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EAST INDIA HOUSE, 2STTI NoTESIM, 105. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give No.ice, that the Rate or Exchange at which they will receive Cash for Bills on Bengal and Madras will, from the present date, and until further notice, be. ds. the Company's Rupee, and for Bills on Bombay Is. id. the Corn- P any's Rupee. JAMES C. MELYILL, Secretary. PRIZE CATTLE SHOW of the SMITHFIELD CLUB.—The Annual Exhibition of Prize Cattle, Seeds, Roots, Implements. &c., commences on Tuesday Moiling, and •C l O°C9 cn Friday Eveniug,-11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th December. BAZAAR, KING-STREE I', and BAKER-STREET. Open from daylight till rille in the evening. Admittance One Shilling. EXHIBITION • OF CRIMEAN PHOTOGRAPHS, 5, Pall-mall East.—Evening Exhibition from Seven till Ten, and from Ten till Five daily. Admission, Is. In foggy weather the Gallery is brilliantly lighted with gas. ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAIIRENT'S CASINO NOW OPEN for. the winter season. Principal Cornet A Piston. M. Bouleourt-Doors open at 8. Admission One Shilling. Laurent's new Varsoviana every night. MR. W. S. WOODIN as RACHEL, in Les Horaces.—Mr. W. S. WOCDIN will have the honour of giving a representation of the celebrated tragedienne, with other new feateres, every evening until further notice, in his NEW ENTER TAINMENT, the OLIO of ODDITIES, illustrated by 50 instan taneous Metamorphoses of Voice, Character, and Costume, and a PanoraMa of the beautiful Lakes of Westmoreland and Cumberland, every evening, at S.—Polygraphic-hall, King William• street, Char ing-cross. • 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 exhibitior 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 rnelodrama replete with startling positions and unex pected dem:elements •, 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 have night's: filled the Lyceum 'Theatre to overflow,- and -by means of - whose generous aid he has been enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for con tinuous repetition. Ho believes that no professor of his art las 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 'n 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 'pared 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, be 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 Pre 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 ettend a belief in the superstitions nonsense of the " Spiri tualists." Judging simply by the correspondence which has resulted, Professor Anderson's expose of spirit - rapping and his illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro duced a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt to ex pose a mischievous and impudent juggle. it is impossible 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 are expressed, and every evening, within th Lyceum, bow tables can be made to rap is exhibited and elucidated. It is respectfully requested that Uri= Public exposition will be accepted generally as Professor Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to his multitudinous correspondents. Ho regrets that the names of the great and learned of the land should have been made to figure in the documents emanatine from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem ber 20, and taken by that journal from the New York Spiri tual Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume ;—" Sir David Brewster frankly confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what he has • witnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be thoroughly nonplussed. Both of these noted men brought the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the eolution 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 t ion for them to master." Mr. D. D. Hume, the author of the above, has recently left England, and the following account of Who, and what he is, occurs in the Family herald, No. 648: —" This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and now in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout the Anglo-Saxon world as a splendidhumbug, offered him 2,000 dollars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New York. Barnum then took it for granted that mediume could be bought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was d, Hume, on lling the fact in. London lately, simply oialegireMiir =pa inlaid have been Tarr " ildre'lo ° -31411k P i *I r n a . n g (under 20), an or ' +erg' hi.a health Int be would have been afraid "raking-Ids power as a medium, and he would sooner lose his life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful. He 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 whoni might bo supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe in spirit-rapping—does spirit-rapping gain or loso by this accession to its adherents ? and, with Barnum's endorse ment to it, is this bill, drawn on ublic credulity, more likely to be n ego ti a t e d ? P ro f esso r Anpderson 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 ho knows of the mechanism by which it is effected, and the mischief to which - it tends. In the -Afornime 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 bail 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 seance 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. Irofessor 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 ever before been assembled within its walls in so short a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even. Mg, the programme being continually changed. Grand fashionable Day Performance,' on Saturday, December 1, at 2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ; Part 1. —Act 1. The Mesmeric Conch : or, the Clinical Capabilities of the Atmosphere : iu 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. Le Livro 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 which, though made entirely of glass perfectly transparent, present, the suspended so as to be visibl e t o th e eyes of all the Wizard will cause the money of hi s v i sitors to transport itself, and rain into the casket, though it s lid be closed, locked, and the key in the possession of the audience. Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Transparency of Opacity. Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wine and Spirit Store. An improvement upon the " inexhaustible bottle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will not only be in exhaustible, but will change its contents, ad infinitum, at the word of command, producing soda-water, butter-milk, Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, rum, whisky, noyeau, or any other wine or spirit required.; and finally Proving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly d r y , and occupying the whole space when tightly packed. Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Exposé 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, France, Turkey, and Sardinia. Act. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comus, in which he who seats himself will be under the magic spell, and app ear to the audience, under circumstances least expected, tion as peculiar as perplexing. in a posi- 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 A n tip o d es. 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 the eastern hemisphere. Doors open each evening at half-past 7 ; commence at 8. Private boxes, 1/. lls. 6d. and it. ls., 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 Pox-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction of Mr. Chattcrton, jun. Graud fashionable Morning Per formance on Maturday, December 1, at 2 o'clock. Doors open at half-past L Yuen tags, ;oh' No. 19,706.] PUBLICATIONS. THE NEW NOVEL. Sop ready - at all the libraries, in 3 Vols., THE HOUSE OF ELMORE. A FAMILY HISTORY. Hurst and Blackett, publishers, successors to Henry Colburu, 13, Great M ariborough-street. Third Edition, imperial 4 to., 215., PARABLES of OUR LORD. Illuctrated by FRANKLIN. Engraved in the finest style of Line Engravinz. 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Containing a Perpetual Almanac, and Acts of Parliament for Ma gistrates.—An Introduction to the Laws of England, omitting obso lete technicalities, and containing useful matter, calculated as a legal compendium for gene: rl readers, including Astutes and case, to the present time ; noticing Acts impr wing administration of jus tice, and ameliorating our criminal code, Limited Liability Act, 1855 &c.; wiih Precedents to elucidate principles. By a BARRISTER of the Temple, London. Printed for Beuning and Co., Fleet-street, and other Booksellers. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY, LONDON, 30TH NOVEMBER, 1555. To THE SHAREHOLDERS OF TIIE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. MY LORDS, LADIES, AND GENTLEMEN, The report of the Committee of Investigation was placed in my hands this morning for the first time, and soire few days mus nec :sarily elapse before I cart thoroughly all Ay - se its contents Nevertheless, for the interest or the under aking in which we arc al concerned, as well as in fairness and common justice to myself and others whose conduct is impugned, I have to re 4 uest that you will suspend your judgment until my reply is before you. In the mea while I pledge myself to prove that the report of the Committee i, based upon ml conception awl Ignorance of the Facts connected with the case they have undertaken to investig to. I am, my Lords, adies, and Gentl,men, Your most obedient servant, 1) IVID WADDINGTON. PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court o; Chancery, made hi a cause, Smith apiarist Kitipton, th Creditors of T , IOMAS STEWAIt M`if.WEN, late of a 3, Newton road, Vire;tbourne-grove, in the parish of ' addington, in the county of Middlesex, tsqu.re, who died in or about the month of August. 1855, are, by their Solicitors, on or before the 7th day of January 1856, to come in and prove their debts or claims, at the Cham:)ers to the Vice•Cha icellor sir Richard Torin Kinder ley, No. 3, Ston, - • buildings, Lincolninn, Middlesex ; or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Decree. Tuesday, the 15th day of January, 1856, at 12 o'clock at noon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upot the Claims. Dated this 30th day of November, 1855. CHARLES PU LI, Chief Clerk. HENRY WOOD, 14, Bartlett's• Buildings, Fiolborn, Plaintiff's Solicitor. HER MAJESTY'S POSTMASTER GE NTERAL will receive TENDERS for the SUPPLY o• U N IFORM CLOTHIN4 for the Letter Carrier=, gall Guards, Acce leratqr Drivers, and Riders of this department, and for the Letter Carriers of the Liverpool, Manchester, Binningharn, and Bristol P. sr Offices. ' The tenders must be enclosed in sealed covers, addressed to " Her Majesty's Postmaster-General," and superscribed, "Tender for Letter Carriers', Guards', &c., Clothing ;" and they must be deli vered at this orrice st or oefore noon on SATURDAY, the 15t1 , December, 1855. They most show the prices at which the several articles will be supplied for a period of one year and three years respectively. Rpeclmens of the Clothing to be supplie i may be seen on appli cation at the Circulation-office of this department. The p irties whose tenter is accepted will be required to enter into a contracr, and to give bond, with two sureties, in the sun, of 1001., for its due perf Tinance. General Po3t-office, November, 18i5. II""AfESTrS POSTMASTER GENERAL wlll-re , elYe TENDERS f.r the SUPPLY UNIFORM HATS for the Letter Carriers, Mail Guards, Accelera tor Drivers, 'and Riders of this department, and for the Lett. , Carriers of the Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham. and Bristo POS t-officeS• The Tenders must be enclosed in sealed covers, addressed to•" Her Majesty's Postmaster-General," and superscribed .. Tender for Letter Carriers', Guards', &c., Hats ;" and they must be d, livered at th office at or before noon on SATURDAY, the 15th December, !855. They must show the prices at which the Hal s will be supplied for a period of one year and three years respectively. Specimens of the Hats to be supplied may be seen on application at the Circulation-oftice of this department. The parties whese Tender is accepted will be required to enter into a contract, and to give bond, with two sureties, in the sum ut 5J1.. f,r the due t e rfor ance of the contract. General Post-office, November, 1855. CONTRACTS FOR FRESH BEEF. Department of the Comotroller for Victualing, Somerset-House, 28th November, 1855. THE Commissioners for Executing the Office Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Brits , std Ireland, do Hereby Give Notice, that on fIIUR ADAY, th 13 h December next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such per s ons as may be willing to contract for supplying (under separate contracts) all such quantities of FRESH BEEF f her Majesty's Ships and Vessels, st January to the 31st December, as may be demanded for the use 01 at the Ellovring places, from the 1 1856, both days included, viz.:— Chatham. Cewes. Cromarty. Deal and in the Downs. Deptford to London-bridge, inclu sive. Falmouth. Hull. Kingstown and Dublin. Leith. Milford and Pembroke. North ••;hields. Portsmosth. Queenstown and Kinsale. Greenock. thiernsey and Jersey. Harwich. Sheerness. Woolwich to Gravesend, both in elusive. ---• • None of the Contracts to be sub-let, and the Contracts for Dept ,Ord, Woolwich, Chatham, and She .rness to be taken by persons residing o t the spot, and the Cattle for hatham and Sheerness tot 'slaughtered on the spot. A Form of the Tender may be obtained, and the conditions of th. revised contracts, to wnich particular attetvion is called, may be seer, at this office, or by applying to the Superintendents of the Victual ling Establishments at Deptford and Gosport ; the - , tmerintendents of her Majesty's Donkyards at Woolwich, Chatham, Sheerness, an, Pembroke ; the Clerk in charge of her Majesty's Yard at Deal ; the Agent for the Victualling at Ilaulbowline ; the Agent for Transports at Leith; the ecretary to the Postmaster-General, Dublin; or to the Collectors of her Majesty's Customs at ea h of the other places No tender will be received atter One o'clock on the day of treaty nor any noticed unless made on the printed form provided for tin paipose ; but it will not he necessary that the party tendering or a , agent app tinted by him should attend at this office, a • the result o' the offer received from each person will be communicated to lain and his proposed sureties In writing. Every tender must be delivered at the above Office, and signed ir two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of 1,5001. for the due performance of each of Olt contracts for Sheerness, Chatham, and Portsmouth ; and in the sun , of 5001. for each of the others. TO LOVERS OF. FISH.-100 GENUINE YARMOUTH BL'►ATERS for Gs., oackage included. THESE HIGHLY ESTEEMED DELICACIES AND CHEAP ARTICLE OF FOOD forwarded to all parts, ou receipt of penny postage stamps or P. 0.0 (preferred). Send full and plain direction, county, and nearest sta tion.—Address THOS. LETTIS. jun., Fish Curer, Ot. Yarmouth. "This is the third season 11fr. , Lattis has supplied us with Tar• mouth bloaters, and we find the quality excellent.—J. Brashowe house steward. Blenheim Pal tee. —Oct. 20, 1854." " Mr. Lettis,—As soon as you send out your genuine bloaters, I shall be glad to have a supply as usual; those I had last year gave great satisfaction.— F. 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TRIESEMAR.—On 'the 29th of May, 1855, an injunction was granted by the High Court of Chancery, and on the 11th June following was made perpetual against Joseph Pranklin and others, to restrain them, under a penalty of one thou ,and pounds, from imitating this Medicine, which is protected Royal Letters Patent at England, and secured by the Seals of tilt Ecole de Pharmacia de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine. Vienna. TRIESEMAR, No. 1, is a remedy for Relaxation, gpermatorrhma. and Exhaustion of th• Cystem, whether arising from excesses, accident, or climate. To those persons who are prevented entering the married state 131 he consequences of early errors it la invaluable. TRIESEMAR, No. 2, affectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely eradicates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and Cubeb• lave so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health 'f a vast portion of the population. T I ESEMARfor that class 3' of Disorders whiwhich tt • is the great Continental Remedy u . ortunately the Eng lish physician tre ats with M r ercu y, to ' the . v it a ble destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all tl7, Arsaparilla in the world cannot remove. TI?IESEMAII, No. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smell. tnd of all nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet taltt , vithout their use being suspected. 'old in tin cans at lis. each, free by post, 2s. extra, divided inv• tarate doses, as administered ')y Valpeau, Lanemanti, Roux tk.c.—To be had Wholesale and Retail in Gander tf Johnston. es ; Hannay and Co., 63. Oxford-streot: and Sanzer, I so. i 1 Jrd-street ; R. H. Ingham, druggist, 46. NI arket-street, Manchester .1. Bradbury, bookseller, Deansgate, Bolton ; J. Priestly, chemist, ra, r.ord-street, Liverpool; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland -street , Dublin; Winn all, Birmingham. - all, bookseller, MO-street, 7 , 71 ' ;\ / 4111111 . - 1 "-": _HE WAR IN THE EAST. . • T A - C' - 14, • - • ct /j L 01 1 14, - W , ' C„,,„ _ 4 ;7 , - I t 't•• -"--cpe` - • ' - 4' - Auge `' ol• - k 4- 4tV - - 6 4 1 1: 111 , L , N._ Afk thousand their whole Oni , ( From the Times of this day.j se ni rs,,, 4 Of course we must accept the conditions ottPtegli s o_ but a grand war is a very slow one. It 'Pisisili4tlil4, every idea with which the youthful, and peatipir should add the feminine, mind had invested the grofeseii sion of -the warrior. Everything personal, indivgnal, enterprising, and romantic disappears in a vast and safe whole. Homer might well call it the "mill of Mars," for it grinds up everything put into it to one dull re: suit. It is like the operation of an act of uniformity, num ber of those bearing great andl oved names who have t b h e e ei n r. s fo h r o m veLle s d a i v e e t s o_C so r m im e ea sdiviaig w niintidl i h t t h osauc i ot n omtrts t ehu h osem e ccaoec l tin s iaf s oamp t nieno l itn s fnafil m iitlenshk o cea n eiar t f b uednr- s t , t d u t genial e a stiff preacher, rur rubric .; reflect on the mnla a vv annhehdeadyncadc;hadesibtivt druroprirtt naytnettiodsgebhtnneoce fsyi l os:, :e t . til:irg : t rne w epecoo o genn:air o inhtp r wiaaLro t dpin h gseasse E t, ~,e n e t eo th t osour anybody that might have happened to the youngest subaltern or l the rawest recruit. A name renowned in the Great Ger man. . vic tim to a mistake in a log ; half an hour afterwards the Bile surviving Biitish officer of Leipsic perishes in a - crowd; and India sends her favourite General to die sins ply of the journey. But death, at all events, is glorious and intelligible. What is neither is the disappearance and utter neutralisation of those who survive, —that is, whose names are still down in the Army List, and whose letters still reach their friends and are read even in the clubs. Their peculiar crystalisation, if we may so express it, is de stroyed ; their corners are rubbed off ; they are simply round projectiles of regulation weights, to fit certain calibres. It is not merely that we want the war to pro duce its owu heroes ; our complaint is that heroes dis appear in the war. Perhaps it is a penalty we pay for the grandeur of the scale and the perfectness of the or ganisation. As a picturesque suburb is swept away to make _room for a Tyburnia,-33 fifty mails and stage coaches, with their coachmen, guards, and horns, roll up into one train,— as the vill a ge b e lle sinks into the London kitchen-maid, and the pride of the forest is sawn into planks, so characteristics of all kinds are. effaced in the muster-rolls of a great war. Yet what an amount of genius there must be blazing away in the depths *id. cornets of that crowd. No doubt,:niany:aWcilfe, Clive, is absorbed in regimental duties, and in foe ,Clive, ts ure-wiii - be - returtedititted io action: - Ca r I)ut harder stillihe fee of those WlioSeplace_ it is to [ lead, to . A advise, .to Origibate l nt who" re incessantly thwarted by the difficulties which even the-best and - most sensible Men fled in co-operation. The spirit of en terprise stagnates in the dead lock of contrary opi n i o n * : Doubtless, there is wisdom in the multitude of counsel ' lors ;• doubtless, dangers are 'avoided that might have escaped the eye of one man, however circumspect ; yet genius itself becomes a retarding, instead of a moving power in these consultations, and the only result is that nothing is done for fear of a resua that might, perhaps, have been better than nothing. The difficulty is even aggravated by the interf..lrence of unseen advisers. The chiefs before Troy found themselves occasionally tapped on the shoulder by a goddess who had come at a bound from Olympus to pull theta out of a scrape. The electric telegraph, if it makes a still longer journey, takes a's ‘, we know not why, a much longer time, and does not always appear to be the best possible adviser. But it is not merely personal genius and personal qualities of all kinds that are " thrown into the melting pot ; " there never was so great a muster, and so little use, of national characteristics. Our owa solid infantry, our heavy cavalry, our perfect artillery, the dashing Zouave, the scientific French engineer, the active Pied. montese, and the rough Turkish troops, who evidently hire more in them than appears to the Western eye, furnish a variety of instruments such as is rarely ob tained in modern armies. We have ourselves added to the variety, by the formation of German and Swiss Le gi ins, a Turkish Contingent., and we know not what besides. There are also army works corps, and trans port corps, and "navvies," and every supplementary service that can be imagined by land or by sea. • With all these auxiliaries it might have been expected that while the grand army was moving at a pace of its own, or taking its o w n time for doing anythit g before Sebastopol, some smaller enterprises would be attempted elsewhere. The autumn has been most unusually propitious for any undertaking, by land or by sea, that we were likely to attempt. With such a force, and with three whole months to do it— long enough for a march from Sebastopol to Moscow— ' it certainly is unaccountable that we have done nothing to interrupt the communication between Perekop and the Russian camp, or, at least, to compel so large an e cort as to aggravate the drain on the Russian army. We are afraid to move more than a day's journey from our po,itions, having the fear of the Cossacks always before us ; and at the same time we hold, not only at Eupatoria, but on the Dardanelles, and now on their road to Shumla, a large force of irregular cavalry, quite as good as the Cossacks for outpost work, for forays, and such desultory enip'oyments. We have done a little in the way of intercepting supplies, but we must be pardoned ff we think it but little. [ PRICE 4D. STAMPED SD. The preparations made for an attack on Kaffa, on Arabat, and elsewhere indicate that even in the cautious judgment of the chiefs more might be done with ad vantage, if it were possible. But, so far, Omar Pasha is the fortunate man, alone spared from councils of war, and allowed to act single handed. Are we to suppose that among the many thousand officers of all nation& in our army in the Crimea, and the soldiers of all kinds at their disposal, there is no one who could do what Omar Pasha seems to do as a matter of course whenever he has the opportunity ! Yes, there are two or three at Kars, the chief of whom is there bermno. 41.0 or tne Dritish service are carefully devised to discourage, and so to banish, the officer who combines with experience the highest description of professional ability. But to revert to the hero of the Danubian campaign, now fortunately released through Russian forests, army over from Crimean trammels. He h as con d ucte d a l arge force of irregulars into the inte r i or o f a country notorious in all ages for its diffi cu lty. Wi t h out any basis of ope fyound a rivers, till his hwe a rations, except that be h o ld s th e coast at no considerable m o u distance, mountains sh he and has strongly fortified on the opposite banks of a wide river. The situation is very suggestive of Alma, but Omer Pacha's treatment of it was not quite the same. Col lecting his army, he planted some cannon to occupy the attention of the enemy, and then explored the river up and down. Crossing it at four points, he drove the Russians from their intrenchments with great slaughter and little loss, and at the last date was following them on the road to Kutais. The country before him is said to be a second Affghanistan, and we are now approach. ing a season of the year that would add to the parallel ; yet we hear no fears expressed for Omer Pasha and his gallant little army. So unbounded, after all, is the con fidence that people naturally place in enterprise and genius in ever so great difficulties and with ever so in adequate means ! We are not saying that the same risks are to be run with 200,000 men as with 20,000, or that we ought necessarily to give up the advantage of good advice for the sake of ono command ; but it is rather bard on our officers, our soldiers, and our cause that the only opportunity of personal distinction should be reserved for an Austrian renegade and an army of Turkish irregulars. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1. 1855. MR. CARDWELL AND MR. HENLEY ON THE WAR. The annual Council dinner given at Oxford to the ex- Mayor took place in the Town-hall on Thursday evening. The quaint old hall, hung with evergreens and flags, was tastefully decorated in honour of the occasion, while a goodly show was made upon the tables by the corporation plate, including the coronation cup of Charles 11., toge ther with the splendid pieces of plate presented to Alder man Sadler by his fellow-citizens, and to Alderman Spiers upon the termination of his mayoralty. The chair was occupied by the Mayor (Mr. Pike), and among those pre sent were the Earl of Abingdon, the Vice-Chancellor of the University, the ex-Mayor (Mr. Alderman Sadlet), Mr. Henley, M.P., Mr. Cardwell, M.P., Mr. G. G. Harcourt, 'M.P., Colonel North, M.P.; Mr. - J. H. Langston, M.P., Sir James Fergusson, M.P., Sir H. Versey, Major Reed, M.P., the Registrar of the University, the Senior and Junior Proctors, Professor Johnson, Dr. Ac;and; the High Sheriff of Oxfordshire (Mr. B. Whippy), Aldermen Thorpe, Spiers, 13roFning, Dudley, &c. The cloth having been withdrawn, . The MAYOR pledged the company in the " loving cup," which then circulated with the toast peculiar to the loyal city-:-" May God preserve the Church and State, and prosper the good city of Oxford."- After the usual loyal toasts, The MAYORrose to give "bar gallant Allies." With the health of the Emperor and Empress of the French they roust not forget that of the King of Sardinia, who would be welcomed on his arrival in this country by every lover of civil and religious liberty ; and that of the Sultan, who had - proved himself well worthy of the assistance given him by the Western Powers. (Cheers.) In proposing " The Army and Navy," the MAYOR Coupled with the toast the name of Sir James Fergus son, who.had, but- lately returned from the Crimea. fie happened to know, that it had been the intention Of the honourable 'b'aronet, on coming to his estate, 'to leave the army ; but Sir James had, in the most noble 'manner, refused to do so when war was declared ; had shared in the dangers of Alma and Inkerman ; and (though there was less eclat, but not less credit attaching (,0 this) had served during the whole winter in the trenches. (Drunk with three times three.) SirJ. FERGIISSON (who woro the Crimean medal and was most warmly received) said, the manner in which the toast had been drunk showed that the enthusiasm which prevailed throughout every part of this country had not found cold hearts to respond to it in Oxford. It was thus that every soldier was received on his return home ; it was „hat the great heart of the nation spoke forth on every oc ;asion ; and it was thus that our armies would be sent on from year to year to fight gallantly for their country. He was now no longer in the army, b ecause o ther duties called nim, and therefore he could the better appreciate and join in those praises which had been so justly bestowed upon t. Although we had no longer that gallant band to fight or us who went forth from their country last year ; al though he who commanded them was laid low, sacrificed ') . y his proud sense of duty and by devotion to his coun ry ; though the footsteps of that army might be traced )y those frequent mounds which marked the last resting dace of so many gallant hearts; though the force now in the East consisted, perhaps, mainly of young and untried ,coops, yet the spirit which animated the warriors of Alma 1d of fnkerman was not less alive in that army now , i',ach man who came home testified to this. They might fall into excesses to which all armies were liable; they might have their faults ; but everybody bore witness to t le eagerness with which the men clamonred to bo led to v ctory, and to the diligence with which these young sol lrers laboured to fit themselves for the duties for which they were destined. He would not believe that one defeat ,u,312 as they had suffered at the Redan—and he would not ;all it a defeat, since the object for which they fought was ,btained there, although for the moment our troops were repulsed—but call it what they would, he did not believe this would shake the confidence of England in her brave .oldiers. She knew well that in the hour of noel they .vould be found at their posts, ready to fight her battles Lnd to shed their blood in the cause of their country. (Cheers.) The Earl of ABINGDON proposed the health of the wor thy alderman who had just, for the third time, passed the civic chair, and whose conduct throughout his public career eminently entitled him to the confidence of his fellow dtizens. Alderman SADLER returned thanks, and enumerated :ome of the works of improvement ant of progress in which ne had been enabled to assist during his year of office. The MAYOR, in giving the next toast, said that at the ,resent eventful period those present would doubtless like to hear from their representatives something of what was ving on in the world of politics, but as this was a social entertainment, and not an arena for discussion, he was afraid they must endeavour to restrain their curiosity. He proposed "The Health of the two members for the city, Langston and Mr. Cardwell." (Cheers.) Mr. LANGSTON briefly returned thanks. Mr. CARD WELL, in acknowle iging the toast, said that, having been absent from England during much the larger portion of the Parliamentary recess, he was sincerely re joiced at being enabled to return in time to b 3 present at this splendid banquet to the oldest personal friend of whom ,e could boast among the citizens of Oxford. After refer ring to the recent visit os Alderman Sadler to the Paris 2ahibition, Mr. Cardwell continued—l am sure that our tiend conveyed to Paris not only an expression of your Impathy and satisfaction with the great ceremony which wok him there, but also an expression of those deeper feel lags which animate you when you contemplate that now , nd firm brotherhood in arms which unites us with our ueighbours across the Channel in the vindication of the iberLies of Europe. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I shall observe, I i.)ust, with perfect certainty the rule which has been laid iown by the worthy Mayor and those who have preceded ,ue, and I shall not refer to any-topic which can give rise o difference of opinion at this festive board ; but I think I. should misinterpret your feelings and desires if I ab ained from all reference to those engrossing topics of .vhich alone you think in your solitude and which alone you celebrate in your festive public meetings. These are rational and not party topics ; they are the sentiments Lot of parties among Englishmen, but of United England —(hear)—and I shall, with your permission, say a few cords upon the subject which now fills your thoughts. leutlemen, that great Exhibition in Paris, conducted in no small degree by the cordial co-operation of England and France, was closed by the Sovereign of that mighty king dom in words relating not to that peaceful assembly but to be alliance of England and France in arms—words worthy if the occasion on which they were spoken, and exciting, I relieve, a cordial sympathy in your hearts. The appeal .vas made by the Emperor of the French, as to the final abitrement of the great struggle in which we are engaged, to the universal voice of Europe, to public opinion, and to iliblic law. For, gentlemen, as there is a municipal law in 3very well-governed kingdom, and as when that municipal aw is invaded by aggression every private citiz .n becomes civil officer to put down the wrong and restore the right, ea there is in civilised Europe an international law ; and ,vhen that law is invaded for the purposes of guilty ambi time, then other countries become the lawful and the just instruments for vindicating the liberties of Europe and or maintaining the peace of the world. It would be a waste of time, and worse than a waste of time, to recur te she long past occurrences which led to the origin of the war ; but this at least is clear—that the guilty act by which the peace of Europe was disturbed, and the law of nations broken, was the act of our enemy, Russia. Deep was that ;wilt, and signal already have been the consequences. In our security at home it is difficult for us to estimate what `lave been the consequencas to Russia. We can form but I very inadequate idea of fields deprived of their cultiva tors by a ruthless conscription, which has already involved a very large proportion of the whole people ; we know nothing of nascent manufactures cut up by the roots, nor of deep wounds inflicted upon her commercial and social irosperity, which the present generation, in all probabi lity, will never live to see healed. The scourge of war must uo doubt fall on all who are engaged in it. I believe It was a saying of the Duke of Wellington that there .vas no greater calamity than a battle won except a battle lost, and so the guilty ambition of Russia has made Eug lish women widows and left English children fatherless ; it oss cost us in one year of war more public treasure than we had saved 40 years of peace ; and it has done somewhat ;.o retard the wonderful development of our great commer cial power but it has left us conquerors in pitched battles, captors of fortresses believed to be impregnable, and un disputed masters of the sea. The Emperor of Russia, on the other hand, has to refer to fleets cowering behind for resses from fear to meet the enemy, or sunk to the bot tom of the sea by the hands of him who framed them as the instruments of his power, Tale looks to Sebastopol given up in ensanguinod ruins to his enemy, and he sees that even Sweaborg, the outwork of his capital, has felt a foretaste of our strength. (Rear ) This has been the result of the campaign of 1855. This is the way in which Provi dence has blessed the arms of the Allies. In terms of na tural eloquence, which 1 am sure went to the heart of every member of this vast assembly the gallant officer who re turned thanks for the army, spoke to you of the achieve ments of our army, and of the duty of citizens at home. I apprehend that there cannot be any difference of opinion at home as to our duty. Our duty is to give the most vigo rous support to the Crown of England, shrinking from no sacrifice and sparing no exertion for the successful prose cution of the cause. (Cheers.) Justice to our soldiers, who for our sakes have shed their blood like water, fidelity to our Ally who has mingled his sacrifices with ours—a wish to impress upon our enemy that feeling of desire for peace, and to give us just satisfaction, which is the first essential condition of a return to peace—regard for the honour, for the prosperity, and for the safety of our coun try—speak to us in terms not only so clear and decisive as to carry conviction, but I believe as to exclude all possible difference of opinion. Gentlemen, with regard to the future, there can be, I apprehend, no doubt that the feeling of this country is one of sincere desire for the earliest attainment of a safe, honourable, and satisfactory peace. (Rear.) What a private man would do when engaged in a mortal conflict in which he b e li eve d h e was in th right —what you did when you began this conflict— what the Emperor of the French spoke of when ho ad dressed his assembled subjects—what is the firm and settled character of the English people, namely, a resolute and calm determination to attain just objects by vigorous exertions—is, I believe, the unanimous opinion of those whom I have the honour to address, and I conceive it to be the universal feeling and opinion of the English people. (Cheers.) With regard to what these terms shall be, doubtless terms of peace must vary with the events of war • but of this I am satisfied, that, as you went to war for Objects of international law and for the vindication of public liberty, as you have conducted it with the highest and most exalted courage, so you will maintain it to the end in that same spirit ; resolved to attain the same ob jects for which you engaged in conflict and determined to maintain your cause. (Loud cheers.) [A Voice—" And make Russia pay the piper."] (Laughter and applause.) I know not that it is possible for any of us to form a clear conception of the terms upon which peace may eventually be concluded, but of this I am sure, that whenever it shall be possible, whenever terms shall be offered which promise you that satisfaction for which you entered into the fight, it will be the duty of every man, whatever be his station, without reference to any other object, to let all the ends ho aims at be his country's, his God's, and truth's, and with a single purpose, for the vindication of European liberty and the safety and honour of England, to determine • upon the questions laid before him. This being, as I be lieve, the universal feeling of Englishmen, I look forward with earnest hope to tho time when, by the blessing of r Providence upon the gallant exertions of our troops and on the noble sacrifices that have been made in arms, it shall be the wisdom, the policy, and the determination of the enemy to submit to just and satisfactory terms of peace. I trust we may then sheathe the sword, having added another chaplet to the imperishable laurels of England, having vindicated before Europe, first, the forbearance with which you entered into the war, next, that invincible ob stinacy and courage (which i s the in•born virtue of the English people) with which you have sustained it, and lastly, that sense of public duty and that firm regard for justice with which you shall be permitted to close it. If that be your fortune, you will have added another page to the glorious history of England, and you will have ac quired another title to that highest place in the records of fame : " For there stand heroes who through loud alarms In bloody fields pursued renown in arms ; And chief were those who not for glory fought, But with their toil their people's safety bought." That this may be the glorious privilege reserved for Eng land must be the sincere prayer, the earnest desire, of every man who has witnessed, as we have witnessed, those im perishable deeds of glory by which the army and the navy of England have added in the course of the present year to the greatness of our name. (Cheers). " The Health of the Vice-Chancellor and the Members of the University," next given, was responded to by the VICE-CHANCELLOR. The MAYOR proposed " The Health of the three County Members—Mr. Henley, Mr. Harcourt, and - Col. North." Mr. HENLEY, in returning thanks, said that, in spite of the warning given them from the chair to avoid political subject-e it was impossible for all present not to feel that they were met together under somewhat anxious circum stances. (Hear, hear.) We were engaged in:a great war in tho East, end he wished he could say that the West was altogether free from clouds, and that the horizon in that direction was quite clear and serene. He believed there was no one who would not be glad to see .what in the cant language of the day was called Meesiecure and honourable peace" (a - term of which, by the way, be had.. never yet heard any man give a defieiteee4 ) Ai, , e_e;perience led him to the conclusion that, ;ven Awo*-4.trong-peruant fell out, unless by some provid en t) t I interposition the mind of one of them was changed—which did not very often hap pen—nothing came of it until one or the other got a very good thumping. (" Hear, hear,"Aertiefaughter.) This al ways produced some effect, and thee things which to the defeated seemed unjust, became just and admissible, un palatable conditions were swallowed, and a secure and honourable peace was the result. Ho c nctirred in every thing which had been said in praise of our noble army, and he did not believe, whenever this struggle terminated, that England would find the prestige of her army weakened, or her glory diminished. (Cheers.) The country throughout seemed anxious to afford the Government such support as should enable them to carry on the war and secure the ends for which it was commenced ; ho saw nowhere any signs of flinching. From one end of the land to the other no body seemed to dispute the justice of the grounds upon which we went to war ; no one pretended to say that the causes of the war had ceased to exist, or that the future was secure ; and he did not believe the people would give up the struggle into which we had entered with our ally until the object for which we had commenced it was se cured, and safely secured. (Cheers.) If this country were to bring the war to a conclusion before it had good grounds for doing so, all the blood and all the treasure which had been spent (and this was not a little, as they had been reminded) would be wasted ; and then, though he might not survive to witness it, many a man present would live to see the fight begin over again, and as much more blood and trea sure would have to be expended. (Hear, hear.) The hall in which they were now met was wont to be used for other purposes, and he recollected an incident which took place there so apposite to the subject which now occupied every mind that he could not help recalling it. A landed pro prietor of that county went to law—he believed about nothing more than the turning a goose or a jackass upon a piece of waste. There was an array of bigwigs in the hall, and no end of fees. It was in the days of old Serjeaut Ludlow. At last the case came on, the jury was sworn, the people is court wore gaping to hear, and the wretched plaintiff stood behind his counsel. The barristers whis pered one to another, two words came from the judge, and then a verdict was taken for the defendant upon six pleas and for the plaintiff upon six pleas, with leave to move. (A laugh.) Of course the uninitiated wondered what it all meant, and the wretched plaintiff. leaning over to his counsel, said, " Serjeant, what have I got ?" Ser. jeaet Lud ow immediately turned round to him and said, " You've got nothing, and you've lost all your money." (Laughter) Now, that would be exactly the case if this country were to make au unsafe peace —we should have gained nothing and lost all our money. (Cheers.) He hoped this would not be done It must be recollected that we had entered into a great European struggle—in intimate alli ance, thank God, with another great European power. In this struggle, reckoning Sardinians, Turks, French, and English, it was nu exaggeration to say that 100,000,000 of people were arrayed on the one side and 60,000,000 on the other. It was a fearful struggle, and he thought they ought to rejoice at the language used at the closing of the Paris Exhibition by our great ally, who when he said that the decision of this struggle was an European question, clearly had in his mind Ihe idea that principles of justice and equity must obtain in settling this great quarrel, and that neither France nor England nor the allies together must be led away by any false glory to ask for terms which the interests of Europe did not demand, but that it must be looked apon with large views, with an eye to the common interests of all Europe. In his opinion the honour of this country would be eventually secured if, after so lavish an expenditure of blood and treasure, we should prove to Europe that we had ;been actuated by no selfish .natives, that we had been stractling to accomplish no low and unworthy objects , butthat we had been lighting in be half of the security and the welfa,ve of the whole civilised world. (Choe, 8.) _ _ Col. NCieTts, f'dlowing up the remarks of his right hon. colleague, said, that certainly no war had ever been entered into by this country with greater fairness or with less of persoe al feeline than the pr es ent. It was un dertak e n t o gratify no ambition, but to establish the freedom of the whole world, and he for one hoped the Englishman was not yet:born who would wish to see peace brought about unless it redounded to the honour and glory of his country. (Great cheering.) Our countrymen had shed their blood nobly abroad; at home the people had not been behind hand in furnishing the sinews of war ; and ho was sure considerations of money would never induce them to desire a hasty and insecure peace. In the French nation we pos sessed a noble ally, as anxious as we could be for peace when it crnlld be honou,rablyobtained, but also determined never to terminate the contest until they could insure such peace as would reflect honour on those nations which had undertaken the war against the common foe. (Cheers.) Mr. G. G. HARCOURT said if Mr.Cobjen had been there, and had denied the justice of the war, and declared that the negotiations of Vienna ought to have brought about a pacific solution, he might have • , isen tempted to enter into an argument in order to combat such a notion. His right hon. friend (Mr. Cardwell) had, however, laid down so distinctly, and so eloquently, those principles of interna tional law and public morality upon which the justifica tion of this war was rested by Parliament and by the na tion—ho had stated so properly that the aggression on the part of the Ca sr was perfectly of lynnwo.rraut spoken so truly o f the determinationerfe thisbiLTityhatdo prosecute the war to a satisfactory term i na tion, that he (Mr. Harcourt) h ope d t h e members for both the city and county iu the next session of Parliament would be found unanimous in their determination to give a vigorous sup port to such measures of military policy as might be brought forward by the Government • that they would unani mously supply those means which, although burdensome to the country, were, in this unfortunate condition of affairs, necessary to carry the war to a successful termina tion ; and that it would be found there was no more diffe rence of opinion than prevailed, he was happy to say , among those now present. Upon the subject of the war, then, he would really, in the expression of his opinion, adopt the language of his right hon. friend : he could not speak more justly—he could not speak inure distinctly. At the same time let no man doubt that he (Mr. Harcourt) was as much impressed as any one with the calamities under which we were suffering in consequence of this war. Three years ago P a rli amen t had hoped to continue its progress in financial reform, and in gradually lightening the bur dens of the people, while during the last two years it had been their painful duty to increase those burdens. He was convinced, however; that if the reasons adduced by the Government for the continuance of our present taxation, and possibly for its augmentation, should be satisfactory, he should gratify his constituents much more by giving his assent even to that increase, if necessary, than by shrink ing from the sacrifices required to place our military and naval for,;es upon thst footing which alone could insure to us a safe and honourable peace. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Alderman SADLER said the people of Oxford would never desire to see the sword sheathed, whatever burdens might be imposed in consequence, until the aggressive ten dencies of Russia were repressed, and a safe and honour able peace was arrived at. Ho concluded by proposing "The health of the Lord-Lieutenant of Berkshire, the Earl of Abing_ ion." The Earl of ABINGDON, in returning thanks, observed that we were on the eve of welcommg among us a Sove• reign who, at a time when popular and constitutional principles were almost unknown on the Continent, had secured to his country a free and constitutional Govern ment, and whose troops had proved themselves worthy, by their achievements in the field, of the great alliance Ley had formed, and of the companionship of French and English soldiers. He hoped that, with such allies, we should inflict upon the enemy that signal chastisement— that "good thumping," to use the homely phrase of his right hon. friend—which would bring about, not a h o ll ow truce, but a glorious and successful issue of the war and a permanent peace (Cheers.) " The health of the High Sheriff of the county" was next drunk, and duly responded to. Mr. LANGSTON was delighted not only at the opinions which had been enunciated by the various speakers with reference to the war, but at the feelings s o unequ i vocally expressed on the part of those present. (Hear, hear.) H e proposed " The health of t he Ma y or. " " The health of the Proctors" was given by the MAYOR; and The SENIOR PROCTOR, in acknowledging the toast, con gratulated the city functionaries on the cessation of " Town and Gown" rows. The VICE-CsANCELLOR of the University then proposed "The Aldermen and M a gistrates of the City," w hi c h was spoken to by Alderman BROWNING. In responding to the toast of " The Visitors," Sir H. VERNEY observed that it was with the greatest delight he saw that all classes were animated by one feel ing alone, and that was a determination to carry on the present contest until a safe and honourable peace was ob tained. He passed a high eulogium upon the Bing of Sar dinia for his efforts to emancipate that country from priestly dominion, and to uphold there the cause of civil and religious freedom. It was a most interesting sight when other States were cowering at the feet of despotic sovereigns, to see Sardinia, as he had seen it during his late stay in Italy, rising above its neighbours and throw ing itself heart and hand into the struggle which was taking place in Europe. They could not feel too grateful to his Majesty for the part taken by him in the endeavour to check the ambition of Russia, and to fight the battle of liberty a gainst despotism. • (Cheers.) Major REED was happy to see that the sentiments put forward by that small section of the community called the Peace-at-any-price party found no ec h o i n the City of Ox• ford. ,(Hear.) The people of England hail evidently arrived at the conviction that this war, to be brought to a just and honourable conclusion, must be prosecuted with the great. est vigour. Gentlemen of different political opinions had that evening expressed the one universal feeling as to the prosecution of the war, and he wassatiefied that whatever Government might be In power the House of Commons would unite in giving them a most cordial support in car rying on this contest * He did hope, however, that the Government would take the earliest opportunity of placing before the country proper light the position towards us of some other nations; with regaid to which an ex planation was highly necessary. (Hear,liear.) The King of Sardinia desorved the warmest encomiums tar his spirited conduct, and would meet, no doubt, with the most enthu siastic reception. But what was to be the position of some of the neighbouring nations? Were they to consider Aus tria as an active or a passive ally? For his part he could not understand that a nation' should call itself our ally without really acting in alliance with us. (Hear, hear.) His opinion would best be expressed in the words of Pope : " A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love--with ono resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be; My friend must hate the man who injures me." Mr. CARDWELL proposed " the Health of the Sheriff of Oxford." Mr. CASTLE, in responding, declared that the opinions of a certain portion of the members of the House of Com mons on the subject of the war were by no means in har mony with those, at all events, of the inhabitants of Ox ford. The citizens there were strongly opposed to the views expressed by . Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Bright, and others, and the conduct of that party had been arraigned in a manner which was not to be mistaken. (Hear, hear.) He entertained no doubt as to the valour of our soldiers and sailors, or as to the means possessed by England and France to bring the war to a satisfactory termination ; and on the part of the people of Oxford ho was sure he might say that no sacrifices would be grudged to bring the war to a conclusion which should be honourable to this country and satisfactory to the world at large. (Cheers.) The Health of the Stewards, and thanks to them for their valuable exertions," spoken to by Me. Ablerutih, Spiess, — brought the- Bsts'of toasts tati-nottchksicock,Aild night had nearly elapsed before the speeches terminated and the chairman vacated his seat. AUSTRALIA. The following particulars are from Mr. Khull'e gold circular of the Ist and Bth of September : WEEK ENDING SEPT. 1. The escorts have brought from— Mount Alexander and Bendigo 20,716 Ballarat, including Geelong 16,515 Mary borough The Ovens 6,881 Daisy-hill M`lvor Avoca 1,83 1,743 278 5G,394 and year 1,331,933 Gold shipped in 1855 1,585,626 Per Wong& Wonga, to Sydney Per White Star, to Liverpool Per British Trident, to Calcutta .. Per Lady Bird, to Launceston . 8 Per Burra Burra, to Adelaide Per City of Sydney, to Sydney WEEK ENDING SEPT. 8. The escorts have brought-from— Mount Alexander and Ben- oz. digo Ballarat, including Geelong 19,•232 Maryborough 8,04 Daisy-hill . Avoca BOO 1,671,879 -- oz. Amount this week 51,361 and yoar 1,383,344 Gold shipped in 1855 Per Hannah and Hong Kong Per Telt graph, to Sydney , Per Merlin, to Calcutta 1,671,879 822 2,000 1,163 1,675,8 4 The difference between 56,394 ounces and' 51,361 ounces is not a falling off, as the Ovens escort is only once a fortnight, and you will observe that the Ovens escort added 6,884 ounces to the first amount. The averlke makes our export of gold about 11,000,000/, a-year. Freight, exchange,. and insurance remain unchanged. The price of gold is 765. to 764. 3d, The White Star had on board 85,196 ounces, of which the following amounts were shipped by the seve ral banks : Bank of Australasia Bank of New South Wales Union Bank of Australia Bank of Victoria London Chartered Bank Oriental Bank Corporation Ounces. 20,000 _ 15,016 _ 15,000 _ 11,001 _ 9,189 - 3,467 73,702 The net increase of our population by excess of arrivals over departures has not been very great during the test two weeks. It was 816 for the week ending the Ist of September, and only 313 last week—making 41,201 for the year. Since the above particulars repeating the last week's arrivals of gold per escorts were made uo, the Ovens escort has arrived with 6,691 ounces. The shipments by the Kent will be about 130,000 ounces, and it is generally anticipated that exchange will decline 1 or 2 per cent. On Sunday evening an extensive fire broke out at Sandridge; where the Bay terminus of the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway is situated. The fire broke out in the upper floor of the Ship Inn, a brick building, and soon spread to a long wooden bowling-alley attached to the inn, These bowling alleys, by the way, introduced by the Americans, are as popular here as in New York. From the bowling alley it spread to a large shipchandler's store, also. of wood, the pro perty of Inglis, Adams, and Graham. Here a large stock of goods was destroyed. The other buildings de stroyed were May's butcher's shop, Brown Brothers' shipchandlery store, the London Restaurant, the Chusan Boarding-house, Dawson's hairdresser's shop, two cigar shops, a general store, and some smaller buildings. All these, except the Ship Inn, were of wood. Liardet's Hotel bears a charmed life ; it was licked by the flames; but, having ()lily one window on the side nearest the con flagration, the engines kept it from igniting. The value of property destroyed is estimated at about 20,0001., of which not more than 6,0001. or 7,0001. is covered by insurance. Within the last week a little note of preparation for the new constitution has Veen sounded. Orders have been issued to the colonial engineer to inspect and sur vey the Queen's Theatre, with a view to its conversion into an " Upper House." NEW SOUTH WALES. (Prom, the Sydney Morning Herald of the Bth of Sept.) With the opening of summer the produce of onr gold fields promises to be more abundant, and the full prices, according to careful assay, given at the Sydney branch of the Loyal Mint, offer every encouragement to our gold miners. The western and southern escorts arrived this morning, and delivered at the Colonial Trea sury the following quantities of gold dust :—From the western fields, 1,626 oz, 18 dwts. 16 grs. —namely, from Bathurst, J 27 oz. ; Sofala, 546 oz. 19 dwts. 16 gni. ; Tambaroora, 211 oz. 19 dwts. ; Avisford, 683 oz. 16 d wts. ; Louisa Creek, 57 oz. 4 dwts. From the southern fields, 1,378 oz. 9 dwts. 6 grs.—namely, from Goulburn, 489 oz. 13 dwts. 12 grs. ; Braidford, 849 oz 15 dwts. 18 grs. ; Major's Creek, 39 oz. The total amount of go!d dust received by both escorts was 3,005 oz. 7 dwts. 22 grs. The amount of gold dust imported into the Sydney Branch of the Royal Mint, for the purpose of coinage, during the week ending to-day, has been 1,699 ounces. The Mint issued to-day 13,000 sovereigns. In tallow the market is extremely dull, presenting a marked contrast to the activity, attended with high prices, which we have so lately reported. POST-OFFICE _NOTICES. The following notices have been issued from the Post office : " LETTERS FOR NORWAY. "On and from the Ist of December next the packet communication between Denmark and Norway will cease, and the mails for Norway will consequently be forwarded through Sweden until further notice. " During the period of conveyance of these mails via Sweden the rate of postage to be taken on letters ad dressed to Norway will be ls. sd. the half•ounce, and so on, according to the scale for charging inland letters. "This rate comprises both the British and foreign postage on letters addressed to Norway, and constitutes the whole charge to the place of their destination, and it may be either paid in advance or the letters may be forwarded unpaid, at the option of the sender, except, however, i❑ the case of registered letters, the postage upon which, as well as the registration fee, must be paid in advance." " LETTERS FOR THE COLONY OF NATAL. " Information having been received from the Govern ment of Natal, the letters addressed to that colony, when forwarded from the United Kingdom by a vessel proceeding only as far as the Cape of Good Hope, will be liable in future to an additional charge, on delivery, for their conveyance from the Cane to Natal, the Post master-General thinks it necessary to make this regula tion known to the public, and at the same time to give notice that, under the above circumstances, letters for Natal will henceforth be transmitted only by private ships proceeding to Natal itself, unless specially addressed to be sent by a vessel sailing to the Cape of Good Hope. " The postage chargeable in this country upon a letter for Natal, whether transmitted by a ship the Cape (and independent of any colonial charge), is usual rate of 81 the half ounce, which mu st in all ca ses be paid in advance." d ire ct or thezi APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Natnes of gentlemen who passed their examination in the Science and practice of medicine, and received certificates to practice, on Thurs day, Nov. 29, 1855:—John Lurnsden Propert, New Cavendish-street; Hugh Mortimer Rowland, Ironbridge; Wm. Townsend, Sydwall, Shropshire; Chas. Nottidge, Streatham; Francis calvert, York. THE BATTLE OF INGOUR. Official Despatch. (From, lust Night's Gatette.) FOREIGN-OFFICE., Nov. 29. to The tb E Major e asri a mm r lof ymoonrs ohnye. Clarendon errmpkajc h eh ai ec yi,n r sAo eie osmi v ain, d.a despatch eisisiwonheirehatt frOm attached echfoed i. lowing is a copy :- Camp; Shanglann, ' , inv. 7th, 1855. My Lord,--I - have to:infiirm your hirdebip that Omer Pacha, having collected of dspot -of provisions at Tchim shera, moved on by the searcosist to the mouth of the river Ertiss-Tchal, where a standing bridge was lime iliately constructed for the passage of the troops. The advanced guard, consisting of 16 battalions.of infantry and 3 battalions of chassenrsi unler Lieutenant-Colonel Ballar 1 , the whole commanded by Ferhad Pacha (Baron Stein), moved on the 28th of October to the village of Ertiss-zkalsk. From that day until the Ist November, his highness was occupied in sending up provisions to the advanced guard, in moving other troops to support it, and in esta blishing depots at Godova, at the mouth of - -the Ertiss- Zehal, whence to provision his army fora forward move ment. On the first instant the advanced guard moved about ten miles forward, having its advanced posts on the River Ingur, opposite an old ruined castle called Rooki, on the road to Sugdidi. • His highness joined the advanced guard himself on the 3d instant, his total force consisting, of 4 brigades (32 battalions) of infantry, 4 battalions 'of chasseurs, and . 1,000 cavalry, with 27 field. piecea and Illininnitain guns, r in all about 20,090. men ,rcnialtidor o his Isick, bout 10110 ti 144,. being. 044 eldlnpiteect the C4cfs d0va,..7 '' - t ,_„. : ..:',..:;..; 1 Lio ► On the 4th instant his higtmeeis com►rienced conetrnde . ing batteries on the right bank of the Ingur, with a view. of menacing the enemy by the ford at Ruki. These batteries were armed on the following night, and opened their fire on the morning of the 6th instant about noon. On the same morning his highness- moved - 3 brigades of infantry (24 battalions) with 3 batteries, with an ad vanced guard of 3i battalions of chasseurs and four guns, under the command of Colonel Ballard, down the right bank of the river, a distance of about seven-miles, where a branch of the river was forded to an island, which is some miles in length, and from a half to two miles wide. . After proceeding along this island for about two miles some Mingrelian militia were encountered near a ford, which crosses from the island to the left bank of the river ; they speedily retired, when the enemy opened a fire of artillery and a heavy fire of musketry from the in trenchments on the left bank, thrown up fur the protec tion of the ford. _ _ It very soon became evident that to force a direct passage at this ford would be a very difficult undertaking. His highness, therefore, while occupying the enemy at this ford, sent officers to the right and left, and fords were discovered in both directions ; one about three quarters of a mile above or to the left of the main ford, the other about one mile and, a half below or to the right of the main ford. Troops were immediately sent to pass these fords ; that to the left was unprotected. The passage was made by two battalions of infantry and three companies of ehasseurs by about 4 p.m. His Highness having en trusted me with this command I moved them by a wag gon track through the forest unperceived by the enemy, until within . 600 yards o f th e pesitiott at the main ford, which his troops were occupied in defending from a direct attack. The Turkish troops advanced readily to the attack, taking the enemy and his entrenchments in reverse. The enemy immediately fell back, and attempted to break through the Turks in column, but being met by a heavy fire in their front and on both flanks, they broke and dispersed in the forest, leaving us masters of the field, with three pieces of their field artillery and six ammunition waggons in our possession. At the moment that the Russian columns attempted to break through our line, I grieve to say that my aide-de-camp, Captain Dymock, 95th Regiment, having first had his horse killed under him, was wounded close by my si le, encou raging the Turkish troops. He died soon afterwards. His death is to be deplored, as her Majesty has lost in him the services of a most promising and brave young officer, for whom his highness Omer Paella has frequently expressed to me his high esteem. This young officer had accompanied me from the commencement of the war in Turkey. Whilst this operation was proceeding on the left a brigade moved down to the right, under Osman Pasha, and forced a passage in front of a force believed to be of four battalions, but without artilleryand not entrenched. This operation succeeded, and soon after dark the Turk ish forces on the left bank were in communication from right to left, and complete masters of that side of the river throughout this length. _ _ _ The loss on the side of the Turks has, been 51.6 killed and wounded; of whom 68 are killed. and 4 miming. ' His highness has been pleased to express himself In terms of the highest satisfaction of the conduct of the Bristish officers who accompanied his force. Lieutenant- Colonel Ballard conducted the advanced guard, and sus tained a very heavy fire from the enemy at the principal fold, about 100 yards wide, from noon until dark at 5 p.m., occupying the enemy until his position was turned by the Turkish left. Captain Caddell also rendered good service, attached as Second Senior Artillery Officer to that branch of the service. His interpreter was killed. The loss on the side of the enemy has not yet been ascertained, but up to the present time (noon) 347 have been buried, of whom eight officers, among which the prisoners report there are two colonels. _ _ . . The prisoners report that there were eight battalions of infantry, besides a great number of Mingrelian militia opposite the main ford.—l am, &c., (Signed) JOHN L. A. SIMMONS. The Earl of Clarendon, &c. COURT FOR TBE CONSIDERATION •OF CROWN CASES RESERVED. (Present—Lord Campbell, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Justices Wightman, Cresswell, Erle, Williams, Crompton, and Willes, and Barons Parke, Alderson, and Platt.) THE QUEEN V. GORDON. The prisoner was indicted, with one Davidson, for felony, in not surrendering to a fiat in bankruptcy which had been issued against them. Upon the trial before Mr. Justice Erle, at the Central Criminal Court, several objections were taken and they were reserved for the opinion of this Court, and they were argued on the 10th inst„ when the Court gave judgment in seven of them, but, not agreeing upon the eighth, it was ordered to be re-argued before all the judges. This point was this : The two bankrupts having left this country before they were made bankrupts, their counting-house was taken possession of by the messenger under the bankruptcy. He left one copy of the notice of the adjudication at the counting-house. It was urged that, as there were two partners, it was necessary that two copies of the notice should have been left. _ _ _ Mr. Chambers (with Mr. 0. Harrison) appeared for the prisoner, and said the question turned upon the con struction of the 12th and 13th of Victoria, chap. 100. Ho contended that there should have been served upon each bankrupt a separate and distinct copy of the adju dication and a notice of the filing of the petition. Each partner in bankruptcy was considered to be a distinct individual. Baron Parke said the doubt was whether each partner was not entitled to a separate notice—whether a notice addressed to both and left at the counting-house was sufficient. Mr. Chambers said the words of the statute were that the notice should be served personally, or left at his place of abode, or at his last known place of business. It was clear it was not served personally ; but a paper, and one paper alone, was left at the place of business of the two bankrupts. That paper was to perform the part of a summons and the part of a notice. The party was called upon to come in and be examined, and the paper also gave him notice that h e h a d b een a dj u d ge d bankrupt, and on the back of thi s p a p er was a f orm of protectioe from arrest. Each bankrupt had aright to a c opy _ whi ch be might carry in hi s pocket. It would no t be e nough to Mr.leave Bramwell copy appeared a p r l e a d c e forof a t b h o e d p e r o o f s o c 7 twoi sub mitted that the statute had been compli ed b usin es& leav ing a notice at the last known place of n here must be Baron Parke said, if served personae h lace of abode it a notice served on each ; if left at t o each ; and if left at must be left at the place of ab b o e d a e notice for each. the place of business it must . no tice left at the place of bu 'in e e d for a few minutes for con- The Court having adjourn sideration, Mr. Bramwell di h d av n that he was of opinion th 1 the Lord Campbell stated that the Leg slature intended wag fatal, and objection wa ht one notice sufficient. each person shou ld and Alierson and partnert abnyd only. Barons d Crompton agree d with L'lrd Campbell. Jervis, t no t h t nsjeks.uotsfht it a ch t eesj fo tu l Ew l s o ort w ii cew e ea d s as . nos udr O efa\s o vsc e iwielieneitis.: ce Williams. Pa r k ea:3a ,ti c L o o n rd ve Chi and Bar.otniorn:acitutatshhoeudg. REVOLTI Na I R N e ll t f t::: d A N aidelTY . oT theA li accident Worksop occurred Railway the . wee k near tion, e n the Manchester, Sheffield and Li nco l ns hi re Railway, by which the stoker of one of th e tra i ns, named - Wilkinson, bad his leg frightfully smashed. The poor fellow, bleeding profusely, was conveyed from the place of the accident on a board to the station. Application was made to the owners of three different houses to ad mit him, but without success !—Doncaster Chronicle. ME ASSASSINATION IN LEICESTERSHIRE.—John Acres Fowkes, the young man who was shot as he sat in his grandfather's house at Snareston, on Sunday night (is noticed in Thursday's Sun), died of the wounds then inflicted upon him on Thursday. An inquest wi ll be held on the body on Saturday (this) morning, be fo re Mr. J. Gregory, coroner for Leicestershire. who Jahn Fowkes, Fowkes, jun , an uncle of the murdered custody, charged with the offence,has I? "t further e examina the county gaol at Leicester, to await Von. i man, nanremoved to AMERICA. The American journals brought by the Arago yesterday, arc full of comments on the questions understood to be pending between the British and United States' Governments. We subjoin the latest telegraphic despatches from the capital published in the New York papers. " WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. to York, and thence will proceed as earlyconveni ent as tbat there is no visit San Juan. lam reliably in formed movement, more than a " Commodore Paulding left hrefrthoinis alteredmocerni particular significance in this la b n e g n ua o g a e p o p f re a . mere measure of precaution arising America ; and further, posi tion of our relations with Central expedition sent over by with reference to the propose do not regard it in the morning for New England, the Administration . nin which was conveyed to me this 4 f ter the United States of any serious evening— ` on the partfrom this movement en the part consequences resulting. eending their fleet to the Weill t Britain in of Gres Indies.' charge of the British organ in New York, that "The inir y con sented to allow the English to recruit troops a the United States, causes some conversation here. I am told that Mr. Crampton called at the State Depart ment several months ago, and asked Marcy if there would be any objection to the emigration of foreigners to Canada asked Mr. Crampton if the question was officially put to him. The British Minister replied that it was not. ' Then,' said Marcy, ' I can't answer it. If you desire a . reply, it must be officially made.' The matter, therefore, tdsol distinguished nttgehsuetirsedh'eelgednraefl l i e s 'l t te s e b a t d ir t ° i e o s n a fi a s e satisfied functionary , which t troops there or for i n t h n e teheed Cri mea. seems to be narrowed down to a question of veracity bi • tween the British Minister and the Secretary of State.' " Nov. 16. "The Cabinet were in session again to-day, and the despatches by the Pacific from our Minister, Mr. Bu chanan, were received at the State Department and eon' , sidered in Cabinet Council. The tenour of these despatetr is, I am informed by good authority, of the most friend_ l l; character, assuring our Government that there fr,f,',. significancy in their sending a fleet to the Wes: e 1;;;; and that there was not the slightest cause for t have been an. those excitable spirits in the Cabinet Gwovbernwents. Com. created by the English journals. This n ticipating a rupture between the twe n ,0 San Juan hen inndore Pauloing's expected mission t vessel of the home thus been frustrate.l, and only on squadron will proceed to Nicaragua.atiy r elieved by the news "The Administration is gr n e i her fleet for a Central that England does not intend it relieves them from the American demonstration, back out of the Monroe doctrine or danger of having to fight. e received here that General Almonte, The intelligemnc Si later , has been superseded has caused the Mexican excitement. The case of the 'United States rda S u t i e , :l 4 i o ll l g ; considerablen Scott, f mmerly navy agent, for alleged de against - r : se on trial before the United States Ceurt de falcations, I?,nooeseekas quieted in this city. I n the New York money market foreign ex , days, were quoted at 108 to 1081; Paris, 51. 22ic. bankers' bills, at 60 Bremen, 78 to 78i; Frankfort, 41i ; Prussian Os iers, 72. Since the arrival of the Pacific the cot: ton market had exhibited an upward tendenoh "2! Hamburg, 35/ to 36; Iprices advanced about ic. per lb. The sales: cHT ng to the light stock offering, were moderate coha:e2sorcu.;leAd Amsterdam, L by Leld. Loch as 9a to Or ) 60s %Wes 'ring -cl to ;lips, r lb. Bar -3d to ditto 8d; 10d ; to h; 6d Ls 8d cash. ly to dia. 0 1 ; 'seeds tkerP ae lot )r re rum Iy in t oMos .6 Iy 15 15 :ert4ll# r h ., udail! cook: , . 1. iv lofino l 4 ~ 15 sarta►n !ertSl , 16rael 16 mill --- de' lit (YIP kr , d ti a veil anise, landh stersi, Great 9(1.-" ritisbr Ana' be& Ister ,d or EIS, V 5 at 0 but 17i•-• I 1--- Cent, 88k — ' I c ent, Royal d and )f Sir Aonel If the irner. lucre, later iror lam* ielde, ;hard Nor- 'orth, Mis s biter acha° oraa° Kea' Ser- ........ --- Nf't 112, I of - ill