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Ifnity-bnildings, 9th Nov., 1855. HENRY LAKE, Secretary. R OYAL SWEDISH RAILWAY COMPANY. KOYING TO lIULT. Notice is hereby given that all Shares in this Company, upon which the Final Call of 21. per Share became due and payable on the Ist October, 1855, will, acconling to the Statutes of the r'ompany, be liable to Forfeiture if the Call be not paid ore or before the Ist day of December next. JOHN SADLEIR, Chairman. London, 18, Cannon-street, Nov. 12, 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. 'ills llt, hat for and Bile 113 , i my s and lege one. )110. 80, ple ; wife .w. Wrs. am, olk , ~ of •th e. ♦on 'Apt. ' 38, ark, •cot- saint late Esq., :cud- Bing rk in Lnder 11 Ten, 'N(3 112, lyof 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 ou 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 ho 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 bounds of probability. Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and fashionable audiences which, bamulghgy fißod.tlusikuenre Theatre to overflow, and by . means of whose ge n erous aid ho has been enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for con tinuous repetition. Ho believes that no professor of his art as at any time or in any place been honoured with an s mount 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 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 1 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 thorn bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which attend a belief in the superstitious nonsense of the " Spiri tualists." Judging simply by the correspondence which has resulted, Professor Alllerson'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 for 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 bo 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 rer2o, and taken by that journal from the New York Spiri tual Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David Brewster frankly confesses that he is ' sorely puzzled' at what he has witnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be thoroughly nonplussed. Both of these noted men brought the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the solution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial, actual hands, and the demonstrative strengths of the spirits who thus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate rial objects about the room, proved to be too much of a ques tion for them to master." Mr. D. D. Hume, the author of the above, has recently left England, and the following account of who, and what ho is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 645: 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 ho 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 had 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. He inquir i ed 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- Mont to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely to be negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not ; but, when lie 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 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. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day, however, there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one who was present when ho and Lord Brougham had their s4ance with the spirits, in which the writer says, that " the table (a largo 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 tight 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 Vero us that the most talented men of the day are permitting themselves to be deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers —th a t 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. fists of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will to 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 boon 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, OD Saturday, November 24, 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 Y 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. Le Livre des Reeueils Choisies : or, Puck's Own Pocket Book, with Puck hi mse lf w ithi n 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. Aot 5. L'Ecrin de Verre ; or, the Casket of Croesus. Into vhich,lhough made entirely of glass perfectly transparent, a n d &wended so as to be visible to the eyes of all present, the Wizard will cause the money of hi s v i sitors to transport itself, and rain into the casket, though its lid be closed, locked, and the key in the possession of the audience. Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Transparency of Opacity. Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wi ne and Spirit Store. An improvement upon the " inexhaustibl e 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, Xoyeau, 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 S. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Expose of 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, Franee, Turkey, and Sardinia. Acf. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comas, in which he who seats himself will be under the magic spell, and appear to the audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi tion as peculiar as perplexing. Act. 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the Nucleus of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the audience will have the goodness to observe, in an earlier part of the evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin) in mid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which all will 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 of the newly-discovered dia - terrestrial passage from the west ern to tho eastern hemisphere. Doors open each evening at half-past 7; commence at 8. Private boxes, 1/. lls. 6d. and 1/. ls., to be obtained at the Box-office, or at the principal libraries ; stalls, 4s. ; dress circle ' 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, ls. ; ga ll ery, 6d . T he is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction of Dir. Chatterton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per formance on Saturday Novcraber24, at 2 o'clock. Doors open at half-past 1. No. 19,697.] 13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH-STREET. T HE NEW AND POPULAR NOVELS, Publ shed by HURST and IthaCKETT, Successors to Henry Colburn. LILLIESLEAF. By the Author of " Margaret MaiVatul." LADY WILLOUGHBY ; or, the Double Mar riage. By Mrs. LA TOUCHE. MILLICENT ; or, the Trials of Life. By the Author of the " Curate of Overton." GERTRUDE; or, Family Pride. By Mrs. TEOLLOPE. PERCY BLAKE. By Capt. RAFTER. EUSTACE CONYERS. By JAMES HAN NAY, Esq. THE PRIEST'S NIECE. By the Author of " Lionel Deerhurst." THE HOUSE OF ELMORE : A Family History. (Just ready.) NEW SERIAL WORK BY 11R. CHARLES DICKENS. Uniform 'Will " Bombe) , 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 ftilling each, the First Monthly Part of a New Work of Fiction, calleLl LIT-TLE DoCIRRIT. By CHARLES MC/ERRS, With Illustrations by HARLOT Tr BRowNE. Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie-Street. The Third Edition.—Just published, price 55., by post, tree, 5 3- 6 d. ON TRUE dz FALSE SPERMATORRMEA, with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the Real Sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in mint - lon to their Treatment and Cure. From the Gemini , of Dr. PICKFOitIr. 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 enongli to seek their aid. • " ur. Vicktord is known to English readers by his frequent practi cal contributi3n. to German medical literature. This is the first time, he Informs as, that he has addressed himself to tha nea-inedi• all reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall letect and /their equally flagrant evil which it may be in his •owcr to cor rect." -- London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of Quiet Sympathisers,' and 'Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this book could find its way into the hands of those who stiffer from the com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much money ......This volume is well qualified to imt an end to thc empirical system of treating Sperrnatorrhcea, and to rdise.s the treat. merit upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, likely to do much ood." London: 11. Banter% 219, Regent-straet. THE HACKNEY and GUILDFORD ESTATES. —THE CONSERVATIVE L kND SOCIETY.— Next THURSDAY, Nov. 22, at the Offices, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, London, the Hackney Estate, in Middlesex, close to the station of the North London, or all-round-the-town Railway, and the Guildford Estate, West :-urrey, will bo Allotted. For plans and information to obtain plots apply to CIIt,RLES LEWIS ORUNEISEN, Secretary. ALLSOPP'S PALE ALE.—Reduction in Price. —HARRINGTON, PARKER, and CO., Wine and Beer Merchants, 5%, Pall-Mall, are now receiving orders for the October Brewing., of the above celebrated Ale, in Casks of 18 Gallons and up wards, at tho reduced price. Also for ALLSOPP'd PALE ALE IN BOTTLE. Quarts, Pints, and Half-pints, Imperial measure. 5%, Pall-mall, Oct, 20, 1855. Q, IR Wilt. BURNETT'S DISINFECTING FLUID, for destroying all Offensive Smells and purifying Sick Rooms, Soc. Its cost is less than One Farthing per Gallon when diluted tor use. Sold by all Chemists, and at 18, Cannon-street, City. Gallons, Is. Quarts, Is. Pints, Is. Half-pints, 6d. TO LOVERS OF FISH -100 GENUINE YARMOUT BLOATERS for 63 , package included. THESE lIIGIILY ESTEEMED DELICACIES AND CHEAP [PRICE 4D. STAMPED Omer Pacha had advanced about six days' very easy march from Soukoum-Kaleh, when he encoun tered the hostile force whom he routed at the Ligon'', and that his pursuit of these troops would bring him with his army to the Phasis, on which celebrated river stands the town of Kutais. What means of defence that place possesses will soon appear. It is to the Russian province of Georgia what Kars is to the Turkish province of Armenia ; and although there is still a formidable mountain pass, more than a mile above the level of the sea, between Omer Pacha and any advance upon Tiflis, it is not at all likely that General Mouravielf— or rather his successor, under the melancholy circumstances which we this day announce ---will now linger so far away as he has hitherto been from the direct line of the Turkish General's threatened invasion. Even the season will yield him a very slight gua rantee against operations in a quarter where the nature of the climate modifies, if it does not re verse, many of the calculations applicable to the Crimea. But even were further enterprise to bo adjourned till the spring, a most satisfactory be ginning has been made; and, in the last and only remaining field where the armies of the Czar s maintained the attitude of assailants, that vain and futile semblance has been torn from them—they have been suddenly and roughly thrown back upon the defensive, as everywhere else, and are com pelled to make their own safety and existence their grand future consideration. The immediate spot where Omer Pacha is now operating was anciently viewed as the border-land • between Asia and Europe, the Phasis being the frontier line. It is, indeed, one of the most primi tive of all the scenes within the records —or, rather, within the traditions—of the human race ; for it far transcends in its supposed antiquity, as an in habited region, the earliest profane chronicles of men. Here was old Colchis—old even when the Argonauts are represented to have made thither the first of voyages, nearly two thousand years be fore Christianity. Here Pompey in a great battle defeated the Iberians as the allies of Mithridates, after having driven them out of Gouria, the modern Georgia. The descendants, or more correctly, the successors of those Iberians now form the militia of a modern and far more powerful Mithridates, and are mus tered to check an equally able assailant, who comes against their master's dominions from the opposite direction. This movement completes the rout and flinging back of Russia from the third and last of the three avenues by which she menaced Turkey and Southern Europe. The Danube and Bulgaria were the first attempted, and they were the first closed against her. The maritime approach was forbidden by the presence of the Allied fleets, and rendered impossible by the destruction of the Czar's. And now the third and last road, involving every hope of rQaching the long-coveted prey, will be destroyed when the Rus sian power is so annihilated in Asia Minor and Georgia as to make evident the futility of the aggres sor's Trans-Caucasian dreams. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER, 19, 1855. Spirit or the Public Journals. -~--- APPOINTMENT OF MR. LABOUCHEn AS COLONIAL SECRETARY. ( From the Times of this day.) The British public has borne the want of a Colonial Secretary so long, and with such equa nimity, as to suggest a suspicion that they have forgotten the vacancy, not to say the colonies, altogether. However, we still possess some fifty colonies, or thereabouts, and they are still governed through that Colonial-office which till lately was so widely feared and so little loved. This department, unhappily vacated by the death of Sir William Molesworth, after being refused, as our readers know, by Lord Stanley, and after being also re fused by Mr. Sidney Herbert, has been off sred to Mr. Labouchere, and accepted by him. That the name of this gentleman should have been men tioned from the first day of the vacancy, and that the office should, nevertheless, have been offered meanwhile to at least two other statesmen in opposition to the Government and to one another, is a fact that speaks for itself. Notwithstanding all that is said about liberality, fusion, compre hension, and all other large ideas, when the moment arrives they generally give way to the actual force of political connexion, or "party," as we suppose it must be called. Lord Palmerston has fallen back on a trustworthy and competent man, who will transact the business of his depart ment with regularity, and perhaps with despatch. There cannot be very much to do in it, or at least there is not much that requires the anxious con sideration .of tLe. chief, if we are to judge from the way in which the office has been knocked about for the last twelvemonth. Mr. Labouchere, wo think, is the fifth secretary within that brief period, nay, virtually the sixth, as Sir George Grey held the reins for Lord John Russell while he was at Vienna. As there has been no very loud com plaint as yet from the persons most interested in the colonies, none at least so loud as when one energetic mind was concentrated for several years on the government of the colonies, it may fairly be concluded that a respectable man of business will answer the purpose. We don't now attempt to go vern the colonies in the old sense of the word. We allow them to govern themselves, and it is only within a very limited range that there can arise any discrepancy between colonial and imperial legislation. The discrepancy, when it occurs, is commonly a case for lawyers, not for states men. Even on the very important question of colonial constitutions the only object is to find what really best suits the wishes and the wants of the colonists themselves, as we no longer aim to force upon them the model of the British Constitu tion, or any theoretical plan. But though the colonies no longer want a master mind, or an inventive genius, or a splendid admi nistrator, or a Heaven-sent lawgiver, perhaps it will be said that Lord Palmerston wants a little more Ministerial eloquence in the Commons. How is it that all the clever fellows—all the men who can make speeches —are on the other side, or, to speak more correctly, on the other sides, of the House ? We think the question is one for the clover fellows themselves to answer. So far as Government is concerned, there happens to be no great call for eloquence just now. The only thing the nation cares about is the war, which is a matter not of rhetoric, or of exposition, but of fighting, backed, of course, by a good administration at home. The nation does not want hounding on to a war which it has undertaken itself with the ut most good will, and which it is prepared to carry on with the greatest perseverance. The Minis terial defence is to come, not from the Trea sury bench, but from the seat of war, in the laconic style of the electric telegraph. It is true there is an immense power of eloquence in the house unretained, and therefore probably on the other side. There are a score or two good speakers of one party or another, who will either have to say nothing, or something unpleasant, and who will probably prefer the latter alternative. 'But, besides that some of these gentlemen will knock off one another, tlieir very multitude stands in their way. The conditions of the House of Commons only allow of a certain amount of rhetorical oppo sition. There were in Sebastopol 6,000 guns, with a proportionate quantity of powder, shot, and shell, and no lack of men, and yet the laws of time and , pace permitted only a certain quantity to be brought to bear on us even in a twelve months' siege. Thus it is probable that the army of talkers with which Lord Palmerston is threatened next session will find itself seriously embarrassed for want of a suitable area. It will get " clubbed" like an ill-handled regiment, or the greater part will have to be laid up in arsenal for future occa sions. Then, the best talking in the world re luires something like a good case. Last session Mr. Gladstone blazed away against the continu ance of the war, but the only results were that be nearly expended his own character and damaged his friends, who would now give a good deal that his speeches were forgotten. So long as the war is conducted with spirit, and.,no minor 000siderathon is allowed to stand in the way, such gentlemen will have nothing to talk about. War is work for the hands. As for negotiation the time has gone by, or is not yet come. We have negotiated on an equality, and failed. The next negotiation must be on a disparity, when one side lies at the mercy of the other. It is vain to expect that next year. The offer of the place to Mr. Sidney Herbert was a compliment to that gentleman's supposed patriot ism and admitted talents. There are those who argue that if an offer is rejected it ought never to have been made. We don't think so. It may be wise as well as generous to express a friendly senti• ment, even at the expen se o f w h a t th e wor ld m ay failure. But till the advance is made the failure cannot be known, and in politics it is gene rally best to clear away doubts as to the position o f those we have to deal with. Mr. Sidney Herbert probably felt that, had he accepted office, he would have had either to repudiate his pacific professions of last session or to ex pose the whole Cabinet to the suspicion of in sincerity. Ho will, no doubt, give his explana tion in duo place and time, but the country is quite as well satisfied it should be as itis.' The 4‘ Peelites" had only two ideas—peace and eco nomy, and they must undergo much more change than they give evidence of yet before they will be prepared for war and its expenditure. Under their management we opened fire on Sebastopol last year without au adequate siege-train, and with only am munition for a third-class fortress, and, as they have since defended that management warmly and deliberately, they cannot be doomed to have re pented of their errors. It is true that the Colonial Secretary has now nothing to do with the war, but there has been such a thing as a peace party ia the Cabinet, and the very suspicion ought to be avoided in the present state of affairs. Mr. Gladstone's peace speeches of last session were translated and circulated in Germany and Russia, to the immense i encouragement of the Russian party, who, however, so , far from sharing his pacific intentions, only thought it superfluous to ask peace of a nation that would soon make humble suit for itself. What would now be thought if the Cabinet included a Minister so closely associated with Mr. Gladstone as Mr. Sidney Herbert usually has been ? But even the most enti re an d consc i en ti ous c h anges o f opinion require opportu n ity f or ascer t a i n i ng an d expressing themselves. Next session Mr. Sid ney Herbert and his friends will find themselves called on to declare themselves as to the conduct of the war. Messrs. Cobden, Bright, Disraeli, and others will be sure to provide such occasions, when it will be quite open to .the "Peelite" statesmen to say whether they think the nation is in the right ; or whether, in their opinion, we aro simply fighting Mike savages or wild boasts for victory, glory, territory, or revenge. We are not ourselves much addicted to flatter the people, as a very cur sory retrospect of popular questions will show. On several points we have steadily opposed the public clamour, and earned a very respectable amount of opprobrium in consequence ; but when a cause is good, when it is the fulfilment of old pledges, the defence of the weak and resistance to the aggressor —when it has been only undertaken after exhaust ing every expedient for peace—when it is carried on by the sacrifice of the country's best blood and utmost material resources, and when we have had, so far, substantial, if not very glorious success, we will not tamely endure to see a generous national enthusiasm coolly criticised or indecently lam pooned, as if it were only the outbreak of some immoral or unreasoning instinct, and shall con tinue to view with distrust the statesmen who have so regarded the mighty efforts of a generous people, or have not cared to cl e a r th emse l ves o f the suspicion. (From the Morning Herald of this. day.) The Colonial Office is, we believe, no longer va cant. After a month of indecision on the part of the Minister, and of expectancy on that of the pub lic —at a crisis, moreover, of singular importance— Lord Palmerston has at length found some one to condescend to manage the affairs of our colonial empire, and his choice has fallen upon the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere. What that gentleman's qualifications for the office whose functions he has undertaken to discharge may be, we, in common, we suspect, with the political world at large, are somewhat at a loss to conjecture. Mr. Labou chere was Under Secretary for the Colonies for some five months during Lord Melbourne's Admi nistration, Chief S cretary for Ireland for one year during the last Whig Ministry, and subse quently, for a short period, President of the Board of Trade. In none of these offices has he given proof of anything beyond the most ordinary capacity—the faintest indication of any of the qualities of a statesman, or of those in dividual resources without which no man should pretend to a place in the councils of the Sovereign. When the Premier offered the Colonial seals to Lord Stanley, lie selected a man of acknowledged ability, and for his years of singularly extensive knowledge of colonial affairs. Lord Stanley de clined to accept office in a disunited and unpopular Administration. The truth is, we sincerely be lieve, as we have already intimated, that the pre sent Cabinet is so nicely balanced upon the ques tion of war, that the filling up of the vacant office had become a matter for serious deliberation. Sir William Molesworth is gone, and whatever his faults as a politician may have been, it is said a leaning to Russia was not amongst them. His successor, if he has any fixed opinions on the great question of the age, does not sympathise, at all events, with the views of the late member for Southwark. Mr. Labouchere will not, we dare say, trouble the coun cils in which he is henceforth to take part by any determined or manly course for the honour of Eng land. He will be temperate and conciliating, and will not disturb roughly the harmony of Downing street. But will any man of common sense say that Mr, Labouchere i; the person who should - be placed just now in charge of the Colonial affairs of this great country? There is, especially in our North American colonies, extensive discontent—discon tent, moreover, amongst that portion of the popu lation hitherto best and most unalterably affected to the British Crown. The Protestant party in the dependencies to which we refer feel that they are overborne by a Romish influence—a Romish tyranny we should rather say—which has of late become utterly insupportable. It is felt that th e we i ght and authority of the Colonial-office is used to perpetuate this system, and to disgust and oppress the Protestants of our colonies wherever the opportunity serves. When the Under -Secre taryship was last filled up we denounced the appointment of Mr. John Ball as disgrace ful to the character of any British Ministry, and fraught with the worst consequences to our colonial interests. We have not been mis taken in our anticipations—the reign of the priest has commenced i n r i g ht earnes t i n Canada, in Nova Scotia, in N ew f oun dl an d— a t th e Cape, and even in Australia—a st a te o f thi ngs which, if not terminated, will eventuate in anarchy, civil war, and the disruption of our most valued dependencies. Is a feeble temporising Whig like Mr. Labouchere the man to terminate or control such a state of things, and to crush the evil tendencies and malign efforts of his scheming subordinate. We think not. Lord Palmerston has taken Mr. Labouchere as a sort of non pis aller—a political necessity; but this is not the time, we can assure him, to trifle either with his own position, or with the temper of the British people. (Front the Morning Advertiser of this day.) We refrained from contradicting the assertions .of a contempor ar y th a t thi s vacant office would be offered to Mr. Frederick Peel, who would be suc ceeded as under-Secretary in the War Department by Mr. Layard, M.P., because, although pro bably not i n t en d e d as such, they were merely regarded as d pretention in every well-informed circle. It was impossible to regard in any other aspect the policy of entrusting one of the most arduous and responsible offices under the Crown to a cold and stately young man, who would wish to usurp that which his father would dis claim for his offspring as a reward for his own great and im mortal services to the country. Mr. Layard, who has done more than any man to destroy the aris tocratical exclusiveness of the existing military , regime by exposing its fearful results in the mis management and disorganisation of the a army, would be the last man to whom the present Go vernment would offer the Under-Secretaryship of the War Department. As we were the first to state, we believe the Duke of Newcastle from motives whi c h aro creditabl e t o his Grace, will not accept the office which has been offered to him ; and consequently we may assume that it will be at once conferred on one who is con nected with many aristocratic families—who has long coveted it—and who had been fixed upon as the successor to the late Sir W. Molesworth before the formal compliment was paid to the Duke of Newcasi,le of offering him the seals of the depart ment. We allude to the Right Hon. Henry La bouchere, M.P., brother-in-law to the Duchess of Sutherland and of the E Id of Carlisle, whose lady is the niece of the Dukes of Devonshire and of Sutherland, sister of the Duchess of Argyll, and first cousin to the Earl of Granville. So that hero we have another Ministerial addition to " The Families." That " interest" has again as3erted its power. Mr. Labouchere is one of the most virtuous, but at the same time one of the most timid and irre solute members of the House of Commons. His timidity on many occasions had formerly been so marked that sonic of his own colleagues attributed it to imbecility. But if single-mindedness and honesty sufficed to constitute the statesman capable of administering th e execut i ve affairs of 50 co l o nial sovereignties, Mr. Labouchere would be unobjec tionable. The son of a French refugee in Holland, by the sister of a successful American, he entered public life as a man of actual opulence and enormous ex pectations. He visited the United States along with the present Earl of Darby, Mr. J. Evelyn Denison, and Lord Skel tners d a l e , w h ose d a ughter in the following year, 1825, Lord Darby married. Mr. Labouchere was highly complimented on his " maiden speech" in the House of Commons by the late Sir James Mackintosh. He was a Lord of the Admiralty from 1832 to 1834, when he re signed on the dismissal by William IV. of the Melbourne Ministry. On the return of Lord Mel bourne to power in 1835, he became Vice-Presi *dent of the Board of Trade and Master of the Mint. In 1838 Mr. Labouchere, with Sir Arthur Aston and Mr. M‘Gregor, the present member for Glasgow, were the commissioners who proceeded. to France for the purpose of negotiating a com mercial treaty with that country, and on the suc cess of which great hOpes wore entertained for the future amity and mutual interests of the two nations. Tho mission, however, terminated unsuc cessfully in consequence of the duplicity Philippe, who, with hi s Mi n i ster, M . Thi er s, pre ferred sacrificing the national i n t eres t s to their own personal considerati ons . M r. M'G regor ' s report presented to Parliam en t was conc l us ive on the subject. of Louis About the same time, in consequence of some difficulties at the Colonial-office, Mr. Labouchere undertook the inferior office of Under Secretary, the duties of which he discharged with industry and satisfaction. On the appointment of 11/1;. Thornton to the Governor-Generalship of Canada, in 1839, `Gegor, lr Mr. Labouchere be came P res ident of the Board of Trade, in which offic e , a ss i s ted by _Mr- A . as secretary, he conti nue d u ntil the resignation of the Melbourne Ministry, in 1841. On the formation of the Family Compact Gover nment, in 1846, M r . L a b ouc here was appointed to the office of Secretary of State for Ireland, and subsequently, on the removal of Lord Clare n d on, who was Preside n t, t o b e Lord-Lieutenant of Ire land, to the Presidentship of the Board of Trade. Since the advent of th e Derby Government he h as seldom appeared in p u blic, and has rarely spoken in the House of Commons. In society Mr. Labouchere is considered cold and diffident. H e i s , h o wever, distinguished for a quality which all respectable men must hon our . We have heard thos e who have mingled m uc h i n the society of dipl oma tists and statesmen declare their - belief, that in most instances the leading am bition of such individuals is to be —expert liars! The most unsophisticated are probably well aware that falsehood is o ne o f the most active and impor tant agents in political science and government ; but few have any conception of the terrible extent to which political society is demoralised by thi s degrading and disgusting attribute. In striking contrast to many public men Mr. Labouchere is noted for an innate love of truth ; and those who know him best believe that no conce i va bl e temptation would induce him to compromise his veracity. On one occasion lie refused to accept a sum of 18,0001. or 20 ,0001., the esti mated damage to his estate of Highlands, in Essex, by the intersection of the Eastern Counties Railway, on the ground that he did not himself consider the railway did the least injury to his pro perty. His timidity, no doubt, arises from the over-anxious zeal of an honest head and mind ; but the want of that Roman quality, decision, is one of the gravest objections to a statesman. From the fear of possibly doing that which is wrong, he is afraid boldly to do that which is right. In the history of Colonial Government there are many ex amples to warn a Minister against the dangers of procrastination or irresolution. Greater evils may arise from anxious hesitation than from the prompt decision of instinctive judgment. (Prom, the Daily News of this day.) Is Austria a friendly power Y We published on Friday a letter from a Prussian correspondent, in which it is stated that—" Within the last month more than 100,000 cwt, of sulphur have been for warded from Austria to Russian Poland, and every day about 600 cwt.s of this article continue to ar rive, packed partly in chests 2nd partly in casks." The Prussian frontier authorities having refused to forward this contraband of war, it is now removed from the northern railway at the last station within the Austrian territory and forwarded to Cracow in carts. Austria professes to be neutral in the war now in progress ; Austria professes to lean more to the Western Powers than - to Russia ; and yet Aus tria supplies Russia with munitions of war to an extent that shocks the feelings of Prussian autho rities—not over-sensitive on this point. Is Austria a friendly power? Letters from Bucha rest state that a foreign officer in the British ser vice, sent to that place by our Government to buy horses and carts for the army, and bearing letters of credit to the English Consul and the native au thorities, has been arrested by the Austrians. He is said to have had his English uniform stripped off, and an Austrian military great coaegiven him in lieu of it. The plea advanced in justification of this insult is that Colonel Thier (the gentleman in question) is a deserter from the Austrian service. He appears to have been a political exile, a Hungarian by birth, who had served in the Aus trian army, but passed over to the Piedmontese in 1849. If the story be true, a Hungarian political exile has been seized by the Austrians on a neutral territory, for they possess no civil jurisdiction in the Principalities, which are still regarded as part of the Ottoman empire. The asylum granted by the Sultan to Kossuth and other Hungarian exiles—in granting which he was supported by the English Government—has been ♦iolated in the person of Colonel Thier; and the temptation to this outrage appears to have been the opportunity it afforded Count Coronini of insulting England by stripping the English uniform from the back of his prisoner. Is Austria a friendly power ? Every possible ob struction and insult is systematically offered to the English Consul in Wallachia, in the discharge of his official duties, by the Austrians. Nor is this all. Mr. Colquhoun having incurred the hatred of the Austrian military authorities in Wallachil, and of their wretched tool (the c i-dev ant Russian tool) Prince Stirbey, by his firm and judicious assertion of the rights of England and her ally the Sultan, the most unscrupulous devices are resorted to, with a view to injure his character. Attempts have even been made to bribe English journals to lend themselves to these nefarious attacks upon Mr Colquhoun. Yet the English Government, so prompt to drive matters to extremities in a dispute with republican America, tamely puts up with all the insults and injuries heaped upon it by despotic Austria. The truth is that the permission given to Aus tria to occupy the Principalities with her armies is the worst fault that has been committed by the French and English Governments during the war. We protested against that occupation before the crime was consummated. We proved from history that Austria had repeatedly attempted to wrest the Principalities from the Porte, and annex them to her own empire. We allowed that,in the war which was terminated by the peace of Giurgevo:---in the negotiation of which Sir Robert Murray Keith acted as the British Plenipotentiary—the Porte was enabled to retain the Principalities solely by the mutual jealousy which rendered its two assail ants, Russia and Austria, each unwilling to see the coveted prize in the hands of the other. We showed how Austria was now taking advantage of the po sition of Russia to obtain for itself these Principali ties to gain which Russia had risked so much. Time has proved that we were right. Austria is usurping sovereign authority in the Principalities ; Austria is compelling the Principalities to nourish a portion of her army, to the maintenance of which her own beggared exchequer is inadequate ; Aus tria is preparing to colonise Wallachia and Molda via with her German subjects ; Austria has got hold of the Principalities, and laughs to scorn every representation of the Allies that they are part of the Ottoman empire. Can the Allies, or will they, insist upon the eva cuation of the Principalities by the Austrian army of occupation ? It never was, or could be, of the slightest use there. Its continuance is a standing outrage upon humanity, and a violation of the great principle of international law, to assert which the Allies took up arn.s against Russia. (From tice Mornilt9 , Post of Otis day.) While waiting for the supplementary details which will complete for us the picture of the late battle on the banks of the Ingour (nature having everywhere imposed for the moment upon the Allied armies a suspension of large offensive opera tions), it will not be lost time to glance more closely at this last exploit in Abasia, and to consider the results to which that victory will probably load ; for we may, without temerity, accept it as at once the augury and the introduction of greater events. It is significant that, although the Russians could not muster, to arrest the march of Omer Pacha, a force at all equal in numbers either to their own task or to the advancing columns, they neverthe less made the most strenuous exertions to resist those, relying on an advantageous position be hind a river, and upon entrenchments defended by artillery. Nor was the enemy's numerical inferiority the only evidence of his deficient pre paration or his failing strength to make good in this region the overweening directions of the ' Czar. A part of the array which disputed Omer Pacha's progress consisted of the Georgian militia. The anxiety which could risk a conflict under such circumstances shows the vital import ance attached by the Russian chiefs to the main, tenance of that frontier line, while the issue pro claims the growing exhaustion of the requisite means. The In gour, which is a rather rapid, but narrow stream, flowing out of the Caucasus from east to west, and emptying itself into the Euxine by Anaklia, could not, of course, have been itself the barrier on which the 12 or 14,000 Russians relied for the arrest of Omer Pacha's troops. We hear of no great difference, at the scone of combat, in the height of the opposing banks ; the stream, besides, was fordable, the Turks crossing it in four places (with their fire-arms aloft, and the water up to the shoulder), in the very teeth of a powerful fire• This operation must have required but a few minutes—and, as the battle lasted five hours, the main stress of it was evidently on the Russian side of the little river. Some slight discrepancy about the exact losses, respectively , of the victors and the vanquished, exists be tween Lord Stratford do Redcliffe's despatch and that of the Ottoman Government ; and it is even probable that we have not yet anything like the tale of what the enemy at least suffered ; for it appears that Omer Pacha, was enabled to give pur suit, always a more calamitous transaction to the beaten than their overthrow in the actual conflict. So much at least is quite clear, that not only a signal victory has been achieved, but that the conduct of the British officers present in the en gagement was, in the most conspicuous degree, admirable and heroic. Although the Russian soldier defends an elaborate fortification with ex-; traordivary stubbornness, his attitude behind hasty and less perfect field-works is another mat ter. In all likelihood, the artificial defences be hind the Ingour (not to speak of the natural protection of formidable convex heights), were not of a nature to be compared with those which English and French battalions partly stormed and partly turned behind the Alma ; and, no doubt, in the degree of strength, the two positions were very different ; but the character of them is one—a stream in front, then intrenchments, lined with hand-fire, and crowned with batteries. It is the favourite situation of our present opponents ; but the advance against it is generally the only serious difficulty. If the assailants once penetrate beyond the line of cannon, the Russians aro not usually successful in recovering by the bayonet what they could not preserVe by artillery. The repeated rallies made by the self-same Turkish troops in the recapture, f r o m success i ve columns t of assailants, of the Tahmasb Tabia Redo p uh Kars, could have b een e ff ec t e d by theu r only with so many r e l a y s o f di s tinct and h 1 c been ha separate reinforcements, supposing that positions ss,anats reversed. Still less could the Russians ave re newed with one and the same small body of men the numberless charges of our Guards at Inkermanf ever fresh bat against an interminable series o 4 talions. It will have been observed by our readers that Mr. Newby will shortly publish, in 3 ♦ois., 31s. GI, T HE OLD DOMINION. By G. P. R. JAMES, E:q., Author of " The Gipsy," "The Robber," " Darnley," &c. 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BANQUET TO CAPTAIN DREWE.—A banquet which, was attended by 130 gentlemen, among whom were Sir John Patteson, Sir T. D. Acland, M.P., and Sir John Duntze, was given in honour of Captain Drewe, of the 23d Royal Welsh Fusiliers, on Thursday, at Cullumpton, The gal lant captain, who arrived home from the Canon invalided last week, has met with a most enthusiastic reception from all classes residing in the Cullumpton district, where his father lives. His health was drunk with en thusiasm, and in responding he said :—" As officer can do nothing unless he is supported by his men, and the thin ranks and d i m i n i she d numbers of the 23d will prove to you far better than 1 can describe how well the soldiers of my regiment have supported th e i r officers and performed their duties in the war. (Cheers.) But, gentlemen, not only my own reghnent but all regi ments have suffered more or less in this campaign ; and not only in our own service, but in that of our gallant allies, whose bravery is only equalled 'by their kindly feeling toward .r t having u?. (Cheers.) h av e worked togeth er only one object in view, a n d i l n been sp are d to see one o f those have objects a ccomplished. frr . — ear., lam not trespassing too long on your tune, I should very much like to relate thankthe same God that to you an anecdote whic h happened to me at the Redan on the Bth of September. I wa s l e ft in a somewhat awkward position, having only a very few men close to the re-entering angle. A soldier standing near me was wounded in the back, and I told him to go to the rear. looked me in the face, and said, :No, Captain, we will live and die together.' (Cheers.) lam Proud t o say that that soldie r was a Devonshire man, and that he was born and bred in Cullumpton. (Cheers.) Before sitting down I should like to allude to the men at pre sent filling our ranks. They are certainly young, very young—too young ; their constitutions are not suited to stand against the ha r d s hip s o f a campaign. But, let me tell you, they want none of that pluck which so distin guished the old British soldier. (Cheers,) As long as France and England are united so long may you rest assured you have no reason to fear," (Cheers.) A MERICA. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 18, 10.45 P.M. The Africa has arrived with advices from Boston to the 7th, and New York, via Ilalifax, to the Bth, and $875,075 on freight. The United States' District Court had sentenced Joseph \Vaguer, convicted of enlisting men for the British Foreign Legion, to two months' imprison ment and a fine of $lOO. Respecting the difference with England the Herald has the following from its Washington cor respondent, who writes on the sth : "By the last foreign mail, which arrived here this morning, highly important despatches were received from our Minister in England, all of which I understand will be c , nisidered by the Cabinet to-day, and it is be lieved have reference to Mr. Crampton's difficulty, the whole of which will be developed in a day or two." From the New York Herald of the latest date we extract a portion of a leading article respectirg the alleged difference between England and the United States on the Cuban question : " We have received by the Baltic a letter from a re liable source in Paris, communicating the important fact that the old Cuban embroglio has been very recently re vived in a most belligerent shape between Mr. Buchanan, our Minister at London, and Lord Palmerston, the British Premier." The Herald here quotes from the Hampshire Telegraph of the 11th of October, stating that a number of British vessels of war had been de spatched to Bermuda in consequence of the insult ing tone of the United States' Government on the subject of Cuba. The Herald continues : "Nearly a fortnight ago we published from the Times of October 12 the list of the aforesaid vessels of war and their destinations respectively ; but, although the news at that time attracted our curiosity, it did not excite any particular attention on this side the Atlantic from the harmless division of the ships between the Bermuda Islands and Jamaica. Now, we are entirely satisfied from our special letter from Paris, and from the corroborating extract from the Hampshire elegrapli, that there is mischief in this thine-. This Hampshire Telegraph 'is published very near the country seat of Lord Palmerston, where, we presume, during the recess of Parliament, his lordship spends a considerable portion e f his leisure t;nie. This circumstance gives a colouring of semi-official authority to the specifications of the journal in question. In fact, assuming that the Hampshire Telegraph is the home organ of Lord Palmerston, and that he employs it occasionally as President Pierce uses the Concord Patriot when it is deemed most expedient to give the democracy a broad hint in a roundabout way of some important movement afoot, we may venture to consider the above I extract an official communication. The case then becomes an affair of the highest moment, for it involves issues and contingencies which may entangle us and this whole western hemisphere in a war with the maritime Powers of Europe. First, it appears that this concentration within striking distance of the island of Cuba of a British squadron, numbering, in all probability, not less than 20 vessels of war (to say nothing of the French West India squadron), is ' in consequence of the American Govern ment having replied to some communication mad e to them by the British Government in a manner in sulting to England in the highest degree ; nor are we left altogether iu the dark concerning this communica tion front the British Cabinet. It is doubtless a r. netval in some shape of the tripartite overtures to the Administration of Mr. Fillmore, which Lard Palmer st in may have cencluelod would be acceptable at Washington to that of Mr. Pierce alter the appa rently indignant rejection by Marcy of the Cuban mani festo of his Ministers, resulting from those solemn autho rised conferences at Ostend and Aix-la-Chapelle. In the rumoured reply of the American Government' there is an air of that genuine grandiloquent patriotism which has characterised all the diplomatic promises, circulars, anti instructions of our Pierce Administrations, so that, brief as is the report of the Hampshire Telegraph of this answer of our Government, it bears the evidence upon its face of official authority. The question then aria what is Marcy driving at in thus startling the whole country with his warlike re-opening of the Cuban trouble when everybody had imagined it postponed, or that the Administration, like Micawber, had humbly resigned itself to waiting for something to turn up ?' Does Marcy or does Mr. Pierce setk to embarrass England and France on the Cuban question by way of a diplomatic diversion to the advantageous settlement of the Danish Sound difficulty? We think not. Or does our Cabinet really believe that the golden opportunity has come for cutting the Gordian knot of the Cuban entanglement with the sword ! No. The true explanation, we appre. betel, lies in the necessity to our Cabinet aspirants of a little active war capital for the next Presidency. The manifest destiny' of Cuba is, sooner or later, the an nexation of the island to the United States. This, at all ti events, is the general popular belief in all quarters of . the Union. Thus far our Pierce Administration, in all its ; ti°lln'tean fine promises, looking to this great consummat ion, lost ground here, as in everything time, the Presidential election of 1356 e is o'iviolivit'eigre'tshoenleoasrt as to require some desperate expedient confidence of the people. Mr. pieetraoureacquestionably would consent to accept another democratic b ti e c , nomination Marcy him and utterle , hopeless as his case appears Mr. Buchanan, self aspires to the succession. Then, again,, our Minister in London, the e special champion of th e Cuban an n exation ists, e 4, we dare say , notwithstanding the Ostend collapse, quite r eady to co-Operate with th e Cabinet in any bold Cuban movement_ which m ay strengthen his claim wit h the p ro g ressin g de mocracy. In this view we aro prepared to believe that neither the Ad ministration nor Mr. Buchanan. would hesitate to get up a war cry ag ainst England and France in the ma t ter of Cuba, and such a war cry w ould overwh e l m i n th e war democratic national convention the slavery question and all other issues, and bring the re uni t ed democracy to the suppor t of the Administration and its most available war candidate for the succession. It was upon the war i question of 1812 that Madi son Was re-elected Lit was the Battle of New Orleans that brought General Jackson into power ; it was the military service of General Har risen that made him President ; it was the policy of the annexation of Texas, peace or war, that elected Mr. Polk ; it was the Mexican war that carried General Tay lor into the White-house, and to that war are we in debted for the election of General Pierce, though not elected upon his military merits. In a word, though the most pacific people in the world, the people of the United States are ever ready to unite in support of the honour, the glory, ihiiiiiirests, and cause of the country in a fo reign war, and in support of the Administration which may involve us in a war, however feeble such an Admin istration may be ; and this, we conceive, is the desperate alternative which Mr. Pierce and Mr. Marcy have re solved upon in this belligerent recipening.of the Cuban enabroglio, It is an experiment to divert the public at- A 0 4-04-z tention from the general imbecilities and °collapses in our iforeign and domestic affairs which have characterised I 1 this Admi n i s t ra ti on t o th e pu b l i c necessity of union against the inadmissible pretensions towards Caba of England and France. It is but a trick to get up a war excitement in season for the democratic national con vention, and upon which Mr. Pierce or Mr. Marcy way ride int o ano th er P res i dential term. As the Adminis tration stands it is a failure and is condemned, but let it involve us in a Cuban quarrel with England and Prance, from which there may seem to be no hope of escape short of a wor ld- w id e war, and it may possibly rise again to its feet. We know that the divided de mocracy will re-unite in support of a war for Cuba against the world. Will the Administration follow up their leading card or collapse ? But we shall see." The United States' commissioner in the Mediter ranean had written for a reinforcement of a steamer and a sloop, in consequence of the probable state of affairs on the continent, especially at Naples. A letter from Washington says that the amount due on the $3,000,000 Mexican indemnity was nearly covered by draughts already presented. The question of the legality of the draughts had been submitted to the Attorney-General. A railway ac cident had occurred near St. L ou i s b y the fallingof a bridge as a train was passing over it ; 22 per sons were killed. The St. Louis Berald states that Mr. William Greenlay, a lieutenant of an in dependent military company of that city, recently enlisted 45 men, drilled them as if for the purpose of joining the Continentals (the company of which he was a member), and then suddenly departed with them for Boston, from which place he tele graphed back to his friends in St. Louis that he should sail for Halifax on the following day with a company of 75 men for the British army, of which he was to be captain. Since the parti a l failure o f th e a tt empt to lay the submarine telegraph at Point au Basque, public attention had been directed to the other route pro posed, via Greenland, Iceland, and the Faro Islands. It is stated that in Kansas a secret military or ganisation had taken place, designed to control the affairs of that territory, and to resist the execution of any law passed by the territorial Legislature. Official intelligence of the recent revolutionary movements in Nicaragua having reached Washing ton, the subject had occupied the attention of the Government, and Commodore Paulding would probably be instructed to proceed thither imme diately, with special instructions regarding events in that quarter. Ad vices from Matamoras state that from 4,000 • 5,000 men had been ordered by the Mexican Go verninent to the northern frontiers, to repel the Texan rangers. Vidauri was appointed comman der-in-chief on the Rio Grande, and had orderel the commanding-officer at Matamoras to discharge the National Guards, which the latter refused to obey. Yidauri has addressed a note to Secretary. Marcy complaining of the violating of Mexican ter ritory, and charging the commander at Fort Dan. can with connivance with the Filibusters. Advices from Nicaragua report that General Walker, having been reinforced by a small party of Californian s , on th e 12th u lt ., em b ar k e d at Virgin Bay on board the steamer Virgin, and before day light the next morning landed within four miles of Ginuada. Aft er a rap id advance the expedition reached the city, and gained the Molazza without encountering any serious resistance, but here a sharp contest ensued, which resulted in a loss to the enemy of 15 killed and several wounded. General Walker took possession of the capital of Nicaragua. Subsequently, the fort was captured by a detach ment of Americans. Order having been restored, the citizens of Granada held a public meeting and tendered to General Walker the Presidency of the republic, which honour ho declined in favour of Gen. Corral. Col. Wheeler, the United States' Minister to Central America, after much solicitation, proceeded to Rivas, with propositions of peace. Arriving at Rivas, and learning that Gen. Corral was absent, Colonel Wheeler attempted to return, but was prevented by the Governor, and detained two days, nor was ho released until the town was threatened with an attack. This breach of faith on the part of Corral's forces led to a correspon dence between the United States' Minister and the General. On the 221 Corral surrendered, a treaty of peace was formed, and thus Walker's victory became complete. During the progress of these events others of importance were transpiring. On the 19th Colonel Fry and Parker H. French, with GO men, embarked on board the Virgin, which also carried the pas sengers and specie from California, with the inten tion of capturing San Carlos. The occupants of the fort fired upon the steamer with cannon, and the expedition was abandoned, Colonel Fry being unwilling to risk the lives of the passengers. On the 231 the steamer conveying the outward-bound California passengers by the Star of the West was tired upon from the fort. A 321 b. shot struck the boat, killing a lady and a child, and seriously in juring the machinery. Previous to this an attack was made upon the returning Californians at Virgin Bay by the Government forces, when four persons were killed and eight others seriously wounded. The. New York commercial advices report that the financial trouble continued in the stock-market, and that nearly every description of stock was being forced upon the market at reduced rates. At the brokers' the rates for commercial paper stood at 8 to 9 per cent, for strictly first-class paper, and at 9 to 12 per cent. for that which was not so well known. The money-market continued very stringent. The Bank statement showed a continuance of the contraction of loans, with no important change in the specie reserve, and an increase of deposits. Exchange was extremely dull, and rates on Lon don wore quoted 108 to 108/. On Paris 5.17 k to 5.20 ; on Amsterdam, 41 to 411 ; and on Bremen, 78 to There were few transactions in cot ton, and those wore effected only at a decline of lc. to lc. Flour was selling at an advance of 12ic. per barrel upon the prices quoted a week previously, but the market closed heavily. In provisions there was no alteration of moment. Small sales of Scotch pig iron had taken place at $35 75c. PreiOits to Europe were inactive. At New Orleans, on receipt of the European ad. counts, prices of cotton declined :lc., and the mar ket closed unsettled. The steam-ships Ericsson and Arago, from South ampton, arrived at New York on the Gth inst. SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY, 1 A.M. The American steam-ship Ariel, Capt. Lefevre, has arrived with 60 passengers, cargo, and dates from New York to the 4th inst. The United States' mail steamer Hermann left New York for Southampton and Bremen on the 3d instant. The Baltic arrived out on the morning, of the ,3d instant. The Ariel- experienced throughout the voyage strong easterly winds and heavy weather. A BRUTE. KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES, Nov. 17. —Charles rubbish brick and horn, a young roan in the employ of a swar rant before carter, of Claygate, was brought np . on charged by Mr. the bench of magistrates this :nornlng , —Charles White for the Preven- Forster, at the instance of t! society2th the following inhuman tion of Cruelty to Animals, _On w th l e 10th October defendantL the act of leaving treatment of a horse : a distance of five miles, was employed in carting bricks from Mr. Wood's 'rick. field at Claygate to Kingston, • jceF3 ,an w d h yv en as .h i i n s h t Claygate with a second load, , a poor old He bad made one I w hich had cost worn-out ;whim - . m o nths previously, showed some obstinacy at st ar ti cg . defendant , The having b roken his first whip over the horse, placed e a q uantity o f s t raw under its belly, ily, and a lighted match set fire to it. Th e a nimal p l unge d v iolently, but defendant added more straw, and k e pt up the fire fora period of nearly ten minutes. The hair was entirely burnt off the inside of the legs and bot tom of the belly, and the outer surface of flesh was com pletely baked. This horrible brutality was witnessed by Henry Parker, foreman in the service of Mr. Wood, and by several other men, none of whom interfered to protect Ulu horse from his inhuman driver, who actually made a third journey to and from Kingston after the oc currence. The case was distinctly proved against White h"rn, and the horse had been bee" brought to the court for the magistrates' inspection. It presented a miserable appearance, and was scarcely able to stand. The chair man (Capt. Terry) said the bench were of opinion that defendant had been guilty of the cruelty charged, and as no worse offence could occur under the act of Parliament the extreme punishment would be inflicted, viz., three__ .e monchs' bar I labour in the House of Correction. The and bench had no doubt the foreman, Henry Parkeegra,all_ other persons shown to have been present,w cu l t e_ in the guilty, and they regretted that a legal chi: i of them to case prevented the committal of every ; 0 0 0 . d Mr. Forster the House of Correction for a similar Pnr what had fallen from promised to convey to Mr. Wood a hope that the bench, and the magistrates exp ressed Parker would follow. the immediate dismissal of Par Colonel Francis iseyEnt.osuarm(SerBts PalaceFusilifeorrGthuearedosa)sthuof . _ wound he h w e h received h i b ve as a left his apartments n St. severeoih his suffered deeply, ur Devonshire, for and the fromrecov t e h ry e Sebastopol on the 24th August en from o nrr ff- t p l e t n e the hheebs before of a shell. It has e wound, an d it was found to be of a more d angerous nature th an a t fi rs t su p pose d. Mr. Guthrie was consulted, and th ree sma ll p i eces o f been 9in t tii 11 °A n head e u c g es u e ~ t i ri n yto e bone have been extracted. Colonel Seymour has had some very narrow escapes since ho embarked with his regiment in February last year for the seat of war. He served with them in Bulgaria and in the Crimea, being present in every action. His life wa.s saved at the Alma by a bullet striking his watch while leading on his men, and he was wounded at Inkerman, but he did not leave the Crimea until after the casualty he met with in the trenches in August last. e ~~~ ~'~ ' L~. .i ~.. d~ It . 1. 4