The Sun. — London, England, 1855-10-24 00:00:00

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE." . Lessee. Mr. J. H. Anderson, LS, Norfolk-street, Strand. , Increased Attractions, and success in equal ratio • THLA. AND EVERY EVENING, at Eight &Clock. Will ive presented, with entirely New and Magnificent Appoint 'nents, MAGIC and MYSTERY, in twelve • acts, arranged in two arts, by Professor Anderson. After which, the startling illustrations of Spirit-Rapping. HALF AN-FIOUR wrrif TETE SPIRIT•t, being the most surprising and interesting series of experiments ever given within the walls of any theatre. 5i4,721 persons have visited the Lyceum already to see the Great Wizard of the North. Prices of admission:—Private Boxes, 11. Ils. GI and Li. Is.• Orchestra Stalls, 45.: Dress Boxes, 35.; Upper Boxes, 2s. ; Is.; Gallery, Gd. No Balt-price. Box-office open !Tom 11 to 5 daily. Grand Morning Performance on Saturday Next at Two o'Clock. Doors open at Half-past One. • ROYAL SURREY THEATRE - . • Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. FLEXNIORE'S (le Danseur Cominue) BENEFIT. and Last AnneArs,nce at this Theatre ; also of that celebrated Danseuse, Mdlle. AiTßlOL.will take place on TUUPSDAY, Yov. Ist, 1855. Drama, Ballet Clomlune, Concert, Farce, Ballet Extraordlnaire Melo-drama, &c., &c. Tickett to be had of Mr. Flexmore. r 6. Hercules -Buildings, Lam beth, and at the Box Office of the Theatre. Box °face open daily, from 10 until 3 o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-T.6NR. Le.vme, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, Will be performed MA.RRIED t'INEY. Characters by Mr Charles Mathews, MesgrarY - rdISPC Ttuaby and A. Younge ; Mrs. F. Matthews, Miss 4. Oliver, and Miss Mason will appear. To be followed by NITOrRIS. Characters by Messrs. E. F. Ed gar, Stuart, B. , tulllvan, G. Wild, C. Vi,cent, gc. , ..; Miss Glyn, Mrs, Selby, Mite De Vere, Miss Anderton, Miss Cleveland, &C. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of' Mr. Backstone. THIS EVENING. Will be performed THE MIN OF MANY FRIENDS. After which, THE PRETTY GIPSEY AND THE BULL FIGHTER. Followed by THE LITTLE TREASURE. After which, THE SPANISH DAIICERS. To con:hide with SHOCKING EVENTS. • ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Cnazias Kzes. THIS EVENING Will be presented JUDGE NOT BY APPEARANCES. After which, KING HENRY VIII. Queen Katharine, Mrs. C. Kean ; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean. To conclude with A GAME OF ROMPS. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPILL Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed RORY O'Nf ORE. Characters by Messrs. Hod son, P. Redford, *. Selby, Parsee. J. Eland, Garden, &c. Blisasa Mary. Keeley, Kate Kelly, Wyndham, &C. Followed by A MOVING TALE. T9 . :eopelade with OPEN SESAME. • • ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. THIS EVENING, • Will be presented PLOT AND P BRION. Charactrs by Messrs. F. Robson, Emery, G. Vining, Leslie, J. H. White, S c Cooper. and Franks ; and Mrs. Stirling and Miss Bromley. Followed by CATCHING A MERVAID. To-conclude with A BLIGHTED BEING. . 7 ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Under the direction of Mr: Payne. THIS EVENING, Will be Ilerfprmed SIMPSOIir AND CO. After which, SAM PATCH. _ To conclude 'with NITOCRIS. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITHEATIM. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. Vivid delineation of the daring deeds of the Allies. THIS EVENING, The triumphantly successful Military Spectacle, The FALL of SEBASTOPOL ! Capture of the Malakhoff --Cavalry. Infantry, Artillery, with magnificent materiel of war—Stud of Trained Horses —4OO Auxiliaries. Stage and ring combined I After which the WONDERS OF THE CIRCLE, with Mr. J. H. Cooke's " Sant du Pont." To conclude with the farce of JONATHAN. Itox•o'ltce open from Eleven till Fear. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Trug DAY—Morn. 43 min. aft. 12—Evening s . min. aft. 1 To-MORROW-31orn 41 min.aft. I—Evening 24 min. aft. 1 THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, Oct. 24. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 63.- highestesinee noon yesterday. 50 --lowest this morning and during the night. 54—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30. WIND, W.—Fresh, with fins sunshiny weather. W .1a10 ) rVb t LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1855, " Peace at any price" we also are ready to take for our motto. Be the price what it may we would pay it ; not, however, in the worthless paper of treaties, but in the stuff which no diplo matic frauds or forgeries can deprive of value. Any price whatever which Russia requires in the line of Sebastopols, Bomarsunds, Kinbourns, and Otchakoffd, taken or blown up ; even if she think wo ought to buy peace of her by captur ing Sweaborg and Cronstadt next summer, and by liberating Poland and Finland from her barbarous grasp, we shall most gladly pay that price ; any thing whatever, any price she likes in the way of " material guarantees" we will gladly give for peace ; anything, in a word, but the price of abasing ourselves, of flattering her pride, and of leaving obvious grounds for future ware. We prize peace so highly that we would willingly purchase it at a cost sufficient to insure its lasting for many generations. The infernal evils of war are too great in our judgment to be dealt with by local or temporary remedies, and we advocate, and have always advocated, placing Europe on the basis which should extinguish the grand causes of modern international war. Is there, we ask, any hope for lasting peace but on the foundation of the despised and ridiculed rights of nations ? Mr. BRIGHT we leave out of the question, be cause he can have, on religious grounds, but one mode of obtaining peace ; to Mr. ConpEN, how ever, and to all who profess strong solicitude for peace, and who rely on secular modes of obtaanine we may make a v ery different and preserving it, appeal. Mr. COBDEN has argued with great ful ness and plausibility the question of international arbitration as a substitute for War ; and as a corollary the reduction by general agreement of the immense standing armies of the Continent, and of thi s coun t ry t oo . Now, what above all things necessitates those standing armies ? Is it not the artificial division of Europe, and the 11 ° ) Y, more properly the Hellish, alliance of a few crowned despots to maintain it ? Bat for the mutual assistance of despots, Spain, Rome, Naples, Lombardy, Hungary, and probably Poland, too, would by this time have all been free, liberally governed, and desirous rather to trade with each other, and with all the world, than to maintain costly standing armies as the yoke on their own necks. The determination of most continental rulers to be despots, and also to hold territories diverse to their natural domains in race, or language, or nationality, or in all these, are the two things which render large standing armies necessary. Russia must keep an immense military force, while she will persist in treading out Polish nationality, in assimilating Finland to the other parts of her enslaved dominions, and in constant aggression on the East and South. Prus sia, of course, could not hold her medley of pro vinces, and keep them, by the grossest lying an d perjury, out of the long-promised free institutions, -without an immense army. The bigoted and cruel tyrants of Vienna could never maintain their disgusting rule over the free-souled Magyars and Lombards but for an army which keeps their excheq uer bankrupt, Nor could any of the despots long maintain their seats did they not engage to uphold each other, when, as in 1848 perfidy and oppression had shaken so many thrones. While there are large standinc , armies there will he temptations to war. while there are down trodden yet living nationalities, and despots over them, there must be standing armies ; hence, till the nationalities are restored to their rights, and THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EvENING I OCTOBER 24, 1855 despots at least left to settle things with their natural subjects, reduction of armies is impractic able, and international arbitration a dream. The self-called Peace Party are fond of denominating the restoration of nationalities as a chimaera and visionary ; and the advocates of it as amiable enthusiasts ; but, if we are not mistaken, the man who would settle disputes between nations by a court of plenipotentiaries, and stipulate to dismiss fifty, or eventually it may be eighty, per cent. of our troops and sailors, Europe remaining as it is, are pursuing the veriest chimaera, the most visionary image on earth. On the other hand, it is the reverse of vision ary to use the awful resource of war, now we are engaged in it, to cut of the most prolific causes of war. We have the best possible encourage ment to persist in that attempt. Wherever we have acted with decision we have been successful. The only real hindrance has been the leaning of our Court to Germany—Lto its despots we mean— and to Russia. The nation is, however, begin ning to force its common sense upon our Cabinet, or rather to over-ride Coburg aid Austrian in fluence there. Nothing else is wanting to rapid and overwhelming success, and therefore to peace worth having. But for treacherous fondling of Austria, OMER PACHi would have led the victors of Silistria, of Oltenitza, of Citate, across the Danube ; would have cleared the provinces ; have kept out the brutal Austrians ; have held his splendid and brave army together ; have crossed the Pruth ; have invaded, and perhaps conqured, Bessarabia, have given "reinforcements from the Danube" other work to do than marching to the Crimea ; and have caused the fall of Sebastopol, perhaps, before 1854 had closed upon us—Odessa would have been destroyed, the Polish Legion en- listed, the Danube cleared, and the whole Eastern eampaign have cost us probably not one-half of the blood and treasure we have wasted, to accom plish double the result. We hope and believe that the English people are now alive to the secret and unnati3nal policy of the Coburgs. If so, an other campaign would compel peace. To send AllE• tria to the dogs is the first grand , step towards peace. Once clear our 'milky of that enfeebling contami , nation, and we believe that even Sir CHARLES WOOD would kn3w how to level every Baltic port next summer. It is now less a question of Adminis trative ability than of political manliness and in tegrity. Kick off Germany and the Coburgs, and enlighten Russia by such blows as we can strike, instead of sparing her honour and her territory, and the only danger would be that she might implore peace, while the pretext yet remained to allow her to retain " Warsaw as the standing con- tinental menace." Let England be assured that the paths of duty, of honour, and of interest never ran more de monstrably together. It is the duty of this country to do all it can to liberate the coun tries which it sold to the despots in 1815. It will be her honour to drive the ambitious barbarian who has done more than all to mangle Europe, out of his ill-gotten territories, and thus worthily of her self to finish the war she provoked. It will be her interest to complete the, work she has begun rather than to incur the expense of beginning again in a feir more years. Wa believe this is the creed or the instinct of the great mass of our country men. If it be, they have one thing to do, to support their Premier, and to intimidate the Ger mans who link us to Russia. " PALMERSTON, not Austria," should be the watchword, if we mean to untie our Premier's hands, and have him do the work of the nation, not that of the Coburgs. That bilious little Bourbon of Naples, in other words that half madman and half knave, BOMBA, the King of the Two Sicilies, is doubtless in ecstasies at the present moment. By all accounts ho has succeeded in bamboozling the British Go vernment. As our readers are aware this despi cable potentate, not content with his old course of vexatious tyranny over a people inhabiting one of the fairest portions of the globe, took not merely to sympathising with Russia, but, with monstrous effrontery, to displaying his sympathy in the most flagrant manner. The force at his command not enabling him to send a contingent to swell the strength of the Russian armies, his good will must be shown after a different fashion. If he could not fight alongside with Russia, he could let his police loose on the friends of the Allies among his subjects, and so far as he might with impunity insult the representatives of England and France, and he did so. Signor MAzze, his Police Minister, a wretch as cruel and petty as himself, but more ingenious and energetic, was armed with autho rity to do what he liked with the KING'S own on whom the faintest breath of suspicion rested that they did not sympathise wholly with the KING in his desire for the humiliation of the Allies and the success of Russia, and eagerly, vigorously enough, Signor MAzzA set to work. How successfully he acted on the spirit of his in structions, what petty annoyances, what atrocities he perpetrated, it is not good to narrate. Poor outraged humanity shudders at a narrative not all the ludicrousness of the episodes can illumine with a smile. Hats tampered with, beards ab breviated to conform with regal .rosthetics, offer, after all, but poor incentives to enjoyment when associated with a system of espionage and terror at which the blood of freemen runs cold. How should you laugh when, surveying in imagination that fair city, a laugh might serve to wake some lurking bravo to his murderous duty, or quicken to fire the furtive gaze of some hardly less mur derous spy ? The braining of poor human reason and dignity, the • • quivering beneath the sword of DAMOCLES, the groans of the loathsome cell, the reeking hiss of the savage lash, and the stealthy tread of quickening fear, may as well for the pre sent not be subjected to an y. sort of arithmetic. They are numbered elsewhere. • We will pass on to a higher flight of rega l audacity. Hav ing. h a d so much achieved with impunity, the KING panted for more. 110 must take Eng land and France by the beard, and he did so. He caused a s light to be offered the French flag, and had the British Embassy insulted in th e per son of an Attache --the latter duty being di s . charged by Signor MA zZA himself. A storm began to gather about BO3IBA'S ears. Grave re monstrances were addressed to him ; the removal of his Police Minister was insisted on ; a fleet set out to menace hi s ca pit a l ; a naval Archduke of Austria arrived with his frigate safely in the Bay of Naples ; Sebastopol fell, and King BOMBA con sented to do what was required of him. Signor Mazza should be dismissed, and everything put to rights. The British Government believed him (him, a Bounnosr I), and a pacification was struck up. The British Lien, however, had scarcely ceased smiling a grim approval of the impudent dog BOMBA'S symptoms of contrition ere the discovery wa s made that we were duped that Signor MAzzA's dismissal was a farce—that the wretched creature had said as much to his myrmidons in public at the time—that he has never ceased to be the ruling spirit of the police, and that, on the sth inst., he paid an ostentatious visit, in official uniform, to the King in the Royal Palace. King 13oAuLt has been too many for our Govern. ment, having. actually succeeded in diddling its astute Premier. Well may he be in ecstasies. It is not by every Government that the pledged word of a BOMBA will be believed. Those stout and peremptory ambassadors, the commanders of Ame rican frigates, would sneer at it. No ship of the Union would be permitted to leave the Bay of Naples with any doubt of an insult to an American attache being atoned for. The fact is, our Government dealt magnanimously with a rascal, which was sheer folly—specimens of that genus, regal- or otherwise, appreciating no lesson save that of being kicked. Had we been rigorous in our demands, and given unmistakeable proof of our intention to enforce them, England would not be the laughing-stock it now is. The Austrian frigate would have been perfectly pacific whatever the issue, and would before now have carried the Archducal Commander back to his post, where his insidious countenance would have done no harm. As it is—what with Austria and the King, arcades ambo—the laugh is against us for the present. So be it. We shall have a powerful fleet at liberty before long. It must anchor before Naples, and if it leaves that Pandemonium of royal tyranny without the most unmistakeable satisfaction for the double insult and perfidy of King BOMBA, he may laugh as he is doing, but the people of this country won't. Mr. COBDEN, we remember, takes great interest in the administration of justice by country magis trates in Turkey. He once took considerable pains to illustrate to the House of Commons how such judges abused their office, and rendered the enlightened edicts of the SULTAN a dead letter. He drew sad pictures of the partiality of Ma hometan magistrates when Christian witnesses bore testimony against a Mahometan, or when Christian plaintiffs sued a believer in the Prophet. To be sure his object was to vilify the Turks, and to show that they were not worth hdlping, especially when contending with the immaculate Russias. One thing he forgot, that the Greeks are a nation, or rather race, of astute liars, and that a Turk's word is equal to that of an English gentleman. He was reminded that even in this country it is but of late years that rural jus tices, in many matters, have been much superior to what be stated of Turkish Justices of the Peace. This he quite pooh-poohed in behalf of his Greeks and Russians. We may now ask Mr. COBDEN, however, to show his zeal for impartial summary justice in his own country. It may do some. practical service if he will move for a return of certain convictions, with minutes of the evidence, which have taken place lately. We have not, to be sure, Mahom medans as well as Christians in this country, but there are two classes of the same creed, one called the rich, to which clerical justices of the peace be long—the other the poor, to which labourers and domestic servants belong. Setting aside all con victions of poachers and of others who may have displeased the gamekeepers or tampered with the wild game of the class we have called the rich, , three convictions have recently occurred of the class termed poor, by the said rich justices, which Mr. COBDEN would certainly do well to bring be fore the House, which can if it will find means to bring these justicesto their senses. Mr. COBDEN will understand at once that we refer to the Reverend Magistrate who sent two perfectly innocent men to the treadmill because they went to see the Militia and would not beg his pardon. To another Reverend Committer of Poachers, who fined a man for cutting his own wheat on the first day of the week. And now a third, the Rev. T. L. BAYLIFF, Bishop Stortford, Herts, has sentenced a husband to costs of complaint, or prison, for defending by summons the honour of his Wife against the attacks of a friend of the Reverend Justice. If Mr. COBDEN will undertake the House of Commons' exposure of Justices' justice in our own rural districts we can promise him ample work ; the country Squires and Reverends will not let him want employment. Let it be known that he will see after every case of rural oppression, every case in which a rich delinquent gets off lightly or a poor man suffers unequally, or for nothing at all, and he will be a patron with a goodly throng of clients. One reform, for instance, he might demand at once. A poor man, earning at most 501. a year, is fined 51. or months' imprison ment ; let it be law that a rich man also be fined one-tenth of his income —or, better, one-fifth— which even then would be many times a lighter fine, or months' imprisonment. It will be more worth while for the Honourable Member to teach Christian Magistrates their duty than to revile those whom the SULTAN cannot always keep in order. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, OCT. 23. The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of Kent, the Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Sir R Pekenham, Lady Frances Bruce, and the Baroness de Speth. The band of the 2(I Life Guards played during dinner; and her Majesty's private band afterwards performed in the Castle. The Queen, with the Princess Royal, walked in the Home Park this morning. Prince Albert went out shooting. The Prince returned from Aldershott at half past four o'clock yesterday. • Her Majesty, with the Prince of Wales and Prince Arthur, attended by the Duchess of Wellington, drove out in an open carriage yesterday afternoon. The Duchess of Atholl has succeeded the Duchess of Wellington as Lady in Waiting to her Majesty. The Earl of Listowel and General Sir Edward Bowater have succeeded Lord Byron and Colonel the Hon. N. Hood as the Lord and Groom in Waiting. Mr. Andrews, her Majesty's Minister to the Court of Denmark, had an audience of the Queen, and was pre sented by the Earl of Clarendon. Major Owen, of the Royal Engineers, has been in vited, and is expected this afternoon. Messrs. Wall, Davenport, and Cross, a deputation from the "Hume Monument Committee," had an in terview with Sir Benjamin Hall yesterday, at the office of Public Works in Whitehall-place. Viscount Palmerston left town yesterday for hia seat, Broadla.nds, Hants. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office, from the Governore of the North American pro vinces. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury have left Hatfield-house, Hert;, to visit the Earl and Countess of Derby during the stay of the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary at Knowsley, near Prescot. The Bishop of London and Mrs. Blomfield and daughter have recently arrived at the Palace, Fulham, from Switzerland and the German provinces on the Rhine. The Right Hort., Sidney Herbert, M.P., and Mrs. Herbert returned to Wilton-house, near Salisbury, on The Ring of Sardinia Ls Mo nday, from visiting the Marquis of Lansdowne, at Bowood-park. Il a n f r . ( r. : 1 4 r ea . dn g i Tn gi i Prince Carini, Neapolitan Ambassador at the British Court, has arrived in Paris, with his family. Baron to Afif Villa, a banker of Cashl for his numerous acts of public.ch - e' just granted the title of has just been The privileg e f stantinOple will pr o The the lta i iltalian theatrein company Sebastopol at c o n . proceed there to give regular perform ances. A letter front St. Petersburg states that every one in that capital was busy making lint, and that as fast as it was ready it was sent to the Empress , forwarded who it to the Crimea. Count Bludoff Secretary , Russia n of Legation, has arrived at Berlin from St. Petersburg. The s ittings of the Frankfort Diet commence to-mor row (Thursday). Th e E m peror cef Austria arrived at the Palace of Vienna on the 18th from Schcenbrunn, and received in an audi ence Count Bu 01, the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Baron Prokesch- Osten and Count Reohberg were also received by his e'tfaje,sty. REPRESENTATION OF WELLS.—Captain Jolliffe, son of Sir W. Hylton Joiliffe, of Merstham, has been solicited by the Conservatives of Wells to offer himself for the vacancy caused by Mr. Tudwa.y's death. Ho has ac cepted the invitation. ous—that is, if ice and snow cover the ground—it will be impossible for them to travel over the country in sledges, and to receive provisions. Marshal Pelissi, r continues to advance into the interior, slowly, it is true. for it is necessary to constrict roads for the passage of the artillery and heavily-laden waggons. The plan of the generals-in-chief is not known. They appear intent on advancing as far as possible, but the execution of this plan must depend on circumstances." BOURSE, Oct. 23, Two o'Clock—Tlv market has I , been completely inactive in Rente, but the princi pal securities maintained their prices ; speculators are unwilling to undertake any new bargains until they know the result of the next sitting of the di rectors of the Bank. The Three per Cents. were done at °gr. 10c., but they rallied to 611 r. 20c. Railway Shares were at first quoted with a fall of sfr. and 7fr. 50c., but they are now quoted at about the same prices as yesterday. Half-past Three—Prices rallied towards the end of the market. It was reported that the Bank of France had received a large supply of bullion. The Railway Shares remain without sensible change on yesterday's prices. The following are the last quotations : THE BOURSE-oer. 23. Cash. fr. e. End of Month. 4i per Cents 9O 25 90f. —c. 3 per Cents 64 30 64 30 New Loan 65 25 — Bank Shares 3200 Boman Credit Mobilier llB7 Austrian Belgian Fives...... 95 Spanish Threes Piedmontese B4 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS-708 CASE. fr. c. C• Orleans Northern Lyons. ~....1120 New Ditto 760 Mediterranean 1215 Grand Central 5Bl 50 Lc ons Genova 650 Teste Cede 670 Austrian Com. 727 50 try. The mountains are already covered with snow ; at Gefle the frost set in so far back as the 4th inst., and the thermometer here, even at mid day, is but very little above the freezing point. LATEST NEWS. THE CAPTURE OF KINBOURN. We have received the following telegraphic de- spatch : PARIS, OCT. 23. Marshal Pelissier has forwarded to the Minister of War the following communication relating to the operation of the allied forces at Kinbourn : SEBASTOPOL, OCT. 21, 5 P.M. I have just received from General Bazain his report of the capture of Kinbourn. The Anglo-French division of the army has actively contributed to the success of the allied squadron. Having been landed on the peninsula about 5 kilometres from the fortress, it took up its posi tion, and in the night of the 16th opened the trenches at 800 metres from the works. When the fleet commenced its heavy fire on the 17th, two companies of Chasseurs, under cover, at a distance of 400 metres from the batteries, were able to keep up a fusilade on the Russian artillery- Len at their guns. The field artillery also played an effective part in the operation. We have taken 1,420 prisoners, including General Koianovitch and 40 officers, with 174 pieces of cannon and a quantity of ammunition and stores. We are now in full occupation of an important position. Such are the results to the Allies of this suc cessful expedition. The Russians have rendered this success com plete by themselves blowing up the fortifications of Oczakoff on the 18th. I send you the standard, with the arms o Russia, which floated over the walls of Kinbourn MARSEILLES, TUESDAY, OCT. 23. The Indus has arrived from Constantinople ; her dates are—the Crimea, October 13 ; Con- stantinople, 15. She has on board 240 invalided soldiers. Her despatches will be forwarded by the :train at 1 p.m. The 12th Regiment of Artillery, with their horses, embark to-day for the Crimea. The allied troops detached to Eupatoria have received fresh reinforcements. Numerous Russian waggons appeared, at the latest date, to have begun the evacuation of the northern forts of Sebastopol. The Allies, on the other hand, continued the clearance of the city and the construction of new batteries. ST. PETERSBURG, TUESDAY. An imperial ukase just issued permits the free importation of European colonial produce into the Transcaucasian provinces via the overland fron tiers of Persia and Turkey, during the con- tinuanoe of the war. KARS, SEPT. 29. General Mouravieft continues the blockade of this place with 80 pieces of cannon. Omar Pacha is expected. MADRID, OCT. 22. The Government has declared to the Cortes that the sanitary state of the capital is not by any means alarming. The works of the Puerta del Sol have been put up to public tender. Every thing is tranquil. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. Atelegraphic despat c h has just reached from pmriarsteienes ,bringing accounts from Constanti nople of the 15th, and from the Crimea of the 13th. The mortar batteries had opened on this last day against the northern forts. The division of infantry of General d'Autemarro occupied the plateau of the Belbek, and the French cavalry had advanced to Baidar. The army at Eupatoria daily received reinforcements. An entire division of French infantry, commanded by General de Failly, and a strong body of English cavalry, landed there on the 11th. It was believed that General Gortscha koff intended to concentrate his force:: round Sim pheropol. Marshal Pelissier was making preparations to winter in the Crimea. It was believed that the autumn campaign would be closed by the capture of Bakshisorai. The Russians continued to fortify the forts to the north of Sebastopol. The Emperor and Empress and the Duke and Duchess de Brabant went yesterday afternoon to visit the porcelain manufactory at Sevres. The number of guns taken at Kinbourn, says the Monifeur, " amounts to 174." The Order of the Seraphi m , th e i ns i gn i a o f w hi c h King Oscar has just sent to the Emperor Napoleon, is the oldest and the most distinguished of the orders of Swedish Knighthood. Instituted, in 1285, by King Mggnus Ladulos, it was restored in 1748 by King Frederick I. It is composed of only one class, and is only conferred on Princes and the highest civil and military functionaries. General Markham has arrived at Malta from the Crimea on sick leave, by the French steamer, the Capitol°. The gallant general continued his route, via Gibraltar, in the Peninsular Company's steamer the Nubia. A letter from Sebastopol of tl • 9th, in the Semaphore de Marseille, Bay s "Nothing new has taken place, except the explosion of a new infernal machine in the Karabelnaia, but it only killed one man. Notwithstanding the most minute exa• mination no other of these machines has been discovered. It is supposed that they are conical jars sunk in the ground, having a kind of bar which comes just above or even with the ground, and which, when stepped on, breaks a small vessel, containing some inflammable liquid, which communicates to a chemical composition Which explodes with greater force than ordinary gun- Powder would do. The large streets and the principal public thoroughfares have been carefully examined, but no more of them have been discovered. The Russians keep firing from the north On oar positions, but without doing any material damage, .and the general opinion in the camp is that the fire is only intended as a blind to conceal the retreat of General Gortschakoff. It h as , in fact, been remarke I that the Russian forces dimi nish every day, and it is known by means of spies that they have decided on concentrating their forces towards Simpheropol. It is every day expected tq see the Russians terminate their work of destruction by blowing up the Northern forts. According to a report of the commission charged with the division of the booty taken here, the French had in the Crimea, at the date of the capture of that place, 121,000 men, and the English and Sardinians 59,000. If to these 180,000 be added the 30,000 who have recently arrived, it will make an effective strength of 210,000, sick included. General Trochu will shortly leave the Crimea for Con stantinople, en route for France, the state of his health imperiously requiring his return. It is, indeed, thought that the majority of the general? who were wounded at the assault on Sebastopol will receive convalescent leaves of absence." The Courrier de Marseilles, of the 21st inst., publishes the following letter, dated Sebastopol, the 7th inst.*:— " We have been informed that the Russians intend to coecentrate all their forces on some point of the Crimea, probably at Simpheropol. It is added that the evacuation of the northern part of Sebastopol has been for some time decided, and we have ourselves observed that the Russian troops occupying those heights are gradually diminishing in number. We, nevertheless, still perceive a few battalions, occupied in erecting field -works and batteries ; but this may be a blind to deceive the allies, by making them believe that they do not intend to evacuate their position. Whatever may be the point of concentration chosen by Prince Gortschakoff, should the winter be mild, that is rainy, their army must inevi tably perish, for we positively know that they have not opened a single new road, and that all those existing in the country have been rendered almost impraeticable by the recent rains. This accounts, no douLe, for the Rte. slat), soldiers wearing heavy boots in the summer as well as in winter. If, on the contrary, the winter be rigor- DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, Oct. 18.—Although it was no secret that the King had contracted a morganatic marriage with a former milliner of the name of Lolla Basmussen, whom he has elevated to the rank of Countess Danner, yet that step had never been publicly made known. It therefore caused great sensation when the King, at the court and levee he held on his birthday at the palace of Christiansborg in this city, caused her to be pre sent, and presented to her the foreign ambassadors, requesting the latter to notify his marriage to their respective courts. On new year's day she is to be elevated to the rank of Duchess. Her antecedents and former mode of life had better be passed over in silence. Yesterday the King held a grand sitting of the Privy Council of the State, after which all the ministers received honours. The Premier and Minister of the Interior, Bang, is created President of the Council ; the ministers, Col. Von Luttichau (war), Raasloff (Schleswig), Simony (justice), Col. von Andree (finances), and Hall (cultus), are in vested with the Grand Cross of the Dannebrog Order, and Captain Michelsen (naval minister) is created a Chamberlain. The ostensible object of these honours, so lavishly bestowed, is to comme morate the (?) inauguration of the new constitution for the whole monarchy, for the ministers have been but a few months in office, and during that period have certainly done nothing to merit in par ticular such a shower of the royal favour. GREECE. A letter from Athens of the 13th, in the Moni ;eur, says : " Admiral Jacquinot, who commands the French naval squadron in the Levant, having received intelli gence that the brigands, who had carried off Captain Berthand, were in the neighbourhood of Salamis, sent a steamer with a party of marines, and the Procureur du Roi of Attica in pursuit of them. This expedition, which was conducted with as much rapidity as skill, was attended with perfect success. The man who had come to the Piraeus to deliver the letter to the Admiral, demanding the ransom money of 30,000 drachmas, the master (yr the boat who had carried back the money and delivered up Captain Berthand, as well as two other masters of boats connected with the band, were seized. Two more of these brigands were also taken in a fishing•boat near Megarp. These two men, on being confronted with Captain Berthand, were at once recognised ,by him as having formed part of the band who had detained him prisoner. One of these men was readily recognised from his having a hare lip. The belief is that this man had acted as a spy for the band before the attack, that he was en the road at the moment of its perpetration, and that he afterwards went into the mountain to prepare the repast for the party. In addition to the office of cook to the band, this man also acted as secretary, and it was he who had written the letter to the admiral, and which was concluded by the following words :—` That if he did not pay the ransom of the captain, his conscience would be responsible for the crime which he would com pel them to commit. The Greek judicial authorities to whom these brigands were delivered up have declared that they would;very speedily be brought to trial, and in all probability they will be condemned to death. It is necessary that a striking example should be made in order to put an end to those acts of violence and robbery, which at every instant compromised public safety, from the weakness and insufficiency of the means of repres sion employed by the Government." PORTUGAL. LIVERPOOL ' Oct. 23.—The Cintra steamer has arrived with Lisbon dates of the 15th inst. The Peninsular packet Madrid had landed her mails from Southampton on Friday night, and left the next day for Gibraltar ; and the Royal Mail packet Tamar arrived at Lisbon the same day (13th), cooled, and went on with the mails for South America at 4 o'clock the same afternoon. __ Her Majesty's ships St. George and Neptune were, with the French steamer Newton, the only foreign vessels of war anchored in the Tagus. The late heavy rains had ceased at Lisbon, but not without doing great damage in the provinces to large quantities of wheat and Indian corn, which had been stacked in the open air that the oxen might take their time to tread it out—so primitive are still the habits of farming in Portugal. CLERICAL MAGISTRAT. The following letter has been addressed to Me editor of the Examiner : Sir,—You have advanced the cause of the Essex la bourers, oppressed by a clerical magistrate ; may I call your sympathy for a poor woman here! On the 11th of October inst., Henrietta Prior, who with her husband lived as servant of Mr. George Ed ward Pritchett, an architect at Bishops Stortford, Herts, summoned her master, Mr. Pritchett, before the magis trates at the Petty Sessions here, for assaulting her. When she applied for the summons to the Rev. Frede rick Vander Meulen, the rector of Thorley, who is the nearest resident magistrate, he advised her and her hus band not to proceed, but to go and beg Mr. Pritchett's pardon, and he would give them both good characters. The husband, considering his wife (who was enciente) had been improperly treated, refused to adopt this course. The case was heard on the 11th inst., when the Rev. Thomas Timothy Lane Bayliff, ♦icar of Albury, Herts, and the Rev. Frederick Vander Muelin, rector of Thor ley. Herts, with two other magistrates, were present. The woman gave her evidence on oath with great pro priety to the following effect :—On the 29th September, at about a Quarter before eleven at night, Mr. Pritchett rang his bell, and she went to atterd the summons. As soon as she got to the door he threw his boots and the bootjack at her. She believed he intended to hit her with there, but she stepped back, and they missed her — they were thrown with great force. He then told ber to clear away the supper things. She did not give him an angry word, but she took away the supper things, and went and told her husband, who was in bed, what had happened ; he got up, and she beard him tell her master that they would both leave his service in s month. Mr. Pritchett then said to her husband, "If you bad been there I would have served you nine time worse." Mr. Pritchett attempted to cross-examine the woman, but she stated, in answer to his questions, that he first threw one boot, then the bootjack, and then another boot at her, and that he aimed them at her. The Rev. T. T. L. Bayliff then took great pains to cross-examine the woman, and said she had contradicted herself, because in her evidence she stated Mr. Prit chett threw his boots and the bootjack at her, butrin her cross-examination she said he first threw a boot, then a bootjack, and afterwards another boot (a distinction certainly too subtle for any but a clerical intellect). Mr. Pritchett, the defendant, who during part of the time that the case was heard was sitting by the side of the magistrate's clerk, stated in his defence, which wa not on oath, that he merely threw his boots in his usual manner, and that ho did not throw them at the com plainant. The Rev. T. T. L. Bayliff then stated that the bench did not consider that the assault was proved, and that the complainant must pay the costs, 7s. ad., or go to prison. The poor woman's husband stated that he had no money, but rather than she should go to prison he would pay it in a fortnight. So that in attempting to obtain redress for an assault on a pregnant wife her husband has to pay 7s. 6d., be sides the costs of the summons. I attended as attorney for the poor woman, chiefly on account that I knew Mr. Pritchett, her master, was the son of a neighbouring clergyman, and also a friend of the two clerical magistrates on the bench, and in a pray tic° of upwards of twenty years I never saw an assault more clearly proved by a single witness. In this small county there are no less than 37 clerica magistrates. Bishops Stortford, Oct. 17, 1855. J. B. B. THE PRESS AT CONSTANTINOPLE. The following is the text of the warning given to the Journal de Constantinople on the subject of its letters about Kars : " By Superior Order, "The Journal de Constantinople having, in its number of October 1, published a letter dated Kars, containing the falsest statements respecting the condition of the garrison in tbat place, the Imperial Government finds itself compelled to give to this statement of the Journal the most formal contradiction, founded on the official report and the exact information it possesses. The Su blime Porte has already found itself called upon to give to the journals an official warning that they must abstain from publishing, respecting the military op era ti ons , d e . t a ils capable of compromising their success, or intelli gence which might be injurious to them. "If, notwithstanding this second warning, the Journal de Constantinople should persist in giving a place in its columns to similar publications, the Sublime - Porte will see itself compelled to pronounce its suspension. " The present warning will be published at the head of the next number of the Journal de Constantinople. " The Sublime Porte, Oct. 8, 1855." PRICE OF GOLD.--The quotation of gold at Paris is about 6 per mills premium (according to the last tariff), which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 101 , 1- Per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.29 i ; and, the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 . 35, it follows that gold is about 0.22 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 426 per mark, which, at the Eng lish Mint price of 3/. 17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 . 5,1 ; and, the exchange at Hamburg on London at short being 13.6 b it follows that gold is 0,53 per cent. dearer in London than in Ham burg. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is 109 i per cent. ; and, the par of exchange between England and America being 10i 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is nominally 0.08 per cent. against England ; and, after making allowance fur charges of transport and difference of interest, the present rate leaves no profit on the transmission of gold from the United States, AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna, of the 19th, in the Con stitutionnel, says : _ _ _ "The Emperor, who two days ago arrived from Ischl at the palace of Schonbrtinn, came to Vienna to-day. After giving a long audience to Count Buol, his Majesty desired Baron Prokesch-Osten to be introduced, with whom he had a long conversation, in which the Baron gave his Majesty an account of his visit to Paris. What is remarkable in this matter is that the Baron was the only person received, with the exception of Count Buol—this fact being considered a proof of the anxiety of the Emperor to hear an account of the parts enlace of the Baron's visit. The Prussian journals affect to believe that the understanding between Austria and the Western Powera, relative to the affairs of the East, is far from being as complete as it was at the commence ment of the war, and they point to the circumstance that the Emperor Francis-Joseph abstained from at once sending his congratulations to the Emperor Napoleon 111. for the capture of Sebastopol, as he had done on the occasion of the victory of the Alma. This matter has certainly been much talked of in diplomatic circles, bnt I am unable to explain to you what really took place. When on the 10th of Sept. the official news of the fall of Sebastopol arrived in the Austrian capital, the Emperor Francis-Joseph had been some days absent, having gone on a shooting-excursion to the mountains of Styria. No telegraphic line communi cated with that remote district, and it was, in con sequence, impossible for Count Buol to immediately inform his Sovereign of the great success obtained by the allied powers. Foreseeing that several days must elapse before the news could reach the Emperor, Count Buol, without waiting for his Imperial master's orders, sent a verbal note, as it is called, to Baron de Bourque ney congratulating him on the signal success obtained, and expressing his regret that some days must pass over before the Emperor of Austria could become acquainted with the intelligence, and transmit to the Tuileries his congratulations, not being able, in fact, from his als• sense, to send as instantaneously as he had done after the Alma. But afterwards when Marshal Pelissier's re port appeared in the Moniteur on Sept. 26, Baron Hub ner presented to Count Walewski a written note in which were set forth the official congratulations of the Austrian Cabinet. Baron Hubner furthermore received orders to seize on the first occasion to amplify viva voce to the Emperor Napoleon on the official note banded to Count Walewski. Such is the true explanation of the delay which occurred in the transmission of the Austrian offi cial felicitations. Turning to another subject, I have to state that the Archduke Albert, son of the celebrated captain of whom Napoleon I. always spoke in such high terms, left this city for Italy the day before yesterday. The great fatigue which the Archduke, who distinguished himself at the battle of Novara, had to undergo during the Italian and Hungarian revolutions, and the weight of his present fsnctions as Governor-General of Hungary have so materially injured his health, that his medical advisers have recommended him to visit Italy. The Archduchess Maria, his sister, and the Archduke Renier, her husband, accompany him. The Queen of Naples having expressed a strong desire to see her brother, the Archduke Albert, the meeting between them will take place at the Court of Tuscany, the pre sent Grand Duchess of that country being herself a Neapolitan Princess. This meeting will probably have a certain political bearing, in this manner :—At the commencement of the hostilities in the East, the Court of the Two Sicilies 'was far from being opposed to the policy of the Western Powers, and it is even said that M. Adolphe Barrot, who then represented France at the Court of Naples, having had a long conversation with the King on the affairs of the East, heard his Ma jesty speak so favourably of the views of France and England, that the representative wrote an account of the matter to M. Drouyn de Lhuys, who in his turn had a circular on the subject addressed to the French diplo matic agents in foreign countries, to show to what ex tent the King had declared in favour of Napoleon 111. It was afterwards that the false representatives of the Russian agents caused the King to entertain different sentiments. The Archduke Albert will probably tend to induce his Majesty to entertain juster views." RUSSIA. The Silesian Gazette learns from St. Petersburg that the Russian Grenadiers have reached Perekop. Positive information has been received in Vienna that the consternation of the Russians at the rapid progress made by the Allies is extreme. The pro. bability is that one of the first consequences of the taking of Kinbourn and the expedition to the mouths of the Dnieper will be, that the eight regi ments of Grenadiers and the artillery division will not dare to march from Perekop to the assistance of the Russian army in the Crimea. Accounts from Nicolaieff, in the German Jour nal of Frankfort, state that the two Military Com missioners of Russia to the Courts of Vienna and Berlin, Counts Hackelburg and Benkendorff, have left by order of the Emperor for the head-quarters of Gen. Gortschakoff, to examine in what condi tion the Russian army happens to be. The Invalide posse contains a despatch from General Mouravieff, of the 12th Sept., in which that general announces the defeat of a Turkish cavalry force forming part of the garrison of Kars. This event has been reduced in importance and in terest by the subsequent defeat of the Russian General before the redoubts of Kars. A letter from Berlin, in the Borsen Halle, of Hamburg, states that the rei)ort circulated by the Vienna Gazette, to the effect that all the Russian Ministers at the German Courts had received orders to be ready to leave for Warsaw towards the end of October, when summoned by Count Nessel rode to meet the Czar, is doubted in the diplomatic circles of that city. tis argued that hitherto no reason exists to necessitate a conference at Warsaw, and that even were such conferences to take place, not all the Russian Ministers, but simply Prince Gortschakoff and Baron de Budberg would be pre sent. _ _ The following is a fact, showing the repugnance which the majority of great Russian families feel to return to their country. Measures of great severity have just been ordered by the Czar against those who continue to reside abroad. In Livonia, the estates ot several noblemen who reside abroad, have been placed under guardianship, alt' ugh their term of permission has not expired. A )rd in gto a communication lately made to the.; tho rities, the Emperor is determined to putt end to the mania of absenteeism on the part of the Russian nobles. In case of my landowner remain ing abroad without leave, th tribunals will manage the estates, and render an at count of the revenues to the owners for one year, at the expiration ot which term the estates, if t' t owners still remain abroad, will be confiscated, anless particular cir cumstances can be brought forward to justify a longer delay being granted. SWED STOCKHOLM, October 17.—Scarcely has a week elapsed since the return of. Baron Mind-Bona from his secret mission to Paris, when now Admi ral Virgin has undertaken a diplomatic journey, the real object of which is studiously kept a secret, but it is generally believed that he is also gone to Paris, and it is added that he is the bearer of the King's ultimatum as to the conditions he requires as the price of his throwing up his neutrality and joining the Western Powers in the prosecution of the war. Such a step would not fail to make him very popular, and it would be received with the greatest enthusiasm throughout the whole of the Scandinavian peninsula. Admiral Virgin was last year for a short time Swedish Envoy Extraordinary in London. As captain in the navy he com manded the frigate Eugenie, of 44 guns, in her three years' scientific circumnavigation of the globe (1848 to 1850). At the present moment there are lying in this port about thirty decked and open Russian craft of different sizes, which have broken the blockade and crossed over from the coast of Esthonia, bringing cargoes of corn, potatoes, hops, hemp, and tallow, to barter, for that precious article of consumption in Russia—salt. They buy this article here for 6 dollars per barrel, and state that if they return home in safety they shall sell it at 30 dollars, thus realising 500 per cent. The captains report that on their voyage across they saw nothing of the British and French cruisers. The winter ie 14W fast approaching in this coun. THE QUA.RTEi LIES. The Edinburgh Review. No. CCVIII. As many as eleven articles lend the charm of their variety to the new number of the old Edin burgh. The reviewers employed upon it as contri- but v ors have taken it in turns to s describe the in- trigues of the Court of Oude and the political dis turbances of the Celestial Empire—the memoirs of the late King Joseph and the results of the recent Campaign—the hypothesis of the Plurality of Worlds and the vicissitudes experienced by the Fathers of New England—the revelations of the Educational Census, and those made upon the sub ject of Transcaucasia by the Baron Von Haxthausen —the inconveniences incident to the subdivision of the Sacred Text into Paragraphs—the beauties and deformities jumbled together in the bewilder ing and altogether unsatisfactory "Maud" of Alfred Tennyson—and, besides all these, an elabo rate, and, everything considered, a more than merely complimentary, in truth a singularly eulo gistic, treatise upon the Newspaper Press of the United Kingdom. Such are the eleven themes selected for critical examination by the Radaman thi of the Edinburgh. And assuredly after the perusal of some among the papers it will be admitted by the discerning reader that a few at least of these formidable critics have not lost all recollection of the glorified motto selected from the apophthegms of Publius Syrus to be the standard symbol of the inexorable truthfulness of the great Whig Quar terly. The courtliest tone imaginable is discern able, it is true, especially in two instances, in this the latest outpouring of the wisdom of the Blue and-Buff Magnifico ! In the instance, that is to say, of Journalism and the Laureate. Nothing could, by possibility, be more Grandisonian than the politeness evinced on the one hand towards the author of "Maud" and "In Memoriam,'' and on the other towards the invisible Plurals of the "Fourth Estate,"—the inscrutably royal pro nouns of the daily and weekly newspapers. Speak ing of the Press as a whole, the writer of the paper on that subject does not hesitate to attribute the undeniably enormous influence of journalism in this country, nowadays, to " the remarkable ability with which it fills its place and does its work," observing, in reference to any suspicion of dishonour, corruption, or venality among its editors, that " It would be as impossible to buy a Journalist as it would be to buy a Member of Par liament." Referring to the later productions of Mr. Tennyson, the reviewer of " Maud" boldly pronounces the authoritative dictum that "In Memoriam " will rank henceforth in some respects with the Sonnets of Shakspere. While in reference to idyllic poems, such as " The Brook," or " The Gardener's Daughter," he declares the Laureate to be in that peculiar class of composition alto gether unapproachable. We are delighted to ob serve in this very able criticism upon " Maud ' pore than one caustic sarcasm upon certain would be High-Priests of Reviewing upon the subject of Poetry, who have been maundering of late years about what they imagine to be the aim and the arch characteristics of that loftiest department of litera ture. " The public are evidently afflicted just now," says the Edinburgh commiseratively, " with certain odd notions of what poetry ought to be, and are ready to catch at anything which suffi ciently contradicts the established laws of the art, as a realisation of their views. The oddest of these notions is that a poet must belong to his age ; whereas our forefathers have always held that a poet ought to belong to no age." Again, "Another strange notion," says the writer, " which many persons have adopted of late years, . . . is that a poem cannot be profound unless it is in whole, or in part, obscure "—adding, " The people like their prophets to foam and speak riddles." Whence the incomprehensible admiration expressed by some for the "Paracelsus" of Mr. Browning, rather than for his exquisite " Pippa Passes." Whence also that homage for the rhapsodical " Festus " of Mr. Bailey, with his " buttered thunder," and greased lightning—a homage that has encouraged him to the production of a work more than usually foggy and enigmatical, judging of it at least from the title by which " The Mystic" is prefigured to us through the medium of the publisher's advertise ment. It is not by any means difficult to perceive in the writer of the introductory article to the pre sent number of the Edinburgh, a thoroughgoing gentleman of the old school, with all his prejudices, piques, and pertinacities—one bred up from his cradle in the belief that Boney was synonymous with Boguey, and that if Mr. Pitt was not in truth, as the Tories thought him, a Heaven-Born Minister, Arthur Duke of Wellington was indis putably a soldier Heaven-sent and Heaven-directed. For here, in the October of 1855, under the guise of a final criticism upon the ten volumes of " Me moirs and Correspondence, Political and Military," of his late Majesty Joseph Napoleon, King of Naples and afterwards King of Spain, Prince of the French Empire and elder brother of the Con queror of Europe—we have repeated doggedly, all over again, the old old charges heaped unstintingly upon the devoted head of the great Corsican Ad venturer. We are told that be was the murderer of the Duke d'Enghein ; we are assured that he was spiteful and vindictive ; we are informed, in so many words, that he was "tarnished with defects" and "stained with crimes"—and that we must, con sequently, abstain•henceforth from ranking him with Caesar and Charlemagne, even it is said with Crom weli and Washington. Greater liberals than this critic of the old school speaking to us under cover (under the blue and buff cover) of the Edinburgh, liberals like Hazlitt in England, like Constant in France, have thought otherwise—men free in in tellect, unbiassed in judgment, unpurchasable in the Spartan integrity of their character unsullied in the purity and elevation of their political prin ciples. They have thought otherwise. The world at large coincides in the justice of their estimate of Napoleon the Great, of his Career and of his Genius. It is little better indeed than old-world drivelling nowadays to babble about the murder in the ditch at Vincennes, about the mas sacre at Jaffa,. about the poisoning in the military hospital, and the like raw-head-and-bloody-bone charges directed against the Arch-Enemy of Eng land in the good old days when George the Third was King, days, thank Heaven, long since gone by—though we have every now and then a casual reminiscence of them, as in the instance of this wonderful wiseacre-diatribe against departed greatness in the obstinate old whig Edinburgh. Really in instances such as these common sense seems to be altogether awanting i To hear the hor ror expressed at the execution of the Duke d'Enghein—one would think that there never was any ruffianly conspiracy at all against the life of Napoleon Bonaparte among a set of cut-throats like Georges Cadoudal and his myrmidons, a conspiracy in which not only were warriors like Moreau and Pichegru directly implicated, but of which more than one Bourbon Prince has been proved to have been cognisant ! As to the destruction of the troops of the pitiless Djezzar—had they not out raged the laws of nations by butchering the bearer of the flag of truce, having themselves previously violated the laws of honour by taking up once more the arms they had laid down with the promise never again to wield them against the forces who, on those conditions, had restored them to liberty. While in reference to the old bugbear fable of the poisoning—has not history long since recounted in indelible characters that Sir Sydney Smith and his companions, upon entering Jaffa in the wake of the retreating army of invaders, found seven of the plague-stricken soldiers still surviving on the hos pital litters ? Pshaw ! the revival of such old wives' tales is after all but the merest babbling of deaf and blind, but alas ! not dumb, senility. It is the coming out of the flesh of what is bred in the bone. It is sufficiently interesting, however, to find the writer remarking at ono moment—" We have more than once heard the Duke of Wellington talk of Napoleon, and of his military genius, and say he thought him by far the greatest general the world ever saw, and that his campaign of 181.4 was the ono in which he had displayed the greatest ability and the most extraordinary strategical art," observing at another—" We well remember, many years ago, having one day met at Holland House, a mild-looking old gentleman, with very courteous land dignified manners ; on being presented to him we became aware that we saw before us a man who had once been King of Naples and King of Spain" —in other words, the elder brother of Napoleon, that Joseph Bonaparte, who died subsequently in the seventy-sixth year of his age, in the July of 1844, at Florence. It is interesting, moreover, to learn from the same source that the present Em peror o f the French has given orders f or th e classi fication, and as far as such is at all possible, for the ac tual publication of no less than 40,000 letters written or dictated by Napoleon Bonaparte , the or iginals of which are now, f or th e mos t part, in the archives of the French Government. Such as the foregoing are among the more salient points noticeable in these eleven diversified contributions making up the aggregate contents of the conclud ing division of the hundred-and-second volume of the Edinburgh. . The following is the text of the resolution adopted by the Bank of Vienna in an extraordinary sitting on the 17th, of which mention has been already made bi telegraph :—" Fifty thousand new shares shall be created for the establishment of a mortgage bank, and each pros prietor of two bank shares shall be entitled to one of the new. These shares shall be issued at the rate of 700 florins in money. Thus the capital of the mortgage bank shall not be 20,000,000 florins, as was announced, but 35,000,000 florins. The payment of the shares may be made either in specie or in bank notes at tle quotations of th e p rece di ng day. The new shares 0. 2,21 l be compl e t e ly ass i m il a t e d t o the old ones, and shall De entitled to the same diyidends.". vs sh nc ma tio. the Col par. bon Me low io, adde the I are i sale. the of i and the a shat divi rate rose don' che( Bon Nei , duel of tl it NI ban' "T -rat] of , Raul 3 iw 3 pe Na‘i lon *ndi Cone PR] Chil Equ Sow Tar met of t the Per