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at !t of the use. yera lave i to orne well g in tied here ;lost fair e to e to ities )wer tone yard with ced, the • in. th a roe ; into con. pre and are ,chi cur- pro- ;hie %sad tion .onie !nte. eau erior ;tier, ,ion ; con- I an the prc• r• e r and 14r,a.0 1. 6 16 13 rtftir, 15 a at 4 daily 15 linen 20 .4tall, 6 15 4 1 rtsl2 rub ; znO3 molt 7. 'r. dear an. LOA. 4'o -es -7.0 Jar ;he est 174 ad it IY SS e, le 9, ,t r. It Ir • CONTRACT FOR CLOTHING FOR PRISONERS OF WAR. Office of the Directors of Transport Service and Prisonefs of War, Admiralty, Somerset-house, 23d Oct., THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do Hereby Give Notice, that on THURSDAY, the Sth November next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with i tech Persons as may be willing to contract for supplying and de -47,111g into her Majesty's War Prison at Millbay, Plymou th, undermentioned articles, viz., 150 GREAT COATS...—. When to be delivered. .a O O Pairs of TROWSERS .. Within one month from the day of the 1,2 00 SHIRTS date hereof, or earlier, if preferred 1 , 50 0 Pairs of STOCKINGS by the parties tendering. Patterns of the articles and the conditio ns of the contract may ill he seen at the said office, and at the Prison at Millbay. No tender w e received after one o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed r i , 238 made on the printed form pro vided for the purpose, and tth may be obtained on application at the said office. 'very tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, 11 1 d bear in the left-hand corner the words "Tender fo r Clothin g for Prisoners of War," and must also be delivered at Somerset-House. ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAIIRENT'S CASINO NOW OPEN for the winter season. The following kusie will be performed by his celebrated Band during t he week : March aux Flambeaux. Waltzes —The Lily of the Valley (D'Albert), Zephir Lufte (Gung'l), Fenella (Tinney), Ethel Newcome (Laurent), La Sultans (Bosisio). Quadrilles —Le 110 1 du Pastel (Lamotte), Les Hugenots (Laurent), Palermo (D'Al ort), Bride of Lammermoor (Tinney), T rova tore (Tutton). lkas_Des Hulands (Lamotte), Italie (Gaviolo), The Lillian (D'Al rt), Des Coucous (Bousquet), The Zouaves (Laurent). Galops— 'lie Imperial Guards (Laurent), The Hecla (Streather). Schottische "-La Ouirlande de Flours (ilosquet), La Varsoviaua (Laurent). Prin cipal Cornet a Piston, M. Boulcours.—Doors open at 8. Admission One Shilling. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. - THIS EVENING, and every evening during the Week, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of M AGIC and MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSO N, the Great Wizard of the North, in 12 acts , w ith ever-changing variety of incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary effects. Magic and Mystery is an entirely new enteitainment,:_ pos sessing distinctive characteristics and pecuciar phases f amusement. It is not a monologue, for the audience them- Selvese of perform their parts with the principal actor, sore 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 ho sees any One thing ; but it is a comedy really performed by the com pany ; a melodrama replete with startling positions and unex pected denouements ; a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of the public every night to appear as auxiliaries ; and an ex travaganza, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond the bounds of probability. Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and fashionable audiences which have nightly filled the Lyceum Theatre to overflow, and by means of whose generous aid he bas been enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for con tinuous repetition. Ho believes that no professor of his art has at any time or in any place been honoured with an amount of success so extensive, so decided, and so unusual. He would attribute that success to three causes ; first, that in his present entertainment ho has placed before his visitors the results of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of Perfected skill in one peculiar art, and to perfect which he has travelled the globe in every clime ; secondly, that he has "Pared no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on the stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment of the first mechanicians and artists of the clay ; and thirdly, that, while endeavouring to provide amusement for those Who honour him with their presence, he has not forgotten that it is possible to afford information also, and that the oppor tunity should not be neglected of exposing conjuring where ever it has been used for nefarious purposes, or whenever by resorting, to the conjuror's arts, in an illegitimate manner, the designing have succeeded in making dupes of the credulous. The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro fessor Anderson has received, from the time of opening the theatre up to the present date, bear witness to the great in terest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst many of them bear melancholy evidence to the clangers which attend a belief in the superstitious nonsense of the " Spiri tualists." Judging simply by the correspondence which has resulted, Professor Anderson's exposé of spirit-rapping and his illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro duced a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt to ex- Pose a mischievous and impudent juggle. It is impossi ble 'el' Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the ecnmunications which reach him on the subject. He regrets that many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen Who, from their position in society and their well-known in tellectual attainments, he would least have expected to have been converts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and so e asily susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Every evening, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions on s pirit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within the Lyceum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited and elucidated. It is respectfully requested that this public exposition will be accepted generally as Professor Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to his Multitudinous correspondents. He regrets that the names of the great and learned of the land should h ave been made to figure in the documents emanating f rom the spirit-rapp ers , as for instance the following, ex tracted 20, and afrnoamtatkheen by y orning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem ber‘ that journal from the New York Spiri tual Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David Brewster frankly confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what he bas Witnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be thoroughly nonplussed. Both of these noted men brought the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the 'elution of the phenomena ; but the presence of substantial, actual hands, and the dCmonstrative 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 loft England, and the following account of who, and what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 648: —" This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and now in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations Without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout the Anglo-Saxon world as a splendid humbug, offered him 2,000 dollars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New York. Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could be bought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was refused. Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply and honestly remarked, that the money would have been very acceptable to him, for he was poor, young (under 20), an or- I'han, and in very bad health : but he would have been afraid of losing his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose his life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful. Be inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is one of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer tainly surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the editorial article of an established journal, the editor of whom nlisht be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe in spirit-rapping --- does spirit-rapping gain or lose by this accession to its adherents ? and, with Barnum's endorse ment to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely to be negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not ; b ut, when he finds that educated clergymen of the C hurch of England have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross a. swindle, when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the 1-le t- N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and writes a book on the subject, ho considers it t be time for him to state that which lie knows of the mechanism by which it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the .„ 3 forning 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 s Piriterapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad Purposes. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day, oh wa however, ev els' there is an answer to Sir David's letter from ome present when he and Lord Brougham had their lance with the spirits, in which the writer says, that " the table (a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most e xtraordinary 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 eubject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention" has actually been advertised to be held in St. Martin's-hall, Professor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual ists of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will be received by the people of England as genuine honest at tempts to provide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual Jugglers. In the course of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have visited the Lyceum Theatre,—a larger number, it is believed, than has ever before been assembled within its walls in so short a p er i o d . M ag i c an d M ys t ery i s re peated every even. lug, the programme being contiuually changed. Grand fashionable Day Performance, or Saturday, October 27, at 2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ; Part I.—Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical C apabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer 'sin, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in the a i r. 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 Bee - 1161s Choisies : or Puck's Own Pocket Bo o k, w ith P uc k hi mse lf w ithi n it. Typifying the evening's entertainment in the production of the very vain- Minons from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude out of minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears for its existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and in bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely Place for to be found. Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; or, Transition without Trou ble. In which will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed ding Ring, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Transfor mation—black into white, and the Discovery of every Article in the position which would seem the most inappropriate. Act 5. L'Ecrin do Verre ; or, the Casket of Crcesus. Into which, though made e n ti re l y of glass perfectly transparent, an d suspended so as to b e visible totheeyes of all present, the Wizard will cause the mon e y o f his visitors to transport itself, and rain into the casket, though its lid be closed, locked, and the key in the possession of the audience. Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Transparency of Opacity. Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wine and Spirit Store. An improvement upon the " inexhaustible bottle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will not only be in exhaustible, but will change its contents, ad infinitum, at the word of command, producing soda-water, butter-milk, Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, rum, whisky, neyeau, or any other wine or spirit required ; and finally Proving to be filled with pock et handkerchiefs• perfectly dry, and occupying the whole space when tightly packed. Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an E Spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping tlle osé . and l tocsin of the invisibles. Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the propetartniyoor_f the Wi zar d' s p a t ron s will undergo some str an g e me PhoseS, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become transformed into the flags of victory—the banners of Eng land, France, Turkey, and Sardinia. Act. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comus, in which he who seats himself will be under the magic spell, and 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 hate the goodness to observe, in an earlier part of the evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin) i n mill-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which a ll will produced. Act. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shortest Route to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of ridding ourselves of a troublesome friend, and tho advantages of the newly-discovered dia - terrestrial passage from the west ern to the eastern hemisphere. Deers open each evening at half past 7; commence at S. Private boxes, 1/. 11s. 6d. and 1/, ls., to be obtained at the la ci . a ffl e c, or at the principal libraries ; stalls, 4s. ; dress circle, 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, ls. ; gallery, 6d. The Loe-bffice is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction of Mr. Chattcrton, jun. Grand fashionable Meriting Per formance on Saturday , October 27, at 2 0 clock. Doors open at half-pout 1. .- ANimelmw N o . 19,6t,0.1 PUBLICATIONS. Just ready, in 2 vols., with Portrait , 21 5. , bound, THE LIFE of JEANNE D'ALBERT, QUEEN of NAVARRE, from numerous original sources, in cluding MS. P•cuments In tho Biblicitheque Imperiale and the Archives Espagnoles de Simancas. By M. W. FREER, Author of " The Life of Marguerite D'Angouleme." Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. This Day Is Published, in 8v025.6 ., d.i w c Map and Illustrations, price 1, MINNESOTA and the FAR WEST. By LAURENCE OLIPHANT, Esq., Late Civil Secretary and Saperintendent-General of Indian Affairs in Canada ; Author of" Russian Shores of the Black Sea," &c. Originally published in Blackwood's Magazine. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. This day is published the Second Volume of PROFESSOR WILSON'S NOCTES A3IBROSIAN.,E. Edited by his Son-in-Law, Professor FEItRIER. To be completed in Four Volumes, Crown Octavo, price 6s. each. William Blackwood and Sacs, Edinburgh and London. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE For NOVEMBER, 1855. No. CCCCLXXXI. Price 2s. 6d. CONTENTS. The Eastern Shares of the Black Sea. Zaidee : a Romance.—Part XI I. Professor Johnston's Last Work. An Old Contributor at the :zee-side. Modern Light Literature - Travellers' Tales. Paris and the Exhibition—Letter to Trenttns. - -- The Story of the Campaign. Written in a Tent in the Crimea. Part XL—Chap. -XXX. The General Assault.—Chap. XXXI. The Last Hours of Selpstonol,—C - Itsp. XXXII- A Retrospect. War-Politics - What we are Fighting for. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. To be published on the 30th of October, in two large volumes, STO., handsomely printed, and bound in cloth, with Portraits, Price 305., THE LIFE AND WORKS OF QOETHE ; WITH SKETCHES OF EIS AGE ♦ND CONTEMPORARIES, from Published and Unpub.ished Sources. BY G. H. LEWES, Author of the " Biographical History of Philosophy," &c. " Goethe's heart, which few knew, was as great as his intellect• which all knew "—JUNG STILLING." London: David /Cott, 270, Strand. en Nov. 3, the First Number, pri - c 5d., or 6d. stamped, of the ATURDAY REVIEW of POLITICS, I,Y LITERATURE, SCIENCE, end ART. Office, 445, West Strand. MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE. Price Is. REMARKS upon the LAW of MARRIAGE EandlDlVOßCE;suggested by the Zion. Mrs. Norton's Letter to the Queen. James Ridgway, Piccadilly, and all Booksellers. NEW EDITION, with a Preface, post Bvo., price 55., cloth. 3ESMERISM PROVED TRUE ; together J with the Rationale of TABLE TURNING and SPIRIT BRING. By the Rev. CHAUNCY HARE TOWNSHEND, A.M., of Trinity-hall, Cambridge. London : H. Baillifire, 219, Regent-street. Just published, TrINBURN.—WYLD'S MAP and CHART of OICHAKOV, KIN BURS, ICOLAIEV, and KHERSON, with the Forts, Batteries, and Soundings, with a Map from Odessa to I'erecop. 1 sheet, Is. Gd., in case, 2s. Gd. WYLD'S MAP of the CRIMEA, with the Roads, Passes, &c. 1 sheet, 35., in case, ss. James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen, Charing-cross East, next door to the Post-office, and 2, Royal Exchange. The Third Edition.—Just published, price 55., by post, free, ss. ad. ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA, with the View of distingtlishing the Imaginary from the Real Sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. From the German of Dr. PICKFORD. With an Introduction by the Editor, containing a complete exposure of the system of terrorism and extortion pursued by the advertising quacks of the metropolis towards those who are credulous enough to seek their aid. ",Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs ns, that he has addressed himself to the noa-medi :al reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall detect any 'titer equally flagrant evil which it may be in his sower to cor rect."—London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of Quiet Sympathisers,' And • Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this book :mild find its way into the hands of those who suffer from the com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would se saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what Is of !cgs importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much money ......This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, likely to do much good." London 11. Balliere. 219, Regent-street. BANK. OF LONDON, Threadneedle•street, and 400, West Strand. NO VICE.— The rate allowed on deposits has been raised from this day to 51, per cent. MATTHEW MARSHALL, Jun., Manager. October 18, 1855 R OYAL SWEDISH RAILWAY COMPANY, 18, Cannon-strect, City. The owners of Shares and Obligations in this Company are respect fully reminded that the Half-yearly INT KEEST, due the 27th instant, may be rec , ived on or after that day, by application at the Offices of the ompany, between the hours of eleven and three o'clock. JOHN SADLEIR, Chairman. 26th October, 1855. ONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAIL ,.WAY.— WINTER ARRANGEMENTS.—NOTICE for NO VEMBER, 1855. The express train leaving London at 9 a.m. will call at Bletchley. The express train leaving London at 5.15 p.m. for Worcester, the Midland District, liirmineham, and Wolverhampton, will leave at 5 o'clock, anti cease eallina at Leighton. The express train leavirg L radon at 5 p.m. will call at Bletchley, and cease calling at Watford and Wolverton. The train leaving London for Tring, at 5.20 p.m. will leave at 5.5 p.m. The train leaving London at 5.45 p.m. will leave at 5.30 p.m. The train leaving London for Worcester at 1 p.m. will leave at 12.30 noon. The express train leaving Birmingham for London at 7.25 a.m. will be made an ordinary train. Leave at 7.30 a.m., cease calling at Wolverton, and call at Weedon, Blisworth, Leighton; Watford, and Harrow. The train leaving Rugby for London at 12.55 noon will leave at 1.40 p.m. The train leaving Birmingham for London at 12 neon will leave at 14.15 noon, call at Blisworth and Watford, and cease calling at Wol verton. The third-class train leaving Liverpool for London at 8 a.m. will leave at 7.45 a.m., arriving earlier at all stations. The train leaving Birmingham for London at 1.15 p.m. will leave at 1. 0 p m. Ths express train from the North, leaving Preston at 3.15 p.m., Liverpool, 3.30 p.m., and Manchester at 3.40 p.m., will leave at 3.30, 3.45, and 3.50 respectively. The train leaving Birmingham for London at 5.35 p.m. will leave at 5.20 p.m. For further alterations on the main line and branches sea Com. patty's Time Bills By order. MARK TIIIISIL General Manager's Office, Easton Station, October, 1855. ALLOTMENT of ESTATES.—The CONSERVATIVPt LAND SOCIE TY.—The Hackney Estate (close to the station), Middlesex, and the Guildford Estate, West Surrey, wi►l be allotted at the Offices, No. 33, Norfolk-street, Strand. London, on THURSDAY, Nov. 22d, 1855. The 30th Public Drawing for Rights of Choice will take place at the Offices on Satur day, the 10th of November, at noon. A Public Meeting will be held at Hackney, on Thursday, Nov. 15th.—For Prospectuses, Plans of Estates, Shares, &c., apply to CIIARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary. fIGARS. REGALIAS. To Noblemen, Officers of the Army and Navy, and Gentlemen. J. L. HEUDEBOURCIC respectfully requests a close inspection of his choice Stock of superior FOREIGN HAVANA CIGARS. Sold in Boxes at wholesale prices—U lb. sample boxes if desired. Warehouse, 30, Walbrook, Mansion-house, City. LLSOPP'S PALE ALE.—Reduction in Price. —HARRINGTON, PARKER, and CO., Wine and Beer Merchants. 51, Pall-Mall, are now receiving orders for the October Brewings of the above celebrated Ale, in Casks of 18 Gallons and up wards, at the reduced price. Also for ALLSOPP'S PALE ALE IN BOTTLE. Quarts, Pints, and Half-pints, Imperial measure. 5%, Pall-mall, Oct, 20, 1855. TO LOVERS OF FISH.-100 GENUINE YARMOUTH BLOATERS for 65., package ixcluded. THESE HIGHLY ESTEEMED DELICACIES AND CHEAP ARTICLE OF FOOD forwarded to all parts, on receipt of penny postare (preferred). Send full and plain dire,ttkul, county, and nearest sta iinn. Adaress iiios. LETTIS, jun., Fish Curer, Gt. Yarmouth. " This is the third season Mr. Lettls has supplied us with Yar mouth bloaters, and we find the quality excellent.—J. Brashowe, house steward. Blenheim Palace.— Oct. 20, 1854." " Mr. Lettis,—As soon as you send out your genuine bloaters, I shall be glad to have a supply as usual; those I had last year gave great satisfaction.— A. F. Courroux, Ambassador's Coutt, St. James's Palace.—Oct. 1, 1855." TOZEAU'S COPAHINE, or SACCHARATED CAPSULES, approved of by the French College of Physicians, uccessfully administered in the Paris and London Hospitals, and cknowledgcd by them to he the best remedy for a certain disorder. See " Lancet" of Nov. 0, 1852.) A copy will be forwarded on appll _:ation.—Price per 100, 4s. 6d. ; 50, 2s. 9d. To he had of the inveator, ( lAIIRIELJOZEAU, French chemist, 49, Haymarket, London, and An the principal chemists. r RIES IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. EM AR fi. injunctio n was granted by the High Court of Chancery, and .—On the 29th of May, 1855, an n the I lth June following was made perpetual, against Joseph ranklin and others, to restrain them, under a penalty of one thou ,and pounds, from imitating this Medicine, which is protected by royal Letters Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the ~: cole de eharmacie de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIESEMAR, No. 1, s a remedy for Relaxation, S p e rroatorrhcea, and Exhaustion of th stem, whether arising from excesses, accident, or climate. T o those persons who are prevented enterin.• the married state by tie consequences of early errors it is invaluabise. TRIESEMAR, N o , ; p t aacen antidote i f i three ti lot e for, , adlcatcs all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and Cubeb: , completely and entirely lave so long been drys, the ruin of the healti portion of the population. slectually, in th s t i h io o r u t gh s if a vast TRU.SEBIAR, No. 3, ._ . Mercury, which ury, to the is the great Continental Remedy for that class of si unfortunately the English physician treats with toile r t emel r, in evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla in the world cannot r emove. TRIESEMAR, No. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste 0 tad of all nauseating qualities. They may lie on the tab's without their use being suspected. 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The absurd notion that a person trusted with the property of another is less guilty in appropriating it to his own use than a person not so trusted runs through our whole law, and vitiates the morals of commerce. The starving wretch who takes a loaf of broad from a baker's counter is a thief, and is punished accordingly ; the fraudulent trustee who sells out stock standing in his name in trust for the widow and the orphan has only committed a civil wrong, and is sub ject to no criminal liability whatever. A clerk or servant who receives money on account of his principal for which he does not account may be trauspoited for embezzlement ; a trustee who does the same thing is liable to do no pun ishment whatever. In this very case, if Strahan, Paul, and Bates had not been bankers, but merely trustees of a mar riage settlement, they might have sold Dr. Griffith's bonds wereof another to person to hy fr u. of u d the should and appropriated the proceeds without any fear of the Old Bailey. It would be well if the detection of this great iniquity criminal in n t be law this respect. We can see no reason why the acquiring the property crimi nal in all cases, instead of being penal in the case of clerks, servants, bankers, factors, and persons using false pre tences, and in all other cases attended with the utmost impunity. The question well deserves the attention of the Legislature. (From the Daily News of this day. ) The impression made upon the majority of that class in society to which Sir John Dean Paul and his partners be. longed, by the sentence passed upon them, seems almost to border upon panic. Nowhere do you hear the justice of the sentence impugned—nowhere do you hoar its necessity denied—but on all sides you hear a muttering about its being terribly severe. Well :it is severe. It falls more heavily upon men who have occupied the social position from which they have fallen than a similar sentence would upon men of the class to whom it is most frequently awarded. The three convicts are no longer young ; they have all their lives been accustomed to the indulgences of the wealthier classes—to be waited upon with respect or o terrible:bsequ i s T n h e ses poor. The change felon who hasin t a hi nl l his s c o lifed i t i b o e n e w n a i c a c ü b s e . tomed to play at hide and seek with the police, who has 'been one day en the verge of starvation, the next rioting in vulgar excess, is scarcely aware of a change. Fourteen years' transportation to such a man sometimes will be the means of making him more comfortable; to Paul, Strahan, and Bates it is a living death. And yet who is there that does not feel in his heart that justice could net have been satisfied with a more lenient sentence? These men have sinned against their better knowledge. The motive which impelled them to crime—the vanity of appear ing more prosperous in the eyes of the world than they really were, ought to have been as nothing to the motive which held them back from its perpetration —the desire to retain the fair reputation they en joyed. Yet, to gratify this poor and paltry vanity, they stooped to breach of trust ; they incurred the certain risk of beggaring many widows and orphans—of robbing the poor. And their crime was not, as it has been sought to be represented, a yielding to a sudden and irresistible pressure • it was deliberately set about, and persevered in for months, if not for years. If they were to be pun ished at all, any punishment short of that pronounced against them would have been a barefaced mockery. Nor can we conceal from ourselves that at the present moment such an expression of the moral sense of the community as the conviction and sentence of Pail, Strahan, and Bates has been urgently needed. It is only necessary to recall the history of railway speculation, and certain recent disclosures respecting the manner in which monetary ne gotiations aro conducted, the payment of Customs evaded, and articles of food systematically adulterated, to be con vinced that a moral plague-sore is spreading through our commercial community. Nay, listen to the semi-apolo getic tone in which the conduct of Paul, Strahan, and Bates, and of others who have recently been the town talk, is spoken of by men in fair credit with their fellow-citizens, because they have, or are supposed to have, plenty of money in their pockets. We have little faith in, and less charity for, that morality which shows itself in severe censure of those who fall from the paths of virtue. We know that severe professions of prin ciple aro sometimes coupled with great laxity in practice. Still, experience teaches us that when the moral tone of a community is lowered—when it gets accustomed to look upon knavery with indulgence and to speak of it with levity—the vigour of national character is relaxed, and the degraded people sink in the scale of nations. England has of late been insensibly gliding down this perilous inclined plane ; and some such startling incident as the conviction and sentence of the three bankers was needed to rouse us to the necessity of an effort to regain our old standing ground. The impression made upon the majority of what aro con ventionally termed the lower classes, by the conviction and sentence of Sir John Dean Paul and his partners, is some what different. Before the trial took place we had noticed a disposition among them to repel with incredulity the belief that a jury could be found to convict " gentlemen." Since the trial we are not certain that there has not ex isted among them a considerable amount of disappoint ment at finding their depreciatory anticipations regarding our Courts ofidnatice falsified. Many appear to be half sorry that an opportunity for grumbling and censure has not been afforded them. But still more extensively may be found to prevail a scepticism as to the possibility cf the sentence being carried into effect with its full severity. And we frankly confess that to some ex tent we ourselves share in this sceptical feeling. We have had some opportunity of observing how the Home-office is at all times pestered with applications for remissions of sentences, in behalf of any convicts who have the good luck to possess friends and patrons. Suck applications are motived, in the great majority of cases, not by any belief that the convict has been harshly or unfairly condemned, or that he has shown any unequivo cal signs of amendment, but simply by a foolish, unrea soning good-nature, or a silly vanity of being thought to possess influence in high quarters. The pertinacity of ap plicants of this kind is inconceivable. Month after month, and year after year, they return to the charge. Every change of Ministry—a frequent enough event in our days —stimulates' them to try whether the new man is not More impressible than his predecessor. And generally they succeed in tiring out the resistance of the Home-office. Whoever occupies that department may make up his mind to be bombarded by memorials in behalf of Paul, Strahan, and Bates. The bombardment cf Sebastopol was a joke to the bombardment that awaits him. We can scarcely conceive any amount of human obstinacy sufficient to withstand the vigorous and incessant fire that will be kept up, and shall be noways surprised to learn a year or two hence that the convicts are quietly rusticating at Bou logne, or that they have opened a bank at Perth or Free mantle, in Western Australia. At the same time we shall deeply regret such a consummation, as calculated to destroy the effect of the very necessary lesson that has just been read to our trading community. Tho possibility of an appeal from the sentence of the Court has been spoken of. It is not very likely that such an appeal will be made ; taking into account the stern, but dignified, language held towards the prisoners by the presiding judge, it is all but certain that it would fa il. Its success would be to be deprecated ; for it would go far to confirm a suspicion, already too prevalent, that our penal laws aro mere cobwebs, through which big wanes and hornets break easily, though small flies are caught in them. The reversal of the sentence would not restore the convicts to the respect of their fellow-citizens—for even their counsel, at the trial, addressed themselves merely ad miscricordiarn judicis, acknowledging the guilt of their clients. By the way, we observe that the learned barris ters, after cudgelling their brains for something to say in behalf of their clients, fell upon the stale device of attack ing the press. Sir F. Thesiger asserted that " for weeks and weeks the conduct of the defendants had been com mented upon in numerous publications, and every possible prejudice had been excited against them in the public mind." Mr. Edwin James "entreated the jury not to allow their decision to be influenced by the prejudice that had been cast upon the defendants by the remarks of the press." Now, it is the misfortune of our position to be obliged to read more newspapers than toe generality of men, and we confidently affirm that, with the excep tion of our blundering and bullying contemporary the Times, the English press, with a laudable love of fair play, abstained from commenting on the case of the three convicts before trial. The learned counsel would have said the Times if they had not been afraid of that journal, but quailing before its vixen tongue, they hinted their complaints under the safe generality of " the press." This is grossly unjust; for English journalists, as a body, are fully more observant of the dictates of morality and decorum, in adopting or advocating a cause, than bar risters. We do not believe that any ono on our own esta blishment—from the chief down to the youngest and most unreflecting " devil"—could be brazen enough, for the sake of a fee, with all the oyes in a crowded court of justice riveted upon him, to maintain by shameless sophistry that Si.- John Dean Pau] is areligious man. The baronet may have that vague, instinctive devotional sense which is not unfrequently found to survive the depravation of the moral sense ; he may be of those who tremble before the ideas of supernatural power impressed upon them in youth, and seek to deprecate punishment by abject petitions ; but that is not religion, it is mere superstition. Religion implies the combination of the devotional instinct with a conviction that to indulge it and yet commit moral offences is practi— cal blasphemy, and the grossest insult that can be offered to the Deity. Had Sir J. D. Paul been really religious, he might have yielded to strong momentary temptation, but he could not have persevered in the deliberate, systematic course of dishonesty of which he has been con victed. The learned counsel who affected on Friday last to argue that Sir J. D. Paul is a religious man, did not eve n give soPhi;', try i hek return new for the his eo fee mm o s hepaid cus e of his judge cli client k i u t r h y w see through at once. on w ore id which A FRESH MAN. RUMOURS! AT VIENNA. in Thorverton, Devonshire, on Tu ß e e . bya number of DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN DEVONSEUR ; d : y A night, ir r the r di e de l lay. Wellington Inn, which was surron d a alarm was given, and they esfcraopm Exeter, a distance of Be fore the engines could arrive h premises connected with eight miles, the whole oftogether with the stock of beer, the Wellington Inn, meci a s well as five dwelling d welling-houses. The inmates spirits, kc., were consumed, houses adjoining. Corn has been coming i ° e n n c IN FRANCE.—The price of corn CORN AND FLOUR tended decidedly d d week has ownwar 8 during the past ts u l work. The in the French mark° • Danubian both from the pro vinces, an i s that the holders of flour have fir b e e lls are now t f 1 were dNv t in di b ffi e d e wh e n t E h e e . t he and • the cousequ ell part of their stock, and, as the °firs have touring tog in almost every direction at the same time, taken place prices have kecome lower. In the Paris market at pm +. the stock of flour on hand is about 18,000 metrical Be n. • tals the quantity, it will be seen, continuing to ge m , ad vance rather rapidly. It was difficult to effect sake during the past week in Paris, the millers holding out for previous prices, and the buyers being determined not to give them. The very best quality flour can be now obtained for 1041. or 105 f. the 157 kilogrammes, and inferior kinds for from 100 f. or 104 f. Very little wheat was sold in Paris during the week, purchasers absolutely refusing preceding prices. Some English wheat was offered (to be taken at Havre or Bulogne-sur-Mer) a 1 601. the 120 kilogrammes, but that price could not be d t e tT fiTu t L roalizet l, —aalianga; Messenger. NOTIONS FROM NEW _ARKET. —WORDS ABOUT WORCESTER. There was really too much of a good thing at New market last week, and when the sports were brought to a termination, on Saturday, one was tempted to exclaim` . N‘ ith Rosalind, " Oh, Jupiter, how weary are my spirits." Like Touchstone, however, many turfites cared little for their spirits if their legs were not so weary, for the daily ‘E' 4 four hours wandering over the "blasted heath " was cal culated to try the endurance of the stoutest pedes trian. The weather, however, was gloriously fine and invigorating, and even on Friday when in the early part of the morning the rain fell in torrents, the afternoon was clear and propitious, the only drawback from the full enjoyment of the sport being occasioned by the damp and sodden heath. On that day, too, it was quite pleasant to see the revived spirits of the fielders, and the hearty "jollies" they gave when the favourites were successively beaten. The "D'Ors" landed a stake on Saturday with Lady Florence, amidst loud huzzas, which fonowed him as he rode in hot haste to the weighing stand, declaring that no one should "fake" either the lad or the mare. The performances of the Derby horses were watched with much interest. Despite the prejudice which still exists against Artillery, I am inclined to entertain a most favourable opinion of that horse's racing ability, and deem him likely to train on to a high degree of im provement. Still people were not satisfied with his per formance with Queen's Head who looked " all over winning" as the horses passed the " Duke's stand." Ar. tillery seems, however, a slow starter, but he ran with the utmost gameness, and taking into consideration the position which Queen's Head subsequently attained in the Nursery Stakes, his running for the Criterion was no very contemptible display of ability. The supporters ofYel low Jack were not a little dismayed by the close race which Secret made with their crack on Wednesday. Yellow Jack, however, sqemed "green," and besides the result of the Second Class Nursery Stakes proved that in Secret he met a " clinker." Still lam not favourably disposed towards Yellow Jack, and until I see more of him I shall deem his stable companion Coroner worthier of support for the Derby. Peter Wilkins ran an unprepared horse, but his " chance" among the " flyers" will be somewhat slender. John Day's Derby horses excite considerable curiosity. Roger thoipe will be a great favourite. Every book is "full" about him, and I certainly have faith in his pretensions. I have nothing new to add to the voluminous remarks already published anent the Cambridgeshire. The final squaring of accounts will take place this afternoon, and may be satisfactorily conducted. Hopes are entertained that the reported cases of default will be arranged to the satisfaction and honour of all parties. Perhaps few meetings are better entitled to the sup port and encouragement of racing men than those annu ally celebrated at Worcester. The gathering which will be held to-morrow and Wednesday will not be the least suc cessful of the many Autumn Meetings. The programm is attractive, and the supply and character of the racing are likely to be equally satisfactory. The Handicap for two-yr-olds has nine nominations, of which Bobby Taft will perhaps be the successful com petitor. The Chicken and Pole Star seem the most attractive names among the entries for the Autumn Han dicap, and the trusted representative of the stable will be a most formidable competitor. Of their respective owners' " intentions," I have of course no knowledge, and the public must exercise caution in their dealings with the animals under notice. My present fancy is for Pole Star. Mary and Little Davie are next in my estimation. For the Flying Han dicap I shall select Chicken, Flacrow, and Byrsa. I have no knowledge of the " little game " which will be played with the " jumpers." Oct. 29. The Cologne Gazette contains the following letter addressed to it from Vienna by one of its corre spondents. The Nord, in alluding to the article, calls it curious, but declines guaranteeing the authenticity of its contents. During the last few weeks there has been, through a diplomatic channel, an exchange of opinions between the courts of Vienna and Paris, respecting the interpre tation of the fresh demands which are to be made to Russia, and which demands the allied powers consider to be the legitimate consequences of the military results. Itelppears that up to the present moment the allies of December the 2d have not succeeded in coming to an understanding on this delicate point, and the rea sons of this non-success I now proceed to give you. The western powers intend detaching the whole of the Crimea from the rest of Russia, because in their eyes this will be the easiest mode ; first, of indemnifying themselves for the expenses of the war ; and, Feoend, of rendering impossible for ever the realisation of the plans entertained by Catherine the Great and her successors, since the northern power would thus be prevented from developing her navy so as to menace the equilibrium of Europe. In principle, Austria appears, it is true, to be not dis inclined to adopt such an arrangement, but she never theless considers it out of her power to adhere to it in an effective manlier, outil the allies shall first of all, by compelling the Russians to retire, have seized de facto the Tauric peninsula, and definitively organised a form of Government in that country. They attach here greater importance to this last named point, since it is evident that unity of opinion in this instance is imperiously commanded by the prospect of those great advantages that must ultimately accrue to the kingdoms bounded by the Black Sea, with re spect to their Esropean commerce. M. de Bourqueney, who on this head is intimately ac quainted with the intentions of the Austrian Cabinet, communicated them during his stay at Paris to his So vereign, and it is already known here, that he has re ceived instructions from him to bring to a satisfactory conclusion the deliberations that may possibly have to he entered into on this subject with the Cabinet of I Vienna. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1855. SALE BY AUCTION. TO RAILWAY CONTRACTORS AND OTHER LARGE CAPIT ALISTS. Gloucestershire and Moninouth.hire. The Hotel, Gardens, Lawn, sill New Passage Ferry, 11 miles from Bristol. R. LILLY is instructed to SELL, by AUCTION, at the Commercial Sale Room, Bristol, on FRI DAY, the 2d November, 185 e, at One o'clock precisely, The Betel, Garden, Bowling Green, extens ve Stabling, Coach- Louses, and Outbuildings, at the New Passage, with two Cottages and Gardens, and about eight acres of Meadow and Pasturo Land, all in the parish of Henbury, in the county of Gloucester, adjoining the chore of the River Severn, and about 11 miles from the city of Bristol. And at the same time and place will he sold, The ancient Passage or Ferry, across the river Severn, frcrn the New Passage on the Gloucestershire side to the Black Rock Hotel on the Monmouthshire side of the river, within a few furlongs of the South Wales Railway; together with the Quays, Piers, and Landing Places on the Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire shores, and the Pill, called Chissell Pill, and all the Tolls, Fines, Payments, and Emoluments receivable on account of the said Ferry, Piers, Quays, and Landing -places. A reference to the Map of England will immediately show the important positron of this New Passage Ferry. It affords the shortest route between the West and South-West of England, Bristol, Bath, Salisbury, and Southampton; and Monmouthshire and South Wales; and also between Bristol, Herefordshire, Shropshire, and Liverpool ; and a railway of about ltßy miles would connect the Ferry with the Midland Railway, the Great Western Railway, and the Bristol and Exeter Railway. Steam-vessels upon the system in me between the Cheshire and Lancashire shores at Liverpool, be tween New Holland and Hull, and at the Frith of Forth, could con veniently ply across the New Passage Ferry; and an immense traffic in passengers and goods now carried onwith Monmouthshire and South Wales, across the Bristol c hound, or by the circuitous route of Gloucester, would be the immediate result of such an improved com munication. The South Wales Line would be reached at a point only fifteen miles from Bristol, which, via Gloucester, is upwards of sixty. The above Property well leserves the attention of Railway Con tractors, or of any Capitalist wit() is disposed to secure the command of one of the most Important Railway routes in the kingdom, and whtch must at an early period be adopted as an indispens.ble mode of communication between Bristol and Monmouthshire and South Wales. NOTE.—The Hotel, Lands, and Ferry will be offered for Qale in one Lot or in several I.ots, as may be announced at the time of Sale. To view the Premises apply to the Tenant ; and for further parti culars to the Auctioneer, at Bridge-street; or to SAVERT, CLARK, and FUSSELE, Solicitors, 12, Corn-street, Bristol. BRITISH COLLEGE of HEALTH, New road, London. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the LIST for 1g55 of HYGE CAN AGENTS duly appointed for the Sale of Mr. Mori,on's (the Hygeist) Vegetable Universal Medicine throughout the world is now printed, and may be had gratison application as above. 1110HISON and Co., Hygeists. QIR WM. BURNETT'S DISINFECTING ► . 77 FLUID, for destroying all Offensive Smells and purifying Sic]: Rooms, &c. Its cost is less than One Farthing per Gallon when , fluted for use. Sold by all Chemists, and at 18, Cannon-street, City. Gallons, ss. Quarts, 2s. Pints, Is. Half-pints, 6d. THE STORM OF FRIDAY. The following letter has been addressed to a contem porary :- Sir,-The gale which commenced yesterday and ter minated this morning has been accompanied by so many interesting and important phenomena, and its different features have been so well marked, that it seems pro bable its path, speed, &c., may be traced. The wind, which had been W.S.W., moved to S.W. at 10 a.m. on the 25th, and the gale commenced, the direction remain ing the same up to 5 15 a.m, of the 26th (the oscillations reaching W. and S.S.W., and twice S.). The main taining minimum pressure for this lengthened period was Boz., and the maximum pressure 31b., on the square foot; at 8 30 p.m. it increased to 41b. 70z., but at 8 45 bad decreased to 21b. 15oz. ; at 9 30 it became 311 b., at 10 15 p.m. 41b. 3oz. ; at 11 45 41b. 10oz., and at mid night decreased to 31b. 10oz., at 1 a.m. (of 26th) was 21b. 140 z., at 2 15 became 31b. Boz., then immediately receded to 21b. 10oz , at 3 30 a.m. 41b. 3 tz., then re ceded to 21b., at 4 30 was 41b., and at 4 45 became 51b., at 5 a.m. 21b. 140 z., 5 5 41b., 5 15 21b. 50z., 5 30 Boz., 5 45 4oz. ; the wind then remained at a pressure of 4oz. till 11 a.m., when it again became rough ; at 5.1 k the wind changed to W., and a tremendous storm of hail and rain commenced, and continued for nearly a quarter of an hour. At Beeston 0.379 of an inch in depth of rain fell. At 5.45 a.m. the wind became W.S.W., and at 6.15 a.m. S.W. At midnight the tem perature of the air was 55 deg., and from this hour till 5 a.m. it slowly increased to 56 deg. ' • from the time the storm of rain and hail comm ence d the temperature fell rapidly, becoming as cold as 48.8 deg. in the air and 48.3 deg. on the grass, yet the temperature of the rain which fell so suddenly was only 32.1 deg., •r 16.2 deg. lower ; this had the effect of lowering the temperature of the air 8.7 deg. During the night there was a dif ference of 2 deg. between the wet and dry bulb until 5.15 a.m., when the air became much more saturated with moisture. Between 11 pm. and 10 a.m. the greatest cold of the wet bulb was 48.7 deg., and the greatest heat of the wet bulb 55.2 deg., being 0.1 deg. and 0.8 deg. lower than those of the dry bulb. The mean angle of the air during the gale was an upward current of about 45 deg. ; before the gale the air had for three days been moving almost hori zontally over the surface of the earth, and at the ceesa tion of the gale was only an upward current of 5 deg. The electricity was positive and feeble until 5 15 a.m., when it became negative and powerful-after the storm (at 6 a.m.) again positive. For ninny days there had been very little electricity, except at 5 p.m. on the 24th, when it was negative and powerful, while a hailstorm passed N.W..of this place at the distance of about a mile. During the gale the distant prospect had been remark ably clear, becoming hazy from the commencement of the rain and hailstorm. Prior to the gale the ozone had been feeble ; during its continuance the amount was 4. The sky was for the most part overcast, with occasional showers of rain from the commencement of the gale until 10 a.m. of the 26th. The clouds were low, and moved at a fearful rapidity. At midnight on the 25th there had oc curred a beautiful lunar corona, accompanied by a halo more perfect than I had ever witnessed before. From the commencement of the gale up to 5 a.m. the barometer fell rapidly (corrected to the altitude of 181 feet) ; it was at 10 p.m. 29.158 inches, at 2 a.m. 28.963 inches, and at 5 a.m. 28.813 inches ; at 5 15 a.m. it had risen to 28.860 inches, and at 10 a.m. was 28.863 inches. The amount of rain fallen at the Highfield-house Observatory was 0.524 of an inch, and the amount of ozone 8. It will be unnecessary to occupy additional space with the state of the weather at Highfield-house, as it will appear in the daily table in these columns. Any information as to the time of occurrence of this rain storm, &c., will be very acceptable, and may prove of great value to these inquiries. I have the honour to be, sir, Your obedient servant, E. J. LOWE. Observatory, Beeston, near Nottingham, Oct. 26. Spirit of the Public Journals. THE NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. (From the Times of this day.) It is now certain that General Sir Wm. Codrington is to succeed to the command of the British army in the East. He has, no doubt, by this time received the intelli gence, and, possibly, is already installed in his position. A few days may probably bring us news of important opera tions directed by him. Now, therefore, at the close of the second year of the war, the long desire of the country is gratified, and its troops are led by a man who belongs not to the last but to the present generation. When Lord Raglan and the first race of Generals of Division were se lected for a distant and hazardous war, a thinking man, but moderately read in history, might have presaged the result. To ago and infirmity were intrusted the destinies of our only army. Its commanders had doubtless fought gallantly in their youth, and perhaps had rendered not un important services during 40 years of peace; but that the dimly-remembered lessons of the subaltern should more than counterbalance the weaknesses and unreadiness of age was what England, after a century of bitter experiences, should have been the last to believe. An old General is, indeed, sometimes found who has retained unwonted vigour, but that a dozen such should fortuitously come together iu the same army is a prodigy on which it was folly to count. That the appointments passed without censure only shows that the nation had little knowledge of military affairs, and was content to trust to its rulers with a blind confidence too ill rewarded in the end. A whole generation of veterans has in twelve months passed away, the rapid progress of events has cured an evil that in former wars lingered for years, the reminiscences of th e Peninsula are no longer heard in the camp, and now the highest post is intrusted to an officer who was a child when Waterloo was fought. General Codrington entered the army its 1821, and is, we believe, not yet 50 years of age. His first commission was as ensign in the Coldstream Guards. He attained to colonelcy in 1846, and his appointment as Major-General is dated June, 1854. As to his services, it is sufficient to say that he has held a command in the army of the Crimea ever since it landed, and fought, always with distinction, in every battle. His conduct in the attack on the Redan has been sharply criticised, but it has been amply and satisfactorily explained. We believe that the experience of war gained in one such year as has just passed away is worth all that half a century could teach a military secre tary in Spain or at the Horse Guards, or that could be learnt by any length of warfare against Asiatic moun taineers. General eodrington has witnessed all that we at home have heard of with pride and with regret. It is in his power to profit by past calamities—by the faults or misfortunes of his predecessors. On the other hand, he has seen what English officers and men can do. He has seen them in the dreary watching of the trench, in the sharp conflicts of sortie or assault ; he watched the devo tion—the more heroic because it was in vain—which marked the last fatal day. Ho knows his officers, not vaguely or incorrectly through a despatch, but personally and by his own judgment ; he has learnt their deeds or ca pabilities from his own eyes, or from that general consent of comrades which is seldom at fault. He alone will be to blame if he is ill served, for the trials of the campaign have brought to light genius in many, good soldier-like qualities in still more ; all are there for the commander to choose from. It is not as in the beginning of the cam paign, when seniority or relationship might be called fair titles, because merit could not be known. The meritorious officer is now both known and honoured by those around him, and neither Government nor people will deny any powers to a General by which he can reward such a man and benefit the country. The relations between the French and English armies have always required a man of tact and courtesy, yet with a due rege.rd for the honour of his own country and for the feelings of those he leads. Those rela tions will become even more delicate when a campaign in the field leads to extensive and complicated movements, and the safety of each army may depend on the other's punctuality or success. In such a case more frequent dis cussions must take place in order to produce that unity and exactitude without which success may be purchased at tee high a price. Every movement of either army must re ceive the consent of two if not more commanders, and it will demand no small judgment in a General to unite pro per regard for a colleague's views to a due confidence in his own. On other points, also, caution will be necessary. It is perhaps commonplace to say that a Commander-in- Chief should preserve the mean between rashness and timidity—that he should not undervalue the enemy or form an excessive estimate of their skill and strength. But this plainly necessary quality is one of the rarest in a General, and will be greatly tried iu the present case by an unknown country and by au artful and secret foe. It is certainly dangerous to predict success, and difficult to judge what a man will be in the highest position from his achievements in subordinate rank. Chance must have its place in the results of military appointments; all that a Government can do is to select the man who appears the fittest, and support him to the utmost. There is at least a presumption that General Codrington will succeed, for we know that he has done well as yet, and there is no as sertion of his incapacity for a higher post. The Govern ment is bound to give hire the fullest powers of appoint ment and dismissal, to furnish him speedily and continu onalpwith material means, and to support his authority against all opponents, at home or abroad. ' As they have given him their confidence, they are bound not lightly to withdraw it ; conclusive proof of incapacity can alone justify the reversal of their present favourable judgment, and incapacity is net to be presumed so much from any in dividual mistake as from the general course of a campaign. Shoeld events prove that the confidence of the country has been unfortunately bestowed, we have a right to ask that the Government will confess its mistake without waiting for the reiterated demands of the press and the public ; but it will be for the Government more especially to consider how far any ill-success is due to incapacity or only to ad verse circumstances; bow far a partial failure was con cerned in producing a general success ; how far a course of conduct was forced on the British Commander by causes _ . which controlled his own judgment. The duty of the public is analogous to that of theG'overnment,for it criticises where the Government executes. The people and their represen tatives have to see that the materials and sinews of war shall not fail their General at the crisis of the contest. It is, perhaps, a misfortune for a military man in high posi tion that his remonstrances and complaints are unknown except by a few officials, while the discontent of his subor dinates is communicated to half the households in the country. So far as the nation discovers that any reason able wishes of the Commander-in-Chief have not mat with compliance it will be its duty to interfere strongly and at once. Having given to their General all the means of sac- cess, it will'bO the duty of the public to add patience and forbearance to their active exertions in his behalf. If General Codrington's natno inspires confidence, lot not such a sentiment be too suddenly changed to upbraiding. Where, as in recent cases, an ill-result might have been from the first predicted, a calamity only confirms the pre vious apprehension ; but now, with a general whom wo think we may trust, we may without danger consider that temporary want of success may have arisen from causes which bring on him no discredit. It is necessary to the preservation of his influence that General Codrington should have the esteem of his countrymen, and we trust that it will not bo lightly taken from him. THE CASE OF STRAHAN, PAUL, AND CO. ( Front the Times of this day.) The cause of public justice and commercial morality has at length been fully and completely vindicated by the trial, conviction, and sentence of Sir John Dean Paul and his partners, Messrs. Strahan and Bates. Against the first of the three the evidence was of a nature quite over whelming, and nothing was left to his counsel but to urge technical objections in his favour. Against the ether two the evidence rested rather on general presumptions and probabilities, but these proved also too stronc , to be over borne, and no one who has perused the trial will, we think, doubt that Strahan and Bates were accomplices in the acts of Sir J. D. Paul, and therefore justly subjected to the same condemnation. The fact that they were partners, all carrying on the same business, and actively eneaged in ifli a to t,e show securities at Nv the a s it,—their ac ce s s t o th e h oo k s of the f i rm, w hi c h it was their duty t o ma k e th emse l ves acqua i nte d w i t h , th e i r ad missions of su b sequen t gu il t, and the a b sence o f any at tempt money ap p applied d to the be separate the mt Saloe purposes o fD r. ar r of Sir J. D. Paul, all tended with irresistible force to the same couclusion. Nor can we imagine anything more unfortunate than the attempt which was made to bring the case within the section of the act which exempts front criminal liability persons making disclosures in the Court of Bankruptcy. The prisoners determined, if they could, to bring themselves within the meaning of this section, and for this purpose handed in a deposition which the Court of Bankruptcy, rather incautiously, as we think, re ceived. The Judges seem to have been unanimously of opinion that such a document, so prepared, was a fraud on pargono nialting inn CI It. lint, cvcii had this not been so, the set of Parliament, and could not possibly avail thu the deposition was so unskillfully framed .that it did not relate at all to the offence for which the prisoners were in dicted. The prisoners were charged with selling without authority and appropriating to their own use the proceeds of Dr. Griffith's Danish Bonds, in 1854, while the deposi tion confessed the pawning, in 1855, of certain other bonds purchased by the firm to replace the bonds of Dr. Griffith sold in the former year. This was not the offence charged, and was, indeed, no offence at all ; for the bonds purchased to replace those fraudulently abstracted were not in point of law the property of Dr. Griffith, but of the firm that purchased them. Thus has ended that wonderful legal quirk which was, we were told, to deprive justice of her prey, and give to the most undeserving of mankind a shame ful impunity for crime. We never remember a case in which we were able to acquiesce in the proceedings of a court of justice with more entire satisfaction. Hero were men trusted with a large amount of property, who lived in the most unprin cipled extravagance, and, at the expense of their dupes, revelled in every luxury that money not their own could procure. Not content with this absorption of borrowed funds, they laid their hands upon securities intrusted to them merely for safe keeping, and supported themselves latterly upon the proceeds of theft, reaching to the almost incredible sum of 113,0001. ; and, while thus subsisting on wholesale plunder, these men assumed to be pious and charitable far beyond their neighbours—to be the leaders in every subscription, the presiding and directing geniuses at every meeting for pious or eleemosynary purposes, the polished corners and the shining pillars of the temple. They were net content with impunity in the plunder, they aspired to excite the veneration and admiration of man kind at the very moment when they were most richly de serving their contempt and hatred. Never was there a more revolting combination, never more hypocrisy joined with mole knavery. We trust that the fate of these three great delinquents will be a salutary lesson to the commercial community. From extravagance to fraud, from fraud to theft, from theft to transportation, is a law of progression which many a man trembling on the narrow verge between right and wrong will do well seriously to consider. There hav e not wanted indications, to which we will not more di stinctly allude, of a very low tone of commercial morality. in on of quar ters where it might least have been expected, a nd 6'v a cognisance and reticence dictated by motives of self-in terest of the most serious offences. The truth E;, h own at our de fects, in producing a most defective tone ofich o ne man morality. There are so many cases in yv h r . 0 a mannec iu highest can make away with the property of an .othe 1 the degree fraudulent aPI t moral, Witilnt criminal law has been instrumental, through it s commercia, THE NEW WARRANT. Lord Palmerston has redeemed the pledge which he gave to Mr. Headlam in the course of the last session. Henceforth, or rather from the beginning of the present war with Russia, the widows, chil dren, par e nt s , or s i s t ers o f any officer falling in battle are entitled to receive, upon giving up all pension or compassionate allowance, the value of the commission of such officer at the regulation price. Nay, so far is this liberality carried, that men who never paid for their commissions, but who have obtained their rank in the army by seniority or interest, are treated as having the same right to the money value of the rank they held as those who have bought and paid for their commissions. With some clumsiness, it must be confessed, yet still completely and effectively, the new Warrant does remedy the grievance complained of,—the hardship of compelling officers to court every species of dan ger under the heaviest penalties in case that danger prove fatal, to set on the chance of an hour not merely their lives, but their estates, and only too often money not their own, but contributed by friends or relatives from very narrow resources, to be repaid, if ever it be in the recipient's power. Thus - did the ancient rule increase to the utmost extent the incentives to cowardice, and add the fear of poverty to that of death, as if to dissuade an officer from manfully doing his duty. A man might view without shrinking the prospect of death in battle, but when there was added to it the destitu- tion of his wife and children few spirits would be so elastic as to view the result without a shudder. It .s singular that we should have contrived to enlist on the side of our enemies the noblest feelings and deepest sympathies of human nature, nor is it less remarkable that the principle of honour has ever been so strong among our officers that all the vices of the system under which they fought have never been able to check that undaunted courage so significantly marked by the proportion which in every action our killed and wounded officers bear to the whole number of the killed and wounded. If, then, this alteration be regarded merely with reference to the case of those who have already fallen in this war, or with reference to the rank already attained in the army before the issuing of the warrant, it must be regarded as a signal act of bi vo ur—as the atonement for a hardship cast upon brave and deserving men. But as regards those who have yet to purchase their way up in the army the case is quite different, and the Warrant seems merely to involve a heavy public loss, with out any corresponding benefit to the objects of its intended bounty. It is the misfortune of a system of purchase that, so long as it exists, it is impos sible permanently to improve the condition of the officer. If, indeed, the regulation and the actual price were the same thing—that is to say, if the re gulation price were to remain the same, to what ever extent the condition of the officer might be improved--we might then go on increasing pay, allowances, and pension with the most perfect con fidence that everything we did tended directly to the benefit of the service ; but, unfortunately, the value of a commission is regulated, not by the esti mation which the Commander-in-Chief may choose to put upon it, but by the number of buyers and the price they are ready to give. Every increase, therefore, in the value of a commission acts as a bonus to its present possessor, should he sell out, and raises the price proportionately to all future purchasers. The commodity becomes more mar ketable, and those who want to buy it must pay a higher price for it, so that a measure intended for the permanent relief of the service may end only in raising the value of commissions by the additional sum that purchasers will be willing to give for the insurance by the public of their lives against death in the field of battle. So long as purchase is permitted it is impossible perma nently to benefit the condition of the officer, and every attempt to do so is so far an injury that it enhances the price to be paid, and thus places a commission more out of the reach of the poorer aspirants for distinction. We had hoped that the thorough exposure of our military system would have led to a complete reform of all those evils which attracted the public eye, among which the purchase of commissions stood pro minent. But the public were unaccountably silent on this matter, and the House of Commons, having exhausted its energy on debates of a personal and party character, had neither time nor inclination left for real and durable reform. Yet it is mani fest that the abuse complained of would be quite as effectually remedied if the officer went into battle without having purchased his commission at all as if he went there with the certainty that if he fell the value of the commission should be restored to his relatives. If the system of purchase be fraught with so many evils, the simpler plan would he to abolish it at once, eethoL than to engraft upon it a rat ilal plan of life insurance at the expense of the public. We say a partial life insurance, because the new Warrant does not extend to the case of officers dying of disease or of wounds more than six months after they were received. In war much more life is lost by sickness than by the sword, and we shall expect to hear a claim preferred on behalf of the relatives of those bravo men who have perished by fever or cholera, and a complaint that, although the loss was as groat and the service as good, the remune ration was so entirely different. It must also be remembered, when considering the case of those who, but for this warrant, would have lost the value of their commissions, that the commission was purchased subject to this very contingency of loss by death, and that, had that contingency been removed, a higher sum would have been paid. Upon the whole, however, though we cannot disapprove a measure which will give relief to the families of so many brave men who have fallen for their country, and soothe the last moments of so many more who are now suffering under wounds from which they are not destined to recover, we confess that the new warrant finds its support rather in an appeal to the feelings than the reason; and that, besides, it will tend to perpetuate a sys tem which, so long, as it endures,, gives to our ser vice an amateur tone and habits from which the gallantry of all and the intelligence of many can not wholly redeem it. The new warrant is an im portant step towards recognising property in com missions, and it would only be a further develop ment of the same principle to make them descend ible and devisable, to allow a captain to settle his company on his marriage, or a colonel to entail his regiment severally and successively on his first and other sons. The notions of service and property are essentially distinct, and ought to be kept so, and we cannot but deprecate any admission which tends to break down this necessary line of demar cation.-,Tunes. MR. DISRAELI ON AGED GENERALS. Under this not very apposite heading, a small critic in a contemporary has given the following extract from Mr. Disraeli's admirable novel " Co ningsby," to show, probably, that he approves of the abuse daily bestowed upon our Veteran Com manders in the Crimea : Do not suppose that I hold youth is genius ; all that I say is that genius, when young, is divine. Why, the greatest captains of ancient and modern times both con quered Italy at 25 ! Youth, extreme youth, overthrew the Persian empire. Don John of Austria won Lepanto at 25—the greatest battle of modern time ; had it not been for the jealousy of Philip, the next year he would have been Emperor of Mauritania. Gastcn de Foix was only 22 when he stood a victor on the plain of Ravenna. Everyone remembers Conde and Rocroy at the same age. Gustavus Adolphus died at 38. Look at his captains— that wonderful Puke of Weinier, only 36 when he died. Bauer himself, after all his miracles, died at 45. Cortes was little more than 30 when he gazed upon the golden cupolas of Mexico. When Maurice of Saxony died at 32, all Europe acknowledged the loss of the greatest captain and the profoundest statesman of the age. Then there is Nelson, Clive—but these are warriors, and per haps ycu may think there are greater things than war. Ido not ; I wor-hip the Lord of Hosts. Bat take the most illustrious achievements of civil prudence. Inn° cent 111., the greatest of the popes, was the despot of Christendom at 37. John de Medici was a cardinal at 15, and, Guicciardini tells us, baffled with his craft Fer dinand of Arragon himself. He was Pope, as Leo X., at 37. Luther robbed even him of his richest province at 35. Take Ignatius Loyola and John Wesley—they worked with young brains. Ignatius was only 30 when he made his pilgrimage and wrote the " Spiritual Exer cises." Pascal wrote a great work at 16, the greatest of Frenchmen, and died at 37. Ah ! that fatal 37, whic h reminds me of Byron, greater even as a man than a writer. Was it experience that guided the pencil of Raphael when be painted the palaces of Rome ? He died at 37. Richelieu was Secretary of State at 31. Well, then, there are Bolingbroke and Pitt, both ministers before other men leave off cricket. Grotius was in prac tice at 17, and Attorney-General at 24. And Acqua viva—Acquaviva was General of the Jesuits, ruled every Cabinet in Europe, and colonised America before he was 37. What a career—the secret sway of Europe ! But it is needless to multiply instances. The history of heroes is the history of youth.—Morning Paper. STATE OF TRADE. A cF c r n sti Es o t T h E e R M, Oct. anch 26. Manchester statedGaardilisi ofi nour Saturday.) last r that, although the downward course of prices haePodrret ceived no check, indications of a slightly improved tone of feeling were not unobservable. Since then the direc tors of the Bank of England have held their weekly meeting, at which no further alteration in the rate of discount was made. It appears, therefore, that a some what easier state of the currency is now experienced. This was showing itself in the earlier part of the week, and has become more apparent each succeeding day. For some time back mercantile men have been narrowing their lia bilities, and gathering their resources under their hands as much as possible. The benefit of this cautious pro cedurea nd a s has te rbaeteeneffe interest t a e s r etshtehdarsai risen,n of goldand is has e r p y r o p c a e l ede, to everybody at the present moment. The entire pa to of the country has remained sound and underang ed, no other exception than the fall in prices. Our own dis trict has exhibited a remarkable case in regard t o means, and so also have most of the other great centres of indus try and commerce, while scarcely any abridgment of em ployment for manufacturing operatives has taken place. But a conviction that the uncertainty of our posi tion ren wit dere continued caution indispensable to safety, seems to have rooted itself deeply in the minds of merchants and dealers, spinners and manufacturers. They h.vo o<•en 'Dry attikiub iuntaoce of the power of pohbic4l c auses to effect a most serious financial disturbance, which does not shake our trade, only because that trade is, on the whole, upon a solid footing ; and, with this fresh in their memories, they are not likely to be thrown off their guard by appearances which are so manifestly liable to pass away. So that, although the price s of yarns and goods have now declined to very low ranges, the differ ent classes of buyers are still holding back from business in a very decided way, and the market at large remains flat. But people are less gloomy, and are inclined to think that we have perhaps seen the worst ; though a slight shadow is cast upon us from the United States. We find that there has been more inquiry to-day for cloth of some descriptions on the part of home houses ; and purchases of goods for India and China have been made, for delivery within a short time, on account of the sailing of, a certain vessel. In the same way, 16s. to 245. water twist has been taken for China. But the ope rations we speak of are few and exceptional, and do not materially affect a general estimate of the market. They are, however, valuable as barometers. The parties to these transactions are persons possessing ample resources, and not given to ill-considered ventures ; it is, therefore, a fact to be noted when they venture to act under cir cumstances such as now exist. NOTTINGHAM, Oct. 25.—Since our last report of the condition of business in this town, nothing worthy of re mark has occurred, and both the hosiery and lace trades are in a more healthy state than might naturally b e ex pected. Although the action of the Bank of England has not affected us seriously just yet, still it must, if continued, have the effect of crippling trade here as well as elsewhere. HALIFAX, Oct. 26. —Things have been flat during the week, and prices of wools are barely maintained. A ROMANTIO STORY.—Miss Clara Haskins was found dead iu her bridal dress and chamber near Natchez, Mississippi, on the 2d ult. After being dressed by her bridesmaids she requested them to retire for a short time, and when they returned they found her lying lifeless upon her couch with an e m p t y p hial, which hail con tained prussic acid, still c las p ed in her hand. She had adopted the desperate a lternative of self-destruction rather than marry a man, in obedience to parental au thority, she could not love,—Wasli , ilvtom IntMiGencQrs .- ~: --gam SIR W. CODRINUTON. The following letter has been addressed to a contem porary : Sir,—l have returned to this country from the Crimea but a few days, and as I was engaged in the attack on the Redan I have been frequently asked " Why Sir William Codringtoa did not bring up his supports !" and I find that blame has been attached to him by the public. In justice to that brave and distinguished officer, I think it but fair to point out to your readers that, if they will look to the return of casualties on the Bth of Sep tember, they will find that the Light Division—viz, 90th, 97th, 19th, 88th, and 77th-7th, 23d, 33d, 34th, and 2d battalion Rifle Brigade, were expended, and when Sir William, upon being asked for supports, said, " You can take the Royal , ," it was because he had no troops of his own division to send forward. If another attack was to be made on the Redap, it rested with the Commander-in-Chief to send a fresh di vision, and not with Sir William. There is a report that he is to succeed General Simpson. Should such be the case it will be a most popular appo i n t m ent, as ov . no man in the Crimea is so universa ll y bele ' d r ( c; a n n to e spected as a good officer as Sir William knew not who has been found fault with b y those who his real merits.---I have the honour, A &C FI., ICLD OFFICER. Army and Navy Club, Oct. 27. SIR JOHN DEAN PAUL, BAET.—The name of this un fortunate gentleman for many years occupied a promi nent position in the P.cerage and Baronetage. Sir John in Dean Paul was born in 1802.. .H i s father was the nofbetih.nisg n th ot e ic r e ev 7 v a a s l r o a t is a ed n to the l on% which of Mr. John Paul, a this in Salisbury. Th son titlee . im mediate 23 , the subjectcreat had become e xtinct a few years previously. Si r J o h n was married twice , and is now a widower. A. sister of his married, some years since, Mr. Beau clerk, Secret ar y of Le g ati on at Constantinople ; and an clerk, for many other m arried Mr. E. J. Fitzgerald, Ed w ard Fitzgerald and cousin son o f th e late Lord The family are in no way related to the Irish baronet of to the Duke of Leinster. th e same name. Th e l at t er officer of Cromwell. —Morni ng descended from a dragoon fling Advertiser. A. letter from St, Petersburgcurious reveals the follow ingacts : " General Mou • up in the Armeni r a a n v i l off has bad . a proclamation drawn all Armenians that Pan•guage, in which he announces to offered his services to the Leon of Armenia has just Emperor of Russia, and that he . is shortly expected at Erivan. e This . . has caused . con siderable sensation at Pera,w Prince has positively refusederteo his it dr is w said that ths against the Emperor Alexander. draw act of Prince Leon is the more inexplicable as the Sultan is ready to recognise the independence of Arsiesia. The Armenian Patriarch has been sent for by the Minis ter of Foreign Affairs, with whom he had a very long interview. He endeavoured to explain the conduct. of the Prince by saying that he is a colonel in he Russian s ervice, and that out of courtesy he demanded to be ression caused employed, but this has not remo ved the imp by the fact." The Piemonte of Turin, of the 23d, states that General Percy has resigned the command of th e Anglo-Italian Leg ion, a nd that his resignation ha s been accepted by the British Government. Col one l Read, late secr etary to Gen. Sir C. Napier, is to succeed him in the command... Major Burnaby, whose intelligence and activity as assistant quay termaster-general have been of such signal advan tage in raising men for the legion, will, • it is sup posed, retain his .important functions. The Borsen Zettung states • that the Bank of Berlin will adopt no restrictive measures, but will refuse to discount bills of long date, not drawn by P ru ssian firms. A. E A ot`74‘ _ v. 7 , 1 : I , r gi . :' . l/f7 1 4 1 ' , :4~`' rA " ' 18 S V(P' , th a ice ; into con• pre and : are ,chi cur- pro- ,ion ; con- I an tha prc. and ......... ra:s 6 16 13 rt.it, at dallY Amon 20 ; mO3 dear