. Surgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet street, has introluced an entirely new descsiption of A it.TI -IcIAL TEKTII, fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They Ks erfoctly resemble the natural teeth as pot to be distinguished from he original by the'closest observer: they will never 'change colour or ecay, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before used. nits method does not require the extraction of mats, or any painful •penstion, and wil , support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is siaranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth •endered sound and useful in mastication.—S2, fleet-street. At some mom ten till five. TOZEALTS COPAHINE, or SACCHARATED •CA PSUL Ks, approved of by the French College of'Physicians, iiccessfully administered in the Parts and London Hospitals, and cknowledved by them to he the best remedy for a certain disorder. , ee " Lancet" of Nov. 6, 1852.) A copy will be forwarded on appli atitm.—Price per In. 43.6 d. ; 50, 2s. tid. To be had of the investor, A IiREEL JOZ EAU, French chemist, 49, Haymarket, London, and the prindipal chemists. IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. 'RIESEMA R.—On the 29th of May, 1855, an iniunctton was granted by the High Court of Chancery. and m the tith June following was made perpetual against Joseph ranklin and others, to restrain them, under a penalty of one thou ,and pounds, from imitatin4 this Medicine, which is protected b 3 loyal- Letters Patent of england, and Secured by the Seals of the Ecole harmacie de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine. Vienna. TRTESEMAR, No. I, Is a remedy for Relaxation. Spermatorrhom. and Exhaustion of tb -4,y• tem, whether arising from excesses, accident, or climate. ro those persons who are prevented entering the married state b , , e consequences of early errors it is invaluable. TRIESEMAR, No. 2, 'ntually, in the short space of three days, completely and entire. • adicates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and Cubeb t ive so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the heat if a vast portion of the population. TRIEREMAR, No. 3, is the great Continental Remedy for that class of. Disorders, whic trortnnately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in a 'ltable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all th trsaparilla in the world cannot remove. I'ItTESEMAR, No. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smel .ml of all nauseating qualities.. They may lie on the toilet tabs viihout their use beiric suspected. .iold in tin cases at I le, each, free by post, 2s. extra, divided into. .8 ,arate doses, as administered by Valpeau, Lallemanfl, Roux 'z.c.,Btc.—To be had Wholesale and Retail in London of John.ton, 6a, "lornhill; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-streat; and Stamm. 1;0, Ox orb-street ;R. H. Ingham, drugeist, 46, arket-street, Manchester ; IT. Bradbury, bookseller, Deansgate, Bolton ; J. Priestly, chemist, L 2, Lord-street; Liverpool ; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland-street. Dublin ; Winnall. bookseller, High-street. Birmingham. IMPORTANT to INDIVIDUALS and F ►MITA lfS. —The articles required for Dress at this season should be n 'vet, elegant, comfortable, serviceable, and cheap ; the rea ons for that are obvious to every one, but the qualifications of business men to provide it .hadd be peculiar E. MOSe.:S and SO find it a duty they owe to their patrons and the public that they should acquaint them with the unp.ralleled pre paration' they have made for Autumn and Winter, with the great succ, ss their buyers have had in all the m irkets, with their count less novelties in fabrics for all fashionahle and seasonable orders o' Attire, wit, their new inventions and eratifving introductions in Styles of Dress, which have engaged the exclusive attention of the bes cutte s and workmen in the world. Individuals and Families are reminded of the Pleasure and advan tage derived from an in-pection of their Autumn and Winter Clothing, which consist. of an interminable variety of the most superior goods In the Heady-made Department is the largest and newest stock ever exhibited. Dre-s for all classes, exhibiting the best maters 'l and workmanship ; Overcoats for kdult4 and Juv, rules, the newest fabrics, the most admirable fit, gentlemanly in appearance, servic. - able in wear, and very reasonable , n price The Kerte h Jacket and the- tc,fiveror's Cape, the most distlngute , ed garments introduced, solely invented by E. MOiES and sos, are now made in materials for Autunn and Winter, hut they can only b obtained at their establishment or its branches Hosiery, Hats, Caps, Roots and Shoes, &c., the newest, best, and cheapest articles ever offered. The Dress for sporting purposes which is made by F. MOSES and sox is everywhere tareed for the correctness and ease of its tit—a desideratum with all sportsmen. This Dress is made to erder with economy and despatch. or may be seleCted Ready-made with the strongest assurance of satisfaction. Ladies' Riding Habits, Liveries, and Official Costume most cor rectly and expeditiously made. 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"The tribe of Quiet Sympathisers,' ,nd 'Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this book .ould find its way into the hands of those who suffer from the com a aint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would 'e saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of ors importance. though it is that which the quacks most prize— ouch money This volume is well qualified to put an end to the mmirical system of treating Spermatorrheea, and to /dace the treat ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore. 'kelp to do much good." London: 11. Ralliere, '219, Regent-street. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. (From the Times of this day.) For some days there has been expectation among men. It is whispered that a portent will shortly attract their gaze and wonder. Three great lumi naries whose erratic course has hitherto baffled calculation are to meet in full conjunction. They have long been approaching each other, and by the PTA of January next, or perhaps sooner, if there is to be an autumn session, will be brought so near that their mutual attraction will carry them for ward in one track. The most ponderous will chiefly influence the motions of the others ? and Mr. Bright will henceforth draw with him the meteor-like Disraeli and the nebulous Gladstone in the path of peace. It is well that the country has received a little warning of the policy which this new Opposition is to pursue. It would cer tainly have been more prudent in its originators to conceal at the present time their purpose and taciis. Had they kept their counsel, the Pio tectionist, the Peacemaker, and the Peelite might have come together in the Commons as if by an undesi(Yned coincidence, and in the first moment of national surprise might have achieved a triumph. As it is, they will find an audience both within arid without the House prepared to receive them with a feeling in which so much of contempt will mingle that it will hardly rise to indignation. This is not a moment at which the country cau be ested with. The minds of men are in a state - which will not allow them to see with patience office-seekers combine to gain their ends by a be trayal of the principles deepest in the nation's heart, and by the frustration of the efforts which it has sacrificed so much to make. England is now devoted to a cause which, rightly or wrongly, she deems of another and a higher nature than the domestic questions of the last few years. Let Mr. Disraeli, if he is wise, reserve his scheming for matters connected with agriculture or finance. Party has in some things a prescriptive right to sport with patriotism, but he will find that the war with Russia is not among the number. The nation has hardly ceased to celebrate th late day of triumph and disaster. The wounded are still in pain ; the relatives of those who died have their tears fresh ; every post brings tidings of new victims, who have succumbed after many days of agony. The comments of Europe and of the New World are only now reaching us. The British General has hardly learnt his country's judgment on his conduct; who is to succeed him we are, as yet, uncertain. All is breathless watch ing and suspense ; the world is still paralysed by 'he tidings of Sebastopol. This is the moment chosen by the new party for the announcement of its existence. Amid the dying and the dead, amid 'he orphaned and the destitute, amid the feelings caused by the triumph of our cause and the dis tsters of our arms, Englishmen are to listen with oatience to the news that a discredited clique of politicians is once more to commence business with a capital based on their sufferings, and to be increased by their dishonour. Could not the Protectionist juggler have waited a little longer before resuming for the season his display of disagreeable clever ness ? Is this a time to gain applause by easy ter giversation, or to attract novices to his school in the hope of acquiring similar dexterity ? The programme of the party sets forth that the war was just arid expedient when it commenced, but immoral and unnecessary now. This was to he expected, for such a distinction will enable con verts to speak and vote in contradiction of their former views without any breach of what they call consistency. The dogma on which the new creed rests is therefore due to the subtle intellect of Mr. Gladstone, who was the first to discover the nature and epoch of this great change in the justice of the war. All therefore who have yet spoken openly, in its favour since April, or whose obscurity has caused their opinions to be forgotten, may boldly denounce every act of the allies since the Viennese diplomatists separated. Those who wish to pass over as inconvenient the question of morality are provided with another argument. Sebastopol was the great object of the war ; this standing menace to Turkey is destroyed, therefore the war is now unnecessary. The moralists will condemn every thing since April, the politicians everything since September ; the intervening six months form a period on which the party will agree to differ. The two, great points in their reasoning will be, it ap pears, the inutility of carrying on 'hostilities be yond a certain point, and the financial burdens which a prolongation of the war must impose. The aid of Mr. Bright will be invaluable in the statisti cal department, while the other two chiefs, though differing as to the period at which peace ought to have been made, will labour to show that it has certainly arrived. It is hardly worth while to hold discussion with a politician who merely wishes to create a party ; but, as the reasoning on which they base their hopes will often be heard during the coming session, it is not unworthy of present no ti c e. We argue not with Mr. Disraeli alone, but with those who share the opinions by which he hopes to mount to power. The Turkish territory is evacuated, the military honour of the allies is safe, war is expensive—let us now make peace. Such is the sum of all that the Opposition will have to say. The three postu latesand yet the conclusion be denie may Thei gwraarntd, with e Russia is not a question of boundary nor of gratified self-esteem ; and woe to the Western nations if they make it a question of money. It may be admitted that Europe drifted into war ; the problem now is to give it such stabi lity as will enable it to resist for the future the blasts which would drive it into new calamities. Far better would it have been never to draw the sword than to pause at such a moment as the present. We should only teach Russia her strength and weakness. She would learn the probable points at which her.. territory would be attacked in any future war, the probable nature of the alliances against her, how far she can depend on her subject races, how far the neutrality of Central Europe can protect her. Although Sebastopol has fallen she would not have lost the fame of invulnerability. Her internal state may indeed be menacing to her Sovereign, and full of the elements of convulsion ; but peace would cause these d 4ngers to pass away and the world would never hear of them. The Czar's iii fluence would appear in a few years little shaken by a coalition which at one time included all the great European. Powers. France and England would seem to have waged a purposeless war, and after proclaiming high principles to have been con tent with military glory. Russia with her moral strength unbroken would believe herself victorious, and find others to agree with her. We have now an opportunity to inflict on Russia deeper wounds than any made by sword or shot. There are in ' testine forces at work in that vast - empire which compression will develope into activity. Even if after the enemy's expulsion from the Crimea the allies never fought another battle, they might con quer the Czar by isolating him :frOna_ the world. To blockade Russia, to keep her under the ban of Europe, is the policy of the allies, perhaps even more than expeditio s and battles. Financial ruin, intestine discord, must follow when the empire is shut out from commerce and civilisation. But, if we palm now, it is useless to think that we can commence again. A war like the present is not likely to be renewed after a first failure. If such opportunities and such efforts shall have so mean a conclusion, what statesman will be responsible for renewed hostilities ? The three men who are pointed put as the leaders of this coalition must in deed be sanguine if they expect that any large sec tion of the House of Commons will acknowledge their guidance. The country is in an earnest nclood, and though, with instinctive toleration, it suffers and even desires the expression of unpopular , opinions, it will not calmly see the birth of a dis honourable cabal, which will lower us in the eyes of our well-'wishers and strengthen the hands of our implacable foe. (From, the Times of this day.) Prussia rejoices. - Upon what foundation the universal hilaritylfpf all good Prussians at the pre sent moment, rests Europe is somawhat at a loss to discover. Isit that therllratft 7 theVlCltig . not.having despaired of the Russian cause ? Hence the beer-drinking and bumpers of sparkling Rhine wine; hence the illuminations and festive artillery, and the splendid strains of the Concordia Club, while the easy King saunters about from Berlin to Stoltzenfels, and from Cologne to Aix-la-Chapelle, and then back to Cologne, receiving as he passes the homage of every true Prussian heart. The in telligence which we publish this day from Berlin, to the effect that in many important quarters the elections have gone against the Court, would seem to offer a contradiction to this conclusion. If this be,so, why has not the public opinion of the coun try produced some impression upon the action of the Government ? All we know is, that when the most important interests of Europe were at stake Prussia was unfaithful to herself, and to he cause of humanity and - civilisation. Again, the Kreuz Zeitung, which faithfully represents the opinions of the Camarilla which governs Prussia at the pre sent time, has let slip no occasion for pouring forth abuse upon the Allies. It is all well enough to talk of peace and good-will, but we find very little evidence of these•feelings in the practical action of the Prussian Court, whatever its professions may be. We would, therefore, invite attention to a letter, which we publish this day, with the signa ture of "A Traveller." Our correspondent writes from Konigsberg, and informs us that, whatever the feeling may be at Berlin or on the Rhine, the people in that part of the country appear to him to he as Philo-Russian as their rulers. The port of Menitil is full of shipping busily engaged in taking in cargoes of flax and hemp. The stores and warehouses are crammed with Russian goods, the produce of Courland and Livonia. Thus one of the chief objects of the Baltic block ade is defeated through the agency of our hind Prussian friends. When we turn from the acts of his peOple to the lan g ua g e u se d by th e Sovereign himself in his Royal progr ess , we fi n d nothing but expressions which warrant us in ad liering to the conclusion that Frederick William is determined still to wait upon Providence ) and let Ills fellow-creatures destroy each other, that Prus sia may reap the advantage, and " flourish under the golden horn of plenty." At Cologne, when he was . laying the foundations of the bridge on Thurs day last, thus it was that the Monarch addressed his people : The mercy of God has permitted us to comm nice this work in peace. Let us pray Him to grant that it may be continued in peace. Let us entreat of Him that it may flourish under the golden horn of plenty (goldene fullhorn) of peace ; that it may remain for ever and ever untouched (unantastbar); anti that long before the last stone is laid all Europe, in peace, may be once more reunited." All this time the air was ringing with the accla mations of thousands, who seemed at least to be of the same mind as their King. What their real thoughts may have been, of course it would be difficult for us to say. We are prepared to make large allowances for the sentiments of a nation who duller from ourselves in many respects, although their patient loyalty to such a Sovereign rather ex ceeds the measure of English forbearance; but the enthusiasm with which Frederick William has been received during his recent progress we did not ex pect. Can it be all irony ? We may be doing our - Prussian friends injustice. The whole o f th eir festal display may have been nothing but that self-mockery in which a proud spirit, subjected to undeserved humiliation and outrage, loves to indulge. The King, we read, at Aix-la-Chapelle occupied a room which opened out upon a garden. The grounds had been converted into thesimili tude of Cremorne or Vauxhall. While the Monarch was busy with his feast within the musicians out side struck up the fearful chorus of Meyerbeer' Benediction des Poignards. The front of the ca thedral was decorated with festoons of vine-leaves. In every window might be seen transparencies of the King's 'genial face, not crowned with laurel, but with myrtle. Every emblem was typical of love and wine. According to our correspondent even the ele ments seemed to concur in the bitter irony of the loyal display. For hours the Sovereign was lost in a fog upon the breast of that great river so be rhymed and betoasted by the German student. Rabelais, in his happiest mood, could not have done better than throw in a heavy fog at such a time, and represent Frederick William IV. a s feebly groping his way to dinner through the im penetrable mist. Cologne, as our reporter writes, instead of Aix, enjoyed the honour of satisfying the Royal hunger, and assuaging the Royal thirst. He arrived at Aix, as his wont is, too late, but in time to see his busts crowned with the leaves so dear to Venus and her Doves. Did not a reminiscence of Charlemagne, who sleeps in the Minster hard by, or; est least a thought of stern old Fritz and the glories of his race, intrude itself upon his mind at a moment when, as he well knew, the other na tions of the world were celebrating their triumphs or mourning for their dead? Did not the chill recollection of former days come back upon him when he, by a word and an act of resolution, could have saved Europe from this Russian war, and all the miseries it has entailed upon the world ? Had he consented to share his power with his people his responsibility would have been less ; but let the man who will bring the will of his fellow-creatures in subjection to his own see that he makes no mis take. " I, the King, will it," is a formula which carries with, it some little danger to the mortal who is bold enough to use it, and to abide by the result. This is what the King of Pru ssia has done ; and mainlyopatheh policy he thought fit toe Western world are t i n the consequence Eastern and of the now offering up their human hecatombs on the shores of the stormy Euxine. The aggregate of States which, united under his dominion, bear the name of Prussia • have become the byeword and mockery of Europe. Men talk of the country of Frederick the Great and of stout old Blucher as of an outlying province of the Russian Czar. Without there is nothing, but contempt—within suspicion, and, we believe, despite of all these myrtle-wreaths and festoons of vine leaves, bitterness and discon tent. The police of Berlin appear anxious to fol low in a humble way in the steps of the great Nea politan professors of the art. We hear at one mo ment of espionage, and political arrests, and forced elections, and other incidenes which are not very suggestive of domestic tranquillity ; at another we are surprised with theatrical displays and shouts of " Es lebe der Konig r as though it were Frederick William IV. who had taken Sebastopol and made his country famous. And yet be is the man who is answerable for two out of three of Prussia's great. mistakes. First, there was the tortuous policy pursued by his predecessor at the beginning of the century, which resulted in the fatal day of Jena— the annihilation of the Prussian army—the occu pation of the Prussian territory by a foreign con queror, and the unutterable misery of years. From the blame of that event Frederick William IV is clear. Next a time came—that was in 1848-9 when, had, a man occupied the throne of Prussia. he might have been the honoured head of the Ger man race, and saved that vast country from the horrors of the reaction which has since ensued. Not only Germany paid the penalty of that irreso lution, but in consequence of it the swamps cr Hungary and the rich Lombard plains were drenched with human blood. For that mistake Frederick William must answer. Again, a moment came when, by a decisive union with the Western Powers, he could have arrested. the course of the At the opening `of the Birningham Court of Quarter' Sessions, held yesterday, 4r. N. D. Hill, Q.C., the Re 4 corder, delivered the following charge to the r graci jury 1 Gentlemen of the Grand Jtvry,--I have chosen for the subject of my present charge that mode pf , treating ctimit mils which has been called " the ticket-of-leave system. Of late this plan has attritaed much attendee in Perlis/ rant, in courts Of justice, and in the public journals. The general impression seems to be that it dues not w ork well. For myself,: I am disposed to think that the effect of its operation, so far as it has hitherto been tricd,lias been aggerated both for evil and , for good. But I should be grieved to find the system condemned in its theory, eyed supposing its practice has hitherto been open to some ani f madversion, because it embodies what I hold to be two most salutary principles that the criminal should have the opportunity of working his way out of gaol ; and second, that he should for a limited period be liable to be deprived of his liberty so regained, if his course of life should be such as to give reasonable ground for belief that he had relapsed into Criminal habits. To understand the trn ke bearings of the questions which I intend to raise for your consideration, it will be necessary to take a cornprer I &waive view of that general treatment of criminals results from the operation of a publioopinion making making itself felt in the Legislature and the executive Go. -for :went, and often, -unconseioaely, to the agents dictat. ing the verdicts of juries, and qualifying the sentences of our courts, combined with other circumstances over which none of these authorities have any effective control. Time was—and the era is not so long past but that many of us have a vivid remembrance of its horrOre—when our penal code was the most sanguinary of the civilised world. The list of offences punishable with death presented a fearful catalogue, descending from wilful mur der down to privately stealing in a shop to the amount of five shilling. 4. Nor were the terrors of the law permitted to sleep.; so that when the feelings-of the people at last awoke to the cruelty of these inflictions they wale outraged, at every turn with appllling scenes of legal vengeance. •As might have been expected by reflecting minds conversant with history, and learning. from its pages the vicissitudes of public sentiment, an overwhelm ing force of opinion became directed against the ferocious policy which had so long prevailed ; and as you know the list of capital offences was not only promptly reduced to the narrowest limits, but the disposition towards lenity outstripping the course of legislation, we are at length ar rived at the point when even' in deliberate murder it is not au inflexible rule that conviction should be followed oy execution. Gentlemen, during the period while so many offences were punished with death, the commutation of the capitalsentence one of transportation being an act of mercy,' the minor, though still heavy penalty was not re garded as severe ; but when capital punishment became applicable only to a small class of crimes, transportation began to be looked upon in a different light; and now, that by the refusal of all our colonies, except oue, to ad mit convicts among them, transportation has bean in great part abolished. A similar feeling begins to prevail against long terms of imprisonment, which makes way all the more quickly, because long imprisonments not being imposed by sentence during the period that capital punishment and transportation were freely resorted to, present a deceptive aspect of novelty, since a large Proportion of couvicts sen tenced to transportation were at all times left in the hulks to he punished .by imprisonment which might extend through the whole period for which they were. adjudged to be sent abroad; although it was and is usual to discharge them after a detention of much inferior length. How far this disposition gradually to lessen the amount of punish ment will be carried it is impossible to predict. All I can say is, that its progress is very rapid, and that it shows no sign of having approached its termination. We might suppose at first sight that shortening terms of confinement would furnish a means of relieving the pressure on the capacity of our prisons, and would enable them to provide for the saiplus numbers caused by the stoppage of transportation. But those who are practi cally acquainted with the subject, know that a short im prisonment is likely to be followed by a speedy relapse, and that the prisoner oftens returns to captivity, bringing with him companions who in the interval of liberty he has seduced into crime. Recollecting these difficulties, gentle men, yon will not perhaps be surprised that the Govern ment has not yet discovered a perfect solution of the hard problem—what are we to do with our criminals ? In this state of perplexity it resolved on adopting to a limited ex tent the first principle to which I have adverted—that of making the duration of the imprisonment dependent on tne conduct of the prisoner. It did not apply the princi ple universally, possibly because it was not prepared tc, contend with the strong, although, I must think, morbid, feeling in favour of slight imprisonments under which the culprit remains too short a time to benefit much by any ' reformatory system, however potent. Thus it restricted the experiment to the cases of such convicts as had in curred the penalty of transportation. Gentlemen, I spea't upon conjecture, but I must presume the existence o some strong reason which dad aces the Government to deny to the lesser offender the privilege of earning his discharge ey his own exertion, while it concedes it to the greater iriminal who has incurred the heaVier punishment; and L am not aware of any other reason than the one which I nave pointed out. If, however, the reason suggested should be that on which the Government is really acting I trust it will be remembered that many convicts not liable to transportation or penal servitude are sentenced o imprisonment for as long a period as two years, and .bat many instances may be found in the returns made 3o the House of Lords in which a less time has been held to furnish a sufficient length of probation to justify the grant of tickets of leave. But, gentlemen, if you desire, as I most earnestly do, to see this principle universally adopted, you must be prepared to strengthen the hands of Government by advocating such a change in the law as will enable those who administer the criminal jus- ace of the country to retain in custody all such as are con victed of crime until they have, by sure and unequivocal tests, demonstrated that they have the will and the power to gain an honest livelihood when at large. You must be content that they shall be retained until habits of industry ~reformed—until moderate skill in some useful occupation is acquired—until the hard lesson of self-control is mas tered—in short, until the convict ceases to be a criminal, resolves to full his duties both to God and to man, and has surmounted all obstacles against carrying such resolu- 'ions into successful action. But as no training, however enlightened and vi_ilant, will produce its intended effects on every individual subjected to its discipline, what are we to do witu the incurable ? Geatleinen, we must face this question. Wo must not flinch from answering, that we propose to keep them in prison until they are released by death. You keep the maniac in a prison (which you call an asylum) under similar conditions. You guard against his escape until ho is taken from you, either because he is restored to sanity or has departed to another world. If, gentlemen, innocent misfortune may and must be so treated, why not thus deal with incorrigible depravity? This is a question which I have asked times out of number without ever being so fortunate as to extract a reply. It is always tacitly assumed that imprisonment must not be perpetual ; but whether that assumption is founded on any reason sup posed to arise out of the nature of things, or whether it only rests on the present state of public feeling, I know not. If the former ground is taken, I would give much to learn what the argument is. When disclosed, I must either answer it or yield to it ; but while lam kept in the dark each alternative is shut against me. If, how ever, this assumed inadmissibility of perpetual imprison ment is rested on the present state of public sentiment, I have seen too often the change from wrong to right in that great power to despair of its becoming an ally in stead of an opponent. It is my belief that if long terms of imprisonment, even to perpetuity, were placed before the public mind as indissolubly connected with the privilege to the convict of working out his own redemp tion from thraldom by proving himself fit for liberty, it would require no great lapse of time to produce the change in opinion which I contemplate. Alarm on the score of expense ought not to be entertained fur two reasons. First, because no unreformed inmates of a prison, however ex travagant its expenditure may be, cost the community so much as they, would do if at large. This fact has been so often proved that I must be allowed to assume it as unde niable. But the second reason is, that prisons may be made either altogether or to a very great extent self-sup porting. In some of the western States of the North American Republic this important object has been more than accomplished, as the labour of the prisoners yields a revenue greater than is required for their food, lodginF, and clothing, their government, and their instruction ; in short, for all the various items which form the total ex pense of a gaol. It is quite true that labour is mo re valu eble and that food is cheaper in those State s than it is with us. But, notwithstanding these facts, it was shown by the evidence which Mr. Charles Pearson adduced before the c ommittee of the House of Commons appointed to investi ;ate this subject in 1850, to be in the highest degree pro bable that similar results might be obtained here. w h ,,_ ever shall read that valuable testimony will, I cannot but think, even if not perfectly convinced, arrive at the con clusion that sufficient proof has been given to justify, it . not to demand, such an experiment as would set the con call your atten. troversy at rest. Let m e now, gentlemen, tion more specifically to the ticket-of-leave,. men. By a statute passed in the year 1853 ; a new penalty was. created under the name of "penal servitude." This perialtf only differs from that of imprisonment With hard labour•by the provision for restoring, the prisoner to liberty without waiting for ther.expiration of his s entence --namely, by license from the Secretary of St ate, certifying that such indulgence has ben granted, being called a ticket-of.leave , Until, howevor,.the expiration of the term of penal servi tude to which the convict has been adjudged by the sen tence of the Court, the licenCe is liable to be revoked at the discretion of the Minister, and, wherrso revoked, the prisoner is recommitted in executien.of his original sen tence. This new penalty must now be substituted by the courts in all cases formerly punished by,tratisportation, except where his offence renders the convict liable to trans portatiou for a period not less than I t years, while it may be substituted even for the longest terms. It was also pro vided that convicts under sentence of transportation at the passing of the act, or subsequently sentenced to that punishmentohould be made capable of benefiting by the license of the Seeretary of State on the saiiietonAtions as to revocation with those sentenced 'to penal servitude. Ceeetieraen, it is the provision for a conditional discharge from prison which has attracted public attention and has given to the system its name. That both provisions are founded on sound principles is my firm belief, as I have already stated. .It is obvious, however, that it is. the first upon which the. greatest stress ought to be laid, for this plain reason, that, in proportion as the means of reforma tion are furnished to the prisoner slid the tests of reforma tion are well chosen and faithfully applied, in exactly that same proportion will the necessity for the second provision —viz.,' the power of recallihg the ticket of leave—be dimi nished ; so that . if we could insure perfect tests and a per fect application of them, the enlargement of the prisoner might be made absolute in the first instance, while, on the . other hand, a convict invert ectly reformed' will scarcely -.4s deterred, by-re:mon of tbs-power of rosioeation beingrbung over him, from yielding eventually to the temptations to which when at liberty he is certain to be exposed.. As a protection to society, it is also, as it now stands; imperfect in this further particular, that the power of revocation ter minates with the period fixed by the original sentence, which at.the time the license is granted may henearly ex pired. This defect, however; might readily be amended. The power 'of recall might remain in force until a certain fixed period after liberation, to be further extended if durit.g that same period the recall should be made. And this brings me to what I consider the most serious defeat in the statute. The condition which is set forth on the ticket of leave is as follows : " The power of revoking or altering the license of a con vict will most certainly be exercised in case of his mii=con duct. If, therefore, he wishes to retain the privilege which by his good behaviour under penal discipline he has ob tained, he must prove by his subsequent conduct that he is really worthy of her Majesty's clemency. •To produce a forfeiture of the license it is by no means necessary that the holier should be convicted of any new offence. If he associates with notoriously bad characters, leads an idle and dissolute life, or has no visible means of obtaining an honest. livelihood, &c., it will be assumed that he is about to relapse into crime, and he will be at one apprehended and recommitted to prison under his original sentence." It is not, gentlemen, that I disapprove putting these men again under restraint without evidence of their having committed a new crime. I must have greatly changed my opinions before I could raise any objection of that kind. Possibly it may be recollected by some of those whom I have now the honour to address that, in the year 1850, and again in the year 1851, I ventured to advise that all persons who had been convicted of acts of dishonesty should be liable, when, id the belief of competent witnesses, they were leading a life of crime, to be called on for proof that they were in the enjoyment of the means of subsistence, drawn from lawful soarces ; that, in default of such proof, they should be held to bail for a limited period, and, in default of payment, should be committed to prison. The principle on which my proposed measure was founded has now been adopted by the Legislature, but with the safe guard of a trial. According to the net, the prisoner is deprived of his liberty by the mere stroke of the Minister is peu. The Legislature probably proceeded upon the ground that, as it is the confidence placed in his reformation wnich gains him his liberty, so if that confidence be lost his privilege ought to be withdrawn. Nor am I, for one, much afraid that a power of this kind, however arbitrary, will be often abused. On the contrary, I believe the danger lies on the other side. It is so repugnant to the other side—it is so repugnant to the spirit of our laws to condemn without a trial—that an English Minister is under a much stronger temptation to withhold the exercise of such a power in cases where it is justly demanded than to use it oppressively ; and, accord ingly, symptoms of such forbearance are not wanting. Mr. Jardine, the London magistrate, lately complained that 40 ticket-of-leave men infested the neighbourhood of Lis court; meaning, doubtless, to intimate by that statement that he had in his vicinity 40 of such convicts who had in curred the forfeiture of their licences by disappointing the expectations on which they were granted. If this be so, it would seem but reasonable that in each of these in stances the ticket-of-leave should be recalled, unless, in deed, the sentences have expired, when it would be incor rect to denominate these convicts ticket-of-leave men, since they stand only in the same position with all other prison. ers who have received their absolute discharge. But, gem tlernen, it appears by a return made at the end of March last that the practice is not to withdraw the licence until the convict stands charged with a new offence—a deviation from the terms of the warning written upon the ticket-of leave, which I am unable to explain except by the conjec ture which I have offered to your notice. Gentlemen, I have said that the working of the system has been, as I think, exaggerated both by its opponents and its admirers for evil and for good. For evil, because I feel certain that convicts who have now tickets of leave would have been released unconditionally after a detention not very much greater than that to which they have been subjected undo. the new system. And I ground this opinion on three ins portant facts-Ist, on the growing impatience of severe punishments evinced by the public ; 2d, on the usage of liberating transports not sent abroad long before their terms of transportation have expired. To these two facts I have already adverted. The third is that the Legislature, when it substituted penal servitude for transportation, very much abridged the duration of the punishment. Gentle men, the real evil with which we have to contend stands thus :—So long as we could impose our criminals on other communities we did not trouble ourselves to cultivate the science of reformation, and now that this lazy and selfish resource has failed us, we, in the stress of our difficulties, are c )mpelled suddenly to call upon the functionaries of our gaols to perform a task demanding qualifications with which, without a long previous training, it is unreasonable to expect them to be endowed; or in such full measure as to insure success. Having weighed these circumstances, you may, perhaps, gentlemen, arrive at the conclusion that no small portion of the unpopularity which has fallen upon the uew system is produced by its having come into exist ence just at the time when the country was beginning to suffer from the augmented number of convicts which the stoppage of transportation had liberated at home, instead of their being thrown into our colonial population as here tofore. The disease, if I may so illustrate my meaning, results from the obstruction of the accustomed outlet— namely, transportation; but the remedy—the ticket-of leave system—failing to work a perfect cure, has been cen sured as if it were the cause of the malady. Gentlemen, the reason why I think the system has been over-estimated for good as well as for evil is, because it applies only to a comparatively small class, and because the evidence of re formation remains doubtful, although, I must admit, much more cogent and applying to a larger proportion of the licences than I hid expected to find it. And I make this admission without forgetting that large subtractions may be required from the estimated results. The estimate is that from 80 to 90 per cent. of convicts discharged with tickets of 'leave are permanently reformed. Gentle men, there is, as you well know, an establishment at Mettray, in in France, for the reformation of juvenile offenders,WMet stands at the head of all reformatory tray enjoys every possible advantage. Its' l o ° u i ' n der and j ii is a rt visit here last chief director, M. De Metz, who by week may be personally known to yelled ability, Icing experience , . 27 : 1 7:r o xa n a ; I ma a Pa s in g eci r o a f d dll u en a v i r 7 i ) - tion to his great enterprise. His institution 15 y ears f he*hdiseeeist y hnosterrlenloa o ac e ag n rr l ee ig aatne t- I attained its present exalted im ened administration, conducted assiduity ; and yet even 7 .. PrePortion of its inniates.tehtotatnrs9o per . cent. Nevertheless gentlemen, 90 per . cent. of my mind a result so wonder ful that nothing short of the very searching investigations which I have b ad the opportunity of making cou ld i n d uce worthy of confid ence; and, that being so, o m a u c s c t ep b e e i p t e as rroitted to receive the estimate of reforma tions effecter/ among the ticket-of-leave men with sow e doubt and misgiving, though with implicit reliance on the sincerity with which it is promulgated. The truth is that permanent reformation demands years to test its reality, and the system has not been in operation for a sufficient length of time to furnish the required proof. The proba bilities certainly look the other way. Mettray deals with young and plastic minds, and bodies. It retains its wards a long time —often for many years. None of them leave Mettray until employment is procured for them. Each is placed under the superintendence of some benevolent per son residing in the neighbourhood of his master, who watches over the youth with the care of a guardian. Met tray is looked upon by those who have been its inmates as a home. It is a high gratification to them to visit their " colonic," as they are taught to call it. If they have not failed in their duties they are always kindly welcomed' and, should they through misfortune be thrown out of work, they find hospitable reception at Mettray.! Gentlemen, I shall be most agreeably surprised if experience shall justify those who superintend our ticket-of-leave system in placing the opinion which may be entertained of a convict by the chaplain. It is assumed that 'the 'chaplain will be very much guided by what he may suppose to be the depth and sincerity of religious impressions mace cipon'therbeart of the prisoner; and, reasoning on such presumption, it is argued that the life of a prisoner, subjected as his actions are to minute' regulation and constant 'suPeriiiien, affords no , tests by whi c h i t could be ascertained how far suc h im pressions are genuine and' of a , Peritiiinent character. If, gentlamen, the preini;es_are well-ionaciel; ; l:stell be com pelled to concur in the conclusion at which - c thp objector s have arrived, at least until more freedom sof liction is allowed to prisoners than they at present enjoy. But is my good fortune to know several of the able and exemplary men who fill the office of gaol chaplain ; and judging of the body by those of its members with whom I am acquainted, I hold them as little disposed to depend ou.such fallacious tests as the most jealous objector can himself be. It is so obvious that the fate of the prisoner should not depend .upon a vague general opinion, but should be founded oa an accumulation of facts day by day recorded, that I should require strong evidence against the authorities id any prison before I could baled , to. believe tb at . they had fallen into an error so glaring.. Doubtless, gentle ni3o, a punctual attention to religious observances, wh( re the prisoner has an , option to fulfil or neglect them mulct tv , t be omitted in the account. But there 'is danger in giving any very great weight to manifestations' of this kind, inasmuch as even when they are based in sincerity the prisoner is tempted to exaggeration in their display ; so that, what is pure in its inception becomes corrupt through the hope of temporal advantage. This danger is felt so strongly at blettray that a provision is made against it which perhaps will startle those to whom the treat ment of . prisoners and its difficulties is a novel study. The conductors, When they have Confidence in the individual, I aru well ple,ase.dlo see hi ra_begin tojoin in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, having found by experieuce that after this.eventalrimprovamenkie:generally visible in his moral conduct. But as such an effect can only be produced when the communicant is acting from pure Motives and on sett ed ()solutions, not only is it provided that no secular b :neat shall accrue to him from taking part in this communion, bat, as an admonition not to approach the table in a rash •or presumptuous spirit, every fault he may commit for the week following receives punishment of double severity. Yet, gentlemen, although it has not been given to us to search the heart of the prisoner, and to distinguish by any sire criterion between those manifestations of his spiritual con dition which are sincere and those which are merely ape ciou4, still we are not left without tests on which we may safely rely. "By their fruits ye shall know them" is one the value of which the highest authority has taught us to prize. We may rejoice that it is of easy application to that quality which, of all others, it is most essential should be acquired by the prisoner to insure him against relapse. I mean industry. We can measure the quantity of labour and estimate its value, especially if it be of the simpler kinds, with some approach to accuracy. Let, then, an so count be opened with each prisoner, placing to his credit ~ .he value of his labour—the real value, if productive labour can be found; an assumed value, or rather a value upon an assumed scale, if his labour be not of a productive kind. Let him clearly understand that each day's labour will tell upon his liberation. If large in quantity and good in quality, it will materially advance him on his way. Oa die other hand, if deficient in either of these attributes his progress will be retarded. But a distant future, how • ever bright—and no brighter prospect can °panto the eyes of a prisoner than that of liberty—will not suffice without some hope of benefit nearer at hand. Let the prisoner, ben, be allowed to expend a part of his earnings in the improvement of his diet. By acting on these principles we shall have provided for training him in habits of industry. But, although industry will, when he leaves his prison, furnish him with the means of honest main tDance, yet, unless he has learnt the art of self government, he will not be effectually protected against the temptations to fall back into evil courses by which he will be assailed. Let him then be inforMed that every subtraction from the fund created by his 'labour 'for the indulgence of his palate will, like indolenc - e, retard the hour of freedom. Thus he will be taught economy. Gen tlemen, other habits are very desirable, but these are essen tial ; and, having explained how they may be induced, I must not dwell on the means of reformation at greater lmgth. Those among you who desire to give full scope to your inquiries upon this interesting subject, to learn :nto how manT ramifications reformatory science of necessity runs—how its difficulties are to be overcome and' ow Con tending claims are to be adjusted—must consult the works of Captain Maconochie. The principle that the convict should be detained until by industry and good conduct he has earned his right to be free was first enunciated by Aral bishop Whately ; but it was developed into a system. and bus rendered capable of practical application, by Captain Maconochie. May his services even yet, late though it be, obtain for him some recognition from his country, before 'he day shall arrive when earthly recompeuce will avail him nothing ! STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Oct. 9.—We have again icirenort a fiat market, and all kinds of cloth are difficult,,of sale. At he same time home manufacturers are every day ex hausting ofd contracts, which have hitherto kept them , rom pressing goods upon the market unduly,,and are nn.iming free sellers. The advices iron the United mates speak of a weaker totton-market, and this adds somewhat to the depression of prices here. In 39-inch ihirtings the transactions have been very limited, and where business has been transacted makers of these goods have had to submit to a reduction of about 3d. i.ier piece on the rates of last Tuesday. Most kinds of :loth have participated more or less in the depression, .►nd long cloths and T clans have been puechaseable on asier terms, as also jacconets and some kinds of printers. Fine 27-inch printing cloths, suitable to the A:itierican trade, are perhaps, nearly the only exception to the downward progress of values, the limited make f these goods in proportion to the present demand keep• • rig them moderately steady. Manufmtnreri of most inch; of printers are less disposed to take a gloomy view f the present position of the market than others, and 'Klee these fabrics, for which some good contracts exist, .re generally rather firmer than others. In both 40-inch and 45-inch shirtings stocks are somewhat accumulating, And hence they have given way more than other goods. Ile present selling price is within a shade of the lowest rates during the present year. The demand for yarns hai been on a very small scale, and prices may be quoted at about id. per lb. under la,t Tuesday's 'rates. The difficulty of procuring discounts is a serious obstacle to business. LEEDS, Oct. 2.—The cloth markets to-day have been of a quiet character, and the amount of business done has been rather below than above an .average. Heavy goods are in chitf demand, but these and other sea sonable fabrics are purchased in only small quantities. The manufacturers are still, all things considere d, well employed, and a lair trade for the remainder of the year is confidently expected. Some anxiety has been mani fested with regard to the disturbed state of the money market, and, while it is impossible to tell what May be the indirect Effect of that state upon the svoolleti trade, it may be safely asserted that the direct irfluence will out be serious. The woollen trade throughout the year has been characterised by much caution on the part of both manufacturers and merchants as well as of dealers. the stocks on hand are not so large as they have some 'times been at this season of the year, 'and there is no doubt that the home trade is iu a sound and healthy condition. Th e prices of both English and foreign wool remain steady, but the demand for the former is not quite so active as it was a month ago, and it is probable that a rather lower scale of prices may soon prevail. The Yorkshire wool fairs are now over for the season. the last WRS held at Doncaster on Saturday last, and the prices realised (which were as high as those obtained at the September fair at the same place) were as follows: —Ewe wool, 13s. 6d.; Lincolnshire (one-third to one hilt hog), 14s. 6d. to 15s ; locks and cotts, 10s. to lls. per ston e . F rom 200 .to 300 sheets were shown, and all but one lot was sold.' THE FATAL BO,LER, - EXPLOSION AT WALKER 11401 V WORKS. WALEER-01C-THE-TYNE, Tuesday Afternoon. The ( . xplosion which took p'aue at Messrs. Losh, Wilson, and Bells' iron works yesterday forenoon has down to noon to-day been the cause of death to seven persons ; their awes are Joshua Jenkins, John James, Abraham Dixon, Martin Brodrick, Thomas Griffith, Patrick Don nelly, and John Porter, who died this morning. Two men are lying ill at Newcastle Infirzzary, but the other injured persons who were conveyed to their hbmeB are likely to recover. The boiler that exploded was one of two employed to work au engine which was engaged to drive some blast furnaces in the rolling mill upon the , vorke. The engine was in charge of a man named Hall at the time the boiler exploded,, .and was standing to Allow alt,rations to be made in some straps. In ex pluding it lifted the other boiler from its seat, and broke gonie pipes, which scattered hot water about in every direction, and scalded a number of persons. The boiler in exploding was rent asunder, and was hurled through the roof of the mill. It came in contact with two large chimneys, w hich fell, with their furnace s , an d buried four of ;he deceased persons amidst hot bricks and molten metal. It then alighted upon an elevation, and as Abraham Dixon was running out of a shed where he had been working, it dropped upon him and crushed him to death: One of the ends fell through the roof of An adjacent alkali works, and took three fingers from the hand of a boy. The other portion, which weighed five hundred-weight and a half, fell into a yard amongst workpeoP laded into th e sustained only I rr e y , bnuetbdyidthielofhoracrif of. tFhoeuerxppeirsosoionns,wbeuret slight injuries, and many of the work people had marvellous escapes. The inquest will be opened to-day, and some forma_ evidence will be taken, when it will be adjdurned tcli v a ; time for fortlier inquiries as to the cause !lie acai and the lamentable loss of life. UMW