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It is not a monologue, for the audience them selves perform their parts with the principal actor, some of them on the stage and others in front ; it is not an exhibition, for though everything becomes metamorphosed before the eyes of the visitors no one can be positive that he sees any one thing; but it is a comedy really performed by the com pany ; a melodrama replete with startly positions and unex pected denouements ; a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of the public every night to appear as auxiliaries ; and an ex travaganza, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond the bounds of probability. Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and fashionable audiences which have nightly 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. He believes that no professor of his art has at any time or in any place been honoured with an amount of success so extensive, so decided, and so unusual. Ile would attribute that success to three causes; first, that in his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors the results of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of pqrfected skill in one peculiar art, and to perfect which he has travelled the globe in every clime ; secondly, that he has spared no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on the stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment of the first mechanicians and artists of the day ; and thirdly, that, while endeavouring to provide amusement for those who honour him with their presence, he has not forgotten that it is possible to afford information also, and that the oppor tunity should not be neglected of exposing conjuring where ever it has been used for nefarious purposes, or whenever by resorting to the conjuror's arts, in an illegitimate manner, the designing have succeeded in making dupes of the credulous. The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro fessor Anderson has received, from the time of opening the theatre up to the present date, bear witness to the great in terest taken on tho subject of this singular delusion ; whilst many of them bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which attend a belief in the superstitious nonsense of the " Spiri 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 reply at length to a tithe of the communications which reach him on the subject. He regrets that many of these should comp from ladies and gentlemen who, from their position in society and their well-known in tellectual attainments, he would least have expected to have been converts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and so easily susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Every evening, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions on spirit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within the Lyceum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited . and elucidated. It is respectfully requested that this public exposition will be accepted generally as Professor Anderson's only mode of replying at fult -length to his multitudinous correspondents. He regrets that the names of the great and learned of the• land should have been made to figure in the documents emanating from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem ber 20, and taken by that journal from the ,2Vew 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 ackAil.wladgei . lib:n[o6lf to bo I thoroughly nonplussed. Both of thilsif-Igt.ed pot brought - the whole force of their keen discernmetillio I:oear upon the solution of the phenomena; but the prescsoti substantial, actual hands, and the demonstrative strength of the spirits who thus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate rial objects about the room, proved to be too much of a ques tion for them to master." Mr. D. D. Hume, the 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 new in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout the Anglo-Saxon world as a splendid humbug, offered him 2.000 dollars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New York. Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could be bought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was refused. Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply and honestly remarked, that the money would have been very acceptable to him, for ho was poor, young (under 20), an or phan, and in very bad health : but be would have been afraid of losing his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose his life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful. Re 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 editorialarticle of an established journal, the editor of whom Might bo supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe in spirit-rapping d oes spirit-rapping gain or lose by this accession to its adherents ? and, with Barnum's endorse ment to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely 'to be negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not ; "hut, when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of England have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross a swindle, when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the Rev, N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and writes a book on the subject, he considers it to be time for him to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the -Morning Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir David Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel, in company with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that which the Wizard of the North proclaims every night---that Spirit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad purposes. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day, however, there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one who was present when 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, Professor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual ists of America, as given Iv him nightly at the Lyceum, will be received by the people of England as genuine honest at tempts to provide an antidote for tho bane of the spiritual jugglers. In the course of the loot five weeks 100,017 persons have 'Flatted 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. Inc, the programme being continually changed. Grand fashionable Day Performance, on Saturday, October 27, at 2 O'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ; Part I.—Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical capabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do by magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer ism, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in the air, Act 2. The Aqua-Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the power of producing animated nature from fire and water only, and the possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most complex forms of ornithological existence. Act 3. Le Livre des Reeueils Choisies : or, Puck's Own Pocket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the evening's entertainment in the production of the very volu minous from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude out of minuteness, iu developing bulk where no space appears for its existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and bringing forth unexpected wonders from tie most unlikely place for to be found. Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; or, Transition without Trou ble. In which will be comprised—the Ad ven t ures o f a Wed ding Ring, the Peregrinations of a nation—black int o white, and the r. lan sco k ve N ry ote o , f th ev e er Tra y Anrtfioare in the position which would seerm, thetheGasket of Crcesus. Into most inappropriate. • Act 5. L'Ecrin de Vei•re ; o which, though made entirely o f glass Perfectly transparent, and suspended so as to be visible t o th e eyes of all present, the 'Maud will cause the money o f his visitors to transport itself, and rain into the casket, though i ts lid tclosed s locked, and the key in the possession of the a u di ence. • Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Transparency of Opacity. • Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wi ne and Spirit Store. An improvement upon the " 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, r_. nma,ndfinallywhisky, noyeau, or any other wino or spirit required proving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry, and occupying the whole space when tightly packed. _ Act 8. Half an Hour. of with the Spirits ; or, an E x p ose 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, amon gs t o th ers, th e i r h an dk erc hi e f s become transformed into the flags of victory—the banners of Eng land, France, T ur k ey, and Sardinia. : Act. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comus, in which he who seats himself will be under the magic spell, and appear to the audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi tion as peculiar as perplexing. Act. 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the Nucleus of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the audience will have the goodness to observe, in an earlier part of the evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin) in mid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which all will produced. Act. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shortest Route to the Antipodes. 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W i th us odd i ty i s relished; it is an e xaggera ti on o f t h at i n d epen d ence of character o n w h ic h we pr id e ourse l ves. W e cannot, from she er wan t o f space, enter into the oddities and qua i n t nesses o f Englishmenl in private life, but on the publi c s t age th ere are a l ways half a-dozen men w h o are content to enact the part of a buff oon f or t h e amusement of their fellow-subjects. O M o r l o . n Etely s r ib t Drummond, i s pre-eminently ob served, s i nce the retirement of that eminent artist, honours of th e cap and bells. No matter what subject may b e uppermost, his great ambition is to once n t e i e tl be ed f° to re t h take a view which send not be more rational or more provident, but must at least be different from that which appears to be the true one to the majo rity of his countrymen. At the present moment this great circus performer has put on his tights and spangles, and is careering pro virai round the arena upon a couple of fresh hobbies. The one re. presents his approval of a matrimonial alliance between an English Princess and. a Prussian Prince; the other is admiration of Lord Raglan, and of the manner in which the British military operations have been carried on in the East since the com mencement of hostilities. Of each in order. Mr. Henry Drummond carries out his Prussian mono mania in high' prerogative style. Not only are.the objections to such an alliance which have been stated without foundation in this particular in s stance, but, in the abstract, the population of a country have not the shadow of a right to make their voices heard upon such a point as that of the matrimonial alliances which the family of their Sovereign may c h oose t o con t rac t. It i s really just as thOugh Mr. Henry Drummond, of Surrey, shmild choose to conduct Miss Tabitha Bramble, of Westmoreland, to the hymeneal altar. Who shall say him nay 7 The eccentric member for West Surrey, indeed, takes liberties with the Royal family upon which we should not have ven tured. He represents the Princess Royal under the aspect of some rustic beauty who is courted by the son and heir apparent of a bucolic neighbour. So the young people hit it off, and the par€'nts think the match a prudent one. What have the neighbours to do with the question ? Truss the fowls, boil the puddings, and have them " as k ei d" at church. Here are the old gentleman's very words as delivered a day or two back at the annual dinner of the Chertsey Agricultural Association. He told the meeting that he was about to remark - on the unwarrantable interference which be con ceived had taken place with the privacy of the Royal family, and then went on to add, " What would they say if, when any young person made love to the daughter of a farmer, some impertinent and meddling neighbour chose to turn round and tell them it would be an improper marriage I Would they not say ' Hold your tongue, mind your own affairs, it is no business of yours ;' and would not all the neighbours join with them in express ing their opinion that it was an impudent inter. ference ?" It is not we, but Mr. Henry Drum mond, who presents the Sovereign of these realms to the imagination of his readers in the guise of a Surrey farmer's helpmate, intent upon marrying off her eldest girl. Thus far, however, Mr. Henry Drummond had not actually stated his general proposition, which is this—the privacy of the Royal family in matri monial matters ought to be respected as that of pri vate families. The amazement and indignation which were universally felt when this subject was first mooted, and to which utterance was given in the columns of the Times, Mr. H. Drummond considers "a most abominable interference with the affairs of private life, and such ttn interference as they would not suffer for a moment in their own families." We must ven- [PRICE 4D. STAMPED SD• Spirit of the Public Jotumals. ( From the Times of this day.) We have to invite the most earnest attention of our readers to a matter which they might be in clined to pass over. Diplomatic relations between the Sardinian and Tuscan Governments have been now for some time suspended. The cause is of a public nature, and may seem to some trivial, but the dispute has already become serious, and may have important results. Italy has been spoken of by an Austrian statesman as a " geographical idea," and it is too true that that unhappy country is, di vided against itself, and has its hopes and fears beyond its own boundaries. Never was there a more lamentable proof of this than in the dissen sions which the Tuscan Government, relying on the protection and moved by the instigation of Austria, .has just now wilfully raised. The history of the affair may be told in a few words. A cer tain Count Casati emigrated from Lombardy in 1848 and became a Sardinian subject. His son entered the diplomatic service, and was for about a year attaché to the Legation at Constantinople. Ho was thence transferred to Florence, but not before the Marquis Sauli, Sardinian Minister at the Tuscan Court, had announced the intention of his Government to the Grand Duke's Minister for Foreign Affairs. In answer to the inquiries of the Tuscan Cabinet, it was stated that the young Count Casati was a naturalised Sardinian subject, and in 1848 he was only eighteen years of age. This was quite satisfactory. ; the Sardinian Minis teriannounces the appointment 841- .14.4 0 61. the' Tuscan Prime Ifinisier; replies po. : i Eery: "the tii - ii - citteari'eneaves arils with lkr:Bal dasseroni and the Austrian Minister at Florence, who leave theirs in return. - It is clear that the Tuscan Government has no objection Co the ap pointment. But-a sudden change is at hand. In a few days the Tuscan Premier calls on the Marquis Sauli, states that the Grand Duke's Government has been too precipitate in receiving the son of a refugee, and begs that the attaché may be sent away on leave, and then receive another destination. This request is forwarded to Turin, but the haste of M. Baldasseroni cannot await an answer. He ad dresses an official note to the Marquis Sauli inti mating that Count Casati must at once be sent on leave, and never return, as he would not be re ceived by the Grand Duke. This note was evi dently contrary to all diplomatic precedent. The Court of Florence having once received a member of a Legation cannot be allowed to order him from the capital without a cause. The communica tion could not, in the opinion of the Marquis Sauli, be received without compromising the dignity of Ithe Sardinian Government. It was accordingly returned, but the Sardinian Minister used all means to bring the matter to a friendly conclusion. M. Baldasseroni would now hear nothing, but at once wrote to Turin a demand that the Sardinian Minister himself should be at once recalled. The only course now open to the Court of Turin was, therefore, to break off all diplomatic relations with the Tuscan Government. The Sardinian Legation left Florence, and the Tuscan Minister at Turin received his passports. This is the state in which the matter rests. Why did M. Baldasseroni so quickly change his mind about the young attaché ? Why was the friendly interchange of visiting cards followed by so hasty a demand for Count Casati's recall ? What instigated the Tuscan Court to a breach of diplo matic rules and au open rupture with a friendly Power? In the answer to these questions lies the whole importance of the matter. The Tuscan Government, with a due sense of obedience, asked the opinion of Count BuOl, the Austrian Mi nister of Foreign Affairs. The Viennese states man, in reply, asks whether the Grand Duke of Tuscany can really think proper, "in his position as an Austrian Archduke," to receive in his palace a person who could not be received by his Imperial Majesty or by any Austrian Minister? This was enough. The Tuscan palace was in com motion. Reparation must be made at any cost. M. Baldasseroni, probably trembling for his place, was eager to atone for his former civility to the re volutionary attaché. He first solicits, then, with out waiting for an answer, categorically demands, the young man's recall. - Because the demand is not at once complied with, the terrified Grand. Duke and his Minister hasten to show their devo tion to the Imperial cause by an insolent and un necessary rupture with a friendly Italian State. It may be said, however, that it does not much mat ter. Let the Grand Duke suspend his relations until he chooses to renew them. Sardinia may be well content to see with calmness the display of impotent spite excited in Viennese and Florentine cliques by the noble course which Victor Emma nuel has taken in the present war. Let the Court of Turin give itself no trouble about the renewal of diplomatic intercourse. But such remarks would be founded on a misconception of the part which Austria thinks herself entitled to play in Italian poltics. Our readers have yet to learn how far Count Buol is inclined to follow up what he and his colleagues consider their success. Sardinia is threatened. Count Buol carries matters with a high hand. In an interview with the Sardinian Minister at Vienna he boldly states that, "as the rupture between the Courts of Florence and Turin had taken place in consequence of instructions sent by the Imperial Government, his Majesty the Emperor would not remain out of the question, but was determined to consider it a personal one to himself." "We shall fix a time," continues Count Buol, "in which the difference ought to be made up; it does not matter to us whether there be a Sardinian Minister at Florence or not, but if you do not settle the dispute his Imperial Majesty will consider it a personal affair, and take measures accordingly." The question now is whether Austria shall be allowed to " take measures" in the manner which Count Buol indicates. Is Piedmont to suffer for her alliance with us ? The Court of Vienna has formed a high resolve ; it is for Europe to say whether it shall be carried out. The Tuscan Government, doubtless through Austrian instigation, will listen to nothing. The British Minister at Turin tendered his media tion ; it was accepted by the Sardinian Cabinet, and a proposition was made involving great con cessions to Tuscany, for the sake of peace. This proposition the Tuscan Government has peremp torily refused to receive. The Grand Duke relies on Austria, and Austria relies on her superior strength to force Piedmont into abject compliance. It remains to be seen whether the confidence of the great and the petty autocrat has a sound founda tion. A storm of this kind has been long foreseen. Austria can never forgive Piedmont for being the ally of France and England. She cannot see with out apprehension the faint dawn of Italian inde pendence. Her influence in Turin, Florence, Rome, and Naples she looks upon as of little less importance than her sway over Milan and Venice. These Italian States were outworks of her empire. One of them is in alliance with France—the capital of another is occupied by French troops. It is not impossible that Austria may seek to regain her ascendancy by something more than high words. It is for this reason that we call the attention of the English people to the matter. But, if the public will be surprised andi ndignant at the conduct of a foreign and despotic urt, what will they pay to the course taken by a _ repre sentative of the British nation, who abandons the cause of our deserving ally, and panders to the po. _ judices and passions of th e T u scan CamaerfiE Theogland Marquis of Normanby is the Minister at Florence. Ho is connected, perhapspl place, and evi dently too closely, with the Court and society of th knows little of the feelings which animate hi s e e, s He thinks that the his countrymen iu this great cause. t hignfluence Count Buol and . With hi m Grand Duke is quite right—that t master only exercise a proper at re b e l, or, lea st, of rebel the young attaché is a breed. We learn from our own corresp on d ence and from other sources tha t he haso p e nly censured the Governme n t conduct of the Sar dinian in appoint. ing the son o f a refugee. If we a re correctly h in formed, a diplomatic agent in structed b y th e Bri tish Government as been sent to Florence to bring Lord Norman by to views more worthy of his po sition, an d we trust that his efforts may be ulti mately s uccessful. In the meantime our Minister gives his support to the Grand Duke and Count Buol, who have thus been encouraged in their vio lent and insulting course. Whatever may be the result, it will be the duty of the nation to see to this. It cannot allow any man to desert the first duties of his office. As Lord Normanby will doubt less be called upon to defend his conduct, we shall say no more ; but he may be assured that this is no small matter, and that the examination will be as severe as the charge is serious. ture to dissent from Mr. Henry Drummond upon this point, although he should cu t as man y capers at us in return as Rabelais' fantastic hero when in strong opposition. Royal personages have some few drawbacks upon their legit station. A most unfortunate one, which is inseparable from their great position, is, that in their matrimonial alliances they must consult the interests of the nations over which they rule. A Sovereign must not entangle his country in alliances which would prove prejudicial to the general welfare, whatever his private feelings may be, and this Mr. Drum mond knows just as well as we do. We will not, however, smother him with truisms as a woos° is smothered in onions, but, having stated his pro position and our own, leave it to the public to decide between us. Passing on from this to the second point, the bucolic gathering at Chertsey was in formed by Mr. Drummond that last year Lord Raglan was the victim of the most scandalous false hoods. Dc mortuis, (Ve.:—we would fain leave Lord Raglan's memory in peace if his injudicious friends would acquiesce in silence as the safer alter native. Say of Lord Raglan that he was as gallant arid fearless a soldier as ever buckled sword to his side and you will say the truth. Add that he was a consummate gentleman, a man of the kindliest nature and of the highest breeding, for every pri vate quality entitled to affection and respect, and no one will gainsay the praise. But to say that Lord Raglan was a man of mi:itary genius, such a one as could be intrusted with the interests of his country in an important campaign, or that his management of our army before Sebastopol was not most unsatisfactory, is, after what we have heard and known for a twelvemonth past, so wild au ab surdity that we do not deem it worthy of serious reply. Our readers have the benefit of Mr. H. Drummond's opinion ; let it weigh quantum valcat in Lord Raglan's favour. General Simpson, he says, has been subjected to similar calumnies. We are very anxious to have our share of credit as calumniators in such a case, and we trust that these calumnies may in a short time lead to the result of General Simpson's recall from a post for which he has shown himself most unfit. Our real crime in the eyes of such men as Mr. Drummond is, that we hold the safety of the British army and the honour of our native land as far more valuable than the whimsies of some very respectable old gentlemen who are never content but when they are playing the " Sir Oracles" of the country side. Under present circumstances, and before the cold weather sets in, we strongly recommend Mr. Drum mond to betake himself to Berlin, where he will be admirably received, and can interchange opi nions with the King of Prussia. Let the King o r e Prussia hear from Mr. H. Drummond the state o_l public opinion in England, and let Mr. Dytarr e n ra d be enlightened by his Prussian Majesty .0-n ule ' will as to the feelings of " fatherland' and both of them make valuable additions R attle to stock of political wisdom. Theytheir their hearts' content all the details of of old tield marriage, descant upon the merits abuse the notes, can f thenthis Pre'ssian marshals and strict neutrality, of Sans Souei ring by whom Europe alLowld and crack jokes till the ceiling s _ again. These are the men really be governed. GENERAL APMAHOiV. A writer in the Dub/in Evening Post gives the grfoelnloerwailuaccount of the family of that gallant .N e ither his father nor grandfather. nor any of his forbears were what so many papers affirm them to have been. Emigrating to Francs, not at the recent period fi re d by some of them, but, with so many others, after the capitulation of Limerick, the M‘Malions, since that' disastrous moment, have ever occupied among the French nobl esse that place to which the i r name gave them . so full a claim. Th e general's grandfather, the Marqui s d e Al`Mohon, married an heiress, who, with 6,0001 a year, b roug h t hint the magnificent and historic castle of Sull y, near Autun, ever since the seat of the family. He left only two sons, the eldest of whom, dying without child' •en, left his large property to the first-born son of his hrether, Count de M`Mahon, lieu• tenant-general, peer of' France, under Charles X., and a devoted and personal fitiend of that monarch. He (lied a short time after the , revolution of 1830, leaving four ' sons and four daughters by his wife, Mdlle. do Caranv . l .7 , cousin-german to the I ate Due de Caraman and to_huom second brother, the Prince de Chimay. The /at e Y e , de Cararnati's father obi rained for his family . the P_ r r ie hte pality of Chimay, in B 'elgium, by the warn? ot father with the heiress of that great and illustrino ut house, the title descending, by f unify arrangeme nts, eldest, or the second, b at to the thi rd and youngest brother, father to the pr !sent prince. uount dell`Millon, s . on, and is just 48 "Of the eight children left by the t the present 'general is th e yotalle'' years old. Like most superior officers in the French army he receive. . I his military education alt this School of St. Cyr; and, serving principally in Afsics, ( if the was named Goveisior-Gen oral of the Province of Con. stantine in 1553. lie married, two years ago, Mdlle. de Castvieff, of t he ducal house of that historic name. His eldest nephew, the 'Marquis de M'Mahon, married , not a year ago, the daughter of the Due des Cars, head , of one of the firi it a nd. Lre atest families of France. The general's tootl - ,er Mdlle. de Caranaan, bad. two sisters—one, tI .ic el „l es t , Chauont-Qu' Ay, r , whose only son married the P rinceke relic St e phanie Ta ni married to the Marquis de r de la Pagerie, niece to the Empress Josephine. Th. , y ounge st sister was wife to the late Marquis de ( ;roe 11Ls Flamareus, lord of the bedch amber to Charles the e e hot'ses in ' "Genf France. s it , si o -, 'enth and head of one o f the first. arid oldest ho "en , :ral d e MS : sla h on b as proved himself to s . ~ unworth y of h deprive . d the empire as well (s imp' hie and infamous, were those laws 7 services of ' • 7 j such st Ins:. e3smilpriirseb naattelaerganedo:eteheeent ; and Wiretw,C ti . 8.7 (Front the Tinier of this day.) There have been some few representative men in the world, and some men who represent nothing but their own queer individualities. Of the former class the Greeks chose their demigods, and the moderns their heroes, because they embodied most strongly the feelings and aspirations of millions of their fellow•creatures and of the periods in which LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, oCTOI3Eit 23, 1855. THE OPINION IN PARIS OF GENERAL SIMPSON. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BEN. Sir,—ln my last letter, published in your number of the 9th inst., I pointed out in what manner the English troops were necessary for the reduction of Sebastopol— how, by the two hours during which they occupied the attention of the greater pars of the Russian army, they gave time to the French to 'fortify themselves in the Malakhoff, and by that means to resist the utmost efforts of the Russians to drive them out after the attack of the English on the Redan had been finally repulsed. Some persons will, perhaps, be apt to exclaim, the English soldiers have been sacrificed to those of the French. While the French have had all the glory, the poor English troops have been exposed to a perfectly desperate and hopeless attack, merely to facilitate the success of their allies. I confess to have viewed the question at first in this light myself, and to have blamed General Simpson for having given in to such a plan. But I have been satisfied, with the reasoning of my French military friends, that this was absolutely necessary. " It was necessary," say they, " that we, the French, should attack the Malakhoff, because your army was not sufficiently strong for this. We have at least four men to your one. Therefore, the less important part was necessarily assigned to you. Had the two armies been under a single commander-in-chief, the case would have been different. We should then have had at least ten thousand English engaged with the French iu the assault of the Malakhoff, and their place before the Re dart filled up with ten thousand Frenchmen. We should then have seen the Zouave and the Highlander storming the same breach, shoulder to shoulder, and the French and English Guards rivalling each other in steadiness and intrepidity. Such a state of things would be infinitely better for both armies, and it would excite amongst the soldiers of both a generous emulation, under which emotion nothing would be too difficult, and everything possible. Such ought to be the position of the allied armies, but, unfortunately, your orgueil Britannique will not allow this. You cannot ex pect that we will place our army, four times as nume rous as yours, under the command of the English Gene ral, and your national dignity, it seems, would be wounded by your army being under the command-in chief of a Marshal of France. All the movements of the allied armies have been hampered and confused by this divided command. Sebastopol would probably have been taken long before the Bth of September last had one head directed the whole movements of the united troops. " Lord Raglan, although a brave and gallant soldier, and a perfect gentleman in his intercourse with our ,fficers, was jealous to a degree of anything interfering with his independent command ; and be was on this account, perhaps, the worst General which the Eng lish Government could have sent out to command a small English army acting with a large French one. That complete success has at length crowned the efforts of the allied forces is to be attributed in a great measure to the character of General Simpson. He does not ap pear to be actuated by the absurd morgue of the other English Generals. Without considering his own vanity he gives in to the plan best suited to promote the common cause ; and it is evident that he and Pelissier are on the nest of terms, and act cordially together. We in France consider that the plan of the last attack on Sebastopol vas admirably arranged in all its details, as well in the assault on the Malakhoff as in the fated attacks on the Redan by the English, and the Centre Bastion by th♦ French under General de Sallee ; and we consider that General Simpson is entitled to his full share of credit in the concoction and arrangements of this plan, as he and Pelissier formed it betwixt them. We regard the vituperation of the Times and his correspondent against General Simpson as silly and ridiculous in the extreme. Those personages seem to proceed in total ignorance of the real plan and intentions of the generals, which was a combined movement, and not se veral isolated ones, as they (the Tinter and his correspon dent) foolishly appear to have supposed. How could General Simpson have acted differently on that occasion! ft was necessary for him to conceal from his men that the attack on the Redan was hopeless as a separate as sault, although contributing so much to the final resulb ; for the soldiers would not have put into action that dogged determination which gave the French two hours of respite. We are of opinion," continued my French friends, "that General Simpson was perfectly justified in concealing this from the soldiers employed in the assault, and in not sending further reinforcements to the troops engaged in the Redan, as this could have only served to prolong unnecessarily a hopeless attack, and to cause a greater loss. The hour asked for by General Pelissier had been obtained, and the Malakboff was secured to the French beyond the power, of the Russians to retake it. As to the men who fell in the assault of the Redan, how can they be said to have been sacrificed more than any of the ether soldiers killed en that day ? The English engaged did their duty in the most gallant manner, and what signified it if they fell in an unsuccessful attack on the Redan, or in a successful one on the Malakhoff, if that unsuccessful attack contributed a 3 much to the trium phant result as the successful one ? " This is the point of view in which the matter ought ,o be shown, both to your army and the British public. It is the true one, and it will satisfy the justifiable pride . . . . and national jealousy of both. The Times, with some )f the other English journals, together with their eorre- Tondents, we are sorry to say, are doing all in their power to wound the feelings of your snldiere, to sow jealousy and distrust between them and their officers, and thus to do tho greatest injury to the common cause. On this side the Channel they would soon be reduced to order, but the liberty of the press, of which you Eng lish are so proud, prevents this, wa suppose, in your country." I have now given the opinion in Paris as to the con duct of Gen. Simpson on the Bth of September. He is certainly not looked upon as a brilliant officer, but he is considered as a judicious one, and the best, perhaps, that could be placed at the head of the English army so long as that army is under a separate command, and this on account of his good sense and conciliatory dispo sition, which prevents him from opposing his personal dignity as General of an independent army to the plans of General Pelissier, when he considers those plans con ducive to the common interest. But there is one point upon which there is a general outcry an France—that is upon the divided command. Indeed, the same feeling exists in England upon this subject amongst all judicious military men, I cannot conceive what feeling of national dignity should induce our Government not to give in to a policy so evidently dictated by com►aon sense. We cannot be a great mili tary nation as long as we are a free people. To be so we must give up our liberty. Without a forced con- scription, which the people of England would not sub mit to, we can never raise the great armies which exist . _ in France, Austria, and Russia, and other despotic countries, and that, nothwithstanding our population, from their natural courage, stamina, and hardihood, is the population of all others best fitted to form first-rate soldiers. Why, therefore, foolishly attempt to rival France by bringing an independent army into the field. We ought, I say, to content ourselves with maintaining in the East a small but perfectly disciplined and ap pointed force, such as that which fought at the Alma, and to place this army under the command-in•chief of the French General. Such an army as this would per fectly support the honour of the British military cha- ranter. This sort of thing has been repeated again and again during our history. During the seven years' war ;he English contingent was under the . command-in- chief of the Duke of Brunswick, and during the reign of Charles, a small English army was placed under the command of Turenne. On both occasions the foreign journals were loud in their praise of the valour and dis cipline of the English troops. 'What prevents the same thing being done now when he alliance betwixt France and England is closer and more cordial than that which has ever hitherto existed betwixt England and any other nation ? There is no disgrace, but the contrary, in our admitting frankly that our free constitution does not admit of our raising and maintaining a large military force. And wa could com- pensate the French by supplying them with transports, and keeping up a larger naval force than the French could bring into action. Besides, we could share with them the additional expense to which they were put by bringing into the field a larger army than ours. It is generally believed here that the French Empe ror proposed to our Government that if they would place the English army under the command-in-chief of a French general he would place his fleet under the com mand-in-chief of an English admiral ; and that, if this arrangement was entered into, he would augment to a great degree his army in the East. But, according to p ablic report, this offer was re aed 115 the English M nisterg, who wished to have the importance of directing an independent army, and thus to share with the French Government in the honour of directing a great war. All our misfortunes since the battle of the Alma have proceeded from the absurd policy of our Government in keeping up a separate command, and attempting to make ourlittle army vie at all points with the great French one. This is impossible. Notwithstanding that the French army in the East is four times as numerous as ours, it is only a fourth part of the army at home, and from which it is recruited. From this home army the old and disciplined soldiers are sent to the Qrimea, while the young conscripts are kept at home. We, on the con trary, have our whole regular force abrond, and the gaps caused by disease and the sword are filled up by undisciplined raw bop, and that even with the greatest difficulty. In fact, the more numerous our army be comei, the worse are the materials of which it will be composed. We may be compared in this respect to a poor family attempting to rival a rich one in splendour and ostentation. It has been, I repeat, owing to our separate command ,that all the disasters of our army have arisen since the battle of the Alma. It was our separate command that ')laced us at Inkerman by ourselves in a position which forced us to maintain, during nearly a whole day, single . handed, a combat with four times our numbers. It was our separate command which, during last winter, in duced us to undertake a part of the siege infinitely be yond oxr strength, and which had the effect of decimat ingapur little army by disease, caused principally by .Over work. And it is owing to our separate. 43.9wtrukudi, that, any tire last occasion,-Alle the - French (according to the Times) were reaping all the glory, the English were employed at a subordinate part of the attack, merely to facilitate the French operations. • In short, as long as we keep up our separate com mand, we may be compared to the d warf in alliance with the giant, who got all the wounds, while his big comrade had all the glory.--I remain, &c., Paris, Oct. 9, 1855. JAMES AYTOUN. FURTHER OUTBREAK OF CHOLERA. 1N THE MILLBANK PENITENTIARY. Yesterday Mr. Bedford, coroner for Westminster, and a highly respectable jury, assembled in the Millbank Penitentiary, to inquire touching and concerning the death of Henry Edwards, late an inmate, aged 63, who died from Asiatic cholera, the awful disease having again made its appearance in the gaol within the last few days. The unfortunate man's being the third death from the epidemic during the past week. It appeared from the evidence of chief warder Sa muel .Finn that the deceased was admitted to the gaol on the 7th of September last from the Staffordshire county prison, having been sentenced to four years' impri sonment at the assizes for receiving three bags and four fowls, knowing the same to have been stolen. On a pre vious occasion he had been imprisoned five months for horse-stealine. He was described as a married man, and having six children. When admitted he was reported in good health, but he was taken seriously ill on last Friday, and removed to the infirmary, where he died on the following day. John Horne, warder, deposed that be r ece i ve d t h e de ceased on his admissionC on 7th Sept. He complained of slight indisposition on the following day, the Bth ult., for which he received from the doctor some medicine, and he then continued well up to the time of his last seizure. On Thursday last he complained of slight loose ness of the bowels, but there appeared nothing serious in his else, as he was enabled to continue at his work. However, when the surgeon went his rounds, the de ceased's case was brought under his *notice, and he had some medicine prescribed, two doses of which he took the same evening. • Upon his proceeding to the de ceased's cell the following morning, at a quarter past 6, he coniplained of great looseness of the bowels during the night, and witness perceiving that he had been sick and purged immediately rang the tower bell, and the de ceased was instantly removed to the infirmary. Witness asked him why he did not give the alarm to the patrol by putting out his board during the night, so as to attract the patrol's attention ; when he replied he did not think it worth while. He (witness) explained that there was a small board in each cell door, which the prisoner could push out if he was taken ill, or required anything during the night, and the chief warder further explained that there was a warder up and down the lobbies every 15 minutes, to see a'l was right. William Rendail, assistant warder in the infirmary, proved the deceased's being admitted to the infirmary on the Friday, suffering from Asiatic cholera. The usual remedies were applied, but be gradually sank, and ex pired at five o'clock on the following (Saturday) evening. The witness further, in reply to the jury, admitted that the decea-ed was not seen by Mr. Hatfield, the surgeon, until upwards of an hour after his admission to the in firmary. In the meantime the usual remedies resorted to in such cases were applied, and afterwards he had everything he could be got to take, in the shape of port wine, &c. Mr. George Hatfield, resident surgeon, stated that the deceased died from Asiatic cholera, and explained that always in such cases certain remedies were tried in the first place, which the warders were quite competent to administer before the arrival of the medical officer. Shortly after his admission to the infiamary the deceased got into the usual collapse and rapidly sank, the case, considering the other deaths which bad taken place, being rather severe in its character. There bad been seven cases of Asiatic cholera during the present out break, and the case under inquiry made the third death. By the Jury—He could not account locally for the disease, nor could he say how it came that these pri soner's were more particularly attacked by it than any other. Certainly the site was bad, as in the first place it was very low, and then its contiguity to the River made the building damp and unhealthy. Singular to say, the disease had always on previous occasions commenced its ravages within the walls of the gaol ; but this sea son, when it came exceedingly late, the disease had showed itself a week previous in the district of Chelsea. The greatest precautions to avert the dreadful scourge had been, adopted for some months past in the gaol, and the water bad been brought from the artesian wells at Trafalgar-square. Since the disease had appeared the warders had been cautioned to be more vigilant, and each prisoner had a certain quantity of rum per day. The diet of the sick, and, indeed, the prison generally, was under the surveillance of the medical officer?. A Juror said it indeed was somewhat extraordinary that while there was not a trace last season outside the walls of the prison of the disease, it was raging violently within. He considered that the situation of the prison or the diet must be improper in some way or other. The Coronet, in ably summing up, remarked that he Was glad to see the jury willing in all such cases to make a strict investigation into the general discipline of the prison, for it was for such purposes they were assembled together on such painful occasions. After some further observations from the learned coroner, the jury returned a verdict simply of " Death from Asiatic cholera," and the investigation terminated. DETERMINED CASE OF SELF-DESTRUC. TION. KENDAL, Oct. 19.—Yesterday morning a moat pain ful sensation was created through Ambleside by the report that Mr. Bryan Robinson, of Rock Cottage, farmer, had committed suicide. It appears that about half-past six o'clock the house keeper of the deceased, Ann Butler, who bad just got up, on passing the room heard Mr. Robinson groan. She tried the door, but it was fast, and she received no answer to her inquiries. Neither she nor her two fel low -servants were willing to break open the door lest their master should be offended if merely disturbed in his sleep ; but about nine o'clock their anxiety became so great that they asked a neighbour, Mr. Miles Clarke, to get in at the window of the deceased's bed-room. Mr.. Clarke did so, and found Mr. Robinson lying dead upon the floor with his throat cut. He was undressed, and had a penknife stained with blood in his hand, with which the fatal act had been committed. It appears, from the housekeeper's evidence at the inquest held be fore R. Wilson, Esq., that the deceased had been sub ject to fits of insanity, and was then under medical treatment. He was sometimes much dejected, and at other times in exuberant spirits. Deceased was in good circumstances, and is well known as having been a car rier between Kendal and Ambleside. A verdict of Tem porary Insanity was returned. MARYLEBONE LITERARY INSTITUTION.—La,st evening the session was opened under very favourable auspices. A conversazione, numerously attended both by ladies and gentlemen, was given by the members of the institu tion, who seem to be making unusual efforts to retrieve the falling fortunes of the undertaking. Lik e many other similar institutions, that of Marylebone has, to speak plainly; " outrun the constable." Whether through want of sympathy abroad, or mismanagement at home, we are unable to say, but the labours of the co mm i ttee of management do not appear, j udging fro m th e observa tions which fell from Mr. Jacob Bell in his address to the visitors, to have been appreciated. Last ni g ht th e rooms of the institution were filled with numerous art contributions, microscopes, stereoscopes, and some other objects of interest in a mixed assembly. In th e lecture hall of the house, however, a very pretty collection of pictures by modern painters had been brought together, the most prominent of which was the famous picture of " The Horse-Fair," by Rosa Bonheur, on a reduced scale. This exquisite specimen of modern art attracted ts the chief attention of the visitors, and from i concep l tion, its treatment, and its admirable taste, it wel merited the honour it received. We have no hesitation in saying that this picture is the greatest triumph of modern art with which we are at all acquainted. The re-union was agreeable, and well attended, and, in our judgment, might be repeated at intervals with consider able advantage to the institution. STATE OF NAPLES. (From, the Time.? Oorrespo2zdent.) NAPLES, Oct. 13,—Even at this late hour I must advert to the strong feeling of disappointment and ridicule with which the intelligence of the pacifi cation between our Court and that of Naples has been received. " Your Government has been com pletely taken in, while his Majesty of the Two Sicilies has gained a complete triumph." This is the language with which we English are greeted at every step ; and, pursuing the Neapolitan line of argument, there seems to be too much, reason for the reproof. " You have been insulted over and over again,* say they. "Your interests and your friendships have been in a hundred ways post poned to those of Russia. You storm in Parliament and rave in the press, and send out your broad sides to demand satisfaction. For the moment the eyes of Europe are upon the little kingdom of Naples. Poor King Bomba, what can' he do ? King Bomba arms. lie is well backed. He does not show the white feather ; but still, at the very last moment, he avoids all danger of a collision by removing, in a manner rather friendly than otherwise ' his DireCtor of Police It was a mere matter of inference, however, for many, many days, that this removal was intended as a satisfaction to the British Legation, and it was comparatively but yesterday that a note was sent to our Minister, implying that the act might be re garded as the amende honorable. Even had such an intimation been given at the very earliest mo ment, the grace of:the act' wOuld'llave 'been n+ d= - tralised Altiigethor by - the -2 conteratiortailrottr rnoval of Prince Ischitella and the Duke de Oesario from the Royal favour. Supposing this to be the conclusion of the whole affair, it would appear that our Government had cut a most humiliating figure in this transaction, had been defied, and then pacified by a doubtful and reluctant satis faction. What, however, shall be said when it is known that Mazza is still the ruling spirit of the police ; that he so told his myrmidons in an address in public after his fictitious fall ; that he was seen as lately as October 5 walking in front of the Royal Palace dressed in his official uni form, and that he then paid his Majesty a visit ? These things being so, it is .clear that the British Government has been laughed at and insulted, and that, as soon as the hurrahs for the capture of Se bastopol kad ceased to resound, things returned to their original position. A s A us t r i a i s gu id e an d !counsellor of King Bombe, so it is just Austria which has made England draw her horns in. We fear to offend a faithless friend, and thus Austria may be said to be mistress of the position in Europe. But why, am I continually asked, did your Govern ment enter on an affair which it either feared or was indisposed to carry out ; surely it must have known, what all the world knows, that the relations between Naples and Austria are of the most inti mate character ? It is much to be regretted that all recent interference in this country has consisted in first bullying and then withdrawing, and that the in fluence of England in the Two Sicilies isat the lowest ebb. As a proof of the friendly feeling towards the allies I may mention the following fact ; the Bri tish Government-engaged some time since upwards of 100 muleteers at Messina to accompany the mules they had purchased to the Crimea. They have lately returned to Messina in a British vessel. Six 'of these men went off to Reggio, where they re sided, but on arriving they were arrested and beaten. The fact will be inquired into, and I therefore forbear to say more. No additional changes have been made in the Ministry, though there has been great talk, and lists have been handielabout. Ischitella lately declined an invita tion to dine with his Majesty, so that unless a better feeling ensue it is scarcely likely that he will form one of a new Government. The quarrel between the British and the Neapolitan Govern ment is, of course, perfectly distinct from that of the Sovereign with his people ; and, whatever turn the former might have taken, the position of this country would have remained the same in regard to itself. As it is, public feeling has become yet more irritated. A certain amount of desperation has taken the place of that hope which the expected approach of an allied fleet had produced, and, wearied by oppression, there are numbers who at all hazards would attempt to grasp at liberty. The universal feeling is that of impatience of the Bourbons. "We will not have them," is the gene ral voice ; and there is a daily and growing feeling in favour of Murat leit is something to rally to ; the name, if not the man, attracts ; the French connexion attracts ; and, while the Mazzinians as a party are defunct, all others seem disposed to unite in calling upon the sort of Gioachimo. In this state of agitation and suspense, of mutual dis trust and detestation, nothing is being done, and people are ever waiting for a change. I wish to call your particular attention to the projected railway between Naples and Brindisi. It has been regarded as a most desirable object, but one difficult and doubtful in its accomplishment. I think, however, that it may now be considered as assured. The preparatory works have already commenced, and the inauguration of the first step will probably take place in the middle of next month by the Hereditary Prince. I regret to state that some details with which I had been favoured by the Concessionaries are not by me, but I may state that the plans and measurements have received the Royal approbation, and that the Royal consent has been obtained for the commence ment of the road. 51,000 shares have been already disposed of, and the demands are`continual. The company have a splendid suite of rooms in the Strada Constantinopoli, and -your correspondent was received with much attention and shown every part of the establishment, which presented all the appearance of serious and arduous work. When completed—and public opinion rises daily in its favour—it will be one of the most magnificent and useful works in the Peninsula. The treaty between this country and the United States has just been signed, and Mr. Owen, I am informed, considers that he has introduced some entirely new points and privileges, which I will mention. The indirect commerce has been conceded. Soldiers are not to be billetted on American citizens. There was a necessity for such an article, for it has certainly happened that sol diers have been billetted on a British subject. An important substitution has been made of some word comprising " warehouses" for the term " abitazioni," which wore formerly excluded by treaty from search, except by the decision of a tribunate legate. This last phrase, too, has been changed for the more definite phrase "autoritd guidiziaria," for under an absolute Government anything may be " legale." To a request for an extension of religious privileges, I am told that it was answered, that the subject must not even be discussed ; that no treaty could be concluded on such grounds ; that there was the most per fect practical liberty in this kingdom, and that it was impossible to bring forward ono Madiai case in the kingd om of the Two Sicilies. So that, unsupported by the Prussian or the British Minister, Mr. Owen felt himself compelled to de sist. Mr. Owen has derived much assistance from merchants and others well informed on the subject in drawing up his treaty, and he has not thought it a condescension to consult them. Great purchases have been made in grain, and at the advanced price of 23A carlini the tomolo. No decree has been issued for its exportation, and I understand that it has not been pressed for. There has, however, been a general expectation that it would be conceded. Cheap bread is, however, a most important means of keeping the Neapolitan Lazzaroni loyal and tranquil. The "Scala Franca" has been promised —a most important concession to commerce, and a disposi tion manifests itself to liberalise the tariff. A com mercial commission has been long sitting. Cholera has been on the increase ; 25 deaths a-day are acknowledged. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, OCT. 22.—The Taylorian Professor of Modern European Languages will commence a course of lectures "On the History of the Languages of Europe," on Sa turday, the 3d of November, at two o'clock, to be con tinued every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at the same hour. These lectures are open to all members of the university, and will be delivered at the Taylor Insti tution. Gentlemen who wish to have certificates of at tendance are requested to give notice of their wish at the end of the first lecture. WADHAM COLLEGE. The Rev. A. S. Farrar, M.A., Michell Fellow of Queen's College, has been appointed Tutonof Vtradba.m College. Mr. Fa rrar t oo k a fi rs t c l ass in literis liuman2o• ribus, and a second class in Disciplinis, Matt et Phys , in 1850 ; gained the Arnold Historical Prize in 1851 ; and Mrs. De n y er ' s Th eo l og i ca l Prize in 1853 and 1854 . In the same y ea r, 1854, he was appointed one of the Moderators. A five act tragedy has been given at the San Bene detto (Venice), by Messrs. Fanbri and Salmini ; as far as can be judged from . the confused accounts i n the_ ooal journals it met with A SUCCe4