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.~~.~ ~, . ~- . rirICEALTRE - ROYAL,- DRURY --LANE.— ..A.- Lessee; Mr. E. T. Suiith'; Acting Manager, Mr. 'Chas Itatliewt ; Stage Manager, Mr. Robert Roxby.—Reduced scale of admission :- Upper gallery, Gd. ; lower g allery, Is.; amphitheatre or upper boxes , - is. 6d.; pit, 2s.;'firsit circle of boxes, 2soild.; dress circle boxes, 3s. Mr. Smith respectfully rabinits the above licale•of prices of admission; varying 6d extra, according to accommodation. Mr. Charks Mathews iu two_Piebes. ; .In consequence of the continued and nnprece, dented success of the comedy of Married for Money; and the entlinsiairio applause with which Mr. Charles Mathews and the Lyceum Company are nightly received, the tornedV lei repeated every evening this week.—The extraordinary sue eels-and unparalleled hit of the new Egyptian drama, Nito eris,. pronounced the most complete and magnificent specta, de ever produced, the new scenery, splendid dresses, and gorgeous appointments.being the theme of universal admira tion indtiee the lessee to announce it for repetition eveiv. livening (Saturday excepted) till further notice. • ' • I - THIS EVENING and during the Week (Saturday excepted) - - - - the successful comedy • " MARRIED FOR MONEY. Characters by Meesis. Chas. Mathews; R. Roxby; A. Younge ; 'Mrs. F. MattheWs,.. Miss' Oliver, and Miss Mason. To be followed by (fourth time) a new interlude; entitled TWENTY MINUTES WITH. TIGER. Characters by Mesirs. C. Mathews, A. Youtge, • ; Miss De Vere and Wadham. To arida& with (each evex'cinc) the NITOCRIS. Alan Spqcticle, Principal characters by Miss Glyn • eveland, Miss Anderton, Mrs. Selbi; Messrs. Barry n, Stuart, F. Edgar, G. Wild, Fze., introducing an Efr„y i ,„...n Dance, in whidh Misses Rostra Wright, Charles, Brown, and the ladies of the Corps de T.lallet will appear. On Saturday, after the Comedy, Married for Money , Sheri 11,an's dramatic piele, The Critic, or a 'TraOdY Rehearsal, in . which Mr. Chrirles Mathews will sustain the 'characters of Sir Wetful Pla giatry and Puff; supported by Messrs: Stuart, Vincent, R. Itoxby, A. Younge, G. Wild, Swan, Templeton, Worrell ;• Mrs 4 Frank Matthews, Miss Wadham; To conelucl:e with,. a new Ballet Divertissement, in which 3 flss a ft 6, thla - (Vriiht and. the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet will appear. ' _ NICOTRIS E. Smith, anxious to make the spectacle instructiv e as weir._ fCa.' amusing :to' the patron:, of this Theatre,: has obt , ined, at considerable-trouble, the-Description of the Wind ;Egyptian Otrouatibn Processiun, arranged and adapted to this 'stage by "Dykwynkytf,7 from the works of Clemens, Ir.Heriidotus, Strabo, Plutarch; Diodorus Siculus,"Jablotski, • Lellsins?Peitoil, Champolion, Rosellini, Savary, -, 4 43nd other authorities in tlrS,British Maim:lm; the publishing felf`svb,ich 'mllyPrive interesting to the. numerous patrons w#- : Blessing illy spectitele,And caq..be bad in tlw : Theatre ,for, one :penny. Military Entree—Egutiaii f. , 11 costume, - marching three deep, with Band of Trumpets and TYmPan‘up, in. Hand Drum. ( The Ag,tithotkmnaon, or " Good Geniv.X!,, (Winge# 'Olbbe)4 untler whose protection the Versons • of Kit_rkiai,...aks-‘404444,- ifi snecession the other Symbolic, Royal, and War Standard:. The Lybiau Forces, Allies of the Egyptians, with Band ane, Symbolic Standards r sipectively. The Ethio pian Guard, with . Characteristic Symbo's, Standards, &c. Idolatrous Pr ocession. Note—Every City, Month, Day, and Hour had its presiding Genius. Singer, with the Book of "Hermes." Horns Copns with Palm Branch and Hour. Glass. "Tr Fo Hierogrammat," or Sacred Scribe (in his hand the Book, R' filer, Papyrus, and Palette). Two Functionaries with Embler ks of " Power" and " Stability." No. 1. The Ark, or " brine of Kuonmis," called also "Knonm," "Neph," or NUM, " i.e. " Water."--The primary form of " Amnon," and styled " The Leader of Gods"--" The Creating Intelli gence"—'''The Spirit of God"—" The Spirit of the (Vernal) Deity"— , 4 1 The Soul of the Sun," and by the Greeks "Jupiter Chnumi' Worshipped by the inhabitants of Thebais (Plu tarch). ' Me asp was sacred to this god. The Ark, bearing his hierogl:ri di, with that of the beetle, or " Creative Power," is also dee ,o rated with this emblem. Symbolic standard of "Athor" (Venu 5 % ), the oracle of Night or Darkness (? chaos). whence arose - all created things (Egyptian belief ). Symbolic stag di ,rd of ditto. The Sybil, bearing the emblematic rush we' ad-, with " Has,. The Frog," the son of " Num," and tThe of the first state of man. No. 2 "Ma," " Meii," or and ;" or " Truth," " the Blind Goddess, represented her eyes closed or blinded. The priests bearing this god d ass have libation buckets and simpnla. " Thmei," or Truth, or Jinrstice. This deity has also a twofold character as the God °less of Truth and Justice. The small image of this god was wrornhy the Chief Judge while engaged in listening to cases Tbronght beforehim. A similar emblem was worn by the High :Priests of the Jews, and it is remarkable that the word "` Thnintnin," is not only translated " Truth," but, being a :plural or dual word, corresponds to the Egyptian word of "Two Truths"--i. e. " Light and Truth "—breastplates hav ing the figures of the two gods, " Re" (Light) aed " Thmei " (Truth) represented upon t hem have been discovered. Priests with Searabmi. The Scaritbrens may be considered as an em blem of " The Sun"—of "` The Creative Power," and of the God " Phthah" (Vulcan.). Incense Bearer, waving his incense paters before the god. The incense was in the shape of a small_ globe or pill ; a - ad, upon modern analysis, is found to consist of aromatic substances with gum, and gave out co loured light or flame arhev, thrown into the burning cup. No. 3. " Apis ;" His titles we're " The Sacred Bull of Memphis." " The Bull of Abundai ice:," " Adored by the People," " The Sacred Bull of Ptha h, " " Gnerdian of the Solar • Year," "Apis renowned over 1 he world," " The Symbol of Inunda tion." Richly draped t .nd on a car lei by Priests bearing the emblems of " Serapis"" or " Sari Api," " The Pillar of Meuse ratioti, " Column of Veasuremeut," or " Nilometer" of wood divided into cubits. Attendant priests also f.n the idol and offer homage as it passes forward. The festivals in honour of Apis lasted 7 days, on which occasion a large concourse of people assembled ret Memphis—the priests led the Sacred (living) Bull in, soleran procession, every one coming forward from' their houses to welcome him. Pliny and Solinus affirm that children wl .o smelt his breath were thought thereby gifted with the power of predicting future. events. The tokens which distingif shed this Sacred Bull at its birth were a white spot resemblin g a crescent on its right side, and a lump under its tongue in ' .he form of a beetle, as pretended by the priests. The people l t oolieved him to be the cause of the swelling and inundation of the Nile, which produced fertility and abund ance, and c4ebrated his festival- at about the period of this annual occ arrrenCe with every demonstration of rejoicing and liter c~ abkrion r o*to the intoxication of joy all over the 'MenkrAmples were erected and dedicateCto " Aid 4,"' and also;t1 " Serapis " the divinity of the Column mof !Cra irement—the Nilomeesiir N.B. The decorations of the 0,r3 pert' upon the bull and carriage are principally corn posr,a of the first flowers that spring from the earth after the rer .ession of the flood—i.e., the Lotus and Meliolotus. Priests w.th the pretended God " Canopus," or Water Offering to ti in God of the Nile. "It is said that the Chaldeans, trans- I forting the fire, which was their God, into all the provinces, 'offered to let him combat with those of other nations, ..on condition that if he remained the conqueror they should adore him. The priests of Canopus accepted the challenge and 'devised this stratagem. They fabricate in Egypt pitchers of an 'extremely porous earth, through which the water filtrates and is purified. The Arch-priest took one of them, stopped the pores with wax, and painting it of various colours filled it with - water, and made it his god. He covered it with the head of an ancient statue, said to be that of the pilot of Menelaus. The Chaldeans presented themselves ; the contest began ; theY lighted their fires around the vase ; the wax melts, the water runs through the vase and extinguishes the fire. The fraud of the priest gave the victory to Canopus over the Chaldean deity. From. that moment his imige has been re presented with very short feet, a narrow back, and the belly and back rounded like a pitcher. It is under this form that lie is worshipped as tlse vanquisher of all the gods."—Ruffin Histoire de l'Eglise, livre second. No. 4. The Goddess " Pash-t," " Tho Mernphian Lioness," " The Beloved of Pthah," " The Goddess of Fire," " Bubastes" (the Diana of the Greeks) preceded, by sacred dancers. The Idol carried by priests in their leopard-skin dresses, with red incense flaming before her, and surrounded by " Symbolic Divinities," " Winged Genitieee, ,, &c. Ono or the principal festivities beld in Egypt 'was at Bnbastis in honour of the Pash-t -700,000 persons. of both sexes being present. A great num ber of victims were sacrificed, wine was profusely drunk, dancing of the. wildest character went forward, men played flutes, womrsn sang and shrieked as loud as possible, struck the " Crotola" (cymbals) or clappers of wood and metal, &c, Lotus Dancers (Females). Incense Bearers. No. 5. The go;: i " Osiris," as " Osiris Pethempamentes" (the Pluto of the ;;reeks). "He who is resident in the Hades," " Presi u'4it of the Amenti," "Receiver and Giver," " T' e Sun," " The Eye of the World;" " The Source of the Nile," " He who has many Eyes," a form of Ammon, wearing the " Ati," and having the Crook and Flagellum ; regarded as the author of Time, from the word, " Osch-Iri," " the maker of Time." The principle office of this deity was to judge the dead, and to rule over that kingdom where the souls of good men were admitted to eternal felicity. This deity was very famous-- his temples and priests were to be found in al 'most every part of Egypt; the sacred rites of Osiris were a 'Profound mystery, never revealed. 'His name was even avoided, as of too august a nature to be mentioned The "Ivy," with which the Priests decorated themselves, was sacred to him, and also the." Meliolotus." No. 6. The Sacred Boat of the Amenti, or Lower Regions, with the four genii, or demi gods (bearing emblems of 'life and power) and their vases of " Amenti," or that subterraneous region where they (the Egyptians) imagined the souls of the dead to go after their decease. The first genius is " Amset," " Judge of the Amenti" (human-headed). The second is " Hepi," " Con cealed Number" (baboon-headed). The third is " Tuautmutf," " Adorer of his Mother" (jackall-headed), The fourth is " Kabh-senuf," " Refresher of his Brethren" (hawk-headed). The Sepulchral Vases have heads in shape of the four genii of the dead, and each was employed for holding a portion of the viscera of the deceased, embalmed separately and deposited in them. On the " Amset" Vase is inscribed the speech of " Isis" to the dead ; onthat of " Hepi" is a similar speech from " Nepthys';" on that of "Taantmutf, one from "Neith;" and on that of " Kabh-senuf," one from " Salk ;" the purport of each being an assurance of protection, and of being "near thee," " beside thee," or " I come to be beside thee." The Sacred Boat is followed by the symbolic " Eyes of Osiris," or of " The Sun," emblems of the all-seeing presence of the Di vinity. Note.—Besides the Four Amenti, here were 42 As sessors or Judges of the 42 Crimes, from which a gOod man should be free ; and these also differ from the 36 Demons Mentioned by Origen that presided over the human body, and were invoked to cure the infirmities of the peculiar member immediately under their protection. No. 7. The Goddess I s i s, ” or "The Seat." The hieroglyphic throne on her head, and followed by the priestesses and virgins dedicated to her worship. Isis was sty led also " The Be ginning" (as her sister, " Nepthys," was " The End"), and "Isis, Q ueen of Egypt," "The Goddess of the Moon," "Defender of her Brother," dm. (The " Ceres" of the Greeks.) " The festival," says Herodotus, "which they celebrate at Buse r% in honour of Isis is magnificent. After prayers a bull is sacrificed, which the priests cut up and afterwards burn, pouring oil on the fire while the victim is con suming. Kneeling and striking themselves in honour of Osiris,' they afterwards eat what rem ains of the sacrifice." Tamarisk and Dancers. No. 8. The God Horns" (or Khons- Horns, the Apollo of the Greeks, In-hieroglyph " The Warmth of the Sun," " The Path" (of the Sun) , " The Sup port," a " Defender of his Father," Ste., the Son of Osiris and Isis. He is represented with the single mystic lock of Hair id* Childhood slaying his evil geniuses, under the forms of the lion, the gazelle, scorpions, vipers, 6.c., while Typho, Typhon , Seth, or Baal, "The Evil Spirit," is escaping from beneath his feet in the shape of a crocodile. He is attended by his sacred emblems and standards. The Hawk wag dedicated to him, the Tamarisk Tree, the Testudo (Lyre), &c. One of the principal duties of " Horns," was that of introducing the souls of the dead into the presence of " Osiris," after they had passed the ordeal of final judgment. He also assisted Amset" in weighing and ascertainiug their good conduct during life, previous to their admission into the august presence of his Father in tho blessed regions of the AMenti. Incense Bearers. No. 9. The Goddess " Nep thys" (" Proserpina" of the Greeks), called also "The End," ," The Sister Goddess," " Th e S av i our Sister Goddess," " The Barren," " Rectrix of the Lower Regions." On her head the hieroglyphic emblem of her name, a bowl and basket, called 4 . Neb," placed upon a house, answering to " Ei" or " Tei," Neb-tei" or "Neb-thy," " The Lady of the Abode." " The Sistrum, having the face of Isis on ono side, and Nepthys on the other, hieroglyphically represents 'the beginning and the cad, or generation and corruption.' "—Plutarch. No. 10. The Goddess " Neith " (the " Minerva " of the Greeks,) en throned with sceptre, and wearing the " Teshr," preceded by Musicians, Male and Female Bearers of Incense with green lame, and surrounded by symbolic divinities, ! , N,ith. , was .~,~ ;cx :. ;. N o . 19,6-3.] styled " The Mother Goddess" or " Mother of Gods," " The Deified personification of Air," —(Dioslorus.) She presided over theUpperHemisPhere, and was particularlyworshipped at. Sais, Musical instruments stringed (the Buon or hasp of 17 strings, especially) were dedicated to her. " Neith," or " is the supposed origin of the Greek name, " Thena," or " Athena." The belief of the Egyptians in " the Existence of a Supreme Being " is proved by the inscription over the TeMple of Minerva (Keith), in hieroglyphic characters, viz. : "z--" lam that which is, which was, and shall be. =No Mort.l has lifted up my veil—the offspring of my power is,the Sun." And the " Immortality of the Soul," by the prayer recited at the time of death, by an Egyptian, expressing his desire to be received into the presence of the deities, Symbols of Mau and Tefuu, and Agis or Athor. No, 11. - ii-Merselcar," the Snake Goddess, called also " Melsigor," or "lfersokar"— " Ruler 'of the Lower Regions." No. 12. The Great God " Ammon," or " Hamman," " Amen ; " " "Amen-ra;" " Amotin," " The King of Gods," "The Concealed," " The'Hid den," " The Intellectual Sun," wearing onliis right heM'the "Tester," surmounted by the Disc and Plumes. I n hisvigh tland the "Tail," or emblem of life, and in his left thd Gom,".'or sceptre of power. A large Altar of Burning Incense„islhir xied before him;. on either side are his symbolspf"" creative power," the Sacred Ureus, or Serpent of Xixtmon, Priests . with crooks and fans, in their habits and insignia of the est order, with the iEgis of the God—" The Inteltect4l . Sup7 - • containing the symbolic" All-seeing Eyes," !` The Divine Searabrons," and the Ram-headed God, " ChrOanis,"' die vernal creative intelligence or divinity. -The King aid Queen Crowned... The King bears in his harid•the sceptre of 9 Truth, Justice, and Mercy." The Queen that of.the Sovereignty lit the Nile. They are preceded by Dancers-and Musicians, Is-, dies and Officers of the Court and Household ; ,the Good'.,, ." Eildthyia," or Sacred Vulture, " Protectress of Kings l -/. —" The Pure," borne iinmediately . in front of the Royal parr. sonages. The State Flabella, behind ,and over their licatls,, together. with the banners of Nitocris and Egypt, Itinked: ,the Royal asks of " Re " (the Sun) ; sacred symbtils, various insignia, royal and military Stan lards, Sic.' k ; •' 7 7' • , , ; • , .1 , I,k . , 'el," ,„,, sq--,4—...? 31 LONDON, Tli URSD --:~ ,113QYA_L LYCEUM THEATRE.....L- v Evp\ago-, and every evening ;dui - 4 ige, Tbficic, the l tfitAND ZLEUSE , TEAN* gIYECTSCLE of, AGIO .and MYSTERY, by ProfeDElliiiiVeiktiit.,_GAgtVi tigt7Ctrever-e nging variety of incidents; continuous surprises, notel and extraordinary .effects. Magic and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos sessing distinctive characteristics and pecuiiar phases of amusement. 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, or though everything becomes metamorphosed before the eyes of the visitors no one can be positive that he sees any one thing; but it is a comedy really performed by the com pany; a melodrama replete with startling positions and unex pected denouements ; a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of the public every night to app ar as auxiliaries ; and an ex travaganza, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond the bounds of probability. Proressor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and 'ashionable audiences which have nightly filled the Lyceum Theatre to overflow, and by means of whose generous aid he bas been enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for con- tinuous repetition. He believes that no professor of his art has at any time or in any place been honoured with an amount of success so extensive, so decided, and so unusual. He would attribute that success to three causes ; first, that in his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors the results of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of perfected skill in ono peculiar art, and to perfect which he has travelled the globe in every clime ; secondly, that he hai spared no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on the stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment of the first mechanicians and artists of the Clay ; and thirdly, hat, while endeavouring to provide amusement for those who honour him with thefr presence, he has not forgotten that it is possible to afford information also, and that the oppor tunity should not be neglected of exposing conjuring where ever it has been used for nefarious purposes, or whenever by -esortiag to the conjuror's arts, in an illegitimate manner, the deSigning have - succeeded -in making dupes of the credulous. The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro essor Anderson has received, from the time of opening the theatre up to the present date, bear witness to the great in erest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst many of them bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which .tteud a belief in the superstitious nonsense of the " Spiri ' ualists." Judging simply by the correspondence which has resulted, Professor Anderson's expose of spirit-rapping and his illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro duced a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt to ex pose a mischievous and impudent juggle. It is impossible 'or Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the communications which reach him on the subject. He regrets that many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen who, from their position in society and their well-known in tellectual attainments, he would least have expected to have been converts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and so easily susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Every evening, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions on spirit-rapping aro expressed, and.every evening, within the Lyceum, 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 multitudinous correspondents. He regrets that the names of the great and learned of the land should have been made to figure in the documents emanating from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem ber 20, and taken by that journal from the New York. Spiri- Nal Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Rungel-- , "131r 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 thins 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 Hercdd, No. 648: —" This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and now in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-1 nown throughout the Anglo-Saxon world as a spleudidhumbug, offered him 2,000 dollars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New York. Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could be bought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was refused. Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply and honestly remarked, that the money would have been very acceptable to him, for he was poor, young (under 20), an or phan, and in very bad health : but he would have been afraid of losing his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose his life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful. ire inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is one of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer tainly surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the editorial article of an established journal, the editor of whom might be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe in spirit-rapping--does spirit-rapping gain or lose by this accession to its adherents ? and, with Barnum's endorse ment to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely to be negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not •, hut, when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of England have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross a swindle, when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the Rev. N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and writes a book on the subject, be considers it t . be time for him to state'that which he knows of the mechanism by which it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the Morning Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir David Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel, in company with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that which the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that spirit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad purposes. Iu the Morning Advertiser of the following day, however, there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one who was present when he and Lord Brougham had their séance with the spirits in which the writer says, that " the table (a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most extraordinary manner, and, among other things, a large ac cordion was conveyed by an invisible agency to my hand and then to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship's right hand, apart from any person, it played an air through out." With such a statement, printed for the edification of the people of the 19th century, with the facts before us that the most talented men of the day are permitting themselves to be deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers—that the greatest novelist of the age is now engaged in making it tho subject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention" has actually been advertised to bo hold in St. Martin's-hall, Professor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual ;sts of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, scill be received by the people of England as genuine honest at tempts 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 Theatre, —a larger number, it is believed, than has ever before been assembled within its walls in so short a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even. ing, the programme being continually changed. Grand fashionable Day Performance, or Saturday, November 3, at 2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ; Part I.—Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical Capabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do by magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer ism, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported ii the air. Act 2. The Aqua-Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the power of producing animated nature from fire and water only, and the possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most complex forms of ornithological existence. Act 3. Le Livre des Reeneile Choisies : or, Puck's Own Pocket Rook, 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, in developing bulk where no space appears in its existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and bringin g forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely place for to be. found. Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; or, Transition without Trou ble. In which will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed dingm a ti 0 1 Ring, a t chke i Peregrinations d o t h f e a D B a i nk ve N ry ot o e, f telvieerTyraAnrsfuocire in the position which wou'ld seem the sc m o ost inappropriate. - Act 5. L'Ecrin de Verre ; or, the Casket of Croesus Into which, though made en ti rely 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 d be closed, itself, and rain into the casket, though ee.closed, locked, and the key in the possessio n of audience. Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Transparency of Opacity. Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wine and Spirit St ore. An improvement u pon 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, noyeau, or any other wine or spirit required ; and finally proving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry, and occupying the whole space when tightly packed. Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Expose of Spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping t a bl e and which the property of tocsin of the invisibles. Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in 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 s 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comus e in which he who '~~ , , , e , j 4 i. ..... . ~..., ~:,-..,,:,. , ~ ~.,.. .4 \..#,z, . _ , . itv_ ~..„:„...._ ~,..„..., ' , , ,# ari • 4 ; 4 . • _• 44- I. . 0 , to 1-,,c , i „,rAl Rom i L. A Y 14'Y FNT A I G UV 44 PXYBLICATIONS. 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. . _,..t• . vti Act . 11. The Mystery of the Charmed, Chest ; or, the NEW .NO. L BY MRS. LA TOUCHE. . • Nucleus of-the Night's Wonders. To - comprehend which the ir Now reacV,st all the Libraries, in 3 vols., audience will have the goodness to observe, in an earlier part ' , ADY WILLOUGHBY ; or, the Double of the evening, the chest suspended (like MithOmmed's coffin, ...,4 , • ~ • r , MARRIAGE. in mid-air, into which all thi ngs w ill travel, and out of which , • . By' Mrs. LA TOUCHE. all will produced. , Hurst and Blackett, l'ublishers, suc cessors t o H enr y C o lb u m, 13, . . Act. ,2: The Homolo g i ca l Evaporation; or, the Shortest Great )larlborough-'lrcet. Route to the Antipodes, Illustrating the easiest mode Pi --- , ridding ourselves of a troublesome friend,"'aticl the ad-vantages This; Day isrtjbli.ihgl, in Bvo., with M a p an d Il. us tr a t'ons, price , . „ . *. f. .. ' of the newly-di scovere d di a -t erre strial passage from' the west- •125,. Ed. c otb, ern to the eastern hemisphere. VT \ I N ,I,T tSO. T A and th e FAR WEST. Doors open each evening at half-past 7 ; commence at S. LT.L - 13 y L A.URE:'.4.I§ OLIPIIANT, Esq., - sian Shires ni the Black Sea," Sce Private boxes, 1/. Ils. 6d, and 1/, 15.,. to be obtained. at the ,ate c ii , it'Secretary and Supethitendent-General of rndian Affairs in in Sons,r 3 la c E k d vi i -, o th o u d r ' s o M I a a n g d a ii Londonn e . Box-office', or at the principal librarieS.; -. lfialls, 4s. ;. dress Cg i.: n v a ii d :io a i:l ; ngli A in ; :r t a hir wrivi o ,o3od 7 iit i: Eo us e,„ circle, 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, ls. ;. emery, 6,d. Tb e Box-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the ilirectiou , . -.. - of Mr. Chatterton, jun; Grand fashionable Mora. ing Per formance. on Skturday. November 3, at 2 oClock.• Doi irs epee at half lint 1 • Jost publisliea, in Bvo., price Gs , cloth, W FINE DUTIES considered FINANCIALLY and °CULLY: Being a Reply to Sir James Emerson Valiteni . on Wine, Its 'rotation and Uses. • . liy W. 130,AVILLE JAMES. - • London': Longman, 13rown, Green, and Longman. EAST INDIA HOUSE, M S T OCTOBER, 01155. , THE COURT of DIRECTORS Of- the EAST INDIA fIONIPANY do hereby give Netite, that the Wansfe , Books of the said Company's Steck will be shuf oneTIIIIRSDAT the 6th of December next, at Three o'clock, and. opened *Win or T MIR iDAY, the 17th of January, 1856. t e • That the Warrants for the Dividends on the sabrl•Stoek, due on the sth January, 18 i 6, under the 11th seetitufbf the Act 3d and 4th William nr, cap."Bs; Will be ready In he delivered on `l%fonday, the 7th Jan., 1856. • Is published this day, KI- I V:BURN, OTCH.AKOV, NICHOLAIEV.- ' 4taword's trap of. the Roads, Sr.e., between Odessa. Nicho rer ekop, Simpinerepal, and -evastopol, with e larged Plans Also ot ,t a nford,s documents. hiap f Odese a an d Ni t h o l aief, compild from the Ru sian Maps in th e l o ssess++ yi of the Royal Geographical Society, the Admiralty Charts, nd h r Odessa and Perekop. Price s. sh et; ease, 4 5 . 64. ot l' O r l i n "6o° +lrtry la b rg et e w s c h e f n e O t' d 4B. ; case, 75. • Lou' ion, Edard StAtalitil,-G 4 Charing - cross; and I,etts, Son, a n d Co., Oyal Exchange. JAMtS C. MELVItt, Secretary. EAST INDI4 HOUSE. 3;sr OC . koliEa, 1855. . . . THE-001MT of bIREOTORS.'94the EAST INDIA COMPANY DO HEREBY GISTVDTICE, That the notification jpstuieVon..the 18th of July I.iif 'Ora tenclion in the rate of interest on the Company's Bondi:isligruw(A.wN. , .• . -, -, JANES C. MEtTILL, Secretary'. coxr4s:c.r 11'cm BISCUIT. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling, ,Alometeet-house, 30th October, 1855. :111tE - Coramisigtners for executing the office of AL Lord High Admiral of the Uni Kingdom of Cheat Britain Breland, DO Agriloy tilt* - that- nn ut.Etwita— .. ...: ' - ' - I": EAST iNitTA.H,CfUSE, 318 T bcTotitii, 'i 835. 111111 E cf_AIRM of iDIRE6TORtAtif /the EAST` I INDIA CO AI:ARTY ilo:fltßEßir (gym NI Kcpmpt a QUAllil'ETS.LX,,A44,6aig t .Op4URT .0 . .0 0 ; lA, . q i 21¢., irel•fra — theffilodre in' Leaclenh all-street, on ' 1 %LSD A , the i 19th December next, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon. JAMES C. MELVILL, secretary: VAST INDIA HOUSE, 31st Ocroaza, 1855. r ipHE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAS r INDIA COMPANY do hereby give Notice, that the Rate of Exch•nge at which they will receive C sh for Bills on Bengal and Madras will, from the present date, and until further notice, he 2s . hl. the Company's Rupee, and for Bills en Bombay 2s. I%d. the ( Jorn. patty's Rupee. JAMES C. MF:LTILL, Secretary. tettrissierrothritext;'2'OUßVlNFßlP — fheF will be - ready to treat with •uch persons as may be willing io contract for supplying And delivering into her Majesty's Vtetualllng Stores, at Deptford, the undermentioned quantity of BISCUIT', viz:— When to be delivered. 1 One-fourth to be delivered by the 98th Novrmber. another fourth by the sth Deptford .... 10,900 cwt. •/ December, another fourth by the 12th December, and the remainder by the I 19th December next, or earlier if pre t.fered by the party tendering. Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the Biscuit Samples (not less than 211 is ) to be produced by the parties tendering, end the quality to be equal to that usually baked in her Majesty's Victualling Yards. their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the Ten ters are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part hereof only as the) may deem fit, Or for a greater quantity. or of of contracting forany; ani also an unlimited cower of selection. The price of the Biscuit is to include the cost•of suitable bags, each to contain.ll2lbs. _ _ _ No tender will be received unless made on the printed form pro vided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application at be said Office, at the Victualling Yards at Gosport and Plymouth, or co Commander Beiis, conducting the Packet Service at Liverpool, or to the Collector of Customs at Bristol. The conditions of the revised contracts, to which particular atten tion is called; may be seen at the said office, at the said Victualling Yards," and at Liverpool and Bristol. No tender will be received liter one o'clock on the day of treaty, and It will not be required hat the party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend at the office on the dayof contract, as the result of the offer received 'rom each person will be communicated to him In writing. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, ,nd bear in the left-hand corner the words; " Tender for BISCUIT," .nd must also be delivered at Somerset Mouse. R OYAL SWEDISH RAILWAY COMPANY , 18, Cannon-street, City. The owners of Shares and Obligations in this Company are respect fully reminded that the Half-yearly INTER FAT, due the 27th instal 4, may be rective4 on or after that day, by application at the (Hikes of the ompany, between the hours of eleven and three o'clock. JOHN SADLEIR, Chairman. 26th October, 1855. ONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAII ,- 711.3 WAY.—WINTER ARRANGESIENTS.—NOTICE for Nt )- VENIBErt, 1855. The expi:ess train leaving London at 9 a.m. will call at Bletchle3 ►, - The express train leaving London at 5.15 p.m. for Worcester. a Midland District, Birmingham, and Wolverhampton, will leave at 5 o'clock, and cease calling at Leighton. The express train leaving London - at 5 p.m. will call at Bletchle y, and cease calling at Watford and Wolverton. The train leaving London for Tring at 5.20 p.m. will leave at 5 .5 p.m. _ _ The train leaving London at 5.45 p.m. will leave at 5.30 p.m. The train leaving London for Worcester at 1 p.m. will leave at 12.30 noon. The expresi train leaving Birmingham for London at 7.25 a will be made an ordinary train. Leave at 7.30 a.m., cease c9' Ming at Wolverton ; and call at Weedon, Blisworth, Leighton, Wa*,tofd, and Harrow. The train leaving Ru;by for London at 12.55 noon will le aye at 1.40 p.m. The train leaving Birmingham for London at 12 noon will leave at 12.15 noon, call at Blisworth and Watford, and cease calr.ng at Wol verton. The third-class train leaving Liverpool for London at 8 a.m. win leave at 7.45 a.m., arriving earlier at all stations. The train leaving Birmingham for London at 1.15 p.m. will leave at 1. 0 p m The express train from the North, leaving Preston at 3.15 p.m., Liverpool, 3.30 p.m , and Manchester at 3.40 p.m., will leave at 3.30, 3.45 and 3.50 respectively. The train leaving Birmingham for London at 5.35 p.m. will leave at 5.20 p. m. For further alterations on the main line and branches see Com pany's Time Bills. By order. MARK HITISH. General Manager's Office, Euston Station, October, 1855. G REAT WESTERN RAILWAY. ALTER.kTION OF TRAINs. On and after November the Ist the following Alterations will take place : DOWN TRAINS. The 6 a.m. train from Paddington will not stop at Stations between Warwick and Birmi , gbatn, and will be confirmed on to Liverpool. The 9.15 a.m. Northern Express from Paddington will leave at 9.40 a.m. The 9 40 a.m. Express will atop at Reading, and will be a few minutes later than at present at other stations. The 12 50 p.m. train from Pa ldington will be discontinued from Didcot Oxford over the Oxford, Worceetor, and Wolverhampton Railway, and below Cardiff on the South Wales Railway. UP TRAINS, Tne 6 a.m. train from Liverpool will leave Birmingham at 11.5 a.m., instead of 11 a.m , and will be a few minutes later than at pre sent at other stations up to Paddington. The 8 a.m. train from Live-pool will leave Birmingham at 12 neon, Instead of 11.55 a.m., and will be 5 minutes later than at pre tent at other stations up to Paddington. The 2.45 p.m. train from Exeter . 0 111 leave Bristol at 6 p m., Promo at 6.5 p.m., and Cheltenham at '5.30 'p.m., instead of as at present, and will not call at Wallingford-road, Goring, or Maiden head Taplow Stations. The 8 a.m. Train from Plymouth will call at Wallingford-road and Goring. The 3.45 p.m. Express from Liverpool will leave at 3 p.m., and wl3 be • hanged to an Ordinary Train, canine' at Birmingham at 7 p.m., Warwick, 7.32 p.m., Leamington, 7.37 p.m., and Oxford at 8.40 p.m. _ The 5.15 p m train from Birmingham will leave at 5.30 p.m. The 8.30 p.m. train from Windsor will leave at 9 p.m., and 9.30 p.m. will be discontinued. SUNDAYS. The 8 a.m. train from Paddington will be continued over the South Wales line. The 2 p.m train from Paddington will be discontinued over the South Walei The 2.40 p.m train from Exeter will leave Bristol at 5.35 p.m ~ instead of 4 30 p.m., and will be rather later than at present at the different stations up to Paddington. ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAURENTS CASINO NOW OPEN for the winter season. The followin: Music will be performed by his celebrated Band daring the week : March aux Flambeaux. Waltzes —The Lily of the Valley (D'Albert), Zephir Lufte (Gung'l), Fenella (Tinney), Ethel Newcome (Laurent), La Sultane (Bosislo). Quadrilles—Le Itol du Pastel Lamotte), Les Ilulenots (Laurent), Palermo CPA '- ben), Bride of Lammermoor (Tinney), 11 Trovatore (Tutton). Polkas—Des Hulands (Lamotte), Italie (Gavfolo), The Lillian (D'Al bert), Des Coucous (Bousquet). The Zouaves (Laurent). Galops— The Imperial Guards (Laurent), The Hecla (Streather). Schottische —La Geirlande de Pleura (Bosquet), La Varsoviana (Laurent). Prin cipal Cornet a Piston, M. Boulcours.—Doors open at 8. Admission One Shilline. TO LOVERS OF FISH.-100 GENUINE YARMOUTH BL')ATERS for Gs.. package included. THESE HIGHLY ESTEEMED DELICACIES AND CEIEAP ARTICLE OF FOOD forwarded to all parts, on receipt of penny postage stamps or P. 0.0 (preferred). tend full and plain direction, county, and nearest sta tlm.—Addrevs THOS. LF:TTIS, jun., Fish Curer, at. Yarmouth. " This is the third season Mr. Lettis has supplied us with Yar mouth bloaters, and we find the quality excellent.—J. Brashowe, house steward, Blenheim Pal lee.— 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 last year gave great satisfaction.— 4. F. Courreux, Ambassador's Court, St. James's Palace.—Oct. 1, 1855." IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. IRIESEMAR.—On the 29th of May, 1855, an injunction was granted by the High Court of Chancery, and on the 11th Juno following was made perpetual, against Joseph Franklin and others, to restrain them, under a penalty of one thou sand pounds, from imitating this Medicine, which is protected by Royal Letters Patent of Zugland, and secured by the Seals of thy: Ecole dr 'harmacie de Paris. and the Imperial College of Medicine. Vienna. TRIESEMAR, No. I, is a remedy for Relaxation, Sperrnatnerhces, and Exhaustion of th System, whether arising from excesses, accident, or climate. To those persons who are prevented entering the married state by Vie consequences of early errors It is invaluable. TRIESEMAR, No. 2, 'ectually, In this short spacs of three days, completely and entirely a adicates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and Cubebs tve so long been thought an antidote for, to the rain of the health of a vast portion of the population. TRI RAEM AR, No. 3, is the great Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders," which unrortunately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla in the world cannot remove . rIESEMAR, No. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smell, ,nd 'of all nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet tall. without their use being suspected. Sold in tin cases at I is. each, free by post, 2s. extra, divided ante separate doses, as administered by Valpean, Lallemand, Roux, tc., &.c.—To be had Wholesale and Retail in London of Johnston, 68, Cornhill; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; and Sanger, 1%0, Ox ford-street ; It. H. Ingham, druggist, 46. Market-street, Manchester ; IL Bradbury, bookseller, Deanegate, Bolton; J. Priestly, chemist, t 2, Lord-street, Liverpool; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland-street, Dablin ; Winnall, bookseller, High-street, Birmingham. fHE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. hist published, price 25., illustrated with cases; free by poet for 26 stamps, VERVOITS DEBILITY; Ll Its Causes, Symptoms. and Core.—An Essay on Spar natorrhma, with Practical Observations on a safer and more successful mode of treatment of the diseases of the Generative System, obtained by the use of the Microscope in detecting and listinguishing, by urinary examination, the real cause and effect of ivory variety of complaint, whether arising from solitary habits, -scesses, accident, or climate, followed by practical remarks, founded in twenty years' experience in the treatment of Impuissance nervous Debility, Local Weakness, Spermatorrlusa, &c. To which ire added, Commentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre :autionary hints on the evils emanating from empirical prrctice, ►rd on the d warms remedies advocated by various writers on t'• eta important disorders. By SAMUEL VMERT 37, BEDFORD-SQUA lE, LONDON, !lector of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edo.- burgh, Honorary Member -)t the tondos Hospital Medical Society Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. The essential obect of this treatise is to point out the fearful con sequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, which have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man• !ood, and prematnre decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, as ther class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its pernsal t hirticularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of Veir physical condition, and who are conscious of haring hazarde,l the health, happiness, and privileges to which every human being entitled; It is abso:utely necessary that all men should know, that there rinciples of personal management which cannot be violated without licurring grievous I enalties, and when wisdom and regret succee die heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties nay be mitigated, hew the sting of their bitterness may be removed. end how the evil and its consequences may ho avoided, and above all. that there is scarcely any degree ofophysical infirmity or functions ieraugement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a care rye Author has for a series of years been engaged in an extensiv, ;ractice in the treatment of these delicate complaints, which have antortnnately been tco generally confided to the care of ignorani emniries, who inflict great injury on those who are induced to Mac', faith in their pretensions. • NERVOUS DEBILITY may be hat price 2s. of Messrs. Sher wood and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; Horne, 19, Leicester-square; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or free by post for tq stars!), to any address from the Author's residence. 37. Be , - ford-rmare. At borne for consultation daily fr.km eleven till two and from six till eight. TIIE RUSSIAN VESSELS IN THE PACIFIC. .( From the Constitutionnel. ) The Russian fleet decidedly represents the phantom ship. It is seen in a fog and is pursued ;at the moment when on the point of being seized it disappears, and one does not know if it has sunk in the waves or vanished in the air. Thus two English ships ordered to watch the inovetaents of the Russian frigates and schooners at Pe tropaulovski anchor before the harbour, and keep their eyes fixed on the Russian masts which rise above the batteries. The allied squadrons arrive. The Russian ships are gone. The English officers rub their eyes, and ask if they have been duped by an illusion or mirage. the Allies sail towards Amoor after having destroyed the defensive work of Petropaulovalti. The English per ceive a Russian frigate and schooner in a Japanese Lay. Hurrah ! the day of battle has arrived. The decks are cleared for action, and the bay is Entered. A new dis appointment. The frigate and schooner have disappeared. How did they escape No one knows, and the success if this miraculous flight is again ascribed to the fog. It is then deemed certain that in the Gulf of Saghalien, at the entrance to the river Amoor, will be found these un approachable vessels. One thing is alone feared, that they have been disarmed, sunk, and converted into batteries. Travellers report the formidable preparations they have seen, the rows of cannon, the ships shelved in the sand, and the narrow passages filled up with stones and rubbish. The Petropaulovski squadron appears before the Gulf of Saghalien, and finds it open, free, and no where are discovered fortifications or ships. Decidedly Russian powers resembles those visions which disappear on approaching them. Nothing confirms this more than this perpetual flight of Itetrian shjps, these ruins of for tifiCations these coasts which ari!said to be impregnable, and which are found utterly undefended. The English, on entering the Gulf of Saghalien, which they did with out obstacle, found no other trace of Russian occupation than an open town, without defences and abandoned. This was the town of Ayan. A small iron steamer was found and destroyed by the English. In discovering the town, it was howeve r di scovere d no t t o b e totally un inhabited. Two citizens of the United States, who had been bankrupts in San Friancisco ' had come to try their fortunes on Russian soil, a n d h a d brought with them a cargo of planks. The flight of the inhabitants had caused their speculation to fail, and they were on the point of leaving the pace. The English allowed these two Tro jans to start on their unknown destination. The squad ron then attempted to enter the river, but no channel deep enough to receive vessels of war could be dis covered. The boats were therefore armed and received orders to ascend the river. Their researches were in vain, and they returned to the Admiral with the conviction that if the Russians bad any military establishments in these regions they were far in land. However, it is certain that the campaigns of 1854 and 1855, have been disastrous to the Russi,in navy. Nowhere has it found the Allies, and it has always sought safety in flight. At Sebastopol it only found refuge under the water of the port. At Cron stadt and Sweaborg it remained concealed behind the land batteries. These tactics would be excusable if the Allies had always presented themselves in superior force, but far from that, detachments of the fleet with the Eng lish and French flags, have scoured with impunity the Baltic Sea, destroying all the Government stores with out being attacked by the Russian vessels, who were infinitely stronger and more numerous. In th e Pacific the frigates of the same nation have subsided into mere jack.° -lanterns. There remains this day to the Russian navy only the recollection of Sinope, and it is not that event which will re-establish its reputation." MADLLE. RACHEL AT NEW YORK• THE MARSEILLAISE. The Rachel speculation which was stated to be rapidly failing appears to have received a new impetus by her "Marseillaise," which it will be recollected, she declined to sing when first applied to by• her countrymen in Ameriea. We find the following enthusiastic notices of her performances of this republican hymn in the New York papers : On the night of the 9th, the combined attractions of " Les Horaces," and the " Marseilla;ee" filled the me tropolitan theatre, New York, to s uffocation. Long before the commencement of the tragedy, the sale of tickets for the cheaper parts of the house had to be stopped. Seats were sold by thespeculators in the street for 8 and 10 dole. The New York Times says :—"The Marseillaise ' followed the tragedy, which, for some managerial rea son, followed the farce. As every one went to hear the hymn, a different arrangement, if practicable, might be desirable. If the hymn had preceded the tragedy, Madlle. Rachel would have had time' to recruit her ener gies in the earlier scenes, where little passion is required. But coming, as it did, after the immense physical and mental strain of the fourth act, we can only wonder that Madlle. Rachel's strength held out as it did. What shall we say of the hymn itself? Imagine a pale, beautiful woman, quivering with excitement, clasping the trio. colour in her nervous band and crouched in weakness beneath its sacred folds. Imagine this woman delivering a word picture. Every suggestion of language is re flected in her countenance, or visibly telegraphed by her hands. Imagine this in connection with the words of the Marseillaise,' and you have the best idea we can give you of the performance. Madlle. Rachel sings the music of the hymn thoroughly. The effort appeared to cost her some labour, and, doubtless, much of the enthu siasm that would have been elicited under other circum stances was damped by the palpable fatigue of the great tragedienne. At times it was almos t p ainful to witnes s." The New York Courier says :—" La Marseillaise' crowned the evening. What was it? Singing A hoarse voice, broken, incapable of sustaining the melody of the simplest romance, and utter want of skill in vocal, ism--such are Rachel's gifts as a songstress. But what could melody have added to that inspired chant of liberty ? Melody would have made it a different thing ; but how far from being a better ! She quivered and cried out as the spirit worked its will with her, and made her utter its fierce hatred and fiercer hopes. Death flamed from her eye, and the frantic wave of her b an d was like a call to vengeance. The house was alternately bushed and in an uproar. • FATAL ACCIDENT.—A man named Baudry, employed in a sugar manufactory at St. Quentin, was sent on Sa turday with a cart load of goods ta the village of Seran court. On arriving at the level crossing of the northern railway at that place, be found that a train was ex pected, and that the gates were closed. He imprudently left his horse in the middle of the road, and went into an adjacent public-house, to wait until the train should pass. The shrill whistle of the locomotive, whi c h was presently heard, caused the horse to take fright, and, turning sharply round, it ran into the court-yard of the railway station. Baudry rushed after the animal, but, in endeavouring to seize it by the head, he was pressed by the shaft against a wall with such violence that he fell dead. _ - 4 74 , 4) it, iV7 45- i ~s..t IBEIt 1, 1855. Spirit of the Public Journals. ( From the Ilforning Herald of this day. ) We need not go back to the days of Alexander and Thais, to prove how worthless an instrument may suffice to plunge an empire into ruin. But the parasites and prostitutes of modern times differ in many external respects from the flatterers and betrayers of ancient or mediaeval days. The " three tailors of Tooley-street," with their mani festoes in behalf of " the people of England," con stitute one of our chief dangers—fearful, though ludicrous ; destructive, even while it is contemp tible. The great embodiment of the " three tailors," at the present moment, is found in a London news paper, which not only pretends to speak in behalf of the people of England, but has repeated this fiction so long and so often, that it comes at last to be believed. One of the most embarrassing circum stances, we are well aware, which attends any Government in England just now, is, the fancy which possesses many politicians on the Continent, and many more in America, that the Times speaks, sometimes for the Government, at other times for the people. Both are fictions • but if they pass for truth they do as much mischief as if they were really true. In this way the Times had a chief hand in plunging England into the present war. In the early part of 1853, when the Emperor Nicholas saw his " old friend Aberdeen " in power, he desired Baron Brunow to sound the English Cabinet about Turkey. The language used was just that which was used to Sir Eramilton . Seymotir Petets _ ip.Tg• , . 71-irkki• `!-the . sick ttuuh'' and likely . ---- Vtlitt'vrariTrbe done witWthe'Oitate; . ' which would be left without an owner ? Should Russia begin to take measures ? The answer Baron Brunow received was, " Do just what you like; we shall not interfere with you." Satisfied as to the acquiescence of the British Cabinet, the agents of Russia next began to con sider how the people of England would be likely to regard such a movement as the Czar contemplated. We know not, nor does it much signify, whether the Times merely " followed the lead" of Lord Aberdeen, or whether it was propitiated by any of the numerous agents, male or female, whom Russia has been in the habit of maintaining in all the chief European capitals. It is enough for us to know that the Times said to Russia in leading articles what Lord Aberdeen had already said in private conversation—" Do what you please ; we shall offer no objection." It was on the 2d of March, 1853, that the Times wrote as follows : " The time is approaching when the maintenance of the Ottoman empire in its present form will be found to be impracticable, and acknowledged to be undesirable : but whatever vicissitudes the Christian and Sclavonic provinces of Turkey may witness, they can pass under no form of Govern ment more barbarous, wasting, and oppressive than that which has so long overwhelmed them. We profess, therefore, to feel no anxiety for the main tenance of the Ottoman empire, which bears the stamp of a tyrannical past, a worthless present, and an extinct future." " The question is whether we are to leave the tottering edifice to fall mole sua, or to provide against such a calamity 9" Here we had the Times " saying ditto" to the Emperor Nicholas. " What shall we do about the sick man ?" asked the Czar of Sir Hamilton Seymour. " Shall we leave the edifice to fill, or provide against such a calamity 7" echoed the Times. Baron Brunow had thus made all safe, had se cured the acquiescence of the British Government, and had induced the Times to talk as pure Russian as could be learned in St. Petersburg. So pre pared, Prince Menschikoff was sent to Constanti nople, and the army was put in motion. Unluckily the Emperor found out, atter a while, that neither Lord Aberdeen nor the Times had any right to speak in the name of England. The " old friend," " the excellent Aberdeen," had to declare war ; and the Times which, in March, " had no anxiety for the maintenance of the Ottoman empire," had wheeled right round before, and had resolved that the Otto man empire should be maintained against Russia and against all colliers. Unluckily, however, these conversions came too late. The delusive encouragements of March had induced the Emperor to embark in a course from which he was too proud to turn back. His old friend, Aberdeen, and his humble slave, the Tiimp, had led him astray ; but the mischief was now done. The war was, in fact, begun. And its; origin was a mistake as to the influence of Lord Aberdeen and as to the power of the Times. So began this great war. But we refer to this long-past fact, chiefly be cause we see too much reason to fear a second blunder of the same kind, or even still more serious. A misfortune of the gravest kind is threatening us, and, again, the foolish pretensoius of the Times may have some considerable share in bringing it On. For the last two or three weeks a most absurd rumour has been bruited abroad—so absurd, in fact, that we have not thought it worth while to allude to it—namely, that England and France were entering into a treaty with Spain, which king dom was to furnish, like Sardinia, a contingent of 25,000 men to the army in the Crimea, while Eng land and France, in return, were to guarantee to Spain the quiet possession of Cuba. Now the manifest absurdity of this was two-fold :-1, that Spanish troops, in Russia, were likely to be worth less—a mere incumbrance ; while, 2, our inter ference between Spain and America exposed us to the danger of a new war with a nation of 20,000,000 of proud and pugnacious men. We disbelieved, therefore, the whole story, as one too bad to be credited even of Lord Palmerston himself. But, while we thus paused, there came out an article, of a professedly Ministerial hue, in the 7'imes of last week, which tended to make matters worse, if pos sible, than they already were. This article avowed that the English Govern ment was reinforci ng it s W est I n di an squa d ron, and thusinterposing a " powerful fleet" between this country and the North American continent. This avowal at once entitles the Americans to demand some explanations. Now an evasive or false expla nation is an insult. What, then, are we to say of such talk as the following : " At this moment North America is in profound peace with the whole world ; yet it is not the less true that i n h er ports are fitting out at this moment piratical filibustering expeditions, destined to carry war and bloodshed into the dominions of an un offending neighbour. These explanations do not receive the sanction of the American. Government, are not equipped by its funds, will not be conducted by its officers—but their preparation is neverthe less well known to the President and his Adminis tration, and receives no check from that quarter." " That which she cannot do we are compelled, at least so far as the lawless enterprises directed against ourselves go, to do for her. We cannot wait patiently till these lawless emissaries of insurrec tion and plunder have set their feet within her Majesty's dominions, and encountered there the resistance which is sure to overwhelm their wild and desperate schemes. We cannot wait till we are placed in the terrible dilemma of either sparing men to whom clemency is cruelty to the human race, of which they are the enemies, or of inflicting a just punishment, which may be the means of inflaming against us the passions of the American people and leading to a disastrous and fratricidal war. We will, if it be possible, prevent the crime that other wise it would be our duty most severely to punish, and this we do in the name and in the hope of peace. We cannot believe that those who are now engaged in enrolling unhappy men for these desperate and criminal enterprises really contemplate the success of a descent upon Ireland, for instance, as probable, or even possible." The talk about a descent on Ireland is too ab surd to be maintained for a single moment. No British Minister could gravely advance such a be lief in a conference with an American ambassador. It is a baseless, and therefore a foolish pretext. But there remains, unhappily, the avowed fact of a "powerful fleet" assembled in the West Indies. What rational account can we give of this to our Transatlantic brethren ? If we say, frankly, "It is to keep your people from seizing upon Cuba," that very reply may be the surest way of setting America in a blaze, and of causing the whole nation to resolve to take Cuba at once, just because we were so insolent as to undertake to prevent them. But of all possible follies, the worst was that con tained in the Times article. If that article is con ceived to speak the sense either of the English Go vernment or the English people, then a war', most unfortunate, unnatural war—with the United States is an event most alarmingly probable. (Prom the Times of this day.) When the war in the East first broke out, and England found herself in new and unwonted alliance with France, and an equally unwonted hostility with Russia, there was no Power from which she received assurances of support more hearty, more satisfactory, and more spontaneous than from the United States of America, gven the Minister of - - - - • ~, ' • A ..`''. ..„ . 4.,-,w4000,-.. v ; ~- . j• - • 1:; , ..'-., -.:' ,- . • ''''' ''.4:1*.741 , r,' z - . . 4. ' / *-- ' + [PRICE 4D. STAMPED SD• the Union in this country, unless we are misin formed, testified to the cordial sympathy of the Cabinet of Washington and the nation over which it presides. He expressed an apprehension as to the durability of our alliance with France and our ablity alone and unaided to resist the overwhelming might of Russia. But he desired us to be under no apprehension on that ac count, for the United States were willing to make our quarrel their own, and aid us with thousands of stout hearts and brawny arms, as ready to pluck down the despotism of the East as to subdue the wilderness and level the giant forests of the West. If the English Government believed these assurances, as we do not doubt the American Minister believed them, we cannot rea sonably accuse them of rashness or credulity, or say that they adopted on doubtful authority a strange or improbable story. Was it unlikely a priori that a nation whose noble boast it is that her soil is the chosen abode of freedom, whose every citizen is a missionar3 against the creed of despotism should warm to a generous enthusiasm at a war waged for no selfish motive, but to curb barbarous insolence and save Europe and Asia from being trampled under the heel of an overbearing autocrat Was it likely that a population recruited annually from the bitterest enemies of Russia, which has so often evinced a mantial spirit, which swarmed to the obscure conflicts of the Mexican war, and has shed its blood so freely in nameless Indian quarrels, should stand aloof from a contest in which world wide fame was to be won by the brave, and a fair occasion was offered of making American valour il lustrious in the van of a conflict on the decision of which depended the future destinies of the human ni:Yi r ttja.9o,thibuk,eo4 - V flikefarg,-.. nat haebeen, the cannot W=leon/ nisters that, in their urgent need of men, they sought to avail themselves of the resources of the West, and to turn into a legitimate channel the irregular energies of those ardent spirits which have appeared so long to burn for au enterprise worthy of their courage. At the same time the British Government, while establishing depots for enlistment within its own dominions on the American continent, gave the most stringent orders that nothing should be ' done in the endeavour to obtain recruits to violate the municipal law of the United States—a direction which, with all deference to the American Attorney- General, seems to us to show an intention to re spect, instead of to violate, the national sovereignty of the Union. However, it unhappily soon became only too apparent that the American Minister and the Bri tish Government had alike mistaken the disposition of our Transatlantic brethren. The sympathies of the land of freedom were found in great measure to be enlisted on the side of Russia. Whether it was a jealousy of the French alliance, a secret sympathy with the spirit of territorial aggression, wherever displayed, a desire on the part of the slave-bolding States to counteract influence - 3 hos tile to their domestic institutions, or that the Irish refugees had inoculated the Union with their hatred of England, we cannot say ; but certain it is that accounts began speedily to reach this country of the hostile spirit in which our attempts at re cruiting were received, and the philo-Russian tone adopted, with a few honourable exceptions, by the whole American press, was but too apparent. The English Government did not wait to hear more ; it had been misled, and it hastened to retract its error. Orders were immediately despatched to America to desist from all attempts at recruiting, and to give no cause of annoyance to the suscep tibilities of the nation. In the meanwhile the American Government had, as well as the British, made its observations on the state of public feel ing, and determined not to neglect the oppor tunity of , turning that feeling to account in tLe interest of the corning Presidential election of 1850. Proceedings were instituted against per sons who had acted, or were supposed to act, in the interest of the English recruiting service, and Mr. Crampton, the most popular Minister who has ever been accredited from this country to the Cabinet of Washington, was made the object of unmeasured abuse and vituperation. At the same time, the American Government desired their Minister in London to make the strongest repre sentations as to the conduct of Great Britain, and to demand a discontinuance of all endeavours at recruiting in the States. The British Government answered in the most conciliatory tone that what was demanded had been already done, and offered explanations on the subject; whivh proved perfectly satisfactory to the American Minister, who could not but remember his own sanguine anticipations of a contrary feeling ; and so fora time the matter terminated. But the American Government was not so easily satisfied, and returned to the attack with a despatch of which we will only permit our selves to say that it was ill-calculated to restore good feeling between the two countries, and by no means a fitting acknowledgment of the readiness shown by our Ministry to recall a na'stake into which they had been so innocently led. To this despatch the British Government has returned a temperate, but firm and dignified reply, and has seconded its diplomacy by strengthening its West India fleet with the ships that have arrived from the Baltic. In this position affairs now stand, awl we appeal to the conviction of our readers whether these transactions do not disclose on the part of our own Government a most commendable spirit of for bearance and moderation, and on the part of the Government of the United States a desire to force a quarrel upon us at a period when we may well be supposed to desire, above all things, the continu ance of our present friendly relations. We do not appeal to our own countrymen, for there is no one in England who has any other feeling to the United States than that of amity and goodwill, or who would regard a rupture with them as other than a heavy and grievous calamity, to be averted by all honourable means. But wo appeal to the respectable, intelligent, and moderate portion of the American community, whose influence we aro sorry to see not very apparent in the present proceedings of their Government, whether they will submit to see the alliance—we might almost call it the union—between the two coun- tries endangered, and the vast interests of a commerce reciprocally beneficial imperilled, for the sake of obtaining a little popularity for a political party, and influencing, in however slight a degree, the elections of the coming year. Surely such mat ters as the continuance of a good understanding between England and America ought to be too grave for such heartless trifling. We cannot doubt there is in the United States a large number of persons standing aloof from the stormy conflicts of political life who are yet not willing to abandon the guidance of the vessel of the State in a moment so critical as the present to the rash and inconsiderate hands which are driving her straight upon the breakers. We trust that no word may fall from us to aggravate the ill-feeling which has been so unfortunately excited, or to embitter a quarrel which it is only due to our Government and peo ple to say that they have done nothing to provoke and are willing to do everything consistent with honour to allay. We cannot believe, notwithstand ing the extraordinary language and conduct of the American Government, that they can really wish to drive matters to the extremity towards which they are so recklessly urging them ; but it is dan gerous to sport with the susceptibilities of two brave and high-spirited nations ; and those who are thus eager i u l e tti ng ou t th e wa t er s of strife should con s id er we ll w h e th er t h ey h a ve strong): sufficient to close th e fl oo d ga t es they have opened (Prom the Morning Post of this day.) Although it cannot for a moment b English Govern men t h as a cted in stricetd ou bted that the c onformity o Jeyers wi t t o h law, in directing the Lieutenant-Governor f remove from that island the 33 re fugees, who have in famously violated the hospitality w hich in every por tion of the British dominions i s extended to foreigners, "so long as they behave ve t i h n e f rnselv d eP oft p h e e a l c n e e a c b i l?r e : o ,i t t ir is e (sanctioned by precedent well tharthe public should beuld andorine auth , rity) which h as been adopted in freeing Jersey from the presence of these mi.l i.maries of assa ssination,trea - on, and infidelity. , land we ma But before we refer to the law of the i gen eral question, o b serve that it it is y ; with respect to the g clear pr i ncip l e o f Englishe law that the Crown has an inherent right, independently of any statute, to banish aliens from the realm. Blacksto ne stater that " great tenderness is shown by our laws not only to foreigners in distress, but with regard also to the admission of strangers Rho come spontaneously. For, so long as their nation continues in peace with ours, and they them selves behave peaceably, they are under the King's pro tection, though liable to be sent home whenever the King sees occasion." A. more distinct and emphatic declaration of the'royal prerogative in this respect it is impossible to conceive. But in the first years of the revo lutionary war, when, hi consequence of the troubles which prevailed on the continent, a vast number of foreigners sought an asylum in this country, the Legislature thought proper to pass an alien act, which provided machinery for the removal of foreigners. This act, as well as subsequent . acts passed fo r th e same purpose, mere l y dec l are d and c•infirmed th e i n h erent prerogat i ve o f t h e Crown. In 1848, when th e con ti nen t aga i n b ecame troubled Mr. and convulsed, the L eg i s l a t ure , on th e sugges tion Hutt, pass e d an a l ien ac t w hi c h exp i re d at the end of nd of the 1 session of 1849. At th e p resen t time the state of the law is this—the prerogative of the Crown, after a period of ' ""t-- €:\VSV.VPER ci z - 2 -t4 c:AZ '~•i 1 j , •-• • \ r , ;,;;'' ‘,„ , • N.s • suzpension, or, perhaps, we she say, incorporatlerl-- 11 wiCl the statute law, has revivkd, but the machinery wr ch Plifliament provided no longer exists. If the Secre ary of State were to 'cue a warrant for th 'removal of a foreigner—ta whom would the warrant be directed ? Would the officer who executed it be indemnifed on the ground that it was "an act of State done by the authority of the Crown 1" Again, is it clear that an alien friend can sue out a writ c f Habeas Corpus In both these instances the existence of the prerogative and the validity of the warrant would have to be discussed in our courts ; and thus, in the arguments of counsel and in the comments and reports in newspapers, additional notoriety and publicity would be given to the very writings which have occasioned such universal indignation and disgust. But the ordi• nary law is quite sufficient to repress and punish any further attempts which these refugees may make whilst in this country. If tli , ey continue their incitements to murder and assassinaticin, they must be taught (without regard to any public inconvenience of the kind to which we have alluded) that an English jury will infallibly and speedily subject them to fine and imprisonment —a more appropriate though less dignified punishment than simple banishme:it to any place but their native land. But in Jersey there is no difficulty whatever in the matter ; for, in the case of the refugees, the law of the island has been scrupulously followed. Falls says, " the Channel Islands, though they are parcel of the dominions of the Crown of England, are not parcel of the realm of England —nor, indeed, ever were ; but were anciently parcel of the Duchy of Normandy, and are those re mains thereof which all the power of the Crown and Kingdom of France have not been able to wrest from England." The Queen's writ does not run in these islands, and the inhabitants are not bound by Acts of Parliament unless they are specially passed therein. Jersey, therefore, has separate laws, separate privileges, and separate courts, and the Governor, as the repre sentative of her Majesty, administers its affairs quite as much as the commander of a garrison as a civil officer. The laws of Jersey show this. One provides "that foreigners may neither settle nor even enter the island without the permission of the Governor ;" and, from this, it fiiws as a necee , ary consequence that the Gover nor must have the power of removing foreigners. But there is no question as to the existence of its power, for it has been acted upon for offenses infinitely less etre. cious than those of which Pianciani, Ribeyrolles, V. Hugo, and their confrei e i have been guilty. In 1836, a Frenchmen, of the name of Alleaame, was charged with having married an inhabitant of Jersey, although his first wife was living_in_reanee TT- - • • - t..im.;-. - -.-vo -- - , -2141Pirefititrairaiwiiii7; but;' W T lliTcouri rig nail, ne was allowed until the following Saturday to settle his affairs; whereupon his friends, by way of an experiment for keeping him in the island, got him arrested for debt and lodged in gaol, but it was useless." Le Cras men tions another case in which a M. Fulgence was, with equal celerity, expelled the island. The Governor of Jersey has, therefore, in the case of these refugees, merely exercised the ordinary law of the island ; and, although they and their advocates may talk an immense =mitt of nonsense about lynch law and coup d'etat, we confess that we have some respect for a provision which is so expansive as to catch alike the bigamist and tne Red Republican, when either violates the law. ( Front the Morning Herald of this day. ) In the discussions which have arisen with the United States on the subject of enlistment of recruits for the service of this country there is one point which, for the sake of British bououi and good faith, it is most essen tial should, if possible, be explained, and that without delay. We think that the attempt to obtain recruits in the United States, in the face of a law forbidding such recruiting, was a very unwise and improper proceeding. No circumstances could have justified such a step. It appears, however, that in "authorising" the attempt tue British Governtneat gave the most stringent in structions to all concerned not to violate the mu&oipal lax. What a strange contradiction is there in these directions. The "municipal law" of the States forbids the enlistment of recruits for foreign service. The Bri tish Government authorises that enlistment, but gives the " most stringent instructions to all concerned not to violate the law." And now, let us see how the British Minister, Mr. Crampton, carries out their instructions. He has to do an act which positively violates the municipal law, but he has to do it without any violation of it. Mr. Cramp ton accordingly tells the man whom he employs (Henry Hertz, by name)—" As far as I know there is a law in the United States forbidding the enlistment of soldiers within the territory of the United States : it is, how ever, not difficult to evade this law, because who can prevent you from sending labourers to Canada! But we must take care to do this in such a way that it shall not appear to be in defiance of the Government. My idea is, that if you have 25 or 30 men together, either your self, or some other confidential person, shall take them direct by railway to Montreal, where I think a depot may be erected ; ' Mr. Crampton having previously told this agent that " the British Government bad made ar rangements to establish depots at some place in Ca nada, on the frontier of the United States." Afl this appears in an "alleged clnfession of Henry Heitz, recently convicted at Philadelphia of enlisting re• cruits f. , r the British service." Had this confesion stood by itself we confess we should have placed no faith on its authenticity. We should have thought it impossible that British diplomacy would ever have had re,course, to such degrading subter fuges ; but, alas ! whether true or fal , e, it cannot be denied that it is only the raturel and necessary result of the instructions wide which the representativ of Great Britain was unquestionably furnishedrellimetr afraid that we have not yet seen the terminat - on of this affair. But the last act in the drama appears to be, that Great Britain has humbly begged pardon, for " the Briti , h Government has expreesed its regret at the occurrence complained of; it has also peremp torily rescinded every order in existence permitting the enlistment of soldiers for the Crimea in any of the North A.merican provinces ;" " thus proving," as the New York Courier and Enquirer observes, " the sincerity of the regret of the British Government at what had oc curred " ! ! Our hearts are too ml to make any comments on these proceedings. DUBLIN, Wednesday.—Dr. Stock, judge of the Ad miralty Coue, died yesterday. The storm still con tinues, hit is somewhat lighter. Mail packet leaving. ANECDOTE OF 11LARIIIED LIFE.—A gentleman who bad carefully trained up his servant the way he should go, so that when his wife was present he might rot depart from it, sent him with a box-ticket for the theatre to the house of a young lady. The servant returned when the gentleman and his wife were at dinner. He had of course been told, in giving the answers to certain kinds of messages, to substitute the masculine for the feminine pronoun in speaking of tho lady. " Did you see hint ?" said the gentleman, giving bim the cue. "Yes, sir," replied theservant ; "he said he'd go with a great deal of pleasure, and that he'd wait for you, sir."—" What was he doing ?" said the w ife, carelessly. "Putting on his shawl, ma'am," said the idiot.—Co ink Times. EXECUTION OF A Eol , .—The execution of the boy Frank, for the murder of the Rev. J. J. Weemz, took place on Friday last. It is strange to say that the ma jority of the citizens of Alexandria, and, in fact, the in habitants all round, were anxious to see him executed— and on the fatal day when it came to pass there were not a dozen people there. Some rode 40 miles to wit ness this painful drama, but he was executed and buried by the time they came to Alexandria. On the day before he was called to face death, some gentlemen visited him, and propounded questions to hire, but his answers were, and could be no other than childish. He was, I believe, _ only ten years old. The gentlemen told him the sheriff was to hang him on the next morning, and as ke d bind what he thought of it, and whether he bad h leis m a de answer peace with God, and why lie did not pray ? .... e was, at was, " I have been hung many a time!' hi be had in the time, amusing himself with marbles Wille_s his thinking that death was to claim hit when about to die, his cell. He was playing all the tim e e a ili s j . h a i l s i, v n ic e t v i e m r . on T c o e show you how a child's mind rangesthe granted, sca ffold and be then h e d o commenced to cry. Oh, what t l o 's b .i e ll p m er e i n n t i i t o te n d th to at pr w a l ; - , en wh u i l y N k IT e E p D t SfoTrATaE S n . u — m i l b a e b r . l e o s f n a wa h s orrible sight it was, New Orleans paper. been trade, showing the influence of the of statistics have .o ld of the cotton crop of the States. It THE COTTON CROPeOr,r i la el at the magnitude of the crop has gene caTrHefEultirl years, ‘, eath e b rn y on deale rs th {cuede 3t, hntarsablle; corresponded with the date at which the plants produce their first blooms in spring, and the advent of frost in a utumn. It is clear that th e b looms or blossoms mig h t a ppear in Louisiana and Florida several weeks be fore their appearance in Caroli na or the upper sections of the cotton region. By close observation it has been ascertained that, taki ng the average period at which blooms usually appear, it extends from the last week in May to the 15th of June, hence the nearer the blooming approaches th e one or the other of these periods, in con nection with early or late frost, will be the yield of the crop. Early blooms and late frosts produce large crops. Late blooms and early frost, on the contrary, produce short crops, or such is the theory. The growth of one year's crop is concluded in the statistics up to the let September of the following year. Hence an early frost in 1852 would appear in the statistics of 1853. In examin ing a table extending over a period of 19 years we find the earliest notice of a killing frost on the 7th 0ct.,1833, when the crop was 0n1y1,350,100 bales. The latest date at which itappeared was on the 10th 848, when the crop was 2,000,000 to 2,100,000. In Dec.,'lBsl notof t occurred until after the full maturity of the plant in jure it, when the crop was 2,355,000. e during years we find an average occurrence of frost by the o i f n e l I ft reportseen. the last week in October and the first few These observations have been draw of frosts having pretty generally p occurredFocsrithattahortellbei es cotton Charleston, except Louisiana, Texas, and , vrhich , is region of the south—if we a b ama —on the 7th, Bth, Florida, and probably South A. ince Oct. 7 1838 &;c co . ; s T id h e o ra u b g l h e Georgia, , a s n o d uth 9t c h ar i o n l s i t n . a , , a a t nd Co at mac its advent is thus r must ea till y' re a collect that there was more the l period in___ s o t h n el r l elemeoarbntdihdaos:nrm'ainund4neina fi rf i c t day 8 injury, planted, and that thelate midsummer re favourable, and s that the season has been was more gathering the yld. The crop grown last good (1854) was a small one, amounting to 2,847,339 3 b re a a ies, aga i nst 2,930,027 in 1853, and 3,262,532 bales in 1852. H en ce we have every reason to suppose, frost • or no frost, that the growth of the present year (1855) ; must exceed that of 1854, and which has been variously estimated at from 3 ,200,000 to 3,500,000 bales. There is no doubt but the occurrence of the late early frost may cut off to some extent what is called the top growth ~f the plants in considerable portions of the cotton region, and hence the circumstance has imparted more tone to the r nar kb t here and at the Southern Pcfl,: r, spective of the European news,—New 4l York ww • 7 9 ~~ I