The Sun. — London, England, 1855-11-19 00:00:00

.... 31 JIILLIEN'S CONCERTS. - ROYAL 1 • ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. —Third Night of TUB FALL of SEBASTOPOL QUADRILLE. —The Programtne for T 4IS EVENING (Monday, Nov. 19) will include :—Meyerbeer's Overture, Struenzee (first time this season); the Californian Qua drille (first time); the Andante from Mendelssobn's Italian Sym phony ; Ah non Ginnge and The Forest Fairy, sung by M adame a Pistons, Gassier ; New Valse, La Belle du Village ; Solo, Cornet by Herr Koenig; M. Juillen's Nov Grand Descriptive Military Qua dr;lle, entitled THE FALL OF SEB ASTOPOL, assisted by the military bands ; a Grand Operatic Selection from Les Huguenots ; the Alegro d Storm from Beethoven's Pastoral Sym phony ;Sole , Oboe, by Man Lavigne ; New Galop, the Zouave pas de Course ; the Sleigh Polka (last time but we), &c. Prices of admission :—Promenadc, upper boxes, amphitheatre stalk, and amphitheatre, ls.; dress circle, 23.6 d, ; private boxes, 125., I/. ls., and 1/. 115. 6d. Places and private boxes may be had at the box-officeot the theatre, of Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Hammond, Mr. Hook ham, and Messrs. Andrews, Bond street ; and at Messrs. Jullien and Co '5, Regent-street. M. J u llien's Grand Annual 13a1 Masque will take place on Mon day, Dec. IT, 1855. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY.I.ANE. Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING. Will be performed AN IMPUDEN T PUPPY. After which, TWENTY MINUTES WITH A TIGER To be followed by NITOCRIS. Characters by Messrs. E. F. Ed gar, Stuart, B. Sullivan G. Wild, C. Vincent, Fc.c.; Miss Glyn, Mrs. Selby, Miss De Vere, Miss Anderton, Miss Cleveland, &C. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENTNG. Will be performed GUY MANNERI,TG. Characters by Messrs. ViThers, Compton, and Howe; and Miss Swanborougtt and Miss Cushman. Followed by THE LITTLE TREASURE. To lonzlude with SHOCKING EVENTS. ROYAL FRISTCES , V 3 raTATaE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Cuanza KEAW. THIS EVENING be performed DON'T JE);E BY APPEARANCES. After which, KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. To conclude with A GA3IE OF ROMPS. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. TAM EVENING, Will be performed MKRIE ANGE ; or, The Jersey Girl. F.'ollewed by VALENTINE AND ORSON% After which, the Farce of THE £lOO N)TE. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. J. H. Anderson, 18, Norfolk-street, Strand. Increased Attractions, and success in equal ratio THIS, AND EVERY EVENING, at Eight o'Clock, Will be presented, with entirely New and Magnificent Appoint ments, M A.GIC pnd MYSTERY, us twelve acts, arranged in two parts, by Professor Anderson After which, the startlinz illustrations of Spirit-Rapping. Ef A,L W AN.-nOUR WI PEI 'MR z,PIRITA, being the most surpri, 7 ng and interesting series of experiments ever given within the walls of any theatre. Rev; val, In an improved form, of the astounding novelty which startled London 10 years ago, the GREAT GUN TRICK Prices of alinission:—Private llnes, 11. 1 is. 6d. and IT. ls. ; Orchestra Stalls, 43 . • Dress Wixes, 35.; Upper Boxei , 25.; Pit. q Gallery, 61 o Ilalf-price. Dos-office open from 11 to 5 o y Grant lrornitn Performance ou Saturday Next at Two e'Clock Doors open at Half-past One• ROYAL STRAND Tar, A.TRE. Under the direction of I.lr. Payne. THIS EVENING, Will be perforne I NICIIOL t 3 NICKLEBY. After wh!ch, a SPINIS'I BALLET, by the Spanish Dancers. Followed by NITOCRIS. To conclude with TIM LADIES' CLUB. R)YAL OLY‘fpiC THENTRE. TIII9 After which PLOT AND PASiION Characters by MeFar- F. Robson, Emery, G. Vining, Leslie, J. H. White, H. Cooper, an , Franks; and Mrs. - At; r 1 in': and ",fi , s Bromley. Followed by CATCIEINO A MERVAID. To conclude with A BLIGarEn ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITIPIATRF., Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING. Mademoiselle CLEMENTINE SOULLIER, the greatest Equtt triln Artiste in the World ! (Vide "Times," 13th Nov.) Mr. W. Cooke's Leviathan PROVINCIAL EQUESTRIAN ESTABLISHMENT, during this week only ! Also, the spectacle, The FALL of SEBASTOPOL ! After which, the GEMS of the CIRCLE ; with*the Magnificent Act of Mlle. Souilier, and the Performance of the Provincial Esta blishment; with other Entertainments. ~ned from 7;2oven till Ftior. stage Manager, Mr. W. Eqn4 , s t riar reet r, r. ; 17 . C.!,,01;e, AV).- RIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T TIR DAY—Morn. 43 min. aft. 9—Evening 22 min. aft. 10 all w —Morn .55 min. aft. 10 —Evening 22 min. aft.ll THE WEATFIER..—SUN OFFICE, Nov 18, THERMOMETER, IN TIIR. SHADE. 47—highest since noon yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and during the night. 49 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30'26. Wm/J. N.N.E. to N.E.—Moderate, with dull weather and slight sprinkle of rain all day. NOVEMBER 19. 50 —highest since noon yesterday. 43 —lowest this morning and during the night. 43 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30.15—falling. Wm—E. to E.S.E.—Fresh, :th very doll, rainy, sirocco sort of weather. -- • AP‘ ,* rr 4"iv. LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1855. " Tell them that if they wish for peace they must at least make vows for or against us ; for in the midst of a grave European conflict indiffer ence is a false calculation, and silence an error." This, indeed, is a great truth nobly expressed. It is an emphatic admonition to the European Powers, who, regardless of their paramount duties and obligations, have professed a despicable neu trality, or by a course of hypocritical duplicity and insincerity held out promises of assistance never intended to be realised. It is a significant hint to Prussia and to Austria, proceeding from a quarter that must command attention, and not only to them, but to the minor States, who, rely- ing on their insignificance, have evaded the per formance of sacred obligations, incumbent on ever y member of " the comity of nations." Independent Sovereigns and Peoples have their duties as well as their rights. They constitute the police of the world, who are bound to the best of their ability to prevent any anticipated disturb- ' ante, and to take care that the weakest member of the confraternity shall obtain strict justice, and be protected against any unwarranted aggres sion on the part of a stronger potentate. France and England have nobly discharged their parts, and Sardinia has afforded a glorious example to the second-cla ss kingdoms. But many other kingdoms have been found deplorably wanting. Prussia has completely abdicated her functions as a first-class Power, and suffered herself to sink materially in the scale of nations. But the con duct of Austria is far worse, for she has betrayed the cause she professed to support, and disre garded solemn obligations deliberately and advis edly contracted. By extraordinary duplicity she has induced the Western Powers to consent to her occupation of the Danubian Principalities— an occupation far worse than that of Russia, which they felt themselves reluctantly compelled to take up arms to resist. This may be looked'on as very clever " diplomacy,. but straightforward, honest m©n feel disposed to regard it in a different point of view, and to designate it in l ess cour tl y terms. The Imperial ruler of France, who owes his pro minent position to the b es t possible source, the cordial and all but unanimous will of his people, has shown that ho will no longer permit himself to be humbugged by pretended friends or cold blooded neutrals—that he will not be satisfied with the mere profession of a love for peace, as the justification for conduct that originated and protracted the War. " Tell them that if they wi s h for peace they must at least make rows for or against us." This manly and truthful sentiment, appropriately put forward by the Em peror of the PRENCR at the closing of the Great Exhibition, moat have struck a chill into the hearts of those who felt how completely obnoxious they w ere to the emphati c reproach. It will be pondered over by the Cabiaets of Berlin, Vienna, and Brussels, and teach the rulers that they must p at length take a decided part for or a ga i nst Rus- THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 19, 1855. s i a _—oonvince them that "indi f ference is a false calculation and silence an error !" and, as a natu ral corollary, that they must be either for us or against us—the avowed supporters of Muscovite aggression or the energetic vindicators of interna tional law, the first principles whereof had been so shamefully violated. But there has not been something worse than mere neutrality, something that may, on thepart of some at least of these parties, be regarded as decided as sistance to the enemy ? We have seen how the Russian trade has been carried on under cover of the Prussian flag, and how she has obtained the means of continuing the contest, through the co operation of the professed neutral—nay, more, how she obtained the actual materiel for fighting which has been conveyed to one of the belligerents, while the proceedings of the others have been sub jected to an uncalled-for and offensive vigilance. Here, again, Austrian perfidy has gone beyond Prussian indifference. Prussia at the eleventh hour refused to forward " contraband of war," which has been sent in large quantities from Austria. We are told that the communications of Prussian Silesia with Warsaw, and other rail road stations on the same line, " have been inter rupted by the immense transports of sulphur sent from by way of Cracow to Warsaw, which accu mulate to such an extent that the railway station at Granitza finds it impossible to forward them as quickly as they arrive," and that " within the last month considerably more than 600,000 cwts.(!) of sulphur have been forwarded in this manner from Austria to Russian Poland, and every day about 600 cwts. of this article continue to arrive, packed partly in chests and partly in casks !" This is surely going a little too far, and it is high time that stringent explanations should be de manded for these very unjustifiable proceedings. But this is not all. Austria, not contented with the occupation of the - Principalities, has usurped a complete sovereignty, insulting not merely the inhabitants, but even the representa tives of other nations. A very gross outrage has just been perpetrated on an officer wearing the British uniform, and under the protection of the British flag. That uniform has been forcibly taken from the person of an officer engaged in the service of England, and replaced by an Austrian military great coat. The Consul-General of Eng land fortwith demanded his liberation, but was met by a brief and contemptuous refusal. The real intentions of Austria with respect to the invaded territory are Cans manifested. She seems to think that the time has arrived to learn she may at length throw off the mask, and evince her real purpose without disguise or concealment. But she may reckon without her host. She may find to her cost that England and France will no longer truckle to the principle of Germanism, but will, however tardily, assert their own indepen dence, and compel the respect and sincerity which cannot be obtained by more gentle means. King LEOPOLD should also look about him, and consider seriously whether it is worth his while to forfeit the vast advantages which he derives from England and the protection of France in pursuit of the Austrian phantom— whether he can sacrifice his English connexions to German predilections. He, too, must at once decide, and declare himself for or against Great Britain. The last success of OMER PACHA. reminds us hat the War has been a great teacher. It has taught us all much more of mere geography itself than we ever knew before ; and it has also re vealed both perfidy and meanness on the part of sonic nations, or, properly speaking, their Courts ; arid unexpected noble qualities in others. The varied military and naval prowess of the Allies has been developed, and not by any means in ,he aspects which most of us had anticipated, while the capacities of individual commanders and leaders have been severely tested, and are now pretty well ascertained. We do not mean to take credit for any particu lar foresight, but we believe we were amongst the first to recognise the apparently remarkable genius of Olizit PACHA for high command. Others have shown bravery, skill, and cleverness, but OMER PACHA alone has shown high military genies. The inspiriting and successful feint at Oltenitza, with the permanent seizure of Kalafat, and its con sequences both military, and civil in regard to Bosnia and Servia, indicated equal far- S sightedness and ability to lead and inspire an army. The right positions were chosen for the present and the future, and each part of his army did its part with precision, and with the utmost ardour and confidence in their commander. We even believe that had not the Allies reached Varna, it is more than doubtful whether the Rus sians would ever have passed Silistria. At least his moves were so taken that any help from the Allies became of double value. The next step was the grand blunder of the Allies ; the one whose bitter consequences we soon felt and yet feel. lnstead of furnishing the Turkish General with the one thing he wanted, money to supply the wants of his army, and to march them, all habi tuated as they were to the climate, after the Rus sians into the Principalities, the traitor Austrians were forced upon the SULTAN, his great general thwarted, and his noble army suffered to melt away! The immediate military consequence was, that the only troops of Russia available at that time were set free to fight the battles of Balaklava and Inkerman ! Had OMER PACEIA. been furnished at once, with what we at last have had to supply, —the sinews of war, it seems quite reasonable to suppose that he would have distinguished himself fully as much in Bessarabia as the Allies have done at Sebastopol ; and, that engaged in both places by potent armies and skilful generals, the Russians would have cut a very different figure at Sebastopol itself, especially had Odessa been destroyed or captured. All this spring and summer the Turkish gene ral has been a l m ost burked at Eupatoria or Con stantinople, for he is not the man for merely subor• dinate command. O n ce more he is placed a t t h e operations, a a ll n o d tte i d s to himselfhim head of independent again ; the Asiatic campaign . $ and d imgemneerthaalstheli, butypheb theegin t o prove, not only his own efficiency of Turkish soldiers in the field as well as in a fortress. The the water up to their armpit Ingour is but a repetition of C istate as; with ,we are told, like another OLIVER CROMWELL, in the face of a tremendous fire he crosses the river at four points, so complete was the skill of the general, and so enthusiastic the bravery and confidence of his men. We have the most entire reliance on the fore sight of his whole scheme. It must be observed that he did not land at Batoum, the nearest point to Kars, and make straight for the beleaguered town, but at Suchum-Kaleh, some hundred miles nearly further north, and on Russian, not on Turkish, territory. From this point the enemy could not guess what he would do. Mingrelia and Immeritia, with Georgia and their capitals, Kutais, and Tiflis were equally open to him, and MURAVIEFF must have been placed in great per plexity. At present OMER PACHA seems to be making for Kutais, the capital of Immeritia, from whence be can march with equal ease to Tiflis, and so place the Russians between him self and Kars, or to Kars itself. Of one thing we are quite certain, he is the same general who placed himself securely at Kalafat, and he knows what he is doing. He has already secured that influential man the Nein, and with him the help of the numerous Caucasian tribes, and if fairly aided will drive the Russians out of Georgia and all the country south of the Cau casus, as he did out of the provinces. How lucky in that case that there are no Austrians in Asia ;o walk in and appropriate what his skill and valour had won ! Without meaning to disparage any General, French or English, we have no doubt that history will pronounce OMER PACHA, take him altogether, as decidedly the superior of any of them ; the greatest Commander developed by the War. Could be have been generalissimo of all the forces, could they by any possibility have served under him, and could he have had the tens of millions of money and all the mechanical resources of the Allies at his command, it is pro- bable that by this time all Southern, so-called, Russia, from Bessarabia to the Don, would have been wrested by this time from the aggressors. If it could hardly have been expected that the Turkish General would have turned out the most remarkable military genius of the War, neither should we have thought Sardinia and its King would have so outshone Belgium and its King— or rather have consigned them to the contempt of Europe. To be sure LEOPOLD was fain to boast to his Chambers of the consequence of their country, as illustrated by the kind of honeymoon experiences of " my son and his Austrian bride " among the Courts of Europe. He had better have told them of the style in which Coburg visits were received in England, and he may certainly soon communicate to them the news of a very different reception for VICTOR EmextrEL. Belgium, a con stitutional government, stands aloof from the battle for freedom and civilisation. Sardinia bravely joins in it. LEOPOLD and his people, who are indebted to an English navy and a French army for their independence of Holland, the King being himself a pensioner of this country and the uncle of its Queen, skulk in selfish and effeminate ease ; Vicron EmerTuzn and his people, under no political obligations to the Allies, generously proffer their aid. We fear, unlike most of the German States, that in Belgium the people are as selfish and ignoble as their Sovereign. Pocket reasons in the former case, political reasons in the latter, deter both from even the mention of a war for national freedom. If Turks and their General, and Sardinia with her King, have exceeded all expectation, we can not say that Germany and Scandinavia have dis appointed us. Every Court of the former was so notoriously overriden by Russian influence — nearly every despot, if only to save his neck, was so averse to a war against the despot's friend — each of them, too, was so steeped in perjury and oppression, that it was impossible to hope with reason for the aid of any of them. Sweden, on the other hand, could not move without money, and ought not to have moved without the pro mise of Finland, of a guarantee against Russia for the future ; and she might properly have asked also that war should have been carried into Poland. The Allies ought to have purchased Swedish alliance at almost any price. They would have fully saved the cost of it in the Baltic in the two campaigns. Sweaborg, Cronstadt, Revel, and Helsingfors, with Swedish gun-boats and our broadsides, would by this time have been heaps of ruins, and probably, therefore, a peace worth having have been concluded this winter. Indeed the people of this country, taught by the past, ought now to bestir themselves. Hitherto they have tolerated the infatuation of their rulers, merely boxing in gloves, and seem ingly only fearful of making too much commotion. Cruelly has the money and life of England and France been wasted to the tune of "leaving Rus sia her present territories," of " not offending Austria," of peace with Prussia, and of retaining Poland, Hungary, and Lombardy in slavery. We literally can afford this no longer. It costs too much in money, not to mention the worthlessness of the aim. How can a mere battle between crowned heads ever command the ardour of Europe ? The nations want to see the Holy Alliance arrangements torn to pieces, to see the rights and wishes of important and injured peo ples consulted, to see a settlement of the map of Europe not upon the forced and barbarous scheme which now tramples half of it beneath the hoofs of hated and foreign despots, but upon something like respect for peoples as well as kings. What to civilisation are the Bombes, Hapsburgs, and Hohenzollerns of the day. Polish emancipation is, to the peace of Europe, of more value than the whole worthless tribe of bayonet despots. The position occupied politically by Belgium at this moment is more than anomalous. It is sus picious. Neutrality at such a time is treason to the inalienable rights of the nations of Christen dom. It is a defection from the sacred cause of European freedom. It is an outrage to the in terests of modern civilisation. And, let it be remembered especially that—besides being the immediate neighbour and personal ally of the Em peror of the FRENCH—LEOPOLD is uncle at once to the QUEEN and PRINCE CONSORT Of ENGLAND. Ho himself having been originally husband to that other grand-daughter of GEORGE 111., appa rently destined, at the time of their nuptials, to rule the destinies of Great Britain under " the name, style, and title " of Queen CHARLOTTE. Since which period LEOPOLD has been in the re ceipt annually of many thousands of pounds ster ling, supplied by the pockets of that English peo ple from whose just quarrels this princely pensioner can keep aloof so very economically, and, as he doubtless fancies, so very " wisely," too, in his generation ! Sooner or later a day of reckoning always comes to your paltry economists, it mat ters not whether he be a monarch or a coster monger. And so in due season it must be known far and wide, and proved in the face of the whole world, whether it has really pro fited the King of the BELGIANS after all to shirk the responsibility of his position by emulating the cowardice of the Prussian and the time-serving of the Austrian Governments. It will be then known, e with tolerabl e accurac y, how far LEOPOLD judiciously, to say the least of it, by allowing his policy to be wholly and exclusively Germanised. Sardinia will then, we conjecture, contrast somewhat favourably with Belgium both in regard to the credit obtained and the advan traegfeersenance to accruing from war now beingfromthnepartt waged b taken by each the hin e Western Allies against the great Russian Auto cracy. Sardinia, we rem arke d some months ago, is literally earning Lombardy. How far Belgium is earning anything for herself by her conduct in the present juncture we leave to the sagacious judgment of the more discerning. There can b e little question but th at the u p shot of the str uggle between the CZAR and the Allies will be the careful and comprehensive revi sion of the Map of Eur o p e . It will then become apparen t, amon g other thin g s, whether the Belgian provinces might not in some i manner be rather judiciously absorbed 1 Whether the Rhine might not be numbered with the Alps and the Pyrenees as among the natural boundary lines of France I Whether the arch-crime of the last century might not be grandly expiated by the resuscitation of the Polish Sovereignty 1 Whether the latest political atrocity consummated by Russia might not be dashed to the dust by the liberation of the Hungarians ! Whether Italy may not after all be something more than a geo graphical expression ! There is a future for Italy after all—a great and glorious future. Thanks to Russia, the con stitutional ruler of Sardinia, and the wretched tyrant of Naples, gleams of welcome light are now struggling above the murky horizon. No longer can be found inscribed over the portals of that grievously oppressed land—" Whoever en ters here must leave hops behind." The day, or we are no prophets, is not far distant when, hav ing spurned the festering yoke of petty tyranny, the Italian people will inaugurate, in the establish ment of constitutional liberty, a new era worthy of the immortal past. The commencement of hostilities between Russia and the Allied Porters, there can be no doubt, stimulated the Italian mind at once to activity. The condition of some of the petty States could not become much worse, and the probabilities were great that it might be made much better. Those whose aspirations after liberty were not altogether extinguished by suffering and apprehension plucked up spirit and began to breath: in some sort like men. No longer concealing beneath [ affected indifference the bitterness welling from their hearts they began to look the petty tools of despotism in the face, and canvas with ani mation the likelihood of success attending the Allies in the contest. This was too much for King BorssA. Born a BOURBON, and besotted with tyranny, his subjects must be made to think as he thought, and sympathise with whomsoever he sympathised, or find sympathy where they might for the sufferings their disobedience brought down on them. His unlucky people were handed over to the police. Inspired with a new hope no stimuli that an obscene tyranny could supply was withheld from them. Fastening their eyes on the struggling dawn, the tribe of spies, informers, galley birds, and assassins flitted, grinning, jab bering, murderous, and ghost-like, before and around them. At a moment when it behoved the tyrant to seem human, he gloated and wal lowed like a drunken satyr. The people shrank, as might have been expected, in disgust. Then, inflated with his apparent triumph, King BOMBI capped the climax of his audacity by offering insult to tke Allied Powers. France con trived to have expiation for that offered to her, but with this country the case was different. The pitiful rascal, instead of making amends as he promised by dismissing the police minister, kept him for a few days out of sight, and then brought him back, without having been for a moment deprived of his office, to confer on him the most signal marks of favour, and ulti mately to nominate him to the high distinction of Consultore of the Kingdom. The result of all this is the Two Sicilies are now in a state of revolt, and nothing is wanting but the presence of a B ritish squadron to level the throne of the wretched BOMBA. with the dust. Sooner or later a squadron will have to be sent, and the sooner there can be little doubt the better. At the present time the example of Sardinia has a powerful influence, but if matters go on that influence will cease, and in stead of a constitutional government under a con stitutional king being sought at once, that con ' summation may not be arrived at until a period of licence has intervened. He should be a bold pilot and be well backed who steers the vessel of the State now, for the nationalities are breaking loose at last, for good or evil, as their liberation is in augurated. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, Nov. 17. There was no addition to the Royal dinner party yesterday. The Queen, with the Princess Alice, rode out on horseback this morning, attended by the Hon. Flora Macdonald. The Prince went out shooting, accompanied by the Duke of Aumale. The Duke and Duchess of Aumale visited the Queen. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon, General Sir H. D. Ross, and Col. Brownrigg (Grenadier Guards), As sistant-Adjutant-General to the Light Division of the Army in the Crimea, arrived on a visit to her Majesty. The dinner party in the evening included the Duchess of Kent, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Lady B Augusta Bruce, , Ba roness de Speth, General Sir Hew D. Ross, and Colonel Brownrigg. The band of the 2d Life Guards performed during the dinner. Her Majesty's Private Band afterwards per ' formed in the Castle. SUNDAY, Nov. 18. The Queen and Prince, the Prince of Wales, the Prin cess Royal, Prince Alfred and Princess Alice, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court and the domestic house hold, attended Divine Service this morning in the Pri ♦ate Chapel of the castle. The Duchess of Kent and the visitors staying at the castle were also at the service. The lion. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor offirqated. A deputation from the society for Irish Church Mis sions to the Roman Catholics had an interview with Sir George Grey on Saturday, at the Home Office. The deputation consisted of General Alexander, the Hon. A. Kinnaird, Rev. Alexander M DAllas, Rev. Robert Bicker l - steth, Mr. J. Macgregor, r. John Bockett, Admira V. Harcourt, Mr. J. G. Sheppard, Mr. A. Haldane, Mr. Anthony Lefroy, Rev. Mr. Ellis, and Mr. J. Bridges. IN PRINCE ALBERT'S VISIT TO BIRMGHAM. His Royal Highness Prince Albeit visits Birmingham on Tuesday next, for the purpose of laying the founda tionand preparatns stone of the Midl Institute ; an d are making befitting the interesting occasion, and t o he honour conferred by the distinguished visitor in con senting to take part in the ceremonial. His Royal Highness is expe cted . to arrive at Birmingham about half-past twelve o'clock. The stone will be laid imme diately after his arrival. This will be followed by a luncheon at the Town Hall, at which the Prince will be present. Amongst the distinguished noblemen and gentlemen who have accepted invitations are the Duke of Argyll, the Earl of Harrowby, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Lord Wrottesley, Lord Ashburton, Earl Stan hope, the Bishop of Manchester, Earl Howe, Lord Lyt 'Atm], Lord Hatherton, Sir R. Murchison, Sir John Pakington, Dr. Lyon Playfair, Colonel Sabine, &c., &c. Lord Calthorpe, as President of the institution will pre side ; and there is to be a musical perfo rme which will be not the least inter estin g incident in the proceed ings of the day. The choir consists of 230 voices. The programme contains some fine pieces .; amongst them a new part sone , for male and female voices, composed by Mr. Bartholomew, and a fi ne composition of Mendels- Bohn's, admirably adapted for the occasion. The trowel to be used by the Prince is as been dsigir-d it a splendid pie ce by Messrs. Elkington and Mason ; of skill, both as respects the design ane workmanship. THE HUME MEMOEL The committee of the Hume Memorial met on SI Satur day evening at the house of Mr. A psley Pellatt, when the following letter from gr. Roebuck was read : " 19, Ashley-place, Pimlico. " Sir,—l returned home from Ireland late on the night of the Bth, when, for the first time, I saw your letter, stating that a meeting of the working classes had unanimously determined to app oint me president of a committee formed for the purpose of raising a monument to the late Mr. Hume. As my letters were not for warded to me, I was not aware, until the night before last, of the honour thus done me. I hope, then, you and the committee will hold me excused for sending you this so tardy an answer. " I most willingly accept the office of your president. I shall be happy to receive the com mittee heere to any e dev day at 12 o'clock, when, I hope, we may be ablis some plan for doing honour to one of the most honest and patriotic men who have labour" e d for England.l remain, sir, yours truly, RoEsucx. " Mr, ILLNESS OF SIR JoHN Jrnws.--We regret to learn that the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pieas i 9 so seriously indisposed as to prevent his atten tion to his judicial duties. THE BIBLE-BURNING AT KINGSTOWN. —The Attorney General for Ireland has directed the immediate proseeu lion of all the Roman Catholic priests engaged in that atrocious proceeding. LATEST NEWS. SERIOUS EXPLOSION OF MAGA ZINES NEAR INKF MAN. WAR DEPARTMEIT.T, Nov. 19. Lord Panmure , has received tl le following tele graphic despatch from General Sir W. Codring ton, dated Nov. 16 : A very heavy explosion of a store of powder at the French siege train took place about 3 p.m. yesterday. It communicated . fire to our siege train close to it, where there was no powder, but some naval live shells, most of whi.eh were removed, but the loss of life and damage• (lone is consider able. The great explosion threw shell over the camp of our siege train, and huts of the Ist Bri gade being entirely damaged, ,b ut not by fire. All officers and men were on the spot at once, and worked with good will and energy, and I saw all safe when I quitted at 7 p.m. Killed— Deputy-Assistant Commissary Yellon, R.A., and 21 non-commissioned officers and men. Wounded —Lieutenant Dawson, R.A., lost his leg below his knee ; Lieutenant Robert, dangerously in the aim ; Lieutenant Eccles and Assistant- Surgeon Reade, 2d Battalion Rifle Brigade, slightly ; 116 Brigade commissioned officers and men, of whom 47 slightly ; missing, 4 rank and file. The French Minister of War received yesterday the following telegraphic despatch from Marshal Pelissier, dated Sebastopol Nov. 16, 6 p.m. " Our park of artillery (called Park cf the Mill) near Inkerman was partly destroyed yester day at 4 o'clock in the afternoon by the explosion of three magazines, containing altogether 30,000 kilogrammes of powder, 600,000 cartridges, 300 charged shells, and other projectiles. " ' The ignited materials, hurled to a distance, caused a violent conflagration in. the English park next to ours, and there also partial explosions took place. - " At 6 o'clock the Evglish. and French work men were masters of the fire. Our loss consists of 30 killed, including two officers, and some hundred wounded, among whom are 10 officers. " ' However sad such an event is, we must still congratulate ourselves that the consequences have not been more serious and disastrous. " ' I am not able to state the losses of our Allies. I believe they are about the same as our " ' As nearly always happens in similar caEO t is difficult to ascertain the cause of the first explosion. " ' This is certainly a very lamentable acci dent ; but our stores are so considerable that the resources of the army are not in the slightest de gree affected by it,' r PARIS, MONDAY MORNING. A despatch from Sebastopol, dated the 16th, has been received. It states that the French park of Artillery, near Inkerman, has been partly destroyed by the explosion of three magazines, containing 30,000 kilogrammes of powder, 600,000 cartouches, and 300 shells, the fire even gaining the English park of Artillery. Our (French) losses consisted of 30 killed, including two officers ; 100 wounded, including 10 officers. The English losses were nearly as much. The cause of the explosion is unknown. ENORMOUS QUANTITIES OF GRAIN DESTROYED BY THE ALLIES. The following telegraphic despatch, dated Nov. 18, from Sir E. Lyons, has been received by the Secretary of the Admiralty : VARNA, 7.15 r.at, cavalry and infantry. Our loss amounted to only six wounded. Circassians. Omer Paeha HAMBURG, Nov. 17 Captain Sherrard Osborne reports that on the sth and 6th inst. a flotilla, under his orders, the Sea of Azoff, destroyed enormous quantities of grain and forage of this year's harvest, which was compactly stacked in six tiers extending two miles along the coast, near Gheisklima.n,' ready to be conveyed partly to the Crimean army after the formation of the ice in the Gulf of Azoff, and partly to the army of the Caucasus, and which the enemy thought secure from any naval attack. By the skilfulness of the arrangements, and the manner in which they were executed by Cap tain Osborne, in which he was ably seconded by Commander John J. Kennedy, the enterprise was effected in the most brilliant manner, by landing on three points under cover of the gun-boats of the Allies in the faca of not less than 4,000 MARSEILLES, Nov. 17. The Lougsor has arrived, with Constantinople Letters to Nov. 8. The English steamer Pacific has foundered. Two hundred and twenty Russian prisoners have arrived at Constantinople. The Duke of Newcastle has arrived at Constan• tinople from Trebizoud. Letters from the Crimea state that the appre hension of a Russian attack on our positions bad greatly diminished. The Sardinians had received provisions. Kinbourn has been fortified, revictualled, and provided with defensive materials. A Hungarian general, Schad Pacha, commands the advanced guard of the Turkish troops in their march upon Kutais. They throw flying bridges over the rivers, which are much swollen by the late rains. Omer Paella has effected his junction with the The Russians are retiring before the troops o. The French squadron has arrived at Kiel on its way home. The Locust left Dantzic on the 13th for Kiel, whither, in future, despatches are to be addressed for vessels cruising in the Gulf of Fin land. The Pressc d'Orient states that General Monra• vieff, overcome by his defeat before Kars, has been pronounced insane, and, as the consequence of a council of generals, Prince Bebt,toff was summoned from Tiflis to assume the command. The Invalide Rune of the 13th announces that O%M. the official telegraphic communications from Nico- Laieff have been suspended, and will not be re- sumed unless there is something important to an nounce. The same journal states that the Em peror Alexander has removed Prince Menschikoff (son of the ex-Ambassador at Constantinople) from his functions of Chief of Imperial Convoys, and replaced him by General Count Adlerberg 11. RUSSIA. We have received the St. Petersburg journals of :he 10th inst. The Invalide Russe publishes the following news from the Crimea : "Under date of the 26th of October (Nov. 7), Aide de-Camp General Prince Gortschakoff has sent the fol lowing : " The enemy are not making any movement. Thcy continue to erect batteries on the south side of Sebas topol, but do not cannonade the north side. " A considerable number of the enemy's ships is as sembled in the roads near Kamiesch Bay.' " TURKEY. The Oesterreichische Correspondenz of the 14th contained the following despatch : " CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. B.—The exportation of corn is prohibited from all the ports in the Turkish empire. On the other hand, the import for home consumption is permitted duty free. A part of the French fleet bats entered the Bay of Beicos. The plan of the canal to Kustendjt has been approved of by the Medschlis Coun cil. The Trieste mail steamer bas been missing ever since Sunday. (Sunday was the 4th.) The foregoing despatch contains important news, but a part of it require explanation. If the despatch be correct, the right to cut a canal from Rassova to Kostendji has been granted to Mr. Wilson, M. de Morny, and Count Breda, it having been agreed between the Powers that England, France, and Austria should have an equal share in such a great undertaking. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. A fire broke out this evening at 9 o'clock at the bakery and bread and flour stores for the military at Chaillot, opposite the Camp de Mars. At eight o'clock the flames were got under. It is impossible, as yet, to estimate the damage. The French papers of yesterday mention a report that Omer Pa,:ha's advanced guard had reached Kutais. The announcement we believe to be purely speculative, but the fact is not improbable. The Ottoman marshal has no time to lose, the country beyond the Ingour is comparatively favour able, and the beaten Russians have no line of de fence so good as that from which they have just been driven. It may be as well to state that Omer Pacha is not marching on Kars, though his opera tions are eminently calculated to procure the relief of that fortress. On Friday, at one o'clock, the Emperor and the Empress, accompanied by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Marshal Magnan, Generals Rolin and De Cotte, with Colonel Fleury and Lieutenant-Colonel Lepic, reached Satory about half-past two o'clock, to review some cavalry regi ments. His Imperial Majesty and the Duke of Cambridge mounted their chargers, when the Em peror personally manoeuvred four regiments of cavalry, the field-day terminating a defile. His Majesty handled the troops admirably. BOURSE, Nov. 17.—A report spread of a visit of King Leopold to Paris produced yesterday a slight advance in the quotations of the Rentes, but this report was discredited to-day, and the prices have been again heavy, with a great scarcity of business. The following are the last quotations Cash. e. End of Month. —f. C 1 90 44 per Cents 9O ._per Cents 64 70 New Loan 65 80 Bark Sha-es 3170 Roman Credit Mobilier 1170 Austrian Belgian Fives a 93i Spanish Threes Piedmontese — Home Debt ..... 33 BAILWAYS-POR CASH. ft. c. c Orhans 1102 50 Western 748 75 Northern - Ly0n5......1125 — New Ditto xd 747 50 Biediterianean 1217 50 Grand Central 5BO Lyons Geneva 650 Teste Cette 6BO Austzian Corn. 7lO THE BALTIC. KIEL, Nov. 14.—N0 sooner had Admiral Sey mour left with the Exmouth than Admiral Dundas makes his appearance with the Duke of Welling ton, so that it may now truly be said that the cam paign in the Baltic is at an end for this year. It has been blowing a stiff breeze from E.N.E., and the Duke has come up the bay this afternoon iu beautiful style, under canvas, without making use of her steam-power. The weather is now rather cold, although hitherto wo have had noither frost nor snow here, but further up the Baltic it appears they have had a good taste of both. The other vessels of the large class may now soon be expected, but it is said that the Orion, Captain Erskine, and the Majestic,. Captain Hope, are to remain iu the upper gulf attached to the squadron of Admiral Baynes as long as it is possible for them to do so, as some of the Russian line-of-battle ships are re ported to be quite ready for sea at Cronstadt. Nov.. 10.—Owing to thick fogs, excessive dark nights, and strong currents, the Exmouth, Colos sus, and James Watt made narrow escapes on closing Bornholm ; the James Watt was very nearly on shore, the Colossus got round the south point of the island instead of the north, and stopped her engines and fired guns for a pilot, whD, when he came, appeared unable to tell them their where abouts ; so they waited till daylight (the Bth), and then retraced their steps, and on approaching the north side (an end) of the island, she observed the Exmouth had touched on the sand, about six or eight feet of her fore-foot being in the sand. She was backed off with the aid of an anchor and cable laid out to assist, and then, with the Colossus in company, proceeded to this anchorage. SPAIN. MADRID, Nov. 12, A serious state of things has suddenly arisen at Saragossa. The high price of provisions and ex nortation of corn by the Ebro was the pretext ; but it would appear that the movement is also of a political character. Soon after the Cortes met to day, and when the routine business had been dis posed of, Senor Huelves, Minister of the Home Department, read two telegraphic despatches from Saragossa, the first of which stated that on the afternoon of yesterday numerous groups col lected and assumed a riotous attitude, declaring th e ir determination to prev e nt th e d epar t ure o f several barques, which were going down the Ebro laden with corn, and to burn them. The troops and National Guards were called out, and the popu lace desisted from their intent. The authorities and Corporation met, the latter declaring itself in lA.- manent session. At a late hour of the night every thing seemed quiet. The second despatch, how ever, dated at 9 this morning, says that the crowd had assembled again, that the generale was beating for the order to form in battalions, and that the result was doubtful ; while another despatch, re ceived by the Government this afternoon, says that General Gurrea, Captain-General of Arragon, is not satisfied that the means at his disposal are sufficient to repress the disturbance. After the Home Minister had made these communications, the Duke de la Victoria rose, and declared that while the Government desired to promote and con solidate the liberty and welfare of the country it was firmly determined to cause the laws to be re spected,d and to chastise with ri might be, or what ever whoever oppose them, however numerous they might assume, which declaration produced i mask they considerabl e s ensation. It s said that among the cries given at Saragossa were some di rected against Senor Bruil and General O'Donnell. The Cortes were afterwards occupied with the Con scription Bill, and subsequently with the debates on the new Constitution : many articles of both were carried. The article which gave rise to the difference be tween Senor Olozaga and the Ministry has been modified by inserting in its place the corresponding articles of the Constitution of 1837. Nothing more has transpired respecting the question of Senor Olozaga's resignation, which appears to remain in statu quo, though many think that the necessity of the case will cause matters to be amicably arranged in the end. The Saragossa affair is considered very serious. The funds are rather lower to-day. The Three per Cents, were done, however, during Bolsa hours at 34.30 ; and the Deferred at 20.20. THE AMERICAN AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—LITER POOL, Saturday.—The United States mail steam -ship Atlantic, Capt. West, sailed from the Mersey , at four o'clock this afternoon, for New York, with the usual malls for the United States and British possessions, 175 passengers, and a very full cargo of valuable merchan dise on freight. Prior to the departure of the Atlan tic Messrs. Wilmer and Smith, of Liverpool, placed on boar ss d copies of the morning papers of this date for the pre and news rooms of the western continent. The Royal Mail ship Mermaid, Captain E dward Devey, of the White Star Line of sailing packets, takes her departure on Tuesday morning, at eight o'clock, for Melbourne, with above 200 passengers, and the most valuable cargo that has ever left England for the Antipodes. Letters posted at Liverpool at six a.m. on the eat 20th, with late fees at 7 a.m., and at the landing staga.m., will be in time for despatvb, rt YA RD S. TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'sm. SlR,—The metr.politan public ought to feel very much indebted to you for recalling attention to this subject in the able manner you have done, in your leading article in The Sun of Tuesday, the 23d ult. During the dis- cm,sions on the subject of intramural burial throughout the last 15 yearn not one of the London press has ren dered such services to the twofold cause of the abolition of the wrong and the exposition of the remedy in this particular department of sanitary reformation as your journal ; and I hope you will still render further ser vices, and earn higher praises, in this peaceful campaign. The war of nations is indeed a frightful evil, and great is the sin of those who render it necessary ; but we must not shut our eyes to the direful operations of relentless sanitary foes at home —more costly and more deadly, though carried on with fewer trumpets. In the Reports of the Registrar-General it appears that within the metropolitan districts, which comprehend a population now exceeding 2,400,000 ( i.e., a population more dense than is spread over 14 English counties), there die yea , •ly of preventible diseases 16,000 persons ; whilst it has been estimated that this unnecessary mor tality entails on society a yearly loss of 1,000,0001. sterling. Uneasiness has been expressed at the expendi ture of life and treasure which has attended a twelve- month's struggle in the Crimea. But multiply the of victims that have perished annually of preventibls diseases within the metropolis during the last quarter of a century, and the loss in pounds, shillings, and pence, by 25, and you have .a sum total of 400,000 deaths, and 25,000,0001. But these are only two items in the dark balance-sheet of our yearly metropolitan mortality. In the twelve months ending 31st December, 1854, there died within the metropolis, exclusive of those who perished of pre ventible diseases, no less than 57,697, or, throwing the two together, 73,697 in all. Again, it has been calcu lated that the expense alone of putting these corpses into the ground has mulcted the bereaved families of a sum of not less than 1,421,0001. These statistics, Sir, show that the sanitary warfare at home merits the continuous attention of the metro politan press, as well as the conflicts between Turkey and Russia ; and yet, with the exception of your paper, dosing the last 18 months scarcely one London journal, daily or weekly, has published a single artiele on the subject. On the operations in the East the general press of the metropolis has written what, if added together, would make many hundred miles of disquisi tions, while, within sight and smell of their own offices, the cause of the orderly, inexpensive, and wholesome se pulture of the dead is allowed to be botched, neglected, and j• bbed with. Parliamentary returns show that up to the passing of the Metropolitan Interments Act of 1850 the dead of the metropolis were received into upwards of 240 small dispersed graveyards and eight suburban cemeteries. In this way the 3,592,275 cubic feet of putrescent gases evolved from the decomposition of one year's mortality found vent through 252 apertures, and was thu., com paratively speaking, deprived of its lethal properties. We are now in the fifth year from the passing of that measure, and it would appear from some returns pro cured by Mr. Brotherton, in May last, that th ere we r e then still open, or partially open, for interments within the limits of the metropolitan burial circuit, 60 conse crated burial grounds, and 11 partly consecrated, of which nine are cemeteries. From the same returns it appears that St. Dur Ames Burial-ground, Stepney, about 6 acres in size, provided in 1854, interment for 1,606 corpses ; that the Cam bridge Heath Cemetery, 4 acres in size, found room for 1,506 corpses ; the Nunhead Cemetery, 42 acres in size, supplied burial for 1,727 corpses ; that Brompton Ce metery (lying in the midst of 100,000 living inhabitants), 36 acres in size, received 2,321 corpses ; that Norwood Cemetery, 25 acres in size, buried 1,649 corpses ; that Highgate Cemetery, 35 acres in size, interred 1,568 corpses ; and that Kensal Green Cemetery, 42 acres in size, obtained 1,921 corpses. As these numbers added together only make 12,298 corpses—what has be come of the other 61,399 corpses (as shown by the Re gistrar-General's returns) which last year have found graves 'within the limits of the metropolitan burial dis tract ? In the "Instruction§ for Burial Boards in providing Cemeteries," issued by the Board of Health, it is stated, at page 6, that if a dry, porous, sandy, or earthy soil be selected, such a soil will admit of being buried in at the rate of 120 interments per acre per annum ; but if the Ewa be wet or clayey, not more thin 60 to 70 interments per acre per annum. Now at the latter rate 41 - . Duns tan's, Stepney, would be able to supply interment ac commodation for only 360 to 420 corpses per annum. How many short of 1,606 corpses found interment within its s;x acres ? It is very desirable that the horrid system of pit burial—i.e., huddling from 15 to 18, and even 20, corpses into one hole—should be denounced and put down. These things, however, are being connived at by the Board of Health, the Home-office, and parochial func tionaries, and unless the editors of the press bestir them selves now another session of Parliament will overtake us, and pass away without any legislation for the sup pression and punishment of such crimes—for they are crimes against the health, the morals, and the purses of the metropolitan public. Allow me, sir, to ask, through the medium of your columns, whether any of your numerous readers can tell what number of corpses found burial last year at Vic toria-park Cemetery, at Tower Hamlets' Cemetery, and at Abney-park Cemetery, as no returns from these cemeteries are given in the returns procured by Mr. Brotherton in May last? Also, can you obtain any in formation as to when the burial returns, moved for by Mr. A.psley Pellatt on the 10th of August, 1854, will be supplied ? These returns were then ordered by the House of Commons to be furnished, but already fourteen months have elapsed without their appearance. Is this withholding of these returns intentional' or otherwise I remain, sir, your obedient servant, VIGIL. _ PAPER CURRENCY. (From the DerbgshdreCourier.) That stern bullionist, the Times newspaper, bas occasionally lucid intervals when it utters opinions on the currency question, bearing a wonderful re semblance to those of common sense. The other day, in a leading article, in answer to the question, " How far may we count on the speedy exhaustion of Russia ?" after discussing the resources of Russia as to men and provisions, the writer proceeded to treat of the " financial embarrassments" of the empire. Russia, he observed, is above every other country, "sufficient in itself, and may be isolated without feeling the want of anything but luxuries." And he then proceeded to propound the following opinion : For the purposes of/ 'internal trade, paper may be largely substituted for the precious metals without dis tress to the people ; and it is evident that the more they are disconnected from foreign countries, the more they are independent of the metallic currency, which is ne• cessary for international dealings." Now what is sauce for the Russian goose, is sauce also for the British gander. If in Russia paper money may be largely substituted for the precious metals, for the purposes of internal trade without distress to the people, why may not this be the case in England ? During the period between 1797 and 1815, we know that we had Paper Re presentative, " Inconvertible" Money " without distress to the people." And much more than this, Paper money enabled the people to endure all the evils of a protracted, to support an enor• mous load of taxation, and nevertheless to make advances in trade, commerce, and internal national improvements, greater than had ever been known in the world's history, in a similar space of time. Well, we are at war again. We have heavy war expenses ; we have theinterest of an immense debt • pressing upon us ; and we have at this moment the impending evils of an exceedingly high price of nearly all the necessaries of life, if Paper Money can do anything to lighten these burdens, now is the time to make use of. Are we merely to main tain an abstract opinion of certain Currency " dreamers " about Gold at 3/. 17s. Did. an ounce t to risk the infliction of ruin on our merchants and manufacturers, and distress and suffering on thou sands of the patient and enduring working-classes during the coming winter ? IsEngland to endanger its capability of carrying on a just and necessary war with vigour, and at last to descend from its high position among nations merely to uphold the Currency Crotchets of Peel and Jones Lloyd t The latter part of the dictum of the Times be trays its scanty information on the subject which it professes to teach. It is by no means " evident" that the more disconnected with foreign countries a nation is, the more independent it is of the me tallic currency. Our merchants found no difficulty during the war in carrying on all " international dealings" with " incontrovertible" paper money, and " gold at its market price." The " deficiency of these metals, which have been adopted as a standard for measuring other values," did us not the least harm. In fact in an industrious, enter prising, commercial commun ity, such a s we h ave y in ou E c n a g l l l a i n n d t , o this 6 , deficiency cannot exist—unless existence an artifical drain of the pre cious metals by such absurd and unnecessary enact ments as the 'Bills of 1819 and 1844. Can any one who for a moment gives attention to the subject believe that we cannot, with our iron, with our c otton g oods, with our manufac turesbuy from oth er na ti ons what ever And if we wa n t go ld an d s il ver t o w o e f e w v a e u r y t 7 kind, pay our balances of trade, these " precious metals" are just as easily bought with our commodities as our commodities are to be bought with them. THE NONC OMBATANT PRISONERS AT LEWES. —About a fortnight since the Rusbian prisoners on parole in Lewes, who held civil offices under the Russian govern ment, memorialised the Ad m iralty for their release ; an d a communication was made on the subject with the Rus sian government, which has declined to entertain any proposal on the matter, and the prisoners will, conse quently, remain as prisoners of war. They are seven in number, nam e ly, t wo Fi ns an d fi v e Russians. The Fin are Dr. Okermao, military surgeon ; Mr. Oebruhum sheriff of Bomarsund. The Russians are Mr. Kortcakoff chief of police at Eupatoria ; Mr. Lekochoctoff, lieuten ant of police of the same place ; Mr. Cirigo, police inter. preter at Eupatoria ; Mr. Bakanoff, an engineer ; and Mr. Kortojanoff, sheriff of Sertel2. 7 -figisea) . Ewen. METROPOL