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. • ESTABLISHED 1837. BRITANNIA. LIFE ASSURANCE COM PANY. Empowered by Special Act of Parliament. BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION, Empowered by Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. MAJOR-GENERAL ALEXANDER, Blackheath-park, Chairman. Every description of Life Assurance business transacted, at the lowest possible rates consistent with security to the aisured. E. R. FOSTER, Resident Director. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. 1, Princes-street, Bank, London. GIJILDHALL, November 5, 1855.—The Com mittee for Letting the City's Lands will meet at Guildhall, on WEDNESDAY, the 14th November instant, at One o'clock precisely, to receive Proposals for Leases of a House, No. 19, on the north side of Duke-street, Aldgate ; a House, No. 2, St. Agnes terrace, Tabernacle-walk; Two Houses, N , .s. 59 and GO, on the west side of Wilson-street ; a House, No. 14, on the north side of Providence-row; and a house, No. 54, on the north site of Featherstone-street, Fins bury. Further particulars and plans may be seen, and forms of tender obtained, at the Architect's Office, Guildhall. FERDINAND BRAND, Comptroller. ALLSOPP'S PALE ALE.—Reduction in Price. —HARRINGTON, PARKER, and CO., Wine and i 4 cer Merchants, 5%, Pall-Mall, are now receiving orders for the octuber Brewings of the above celebrated Ale, in Casks of 18 Gallons and up wards, at the reduced price. Also for ALLSOPP'S PALE ALE IN BOTTLE. Quarts, Pints, and Half-pints, Imperial measure. 5%, Pall-mall, Oct, 20, 1855. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. THIS EVENING, and every evening during the week, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC and MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great Wizard of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety of incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary effects. Magic and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos sessing distinctive characteristics and peculiar 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, for 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 appear as auxiliaries ; and an ex travaganza, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond the bthinds of probability. Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and fashionable audiences which have nightly filled the Lyceum Theatre to overflow, and by means of whose generous aid ho has 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 one peculiar art, and to perfect which he has travelled the globe in every clime ; secondly, that he has 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 day ; and thirdly, that, while endeavouring to provide amusement for those who honour him with their 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 resorting 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 fessor Anderson has received, from the time of opening the theatre up to the present date, bear witness to the great in terest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst many of them bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which attend a belief in the superstitious nonsense of the " Spiri tnalists." Judging simply by the correspondence which has resulted, Professor Anderson's exposé 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 for Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the communications which reach him on the subject. lie 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 are 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 cer2o, and taken by that journal from the New York Spiri _ _ foal Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David Brewster frankly confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what ho has witnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be thoroughly nonplussed. Both of these noted men brought the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the solution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial, actual hands, and the demonstrative strength of the spirits who thus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate rial objects about the room, proved to be too much of a ques tion for them to master." Mr. D. D. Hume, the authorpf the above, has recently left England, and the following account of who, and what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No, 648: —" This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and now in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout the Anglo-Saxon world as a splendid humbug, 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 refnsed.- Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply _ 8 11 d ljonestl remarlLed that the money would have been very heiwas' poor, "youne(ander - 2/) - ; rctt fir= 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. Ile' 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 ; but, 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, he considers it to 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 ilf•rning 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. In 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 the subject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention" has actually been advertised to be held in St. Martin's-hall, Professor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual ists of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will be received by the people of England as genuine honest at 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 over 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 17, 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 in 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. Lo Livre des Reeueils Choisies : or, Puck's Own Pocket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the evening's entertainment in the production of the very volu minous from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude out of minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears for its existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and in bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely place for to be found. Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; or, Transition without Trou -ble. In which will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed ding Ring, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Transfor mation—black into white, and the Discovery of every Article in the position which would seem the most inappropriate. Act 5. L'Ecrin de Verre ; or, the Casket of Crcesus. Into w hich, though made entirely of glass perfectly transparent, And suspended so as to be visible to the eyes of all present, the Wizard will cause the money of his visitors to transport itself, and rain into the casket, though its lid be closed, looked, and the key in the possession of the audience. Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Transparen c y of Opacity. Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wi ne and Spirit Store. An improvement upon the " inexhaustible _bottle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will not only b e in exhaustible, but will change its contents , ad infinitum, at the word of command, proucing soda-water, butter-milk, Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, rum, whisky, noyeau, or any other wino or spirit req uired ; and finally proving to be filled with pocket handkerchi efs p erfectly dry, and occupying the whole space when tightly packed. , of Act S. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or , an ExP°se Spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping table and tocsin of the invisibles. Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of " the Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange metamor phoses, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become transformed into the flags of victory—the banners of Eng . land, France, Turkey, and Sardinia. Act. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comus, in which be who seats himself will be under the magic spell, and appear to the audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi tion as peculiar as perplexing. Act, 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the Nucleus of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the audience will have the goodness to observe, in an earlier part of the - evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin) in mid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which alI will be produced. Act. 12, The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shortest Route to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of ridding ourselves of a troublesome friend, and the advantages •f the newly-discovered dia-terrestrial passage from the west ern to the eastern hemisphere. Doers open each evening at half-past 7 ; commence at S. Private boxes, U. lls. 6d. and 1/, is., to be obtained at the Box-office, or at the principal libraries ; stalls, 4s. ; dress circle, 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, ls. ; gallery, 6d. The Box-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction of Mr. Chatterton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per , ferinaiace ou Saturday, November 17, at 2 o'clock. Doors open ;%t li.flflast 1. o. 19,691.] PUBLICATIONS. Just ready, in 2 vols., with Portrait, 215., bound, THE LIFE of JEANNE D'ALBERT, QUEEN of NAVARRE, from numerous original sources, in cluding MS. Documents in the Bibliotheque Imperiale and the Archives Espagnoles de Simancas. By M. W. FREER, Author of " The Life of Marguerite D'Angouleme." Hurst and Blacke Lt, fublishers, successors to Henry Colburn. NEW NOVEL BY MRS. LA TOUCHE. Now rtady at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., L ADY WILLOUGHBY ; or, the DoubJe MARRIAGIC. By Airs. L♦ TOUCHE. "Mrs. La Touche has made a most successful debut. 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London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. The Third Edition.—Just published, price fis., by poet, free, ss. 6d. ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA, with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the Real Sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. From the German of Dr. PICKFORD. With an Introduction by the Editor, containing a complete exposure of the system of terrorism and extortion pursued by the advertising quacks of the metropolis towards those who are credulous enough to seek their aid. ",Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs as, that ho has addressed himself to the non-medi cal reader. We trust tilts - may Aot bo the last, if he shall detect tm.l ., °that equally flagrant evil which it may , be is_ his tqweito got: rest."—London Medical Gazette. 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Quadrilles—Le Rot du Pastel (Lamotte), Les Ilugenots (Laurent), Palermo ( Mkt hert), Bride of Lammermoor (Tinner), II Trovatore ( futton)• •Polkas—Des Hulandslhamotte), Italie (f 4 aviolo), The Lillian (I)'Al bert), Des Coucous (Bou, , quet), The Zonayes (Laurent). Galops-- The Imperial Guards (Laurent), The Hecla (Streather). Schottische —La Gulrlande de Fletirs (Bosquet), La Varsoviana (Laurent). Prin cipal Cornet a Piston, M. Boulcours.—Doors open at 8. Admission (Me Shilling.. - - Oa Saturday next, the 17th, H. Laurent's new Varsoviana NO' be played for the first time. TO LOVERS OF FISH.-100 GENUINE YARMOUTH CLoATERS for 6s , packa g e included.' THESE HIGHLY ESTEEMED DELICACIES AND CHEAP ARTICLE OF FOOD orwarded to all parts, on receipt of penny postage stamps or 1'.0.0. (preferred). Send full and plain direction, county, and neartet sta tion.—Address THOS. LETT'S, jun., Fish Curer, Gt. Tarmenth. " This is the third season Mr. Lettis has supplied us with Yar mouth bloaters, and we find the quality excellent.—.J. Brashowe, house stewardi Blenheim Palace. —Oct. 20, 1854." " Mr. Lettis,—As soon as you send out your genuine bloaters, I shall be glad to have a<supply as usual; those I had last ycar gave great satisfaction.—A.P. Courroux. Ambassador's Court, St James's Palace.—Oct. 1, 1855." QIR WM. BIJRNETT'S DISINFECTING FLUID, for destroying all Offe nsive Smells and purifying Sick Rooms, &c. Its cost is less than One Farthing per Gallon when diluted for use. Sold by all Chemists, and at 18, Cannon-street, City. Gallons, ss. Quarts, 2s. Pints, ls. Half-pints, 6d. tOZEAIT'S COPAHINE, or SA.CCHARATED C kPSITLES.—Copaiba and Cubebs are, doubtless, the best remedies, but these drugs are of a repulsive taste and odour, ant occasion colicky pains, nausea, and gastric disturbance. '3l JozEAu has succeeded in rendering these valuable therapeutic agents perfectly 'nocuous, by increasing in his Copahine all their curative proper parties. This important preparation has been adopted by the Paris Academy of Medicine, after more than 1,001 trials la.the Paris and different London hospitals, viz , St. Thorns res, Guy's, and Bar tholomew's, under the care of Messrs. Lloyd, Poland, and Legros Clerk. (See " Lancet." Nov. 6, and Dec. 10, 1852, a `coPY of which will be forwarded on application.) The Copahine, which is in the form of a pretty pink sugar plum, effects a cure in about six days, either in recent or chronic diseases. One hundred capsules, 4s. Gd. ; 50 . 2s. 9d.—To be had of the Inventor, G. Jozeaa, sole French Chemist, 49, Haymarket, London, and all the most important chemists. IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. 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TRIESEMAR, No. 3, is the great Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders, whit': unfortunately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and 'which all th, sarsaparilla in the world cannot remove. cRIESEMAR, No. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smell, tnd of an nauseating qualities. They may lie on ,the toilet tab) , without their use being suspected. 'old in tin cases at Us. each, free by post, 2s. extra, divided eParate doses, as administered '4 , Va'pea% Lallemand, Roux., ic., &c.—To be had Wholesale an d Retail in Londo n of Johnst on , 6 s. iornhill; Hannay and Co.. 63, Oxford-street; and Ranger, 150, Ox ; Ord-street; It. R. Ingham, druggist, 46. Market-street, Manchester H. Bradbury, bookseller, Deansgate, Bolton ; J. Priestly, chemist, 52' Lord-street, Liverpool; Powell, bookseller, 15, WestraOreland-Street, biotin"; Wtnnall s boolweller, Iligh-strevtl•Birmingbanu. F ' . . 4 - ,3 - ~, : 4 i , ' ... 1.: , ,N , •,,. /;...' ', ' ~ \ 'V '' -, r' -" •eji" . e 4 t;8/ GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.--The Directors hereby Give Notice that they will receive Money on Loan, to pay off Debentures falling due, and are prepared*to accept Tenders lor the same for a period of 3,5, or 7 years. at 5 per cent. per annum. Application may be made to the undentignecl. By order of the Directors. CA ‘S. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary. Paddington Station, 2d November. 1855. Watt, 91, screw steam-ship arrived at Sheerness from the. Baltic at 8 p.m., on Saturday last from Hull, after a very tempestuous passage, having sprung a leak and put into Copenhagen, where she was hail e d up on a pi tent slip to make good defect.,; Commander Wise, who was in the affair at Garcia Carkby, is ordered to leave for Plymouth to•day. A number of artificers in their various branches, ship. wrights, smiths, joiners, &c., are ordered to commence working extra hours at Sheerness to-day, to facilitate the completion of the screw mortar-ship Evrotas, now in No. ...2 dry dock. Masts, spars, rigging, and sails are being prepared at Sheerness yard for eight of the new gun-boats now build ing, ready for early service next spring. An examination of the hull and coppers of her Ma jesty's ship Merlin, Captain Sullivan, has taken place in the dry dock at Woolwich, the result of which has shown that, by the explosion of the Russian infernal machine, three sheets of her copper were stripped off, her bulkhead was driven in, and one of her timbers split. 'lt is considered by the officers of the yard and the ship- wright department that what prevented the de struction of the vessel was, that the force of the ex plosion struck that part of the ship against which lay the tallow tank. The tank was found started from its position and thrown to a distance of six feet, through the bulkhead of the engineers' store room. The crew of the Merlin were on Saturday morn ing paid down, one watch being granted 14 days' leave, and subsequently all the hands are to be employed in fitting and rigging gun-boats, to the number of 120, which will be ready for service by the commencement of the ensuing spring. The Plover and the &Tidily gun-boats were !on Satur day morning taken into dry dock to be coppered. The half-yearly inspection of the Royal Sappers and Miners took place on Saturday morning at Woolwich. The line was formed at 11 o'clock for the arrival on the ground ,of the-CotrustandiugesPßoyal Engineer, who com menced his inspection by minutely examining each indi vidual of the corps assembled. The troop then broke into open column of division, and marched past in slow and quick time, and at quarter-distance column ; after which the kits were inspected, the books, and barracks, &c. The battalion paraded again at a quarter before 2 o'clock, and went through a complete field day's exercise under the command of Lieutenant and Adjutant Lena priers, in skirmishing order. The following appointments were made on Saturday at the Admiralty :—The Rev. Josiah Thompson, of the Illustrious, to be chaplain of the Royal Marine Infirmary at Portsmouth ; the Rev. W. S. Davies, to be chaplain of the Implacable ; the Rev. J. P. Oliver, to be chaplain of the Meander; Frederick H. Rose, to be assistant surgeon to Deal Hospital. Various regulations have been made for the organisa tion of a permanent corps of instructors in musketry, to be in communication with the Commandant of the School of Musketry at Hythe. In the order issued from the Horse Guards upon the subject the General Commanding in-Chief states that be relies upon the zealous co-opera tion of all, in order to insure the consolidation and well working of a general system of instruction in rifle-shcot ing, by which the efficiency of the infantry cannot fail to be greatly increased. publid mishaps on bankers and bank notes ? At all times; novelties, though as useful as steam-engines or railroads, have excited much indignation, and the poor li/retches of Luddites, who were banged for their violence, broke to pieces the machinery that lightens toil and enriches almost without labour. Shame it is that men of authority, men swift to threaten or punish them for their ignorance, should lend their countenance to such general and mischievous prejudice, and ascribe evils to an invention or an art, because it is new, that have! a very different source. Sir Robert Peel, how ever,ifastened on the prejudice against banks and bank note,i and paraded all the ragged, broken, and bank rupt ;bankers of whom he could collect an account— as if iin no other trade there were failures—before the Howie of Commons and the public. When vast dis tress land disasters could be ascribed to men who must of ndcessity, like physicians and clergymen, be impli citly nonfided in, but of whose untrustworthiness the evidunce in an inability to pay their debts is much more certain and conspicuous than the evidence of the unskil fulness of a physician or the false teaching of a clergy man, it was an easy task to hold them up to opprobrium ; and Sir Robert attained, almost by acclamation, an as sent to the part of his plan which placed restrictions on bank4s, banking, and bank notes. The measure was to inipply by statute their want of trustworthiness ; and they exhibited a disposition to oppose it. But they were bought over at the expense of the public. To dona te for the, restrictions on existing banks, to keep Irofession select and pure, it was enacted that no bank of issue should be established. This boon to Ing bankers, which with old guild strictness con the act to the then existing members of the craft, and provided only for their further decrease, pacified the money dealers, and they patiently submitted to a little fetter on themselves, on condition of a much heavier fette being imposed on all who might wish to become competitors with them. The huge fetter on the pubc, and the small one on them were privi lege'cl, to the Bank of England, which received with than fulness—having this large compensation—the littl restriction, imposed for the public benefit, al was aid, on its mode of managing its own business. The pleasure was described as a restriction on bankers, and so the public, on whom it was a real restriction, accOiesced in it. All parties were cunningly bribed or deluded, and so readily believed that a measure proposed by a l most successful banker—and though about to retire fron business—and promoted by the most honoured statesman of the age, must be advantageous. The public was ;sacrificed to propitiate the banks. This great autho rity, by appealing to vulgar prejudices, and imposing re strictions on the nation for the supposed benefit of powerful individuals, was enabled to pass a law which, judged by the principles of free trade and the experience of eleven years, is a scandal to our age. The kindred law ,for stinting the supply of food was overthrown by the ktato rot, and the Bank Act, from the influence of a war demand by the Government on the currency, will certinly follow the Corn Law. F. T. MR. COBDEN'S LETTER TO THE WEST .RI DING. ( From the Weekly Despatc, • - - - We take it as the mo=t infallible sign of the extremity to vihich the Czar is driven, that his British patrons at this time press upon us so urgently the policy of making, the (duty for suing for, peace. Yes ; suing for it—going, cap!in hand and with peccavi on the lip, to the Autocrat of Poly Russia—confessing humbly that we have— givizin him a good licking, and that, therefore, we hope he Will condescend to—kiss and be friends. The lan guage of our Russian party in England is uniformly the same. They proclaim to all the world that their client will never overture U 3 for a cessation of hostilities, and that the war is a great crime. The inference is plain by thellogic of exhaustion—if the Czar won't yield, and to yielid is a duty, there is only one other party in the field, and that party must give in. It is very apparent that it is always after sohie signal disaster to the Mus covites that we are conjured to pacify them by submis sion. Mr. Cobden is alarmed for his Imperial protege —he sees his fortunes waning. He fears that if he can not succeed in humbugging and frightening his country. men into negotiation, truce and peace, our armies and navies may have driven the enemy to propose terms of cap'itulation. It is as if he had received a message from thel Czar that he must alarm us, and coerce our Govern ment into instant negotiation, for positively he cannot hold out any longer. Mr. George Thompson has been seized with another lecturing diarrhoea—our walls are agiin placarded with enormous bills, and inflammatory plabards (" regardless of expense," which must be very consi.lera,ble) connecting the high price of bread with our resiAance to Russian encroachment. To the same end the riots in Hyde-park arc kept up by the enemies of society and of order ; and Ar. Bright has announced his' intention of breaking out in a fresh place with an effusion of his boisterous eloquence and indignant im partiality. These are all symptoms of a "move"—con scdtaneous enough to have all .the features of a " coin sid'ence7 of. the--sort described _by " Puff in the "Critic." It doubtless, high time these evangelists made haste ; for, notwithstanding all their gross mis statements and diversions in favour of the enemy, his dais of greatness are numbered, unless he can intro duce his wooden horse of sympathizing Quakers and Peace Society partizans into our citadel - to betray us. Nothing is gained in the end with Englishmen by flat tering their hopes, or magnifying their prospects. We have no desire to overstate our case, or to exaggerate our resources. It is a plain and a portentous fact, that since the time of the last great war, the wants, comforts anti luxuries of all classes have materially increased. We are, by a course of self-indulgence and expeneive habits, less able to bear the pinch of heavy taxes, or to deny ourselves those appliances which the heavy costs of the war call upon us to resign. The masses, in par. tidular, have greatly improved their condition—raised their standard of comfort and tats—expanded their ideal of social life and domestic habits. Excised here of their surplus earnings by the tax gatherer, and cut down there in their income of wages by the contraction of enterprise and circumscription of trade—the necessary result of war—a trial, doubtless, is before them similar to that which, in times past, has produced riot, rebel lion and treason. It shall not be said, with any show of justice, that the press, which is charged by the Man chester sect with the organization and defence of the war by means of gasconading misrepresentation, has suppressed or concealed any facts which could conduce to a sober j u d gment on t h e su bj ec t. W e s h a ll no ti ce these more willi ng ly because they are already producing a very signal effect on our ca pit a li s t s , financiers, and large merchants and manufacturers, echo begin to regard the money market arid the state of trade with deep anxiety, to waver in the faith which led them either to advocate or permit the war, and who are being prepared during the interval before the meeting of Parliament to join in the powerful efforts which a i I be made by a large section of our Parliament, and not by a few of our lead ing statesmen, to compel the Government to initiate pro posals of accommodation with the enemy. It is, we are assured, very certain that this country is, at the pre sent moment, spending one million sterling per week on this war directly, besides the sacrifice of its trade, and the drain of its able-bodied labourers, which must be sub mitted to that the war may be fed effectively. In the langua ge o f the proeßussian placards, the campaign has annihilated six hundred thousand men, and as much money as would give 241. to each family in the King dom, besides supplies adequate to feed the entire popu lation of Manchester for a whole year. It is positively stated to us by the authority of one of the largest finau ciere in the world, that the expenditure of France on this war is at the rate of one million and a half per week—and it is more than hinted that our neighbours cannot support that exhaustion of their resources moth longer. We are prepared to take the facts for granted. Is it necessary to expose the utter groundlessness of the deductions ? In the 30 years of the late war, France, with half her present population, and less than half her present income and wealth, sustained a successful con test with all Europe, and maintained a great and splen did navy, coming out of,the struggle in 1815 richer and stronger than when it began. England, amid distress, embarrassment, discontent and sedition, found 400,000 troops of the line, 120,000 seamen and Marines, 500,000 Militia, 1,000,000 volunteers for the contest, and 700,000,0001. of money. She is now twice as populous, and more than twice as rich—with a navy made by steam and science incomparably more efficient—and an army, with all its faults, unequalled in heroism either by its own or any other country. In twelvemonths we have gained four great battles, destroyed four consider able strongholds of the enemy, and the greatest fortress in the world —seized enormous stores in Azoff and Sebas topol—ravaged the enemy's coasts—destroyed his greatest fleet, captured a large portion of his commercial marine, sealed up his navy in its harbour, and destroyed 500,000 of his troops in the Principalities, Asia, the Crimea and the Baltic. If it has cost the allies 125 millions to do this ; what has it cost the Czar to suffer it ? Is it necessary for us to say that his expenditure and loss and exhaustion, with a ruined trade, and stag nant commerce, must have been nearly twice as great— that he cannot keep the field an hour without having re course to the same expensive appliances of modern, civilised and scientific warfare employed by us, which must be more costly to him than to us whose ready money and open sea enable us to procure everything at the cheapest rate ? The war, in fact, is a question of money; and we who have the most of it must have the best of it, just as the, spinning-jenny and the steam-engine conquered Bona parte atWaterloo. How accordingly stands the account ? Our revenue is even more responsive to the call of the Chancellor of the Exchequer than his own calculations anticipated. Our trade never was sounder or our finance safer. The traffic on our railways, the index at once _of the state of commerce, and the condition of our people, is fully 10 per cent. greater than it was last year. That which Mr. Cobden regards as evidence of the unpnglar the ity of the war is only proof of the vast prosperiaetny.d navy country. Men enlisted formerly in the A rm y - lo because no other course of profitable em ployment open to them. We have lost two millionsof Irish by to the the extent of famine ; and our people have emigrated t three millions in the last ten years. Employment is so abundant, wages is so high, and taxation has been so ernent was for their betters, can find better remunerationservices d a red coat in the trenches readjusted to relieve the masses, that they, like their and thirteennence a day an _ _ The men of desperate fortunes, or on the forlorn hope. who, at the beginning of the century, took refuge in our regiments, have drafted themselves off to our Colonies and the United -States ; while our mercantile marine, quadrupled in extent, naturally swallows up our seafar ing population. Our masses did not enlist during the' last war because it was popular—for, in sooth, they did' not care three straws what cause it was which they fought—and our only surprise is that so many have been found to engate in this in the face of such discourage [rents as the Peace party have offered, the gross mis management under which the troops have suffered and the appalling mortality which has swept like a plague through out cohorts, and swallowed them up in famine, cold, hunger, fatigue and preventible disease If the war be not popular, how does it happen that it it is carried on ? Dizzy and Derby have done their best to burke it. The Manchester school have denounced it, with few exceptions. The leading statesmen, of every party in both houses have, one after another, fallen a►cay from its support, and openly avowed their convic tion of its irnpolicy ; yet, in the face of all this, it is pursued with greater vigour than ever. On what possi ble support can it rest against such opposition but that of the nation itself, which has risen here superior to the anostaey of cowardly politicians, doctrinaire crotcheteers, the low cunning of faction and the sophistry which leads the political casuist through the mire of his logical con undrums with implicit but most ridiculous "nasiduction." We are even now in want of a Colonial Secretary, be cause Lord Derby withholds his son from a war Minis try. Yet that Ministry is the strongest that is at pre sent possible, because it prosecutes the war. We are quite ready to accept Mr. Cobden's test of the opinion of the people on this point. He tells us with 26,800 men we outnumbered the French on the Alma, and that so little popular has been the cause of quarrel, the masses have withheld from enlistment even to supply the waste of that small contingent. If that be so, how did we conquer at Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman, Tcher naya, Sebastopol, Azoff, Kinburn ? How did the enemy lose 500,000 men How isit that we enter the field in spring with 70,000 British bayonets and sabrts, and 30,000 Foreign auxiliaries, all the fruit of voluntary en- Hsu:tent ? Let the sage for the West' Riding rest per fectly easy on the score of recruits for this war. Should England fail to supply her contingent, Prance can readily furnish twice as many as ever can be wanted, and we will probably address ourselves to the proper business of England, that of balancing by her navy the preponderance of France in military resources. The minuter details of this important letter, which is, in fact, the manifesto of a powerful party, deserve and de mand a second and special examination. It remains for us now to add that, having done enough to prove our superiority to the enemy, and to vindicate the law of nations against gross and shameless violation, we shall be prepared to consider, in no spirit of exaction, and to settle, on no stringent terms, any proposals from our beaten and exhausted enemy which he may be disposed to offer as a suitor for peace ; that, it being notorious the population of Russia has utterly failed to supply the drafts of troops recently demanded from them, the war must necessarily, at no distant date, burn itself out ; that the operations of Omer Pacha and General Wil liams, in Asia, are straining the resources of Russia to the utmost ; and that, in the event of the insane perse verance of the Czar in maintaining his unprincipled pre tensions, his final expulsion from the Crimea and the Caucasus, with the aid of Schamyl and the Crcassians, will form the natural solution of the politcal problem in the prosecution of the war. . 9- . 71, z: 1, Z ,--1, . :G6 A.-- A- 4 ' l.- 7 t--/-/ ‘ ~fridre te224 * , . ... • // --_ )1-4.(72 .' -_ • , c , . . , ' \ lr•l' t ,&,; - '''' . .-,-- - ,1- ,- .. ~ ~ WTI • At ilt ----L.._ .:,.. 14 6s> ffB -1..;,, -----"__;•d 1' - ---,,'-',. t,' • g -; 7 ' ).: 44 *. ,: • ) 44 ,.. • S' - ' _ , 9 - "Z‹ . , 6 ,;4 , ;:4; :i -' . t 1.: r 11- 4' o,:i ~ 0 1 , k- P, • , (~ 0 ...- . " 3,--Afy -,-,_ ",...' .....pi l a , -_ „ „.4...,." c i r. ' l i e •..., -- , R01T. , ;...: \s 4 \ k ,• , ----- ___ _ L ..,-.....,......- - 2............"="...""""'"'" " —" ". ."..........0n0n0c1awcammea5zt..............- ...t ___ _ - - ON ()N MO DA . IN .D, N Y EVENG N 0 V EMBEit 12. 9 1855 [ PRICE 4D. STAMPED 5D- LONDON and N RAIL AY.—CON TRACT Toe Directors arc prepared to rec the undermentioned Stores, viz.:— No. of Cootract 1. Brass Sheet and Tubes for Locomotives „ Iron tubes 3. Copper Canvas Carpets and Rugs Crucibles Curled Hair I 1. Copper and Brass Work 12. Colours I 2a. Drysaltery 13. Coach Trimmings 14. Cotton Waste 16. Glass, Plate 16a. Glass, various 17. Hardware 17a. Brushes and Pencils 7b. Nails and Tacks 17c. Screws 17d. Gas Fittings 17e. Locks 17f. Lamp Cottons Specification and Forms of Tens day, November sth, on applical Euston Station, Londcn. OR TH-W ESTERN for STO It ES for the Year 1851. !eive Tenders for the Supply of Vo of Contract -18. Leather. 11R a. Leather Lead, White and Red I 9a. Lead, In , ot, Sheet and Pipe 20. Iron, Yorkshire 22. Iron Wo.it 24. 011; Burning, &c. 25. Oils, various, and Turpentine 26. Oil Cloth 28a. Augurs, Hammers, &c. 29. Tin Block 30, Tin Sheet and Spelter 31. Varnishes 82. Sundries, consisting of Bas ke s, Felt, Candles, Soap, Brooms, Pitch, Links, Sponge, Hose pipes, Fog Signals, Sieves, Cement, In diarubber, Flannel, Calico, &c., &C. 34. Hats 35. Caps er may be had on and after Men ton in writing, to the Secretary, Forms of Tender for each Contact are printed separately, and parties applying should state the particular Contract or Contracts for which they propose to tender. , Patterni may also be inspected on and after Monday, Nov. sth, from Ten till Four o'clock, at the Company's Pattern Room, Euston Station, and any further information requirel may be obtained on application to the heads of the several departments. Tenders to be sent. in on or hetore Ten o'clock on Monday, Nov. 19th. . By order of the Directors. FIASI. E. STEWS.RT, Secretary. Euston Station, October, 1855. Naval and Military Intelligence. The steam-transports Niagara, No. 48, Capt. Shan non ; the Bahiana, No. 160, Capt. Green ; the Robert Lowe, No. 134 ; the Negotiato r , No. 59, Cant. Eilfey ; and the sailing transport Earl of Shaftesbury, No. 6, all arrived at Portsmouth yesterday and on Saturday from the seat of war in the East. The Niagara arrived at Heligoland on the 7th from Portsmouth, and left at 4 p.m. on the Bth, with 725 men and 25 officers of the British German Legion, whom sho landed at Folkestone on Saturday at 6 p.m. She remains at Spithead for further orders. The Bahiana left Malta on the 27th ult. and Gibraltar on the 4th inst., bringing Lieut.-Colonel Barker, Royal Artillery ; Major Harvey, Royal Horse Artillery ; Major Maude, of the 3d Buffs ; Major Camp bell ; Major Andrews, 28th ; Captain Lennox, Royal Artillery ; Captain Hume, of the 55th ; Captain Godber, of the Land Transport Corps ; Captain Haws, of the 3d Royal Lancashire Militia ; Captain Bailey, Royal Engi neers ; Lieutenant Dearden, 13th Light Dragoons; Lieutenant Thompson, 17th Lancers ; Lieutenant Eren, of the 38th ; Lieut. Phillips, of the 56th ; Com mander White, R.N., Dr. Bennett, Turkish Contingent; Mr. Morgan, Paymaster of her Majesty's ship Algiers ; Mrs. Campbell, 4 children, and servant; Mrs. Bailey and servant ; 10 non-commissioned officers and 1 private cf various regiments ; 1 storekeeper and 1 stoker from her Majesty's ship Himalaya ; 2 nurses and 2 children. The Robert Lowe left Malta on the 15th of October, Gibraltar on the 24th, and Lisbon on the 30 inst. On Tuesday, Oct. 30, in lat. 38 . 17 N., long. 9 31'30 W., she passed the screw steam-transport Hollander, No. 223, standing to the southward, with loss of bowsprit ; on the 3d inst. at 3 p.m. left Lisbon and experienced head winds up to the 7th ; on the 6th, in lat. 42 . 33 N., long. 12.7 W., boarded the Dutch bark Johanna Catherine, from Am sterdam for Genoa, out six days ; on the same day sig nalled the English bark Champion, of Sunderland, bound for Malta. She brought home Captain Ewart, of the Grenadier Guards ; Lieut. Blake, 18th Royal Irish ; Capt. Hawkins, Brevet-Majors Sibthorpe and Lumley, of the 97th Regiment ; Captains Wade, Tinling, and Good ricke, of the 90th ; Capt. Turner, and Lieuts. Williams and Caton, of the Ist Royals ; Capt. Vane, and Lieuts. Millet, Tupper, ar-d. O'Connor, and Assistant-Surgeon Hayes, of the 23d Royal Welsh Fusiliers ; Capt. Adye, of the Royal Artillery; Lieut. Turner, of the Royal Ar tillery ; Lieut. Field, of the 30th ; Lieut. Fosberry, of the 77th; Lieut. Watson, of the 88th; Assistant Surgeon Cusac, of the 47th ; dresser Tucker, from her Majesty's ship Powerful ; also 189 military invalids from the hos pitals, 24 seamen and marines, ditto ; six of the Laud Transport Corps, and two women. Most of the above- named officers were wounded in the assault on the Redan on the Bth Sept. Brevet• Major Lumley (who has never been a day absent from his regiment since they landed in the Crimea), when leading on his men to the assault on the Redan, after killing two Russians with his re volver, and when in personal encounter with a third, was most dangerously wounded in the mouth, the ball having lodged in his neck. Captain Vane is wounded in the leg ; Lieut. Millet, in the arm ; Lieut. O'Connor, sin both legs, three places (he was also wounded at Alma); Lieut. Tupper, in the foot; Captain Caton, in the head; Lieut. Fosberry, in the leg (since amputated) ; Brevet- Major Sibthorpe, in the leg ; Capt. Watson, in the arm ; and Lieut. Williams, in the arm. The troops consist of 2 of the Grenadier Guards, 4 of the Coldstream Guards, 1 of the Scots Fusilier Guards, 10 of the Royal Artil lery, 2 of the Ist King's Dragoon Guards, 4 of the lst Royal Dragoons, 2 of the sth ditto, 1 of the 6th Ennis killen ditto, 3 of the 4th Light Dragoons, 11 of the 10tb Hussars, 2 of the 11th ditto, 6 of the 12th Lancers, 2 of the 13th Light Dragoons, 3 of the 17th Lancers, 6 of the Ist Royal Regiment of Foot, 4 of the 3d, 5 of the 4th, 2 of the 7th, 4 of the 14th, 4 of the 17th, 3 of the 18th, 1 of the 19th, 1 of the 20th, 2 of the 21st, 8 of the 23d, 2 of the 28th, 3 of the 30th, 3 of the 31st, 3 of the 231, 1 of the 34th, 5 of the 38th, 4 of the 39th, 1 of the 42d, 3 of the 44th, 5 of the 47th, 2 of the 48th, 4 of the 49th, 5 of the 55th, 1 of the 62d, 4 of the 68th, 1 of the 72d, 6 of the 77th, 1 of the 79th, 5 of the 88th, 7 of the 90th, 1 of the 93d, 1 of the 95th, 5 of the 97th, 3 of the Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade, 3 of the 2d ditto, 2 of the Royal Sappers and Miners, and 3 of the Land Transport Corps. Three soldiers and one sailor died on the passage. Above 100 of the above were wounded at the attack on the Redan, and many of them very badly. They have come in mili tary charge of Captain Ewart, and in medical charge of Surgeon Cusac, of the 47th, under whose charge they have much improved on the passage. They will be dis embarked to sick quarters this morning. The ship ranged alongside the dockyard and disembarked the officers yes terday afternoon under the directions of Assistant Quartermaster-general Dalgetty. The Earl of Shaftesbury also went into Portsmouth harbour yesterday afternoon. She has brought only a few Commissariat driven invalided and stores. The Ne gotiator brought merely a quantity of condemned Ord nance stores. On the 31 lost , in lat. 42 . 31 N.,long. 14 30 W., she spoke the bark Perthshire, of Liverpool. On the Bth, in lat. 47.8 N., long. 10.24 W., she spoke the Fort William, from Liverpool for Calcutta. The Queen Victoria, No. 1 steam-transport, remained at Spithead last night at sunset. Her Majesty's steam-ship Sans pareil, 71, Cape. Williams, left Spithead for Plymouth on Saturday morning. Her Majesty's ship Horatio, 24, Capt. the Hon. A. Cochrane C. 8,, left Spithead for Sheerness on Frid a y n i g h t . Ifer Majesty's ship Basilisk, 6, paddle-sloop, Commander Jenner, went into Ports mouth harbour yesterday afternoon preparatory to being placed in the steam factory basin to receive new boilers. Her Majesty's steam-sloop Inflexible arrived at Ports ' mouth on Saturday from the Thames, with boilers for the new 90-gun ship Repulse. In going up Channel she had a collision with a merchantman, by which her port paddlebox was sto ve i n , an d th e paddlewheel rendered unworkable. The steam-tug Comet was sent out to her on making her accident known, and lashed to her da maged side, and thus helped her into harbour, the In flexible having only one paddle working. The Repulse having been been dismantled of her jury rigging has been placed in the steam factory basin to receive her machinery. The statement that officers of the army might on ar riving home invalided be admitted without limit into the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar (Portsmouth), on the same terms and enjoy the same facilities as naval officers, is not . quite correct. The order has been made, but there is an error as to the extent of its provisions. It appears that when Sir Charles Wood, with the Board, was last at Portsmouth, the anomaly was brought under his notice, and he at once ordered that accommodation for 12 military officers should be granted in Haslar. More than one officer who came home yesterday in the Robert Lowe availed himself of the privilege, in prefer ence to going into private lodgings and receiving the 12s. 6d. per day extra pay allowed by the Crown to officers under such circumstances, to cover their expenses while sick and disabled, besides the attendance of the medical staff of the garrison. The hospital ship Belleisle, Commander Hoskin, from the Eastward, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Friday evening. The Horatio, 24-gun screw steam-ship, Captain the Hon. Arthur A. Cochrane, C. 8., arrived at Sheerness from the Mediterranean (last from Portsmouth), on Sa• turday, at 3-15 p.m., and anchored in harbour. Her crew are to be paid down, and She is, after making good damage and defects, to be engaged on particular service. On her homeward passage she experienced very heavy weather crossing the Bay, and had a portion of her ham mock nettings and bulwarks carried away. The Cressy, 80 guns, screw steam-ship, Capt. Richard L. Warren, and the Ajax, 60 guns, screw steam-ship, Captain Frederick Warden, C. 8., are hourly expected at Sheerness from the Baltic. The Waterwitch (late 8-gun sloop) has been weighed by No. 1 and 4 lighters in Sheerness basin. The Thistlegun-boat, Lieut. Commander David Spain, now in No, 1 dry dock, Sheerness, will be put out of dock on Wednesday next. She will not be out of the hands of the engineers until the 28th inst. The Thistle, while under fire bombarding Sweaborg, was struck four times by shell bursting over her. The Cuckoo, 3, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Lieutenant- Commander Augustus G. E. Murray, was prepared for being put out of dry dock on Saturday, when it was found that her boilers were so defective that they were condemned ; she will therefore not be out of dry dock as intended. Commander (late Lieutenant) Charles A. Wise, in command of the gun-boat Snap, tender to the James HOW TILE ACT O/ 1844 WAS PASSED. The following letter has been addressed to a contem porary :—Sir,—To explain in 1855 how such a restric tive and absurd act as the one to limit the currency came to be passed, almost without opposition, in 1844, when free-trade doctrines commanded the general assent, the circumstances of the times must be remembered. In 1844 the country was comparatively prosperous. The har vests of 1842 and 1843 had been excellent. The average price of wheat, which in one week had sold for 765. in iB4l, was in 1.843 and 1844 about 50s. The amend ments in the tariff in 1842, including a reduction of the duties on corn, bad been followed by a considerable in crease of trade ; railways, in which speculation was ex cessive, engrossed public attention, and the country teemed with hope, energy, and success. Nobody, except a few writers, bad either inclination or time to bestow on a question so abstract as that of the currency, or so remote in its consequences, when bullion was flowing in, as an act of Parliament to restrict the issue of Bank notes. Sir Robert Peel was the ostensible author of the bill, and his name was honourably con nectedwith the honest measure of 1819, for re-establish ing in its integrity the contract expressed in every Bank note to pay a specific sum on demand, so shamelessly set aside by the L9gislature in 1797. In 1844, too, Sir Robert was extremely popular. Ile patronised railway enterprise. He had previously, in 1842, in spite of his own party and to the delight of the liberals, simplified the tariff, reduced many exorbitant duties, swept away a great . . many restrictions and prohibitions, and effected on the principles of free trade a great customs' reform. In 1843 he had succeeded in settling a long standing and irritating dispute with the United States on the boundaries of their empire and our colonies. To his long-established reputation as a safe minister he had recently added the lustre of an enterprising.esnele Round reformer, and evils, especiallyoen all financial subjects, almost uni versally confided in. He was considered to be a great if not an unerring authority. Even his old opponents, who had designated him shallow and plausible, respected him for his bold tariff reform, his professed admiration for the principle of economic science, and his patronage of its professors. Honoured by his own followers, he was regarded by the Liberals as a convert in secret to their doctrines, ready to 'promote,. as far as he could, free- trade measures, and they were studious not to da mage him with his party. They Isere, on the contrary, anxious to give him, on all questions of commercial policy, their cordial support ; an d h ence it came to pass that an act, described by himself as "affecting every contract, public or private —every engagement, national or individual, that could be e n t ere d i n to," seas passed through Parliament with far less discussion than a Sun- I day-trading or a Public-house Bill. On May 6th the subject was brought before the House of Commons by Sir Robert Peel, in a s peech merely ex planatory of his vie-vs ;on M a y 20th the resolutions were discussed and agreed to in one sitting ; on June 13th the bill, founded on the resolutions, was read a second time, Mr. Hawes having interposed an amend ment, condemning that part of the bill which interferes with banks of issue, which was lost by 185 to 30 votes. On June 24th, June 27th, and Juno 28th it was dis cussed in committee, but excited little interest, Mr. Muntz and Sir Win. Clay having moved amendments with only trifling support ; and on July 4th, with very little further discussion, it was read a third time and passed. In the Lords it %vas read a first and second time as a matter of course, and was only discussed once, on going into committee on July 12th. Thus, although the bill was ten weeks before the two houses, it under went very little investigation. It was taken on trust, from the high respect which the Parliament and the public had for Sir Robert Peel ; and his great reputation be came the means of procuring the public senction for a very erroneous law, and of inflicting a lasting injury on society. In the whole Parliament there was no one person, ex cept the Earl of Radnor, who opposed on p r inciple this thoroughly and erroneously prohibitive and res trictive measure. To his honour be it now again brought under notice, he entered a protest against the bill in the jour nals of the Lords, because it unnecessarily interfered with the banks—because it pretended to supply the want of prudence and discretion in individuals by statu tory regulations—and because, amongst other excellent reasons, " the amount of currency required by the wants of the country varies from time to time, and is influ enced by a multitude of circumstances quite out of the reach of human control or possible foresight." The noble lord's forcible arguments passed unnoticed. The Parliamentary influence of the Prime Minister carried all before it, and in this, as in many other cases, a blind deference to authority was the cause of immense public mischief. Another circumstance favourable to the success of the bill was the character of its opponents. In general they were men who were supposed to be currency mad, living in a fool's paradise of false beliefs, in the oranipotency for good of the little shilling, and f promises to pay that were never to be paid. Or they were currency doctors, ' men who confounded counters with the things counted, and asserted in consequence an unlimited power to in crease the national wealth by increasing the means of reckoning it. Or they were subtle definers and thinkers, who disported in all possible bypaths and labyrinths into which ingenuity could tempt them, and never came into the highway of common sense or consulted the finger posts of facts. Though not usually jocose, Sir Robert was able to excite the mirth of the house by quoting some of the nonsense of his opponents ; and he was believed to be right, because the Birmingham school, Lord Cas tlereagh, and Mr. Bosanquet, had written and uttered very laughable absurdities. His supporters, too, wer e men of reputation. Passing by Mr. M'Culloch, whose opinions on such a subject were an authority, the real author of the measure of 1844 was, perhaps, the richest banker in London, a man generally respected for his liberal politics, and almost adored for his large fortune. Mr. Jones Lloyd, now Lord Overstone, by speaking an d writin g , by verbal evi dence and by elaborate pam phlets, readily p rocure d the assent of the bankers and merchants of London to a plan which he had suggested, and b3en greatly instrumental in inducing Sir Robert Peel to adopt. Few in the neigh bourhood of the Royal Exchange could doubt for a mo ment the correctness of the opinions of the richest and most successful banker of the day, and the reputation of the great millionnaire of Lothbury on a question of bank ing and currency helped m aterially to fasten on the nation his pedantic and mischievous scheme. If such a plan had been suggested by some newspaper editor, and taken up by some little-trusted member of Parliament, it would have at once been scouted in the City and stifled at Westminster. The authority of rich, successful, and popular men imparted life to an absurdity that has now lasted eleven years, and as at one time stung the com munity into tarantula convulsions, and at another fixed it, like a statue, in despa ir. This measure, also, was a cunn ing appeal to many pre judices and many passion'. Banking is comparatively a new art, and bank notes are comparatively a new inven tion. What so natural , therefo re , as that every impro vident landlord, ever y unsuccessful s p ecu l ator, every dis appointed projector, every fond conservative believer in virtues of the past, and hater of novelties as sources of Feiplutipno 6119_10 thrpw the blame ?# their_ own and. all pens, the r new exis fine, HYDE-PARK YESTERDAY. In anticipation of a renewal yesterday of the disgrace ful proceedings of which Hyde-park was the scene on the previous Sunday, every precaution was taken by the police with a view to their prompt and effectual suppres sion. On Saturday night the following notice was very generally posted :-- , " Notice—Whereas large numbers of persons assembled en Sunday last, and on several former Sundays, in Hyde park, and when so assembled conducted themselves in a disorderly and riotous manner, so as to endanger the pub lic peace, and, by throwing stones and other missiles, com mitted many assaults upon persons quietly passing along the park, and interrupted the thoroughfares ; and whereas it is necessary to prevent such illegal proceedings in future, notice is hereby given that no such meeting or assemblage will be hereafter allowed to take place; and all well-dis posed persons are hereby cautioned and requested to ab stain from joining or attending any such meeting or as sembl,!ge ; and notice is further given that all necessary measures will be adopted to prevent any such meeting or assemblage, and effectually to preserve the public peace. " RICHARD MAYNE." Notwithstanding this notice, and perhaps as a conse quence of it, by arousing public curiosity, the gathering in the park by three o'clock, or shortly after, was much more numerous and infinitely more respectable than that of the 4th inst., bearing a strong resemblance to that which took place on the let of July, when the in tervention of the police gave rise to so much condemna tory conament.. Well-dressed gentlemen, fashionably attired ladies, and •women with children in their arms were visltiln in all diteetions,; but there wdre, neverthe less, not wanting some four or five hundred noisy and turbulent young urchins, who contrived to keep up a good deal of uproar, but without the perpetration of any actual mischief. In fact, the preparations of the police were upon a scale which prevented any hope of even a momentary impunity, had any of the ruffians who made themselves so conspicuous on Sunday week been in clined for a disturbance. The various footways were lined n ith constables on foot, and strong parties of the force were spread about in all directions, with peremp tory instructions and a strong determination to act energetically if necessary. A powerful troop of horse police, under the personal command of Captain Label moudiere, took up a position of the open space north of the Serpentine. The most trusted superintendents and inspectors were on the field. The police were often hocted at, and almost hustled by the boys, who, how ever, scampered away in all directions whenever the horse police moved about for exercise, but no actual dis turbance of the peace occurred. A little after four a man was apprehended for attempting.to make a speech, as was alleged, or distributing political handbills, and his capture had an excellent effect in drawing off from the park after him at least two-thirds of the vast assem bly. As dusk came on the remainder of the crowd dis persed, and by half-past five all was quiet. THE AFRICAN MAILS. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM-SHIP GAMBIA. PLYMOUTH, SUNDAY. The Royal African Mail Company's screw steamer Gambia, Capt. Rolt, arrived at this port, at 7 o'clock this morning, with the usual African mails. Her dates are :—Fernando Po, Oct. 9 ; Lagos, 12 ; Accra, 14 ; Cape Coast Castle, 15 ; 19 ; Sierra Leone, 23 ; Bathurst, 27 ; Goree, 28 ; Teneriffe, Nov. 2 ; Madeira, 4. She brings 5 passengers, among whom is Capt. Glyn, of her Majesty's ship Hecate, superseded. Positions of her Majesty's ships :—The Dolphin was in Congo River ; the Teazer was off Gallinas; the Bloodhound and Alecto were about to join the Commander-in-Chief ; the Myrmidon was off the Gambier ; the. Minx was about to proceed with the Consul to Calabar and Cameroons, to arrange difficulties between the natives ; the Childers was at Cape Coast. The Antalopo left on the 2d October for the south coast with English mails for the squadron. Commodore Adams, in the Scourge, was off Loando. The Plumper and Linnet were also with him. The Hecate was provisioning at Sierra Leone for the Bights squadron. The Ferret was cruising to the northward. No further disturbances had occurred at Bonny, on the Gambia. The French had succeeded in capturing the leader of the insurgents at the latter place. A report had been circulated that the Ashantees were rising at Cape Coast, and ships were de spatched to the spot, but it proved to be a false alarm, and the Philomel, which had been towc (, up at the urgent request of the acting go vernor O'Connor, was about to return to Lagos. Gambia, The coast, with the exception of the was toerably healthy. men quell so me The l French have sen t upwards of 1,000 to from St. Louis up the Senegal, dis turbances. w as realising great At Sierra Leone African p°clue° -art for ground demand ets high prices. There was a at 2s. 6d. p ©r nuts for the continental markets, bushel. Palm oil wa s very sca rce, the sea s on being nearly t erm inated. of Bristol The merchant 'p Victory, , Was ship Gape Coast. s p o ken with Oct. 1 g ; African produce, The Gambia brings home a full f o car f and 1- ; 6B3 f fi c o c u r nc e e f s toho steamer, was un • gold dust. M r. B aco n, the chief 0 yesterday fortunately killed afternoon, having BUB a severe fracturo of the skull by the fall of tained a studding-sail boom on the fore-yard. The de ceased wa s taken up insensible, and exp i red within two hours of the accident. Th e Gambia, after landing her mails, proceeded to the eastward to discharge her cargo. Mr. Stirling, the surge- t, murdered a few days ago at Newcastle, had been It . , netted as assistant sin. g eon in the TurkishC i ri;lo . SLAVEttY IN THE Wile ' STATES.—ANOTHER Dig- SIiVERED CHURCH.—It lia ceen seen by our reports of the Proceedings in the 5 , nod of the Dutch Reformed Church, which has been in session during the past week, that the question of admitting the classes of North Ca rolina into the sync,. was decided in the negative, .°,n _ a resolution off ere d b y t h e R ev. D r. B e th une , o f Brooklyn, by a vot e o f 55 to 34. The cause o f exclusion slavery, whi c h h as now ag it a t e d and the churches, north and south, of the presbyterians , wasu divided me titodigts, and Dutch Rtdorrued.--Atnericom Pc `P el ' ~~~ Spirit of the Public Journals. ( From the Times of this day.) !.. \\ It often happens that after an opinion or a maxim has been neglected for many y ears as Utopian the stream of events bears the world on to a point which gives it a truth and reality, We • have often heard of the regrets which the great Napoleon in his later days made known to hi s listeners in the little dwelling at St. Helena. Some of his sayings are recognised as the treasured wisdom of a life, and had a political aptitude which at once mad e them proverbial. When he said that Europe must beeome Cossack or Republican, he spoke words which, whether true or not as a pre diction, were destined to influence greatly the minds of men, and which, perhaps, contributed in no small degree to form that settled opinion of Russian aggression which has given strength and popularity to the present war. But his few words of good will towards England have often been re garded merely as the enforced compliments of a man speaking of an obstinate and at last successful foe. He was visited by the idle and the curious among our countrymen; his discourse with hi . de voted followers was often of th e natio against whom ho fought in person in that encounter at Toulon which first gave him a name, and whose stubborn squares he vainly essayed to break on the day which closed his mighty career. It could not be but that some words of admiration should fall from his lips when solitude and reflection caused him to think calmly of the deadly contest of more than 20 years. But to mankind it seemed that those mutual wounds could never be forgiven. A. peace of armed watchfulness seemed to represent the closest union which was possible between the two rivals, around whose banners had been grouped the camps ofEurope during the longest and most devas tating war which the modern world had seen. A generation has passed away, and a French Ambas sador now quotes to an English audience the words of the great exile. "It is now 35 years," said M. de Persigny at Guildhall, " since the Emperor Napoleon I. expressed his regret that he had been unable to conquer the prejudices of the two peoples and to gain the frendship of England. What great things,' he exclaimed, could we have done if united!" But a few years since a statesman might, indeed, have spoken of the blessings of peace, of the progress of the world, through the tranquillity of France and England. He might have pointed out that when these two great nations were at peace the world had rest, while their dis cord lighted up a flame in the furthest corners of Europe. But this would have been all. The ne gative benefits of a cessation of enmity, the pro gress of trade during the reign of tranquillity, the necessity of preserving by every means the actual state of Europe, and of abstaining from anything which could give offence to the national pride of a neighbour, would have been the limit of the speak er's cautions and hopes. It is only within the last two years that the full force of the first Napoleon's words could have been appreciated. " Those great things," said the Ambassador, " are now being accomplished for the happiness and security of the world.' Europe will no longer advance through the abstinence, but through the efforts, of its lead ing Powers. They are no longer compelled by a sense of duty to abdicate their influence, lest it should lead to mutual hostility and the calamity of the world ; the time has come when they can give full play to their genius and aspirations, cer tain, as far as human things are sure, that the rivalry will only be as to which can labour most efficiently in a great and approved cause. It is of little use to argue for or against the wars which Pitt and Castlereagh waged with revolutionary France. Men who have seen the event may pronounce dogmatically that the policy of past statesmen was shortsighted, for getful that they themselves look clearly upon results which could only be seen darkly by the generation which is gone. It must ever remain a disputed question whether the first outbreak of re publican violence was wisely resisted by arms. Some may say, as the men of the time said, that the tempest would have overwhelmed Europe. Pitt is to them the man at the wheel, the pilot who weathered the storm, the prophet who stood be tween the living and the dead and stayed the plague. Others will have it that England, its Church and King, its foreign allies, its alarmists, and its bigoted mob who listened to them, were alone to blame. France would, according to them, soon have returned to tranquillity. Even the Bourbon might have preserved his life and throne. The excesses were those of a threatened and ill-used people, whose territory was violated and whose chosen institutions were interfered with by the despots, great and petty, of old Europe. Changes were necessary ; mankind had suffered for cen turies, and their patience was exhausted. Since the close of the Thirty Years' War the monarchies had stagnated until no man breathed the free air of action and liberty. Pitt and Coburg were the real offenders, and England, though temporarily victorious, had its reward in long years of discon tent and a debt - which t cnturies eannot_efface. The upholders of both opinions hafe many and weighty arguments to adduce, but the discussion can have no real value, for it cannot teach a clear lesson for our future conduct. It is plain that England went to war because a deep impulse urged her to the conflict. Whether the immediate object was gained it is useless to inquire ; both nations laboured, suffereA, and paused exhausted from the streggle ; but what each obtained was , that in that long contest it developed itself and was fitted to bear its part in the new condition of Europe. France created the system of society which is most suited to its wants and inspira tions, and from its captured capital began to influence the world with greater power than in the age of Louis XIV. England during its long isolation equally strengthened its national character and threw off the slough of a century of imitation and dependence ; its commer cial, manufacturing, and colonial systems were perfected, its energies were roused to efforts in every walk of knowledge and action, a constella tion of great names brightened its annals, and into the whole nation was infused that vigour which has enabled it to hold its high place during forty years of peace. France and England are now still more decidedly the first countries in Europe than they were in 1789. Had Liverpool and Castlereagh made peace with Napoleon, the Bonaparte dynasty might, as now, have sat on the throne of France without the dreary episode of the Restoration or the corrupt interval of the Orleans reign. But possibly in that case Bonapartism would have expressed other and lower ideas. The ruler of France might have been merely a monarch after the pattern of Vienna or Berlin. Fifty years of empire would have given him a place in the continental brotherhood, and all that is distinctive in the character of his Govern ment might have long vanished. Napoleon 111. is strong, not only by following the precedents, but by avoiding the faults of his great predecessor. His teacher is not s o mu c h th e hero of Al . funng ° and Austerlitz as the negotiator of Tilsikan e d e _ the Bay onne--the y . onne—the seeker of an Austrian allian ce — the truster in the faith of hereditary P r inces--the elected Emperor, forgetful of the true so urce of his fame and power. We have no Bonaparte who rces—the has learnt from adversity. farw a as we can see, so his be a t m te b r i . tion To istroafna far as we have a right to . ) e t e he itspowers m b oad i e n u dr lead g kie.dllifzoer hiswh which Europecountry, to d w e l v iltl e b loP.. tran quillize i gazed t; whiche has hasas tn e ho e enw world oa i his ed ai n has seven years of p owe r . foeoPwaue r rsr e . onu renewed, try and material but they are not powerless for a century. The coali tions resisting Western Emperor raised to the most solid of titles, but passing n s t i p oo e wn l i s -h o of directed u p n a spell-bound t and days against a abetyhornodnethbey bounds of his legitimate national sway; they seek to curb a despot w h ose authority is bee", on the traditions of a b ar b arous race, and is use d for the extension of the darkness and blind obedi ence by which ho reigns. As the motive of the struggle is nobl er i ts results will be nobler also. We may trust that the conclusion of this war will see the ma ss o f the people awakened and elevated in every p art of Europe. Th e grea t war aga i nst Napoleon &Lengthened the power of the continental mo narchs ; let us hope that their subjects will benefit by that which has now commenced. The most lasting consequences of human actions are often those which are unseen and indirect. We may therefore anticipate many things which we cannot foresee from that alliance which the a.---' l O 3 of St. Helena wished for in his own day. —yesterday, SUDDEN DEATH OF A RETIRED CITIZEN. of mum- A s crossing the in the forenoon, as a gentleman of the eau' . • ford, of Manor House, Shacklew south end of Princes-street, by !he, : ti ell '— a nk, h© suddenly staggered, fell, and instantly exPl N r z e ct_ On Saturday Mr. GAS LIGHTING IN MAEYLEBOon gas supplied to the report from Dr. L . eth9bY n y pany. In respect to the illn- Greenwell, clerk of the theMaornyle be . Vestry, presented a pa rish by the Iniperiale I mended in the 23d section of the Dr. ° Letheby stated that he had rninating P Central Gas Consumers' certain tl o amount of four feet per adopted th;pwlaenr,troecf°tEnhe Greatif Company, • supplied illuminating accordance with the contract. The as to the illuminating power, that he found it r anged from 18 to 29 per cent, above the act of Par liament standard. In respect of the quantity delivered the public lamps, he made various cap eri abcoturofwrasarbren in per e e s r u h l t o u w r a t s 0 , m eats. The result was that while the illuminating power of the gas is fully equal to the contract standard, ! the quantity delivered to the street lamps is less than four cubic feet per hour. In fact, with the pressure 1 which is used in the district of the court-house, the j burners will not deliver that quantity per hour eTe_n !! the tap be t urne d full on—a circumstance w hich ni i rarely Observed in the street lamp. \P ER J ) , .. : ., 1 ~.... - . _./ i __ i NEW SERIAL WORK BY CHA,RLSB DICKENS. Uniform with " Dombey'and Son," " David Copperfield," " Bleak - House," &c., &c. On the Thirtieth of November will be Published, to be completed in Twenty Monthly Parts, Price One Shilling each, the First Monthly Part of a New Work of Fiction, called L ITTLE ~130 0 .R.R1T. By CHARLES-DICKENS. With Illustrations by HABLOT K. BROWNE. Bradbury and EVROS', 1 I, Bouverie-Street. BANK OF LONDON, Threadneedle street, and 450, West Strand. NOTICE.—The rate allowed on deposits has been raised from this day to Si. per cent. MATTHEW MARSHALL, Jun., Manager. October 18, 1855. A - -T 1 1 1