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In consequence of the continued and unprece dented success of the comedy of Married for Money, and the enthusiastic applause with which Mr. Charles Mathews and the Lyceum Company are nightly received, th me e cody will be repeated every evening this Week.—The extraordinary suc cess and unparalleled hit of the new Egyptian drama, Nito cris, pronounced. the most complete and magnificent specta cle ever produced, the now scenery, splendid dresses, and gorgeous appointments being the theme of universal admira tion, induce the lessee to announce it for repetition every evening (Saturday excepted) till further notice. THIS EVENING and during the Week (Saturday excepted) the successful comedy MARRIED FOR MONEY. Characters by Messrs. Chas. Mathews, R. Roxby, A. Younge ; Mrs. F. Matthews, Miss Oliver, and Miss Mason. To be followedby (Seventh time) a new interlude, entitled TWENTY MINUTES WITH A TIGER. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, A. Youngo, Swan ; Miss De Vere and Miss Wadham. To conclude with (each evening) the Grand Egyptian Spectacle, NITOCRIS. Principal characters by Miss Glynn, Miss Cleveland, Miss Anderton, Mrs. Selby ; Messrs. Barry Sullivan, Stuart, F. Edgar, G. Wild, &c., introducing an Egyptian Dance, in which Misses Rosina Wright, Charles, Brown, and the ladies of the Corps de Ballet will appear. On Saturday, after the Comedy, Married for Money, Sheri dau's dramatic piece, The Critic, or a Tragedy Rehearsal, in which Mr. Charles Mathews will sustain the characters of Sir Fretful Plagiary and Puff; supported by Messrs. Stuart, Vincent, R. Roxby, A. Younge, G. Wild, Swan, Templeton, Worrell ; Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Wadham, &c. To conclude with a new Ballet Divertissement, in which Miss Rosina Wright and the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet will appear. Nrcorars.—Mr. E. Smith, anxious to make the spectacle instructive as well as amusing to the patrons of this Theatre, has obtained, at considerable trouble, the Description of the Grand Egyptian Coronation Procession, arranged and adapted to this stage by " Dykwynkyn ' from the works of Clemens, H ero dotus, Strabo, Plutarch, Diodorus Sienlus, Jablonski, Lepsius, Dolton, Champolion, Rosellini, Savary; Wilkinson, and other authorities in the British Museum, the publishing of which may prove interesting to the numerous patrons wit nessing the spectacle, and can be had in the Theatre for one penny. Military Entree—Egyptian Soldiery in full costume, marching three deep, with Band of Trumpets and Tympanum, or Hand Drum. The Agathodremon, or " Good Genius" (Winged Globe), under whose protection the persons of Kings and Temples of Gods were placed, is borne first, and succession the other Symbolic, Royal, and War Standards. The Lybian Forces, Allies of the Egyptians, with Band and Symbolic Standards r rspectively. The Ethio pian Guard, with Characteristic Symbols, Standards, &c. Idolatrous Procession. Note—Every City, Month, Day, and Hour had its presiding Genius. Singer, with the Book of " Hermes." Horns Copus with Palm Branch and Hour Glass. " The Ilierogrammat," or Sacred Scribe (in his hand the Book, Ruler, Papyrus, and Palette). Two Functionaries with Emblems of "Power" and " Stability." No. 1. The Ark, or " Shrine of Kuoumis," called also "Knoum," "Neph," or Num," i.e. " Water."—The primary form of " Amnon," Ord styled "The Leader of Gods"--" The Creating Intelli gence"—" The Spirit of God"—" The Spirit of the (Vernal) Deity"—" The Soul of the Sun," and by the Greeks "Jupiter Chnumis." Worshipped by the inhabitants of Timbals (Plu tarch). The asp was sacred to this god. The Ark, bearing his hieroglyph, with that of the beetle, or " Creative Power," is also decorated with this emblem. Symbolic standard of "Athor" (Venus), the oracle of Night or Darkness chaos), whence arose all created things (Egyptian belief ). Symbolic standard of ditto. The Sybil, bearing the emblematic rush wand, with " Heka," " The Frog," the son of " Num," and type of the first state of man. No. 2 "Ma," " Meii," or " Thmei ;" or " Truth," " the Blind Goddess, represented with her eyes closed or blinded. The priests bearing this god dess have libation buckets and simpula. " Thmei," or Truth, or Justice. This deity has also a twofold character as the God dess of Truth and Justice. The small image of this god was worn by the Chief Judge while engaged in listening to cases brought before him. A. similar emblem was worn by the High Priests of the Jews, and it is remarkable that the word " Thumnain " is not only translated " Truth," but, being a plural or dual word, corresponds to the Egyptian word of " Two Truths"—i. e. " Light and Truth "—breastplates hav ing the figures of the two gods, " Re" (Light) arid " Thmei " (Truth) represented upon them have been discovered. Priests with Scarabeci. The Searabreus may be considered as an em blem of " The Sun"—of " The Creative Power," and of the Cod " Phthah" (Vulcan). Incense Bearer, waving his incense patera, before the god. The incense was in the shape of a small globe or pill ; and, upon modern analysis, is found to consist of aromatic substances with gum, and gave out co - loured light or flame when thrown into the burning cup. No 3. " Apis ;" His titles were " The Sacred Bull of Memphis." " The Bull of Abundance," " Adored by the People," " The Sacred Bull of Pthah," " Guardian of the Solar Year," "Apis renowned over the world," " The Symbol of Inunda tion." Richly draped and on a car led by Priests bearing the emblems of " Serapis" or " Sari Api," " The Pillar of Mensu ration, " Column of Measurement," or " Nth:meter" of wood divided into cubits. Attendant priests also fan the idol and offer homage as it passes forward. The festivals in honour of Apis lasted 7 days, on which occasion a large concourse of people assembled at Memphis—the priests led the Sacred (living) Bull in solemn procession, every one coming forward from their houses to welcome him. Pliny and Soliuus affirm that children who smelt his breath were thought thereby gifted with the power of predicting future events. The tokens which distinguished this Sacred Bull at its birth were a white spot resembling a crescent on its right side, and a lump under its tongue in the form of a beetle, as pretended by the priests. The people believed him to be the cause of the swelling and inundation of the Nile, which produced fertility and abund ance, and celebrated his festival at about the period of this annual occurrence with every demonstration of rejoicing and literal abandonment to the intoxication of joy all over the kingdom. Many temples were erected and dedicated to " Apia," and also to " Serapis," the divinity of the Column of Measurement—the Nilometer ! N.B. The decorations of the drapery upon the bull and carriage are principally corn. posed of the first flowers that spring from the earth after the recession of the flood—i.e., the Lotus and Meliolotus. Priests with the pretended God " Canopus," or Water Offering to the God of the Nile. "It is said that the Chaldeans, trans porting the fire, which was their God, into all the provinces, offered to let him combat with those of other nations, on condition that if ho remained the conqueror they should adore him. The priests of Canopus accepted the challenge and devised this stratagem. They fabricate in Egypt pitchers of an extremely porous earth, through which the water filtrates and is purified. The Arch-priest took one of them, stopped the pores with wax, and painting it of various colours filled it with water, and made it his god. He covered it with the head of an • ancient statue, said to be that of the pilot of Menelaus, The Chaldeans presented themselves ; the contest began ; they lighted their fires around the vase ; the wax melts, the water runs through the vase and extinguishes the fire. The fraud of the priest gave the victory to Canopus over the Chaldean deity. From that moment his image has been re presented with very short feet, a narrow back, and the belly and back rounded like a pitcher It is under this form that he is worshipped as the vanquisher of all the gods."—Ruffin Histoire de l'Eglise, livre second. No. 4. The Goddess " Pash-t," " The Memphian Lioness," " The Beloved of Pthah," " The Goddess of Fire," " Bubastes" (the Diana of the Greeks) preceded by sacred dancers. The Idol carried by priests in their leopard-skin dresses, with red incense flaming before her, and surrounded by " Symbolic Divinities," " Winged Geniuses," &c. One or the principal festivities held in Egypt was at Bubastis in honour of the Pash-t-- 700,000 persons of both sexes being present. A great num ber of victims were sacrificed, wine was profusely drunk, dancing of the wildest character went forward, men played flutes, women sang and shrieked as loud as possible, struck the " Crotola" (cymbals) or clappers of wood and metal, &c. Lotus Dancers (Females). Incense Bearers. No. 5. The god " Osiris," as " Osiris Pethempamentes" (the Pluto of the Greeks). "He who is resident in the Hades," " Presi dent of the Amenti," " Receiver and Giver," " The Sun," " The Eye of the World," " The Source of the Nile," " He who has many Eyes," a form of Ammon, wearing the " Ati," and having the Crook and Flagellum ; regarded as the.author of Time, from the word, " Osch - Iri , " " the maker of Time." The principle office of this deity was to judge the dead, and to rule over that kingdom where the souls of good men were admitted to eternal felicity. This deity was very famous— his temples and priests were to be found in al most every part of Egypt ; the sacred rites of Osiris were a profound mystery, never revealed. His name was even avoided, as of too august a nature to be mentioned. The "Ivy, with which the Priests decorated themselves, was sacred to him, and also the " Meliolotus." No. 6. The Sacred Boat of the Amenti, or Lower Regions, with the four genii, or demi gods (bearing emblems of life and power) and their vases of " Ameuti," or that subterraneous region where they (the Egyptians) imagined the souls of the dead to go after their decease. The first genius is " Amset," " Judge of the Amenti" (human-headed). The second is " Hepi," " Con cealed Number" (baboon-headed). The third is " Tuautmutf," " Adorer of his Mother" (jackall-headed), The fourth is " Kabh-senuf," " Refresher of his Brethren" (hawk-headed). The Sepulchral Vases have heads in shape of the four genii of the dead, and each was employed for holding a portion of the viscera of the deceased, embalmed separately and deposited in them. On the " Amset" Vase is inscribed the speech of " Isis" to the dead ; on that of " Hepi" isa similar speech from "Nepthys ;" on that of "Tuautmutf, one from "Neith;" and on that of " Kabh-senuf," one from " Solk ;" the purport of each being an assurance of protection, and of being "near thee," " beside thee," or " I come to be beside thee." The Sacred Boat is followed by the symbolic " Eyes of Osiris," or of "The Sun," emblems of the all-seeing presence of the Di vinity. Note.—Besides the Four Amenti, here were 42 As sessors or Judges of the 42 Crimes, from which a good man should be free ; and these also differ from the 36 Demons mentioned by Origen that presided over the human body, and were invoked to cure the infirmities of the peculiar member immediately under their protection. No. 7. The Goddess Isis," or " The Seat." The hieroglyphic throne on her : Ph an d he 'l head, and followed by the priestesses and virgins dedicated to I s i s wa s sty , l T ec h l e a E ls n o d ; g Q " u ( e a e s n h her her worship. sister, " Nepthys," was Egypt," "The Goddess of the Moon," "Defender of her Brother," &c. (The " Ceres" of the Greeks.) " The festival," says Herodotus, " which they celebr a t e a t Buso ris in honour of Is is is magnificent. After Prayers a bull is sacrificed, which the priests cut up and afterwards burn, pouring oil on the fire while the vi c ti m is con suming. Kneeling and striking themselves in honour of Osiris,' they afterwards eat what remains of the sacrifice." Tamarisk and Dancers. No. S. The God " or Hns" (or Khons- Horns, the Apollo of the Greeks, In -hieroglyph " The Warmth of the Sun," " The Pa th" (of the Sun), " The Sup port," a " Defender of his Father ," & c., the Son of Osiris and Isis. He is represented with the sin g le mystic lock of . Hair of Childhood slaying his evil geniuses, under the forms o fthe lion, the gazelle, scorpions, vipers, cite., while Typho, Typhon, Seth, or Baal, " The Evil Spirit," i s escaping from beneath his feet in the shape of a crocodile. H o is attended by his sacred emblems and standards. The Hawk was dedicated to him, the Tamarisk Tree, the Testudo (Lyre), &c. One of the principal duties of " Horns," was that of introducing the souls of the dead into the presence of " Osiris," after they had passed the ordeal of final judgment. He also assisted "Amset" in weighing and ascertaining their good conduct during life, previous to their admission into the august presence of his Father in the blessed regions of the Amenti. Incense Bearers. No. 9. The Goddess " Nep thys " (" Proserpina" of the Greeks), called also "The End," " The Sister Goddess," " The Saviour Sister Goddess," " The Barren," " Reetrix of the Lower Regions." On her head the hieroglyphic emblem of her name, a bowl and basket, called Neb," placed upon a house, answering to " Ei" or " Tei," " Neb-tci" or "Nob-thy," " The Lady of the Abode." " The Sistrum, having the face of Isis on one side, and Nepthys on the other, hieroglyphically represents 'the beginning and the end, or generation and corruption.' "—Plutarch. No. 10. The Goddess " Neit h " (the " Minerva " of the Greeks,) en throned with sceptre, and wearing the " Teshr," preceded by Musicians, Male and Female Bearers of Incense with green flame, and fiurryumied by symbolic divinities. "Neith" was ►. 15 N o , 19,6 5.] styled " The Mother Goddess" or " Mother of Gods," " The Deified personification of Air."—(Dioiorus.) She presided over the Upper Hemisphere, and was particularly wershippe cl at Sais. Musical instruments stringed (the Buon! or harp of 17 strings, especially) were dedicated to her. " Neith," or " Neth," is the supposed origin of the Greek name, " Thena," or " Athena." The belief of the Egyptians in " the Existence of a Supreme Being' is proved by the inscription over the Temple of Minerva (Neith), in hieroglyphic characters; viz. : —" lam that which is, which was, and shall be. No Mortal has lifted up my veil—the offspring of my power is the Sun." •And the " Immortality of the Soul," by the prayer recited at the time of death, by an Egyptian, expressing his desire to be received into tho presence of the deities. Symbols of Man and Tefnu, and ./Egis or Athor. No. H. " Mcrsekar," the Snake Goddess, called also " Melsigor," or " Mersokar"-- " Ruler of the Lower Regions." No. 12. The Great God " Ammon," or " Hammon," " Amen," " Amen-ra," " Amoun," " The King of Gods," "The Concealed," " The Hid den," " The Intellectual Sun," wearing on his right head the Teshr," surmounted by the Disc and Plumes. In hisright hand the "Tau," or emblem of life, and in his left the " Gom," or sceptre of power. A large Altar of Burnin g Incense is car ried before him ; on either side are his symbols of " creative power," the Sacred Ureus, or Serpent of Ammon, Priests with crooks and fans, in their habits and insignia of the high est order, with the rEgis of the God— " The Intellectual Sun" - • containing the symbolic " All-seeing Eyes," " The Divine Searabcaus," and the Ram-headed God, " Chrounds," the vernal creative intelligence or divinity. Tho King and Queen Crowned. The King bears in his hand the sceptre of " Truth, Justice, and Mercy." The Queen that of the Sovereignty of the ;Nile. They are preceded by Dancers and Musicians, La dies and Officers of the Court and Household ; the God " Eilethyia," or Sacred Vulture, " The Protectress of Kings" —" The Pure," borne immediately in frOnt of the Royal per soniges. The State Flabella, behind and over their heads, together with the banners .of Nitocris and Egypt, flanked by the Royal asks of" Re " (the Sun) ; sacred... symbols,.. with -various insignia, royal and military standards, &c. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. THIS EVENING-, and every evening during the week, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC and MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great Wizard of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety of incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary effects. Magic and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos sessing distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases of amusement. It is not a monologue, for the audience them selves perform their parts with the principal actor, some of them on the stage and others in front ; it is not an exhibition, or though everything becomes metamorphosed before the eyes of the visitors no one can be positive that he sees any 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 app.iar as auxiliaries ; and au ex travaganza, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond the bounds of probability. Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and 'ashionable 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. He would attribute that success to three causes ; first, that in his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors the results of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of perfected skill in 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 iesortiug 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 "essor Anderson has received, from the time of opening the theatre up to the present date, bear witness to the great in ' erest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst many of them bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which Atend 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 attemrt to ex pose a mischievous and impudent juggle. It is impossible fog Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the communications which reach him on the subject. He regrets that many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen who, from their position in society and their well-known in tellectual attainments, he would least have expected to have been converts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and so easily susceptible of being controverted awl 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 genes-ally as Professor Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to his multitudinous correspondents. He regrets that the names of the great and learned of the land should have been made to figure in the documents emanating , from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem ber 20, and taken by that journal from the New York, Spiri tual Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David Enlister frankly confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what he has witnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to ba thoroughly nonplussed. Both of these noted men brought the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the olution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial, actual hands, and the demonstrative strength of the spirits who thus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate rial objects about the room, proved to be too much of a ques 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 now in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-knoWn throughout the Anglo-Saxon world as a splendidhumbug, offeredhim 2,000 dollars per annum if ho would perform at his museum in New York. Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could he bought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was refused. Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply and honestly remarked, that the money would have been very acceptable to him, for he was poor, young (under 20), an or phan, and in very 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. He inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is one of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer tainly surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the editorial article of an established journal, the editor of whom might be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe in spirit-rapping-- does spirit-rapping gain or lose by this accession to its adherents ? and, with Barnum's endorse ment to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely to be negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not ; but, when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of England have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross I swindle, when he finds that the Incumbent of Wortley (the ftev. N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and writes a book on the subject, he considers it t be time for him to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the Morning Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir David Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel, in comuanv with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that which the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that spirit-rapping is nothing snore 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 séance 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 by him nightly at the Lyceum, will bo received by the people of England as genuine honest at tempts to provide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual jugglers. In the course of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have visited the Lyceum Theatre, —a larger number, it is believed, than has ever before been assembled within its walls in so short a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even. ( ing, the programme being continually changed. Grand fashionable Day Performance, or Saturday, November 10, 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 tho 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 vein minous from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude out of minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears for its existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and in bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely place for to b e f oun d. Act 4. M ag i cal Locomo ti on ; or, T rans iti o n w ith ou t Trou ble.ln w hi c h will be compr i se d— t h e Ad ven t ures o f a Wed ding Ring, the Per egr i na ti on s of a Bank Note, the Transfor .mmatthion---blpe.k into whit e , an d the Discovery of every Article n hi d c e h v w e o l ul Te d ; se e e r m th th e e c m as o k s e t t i e n f ap e p r r ce o e p u r e ia . inappropriate. Act which, though.i made entirely of , glass perfectly transparent, and suspended so as to • ' b e visible to the eyes of all present, the Wizard will cause the money of his visitors to transport itself, and rain into the casket, though its lid be closed, locked, and the key in th e possession of the audience Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ' of Opacity. ; or, the Transparency 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 notwill only be in exhaustible, but will change its contents, ad infinit u m, at the word of command, producing 'soda-water, butter-milk, Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, rum, whisky, noyeau, or any other wine or spirit required ; and finally proving • to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry, and occupying the whole space when tightly packed. Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Expos 6 of Spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit-rapping t a bl e and tocsin of the invisibles. Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of the Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange metamor phoses, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become transformed into the flags of victory—the banners of Eng land, France, Turkey, and Sardinia. Act, 10, The Enchanted Chair of Comus in which he who „ 6144-d 21/4-h41t91 :-)-e/ ' t it i l l f 7 7/ t A 541 , . °xi • itr 4e , #lVb • - ir 7 k ‘ .3 .` C t? V . • ” , • Ip i l - --- ;IN ; = te,4 ' '7l" • ) r:1/ "cr -`1 • 453 .‘" 1"4:) ./ • . 7 4 •-st "s„- kPEI rT 'Y ( j [PRICE 4D. STAMPED JD• have undertaken not merely the work of one nation, but of half Europe. We cannot, if we would, depute this great Self-imposed task to a legion of foreign mercena ries ; for our recruiting agents abroad (I blush to say it) have everywhere been threatened or imprisoned —not only the - United States,, but Prussia, Switzerland, sad even diminutive Hamburg having refused to allow their citizens to engage, even at our expense, in what we in sist on calling a struggle for their independence. We cannot for very shame again confide this duty to "thought less boys ;" besides, even those raw recruits fall short at the hour of our utmost • need to the extent of from twenty to forty thousand of the number voted by Par liament. How, then, do you propose to bring the bone, muscle, and manhood of England into the field? There are two methods, equally successful, by which regular armies are raised in - foreign countries. The one is by a conscription, as in France, where a certain num ber of men of a prescribed age are taken every year by lot from amongst all classes, and where the unlucky in dividual who draws the fatal number from the balloting urn, be he peer or peasant, must either serve himself, or find an approved substitute, at an expense varying from 801. to 2001., according to.circumstances. The other is the plan of the United States, where the legislature vote 3 the number of the army, and voluntary enlistment sup plies the men. This mode has never been found to fail. On the breaking out of the war with Mexico, five times as many men offered their services in many parts of the Union as were required. All 'ranks and professions pressed f rt. ward—the newspaper editor exchanged the pen for the sword '• the lawyer threw up his brief ; the doctor abandoned his patients; and the farmer his land —all to enlist into the ranks. The present President of the United States, then of mature age, and with a lead ing practice as a barri-ter, gave up family and profes sion, and volunteered into the ranks. The plan is, in fact, our own, with this material difference in its work ing, that in America the popularity of a war is proved by the willingness of the people to take a part in it. There is still a third system which has been recommended for adoption in this country—that of increasing the bounty until you tempt men from other pursuits into the army. But it is liable to the objection that in these days of cheap locomotion you would not be sure of keep ing your recruit after he had pocketed the bribe. "We find," says Lord Hardinge, " that the more you raise the bounty the greater the number of desertions ; they make a trade of it." You will not expect me to say which of these plans should be adopted for carrying on a war which in my conscience I believe to be more unnecessary, rash, and aimless, than any in our history, and which, for the visionary objects avowed by its advocates, has no paral lel since the Crusades. But, unfortunately, opposition to a war by no means separates us from its consequences. The safety of the country ; the prosperity of its people ; the burdens we may be called upon to bear ; the pro bable duration of hostilities ; and, above all, because in volving all the effect which the policy and conduct of the war may have upon our character and honour as a nation ;—all these are matters of as vital importance to the opponents as the advocates of a war ; and hence the right they may fairly claim to call in question not only its policy, but the mode in which it is carried on. We are told of the necessity of maintaining our prestige among the nations of the world ; and there is no advo cate of the war more sincerely desirous than myself of elevating the true fame and influence-of England. But my complaint is, that the war patty, by that display of inflated pretensions and abortive performances with which they have contrived to occupy the attention of the world, have attained the very opposite end to that at which they and have, no doubt with equal sincerity, aimed. Nations, like individuals, are judged less by what they omit to do than by the extent to which their deeds fall short of their wordy professions. America, fe,r instance, does not suffer in prestige by maintaining a standing army of tea or twelve thousand men only ; and but one, if one, line-of battle-ship in commission. On the contrary, there is dignity in her att tude, when coupled with the avowed principle of nonintervention ; and the strength which she thereby husbands makes her one of the most for midable Powers in the world. But if America under took to "defend the liberties of Europe," or protect the civilisation of the world," her present armament would draw upon her universal ridicule. And I mu-4 be permitted to tell our.war-at-any-price party, who talk so glibly of humbling and reducing to abject terms of peace au empire of sixty millions of people, by invading their territory at a distance of 3,000 miles, and thus contending with the passive- obstinacy of the most stub born race in existence, under the greatest possible disad vantage to ourselves—who treat with scorn the neutrality of Germany, Austria, Prussia, Sweden, Denmark, Hol land, and Switzerland, and assume to themselves and France the exclusive honour of—to quote the words of an esteemed friend of mine on a late occasion to his ap plauding csustituents—" thrusting back a barbarous Power which is seeking to trample out civilisation and overwhelm Europe "—I tell this party that they will bring ridicule on this great country, that they will lower our prestige, and perhaps draw upon us slights and in sults, thus hazarding tho recurrence of future wars, un less they either moderate their language to the level of their deeds, or raise their performances to an equality with their pretensions. I shall say nothing upon a point which must have en gaged the anxious consideration of thoughtful minds, namely, the effect which will be produced on our alliance with the French people it the blood of their peasantry, with whom the war has never been very popular, should again and again have to be expended to purchase fresh triumphs for our war party. If the avowed objects of this party are to be persevered in, see are now only at the commencement of the war. If the whole of the Crimea were in our hands to-morrow, we should still be at the beginning of the struggle. The government of Austria must in its heart (if it have one) be rejoiced to see three powers, not one of whom it trusts, but all of whom it fears, exhausting themselves in a destructive war at a remote distance from her fron tiers. Prussia and Germany are almost to a man for neutrality—an armed ene if necessary ; and they who still say there is a difference between the governments and peoples on this subject know nothing of what has been passing lately in those countries. We shall, there fore, be left to complete the task which, in conjunction with our French ally, we have imposed on ourselves. Every step we take on Russian territory must be over earthworks, and at the point of the bayonet ; for the Russians have never fought great battles with an enemy on their own soil without the defensive aid of redoubts and entrenchments. This is the work of men, and not of the "thoughtless boys" who are at present kidnapped by the recruiting serjeant. There is nothing for it but an appeal to the manhood of England. To this end, the press, and the orators and leaders of the party opposed to peace, who tell us they have all England at their back, must now address themselves. If, as we have been told, this war, in defence of the " liberty and civilisa tion" of a continent which does not think it necessary to defend itself, is the people's war, there will be a response to the appeal ; if, on the contrary, it be a war of diplo• matists and newspapers, it will fail. But, in the meantime, all parties, whether for peabe or war, will, I am sure, agree with me that a less arrogant and bombastic tone, not only towards Russia, but Prussia and other countries,* on the part of our exponents of public opinion, would be an acceptable change ; or, if our able-bodied orators and writers will continue to de claim iu favour of carrying on the war " with vigour," let them at least be prepared to respond, in their own persons, to the invitation to take part in it. And to our festive warriors of the tavern and dinner-table school, however exalted in rank, let me add, that the hour for "Rule Britannia" and other songs of triumph has not yet arrived. We have taken Brittania from her ocean throne, to land ber on an element over which her sceptre does not "rule," where we have abandoned her to the somewhat unsafe keeping of " thoughtless boys ;" and if a tithe of the exploits promised in her name are to be achieved, every man of the war-at-any-price party, be. tween 21 and 50, must he prepared to rush Lo the rescue. Before I conclude, I would express a hope that the time is not distant when the thoughtful portion of the British public, who in the end determine our national policy, will be awakened to a sense of their responsi bility. Let it be remembered that we have invaded the . territory of Russia; that we are now the aggressive party ; that we have not to this day defined, even to our own comprehension, the terms which would satisfy us, and induce us to withdraw ; and that it is hardly pro bable under such circumstances that acceptable propo sals for peace should come from Russia. Let it always he borne in mind that no terms of peace are possible which do not involve the withdrawal of our a rmi es from her territory, and that no injuries which we might in the meantime inflict on her (some of those already committed on her coasts will not, fear, re- . I dound to our credit as a civilised an d commercial people) could have any permanent effects to com pensate for the losses, miseries, a to ourselves from the indefinitelnpnroatrtaid obvious dangers o c n tion of b of o,t t i li li e p war. And by whom is the r . g, ties advocated ? With the exception or those in office, to whom peace will bring a day o f reckoning, is there a i statesman of trust and authority n on scou believedntrywh o to not in his heart in favour of tere be found on e corn manding intellect now peace, terms be now practicable ; nor can h rr espon empelidebyeityd()unless under th e s h ield of an anonymous i 2 Andin inciting th e country to a perseverance in the war ?for whose benefit are every dayhostilities to be continued ? Not for that of T ur k ey , for of their continuance diminishes the chances of her resuscitation ; not for the interests of the govern ing classes of Europe, for they all desire peace ; not for those of the "democracy," whose eminent chiefs have denounced the war as an aimless waste of human blood i n which they have no interest ; not even for the benefit of our ally, for we know that the French Government was favourable to a pacification after the Vienna Con ferences, and report says, and I believe truly, that it is now again disposed for peace. What human interest, then, can possibly be served by the continuation of hos tilities ? We have been told indeed that war, which the world * As a re •ent specimen, let me give the following extract from the leadi ng ar ti c l e o f a j ourna l w hi c h occas i on ally does . its best t o earn f or us th e c h arac t er o f th e .73ombastes litrioso of nati ons :—" We desire above all things the con tinuance of peace, but it it be the determination of an y large p or ti on of the people of the United States to force war upon us, we shall know how to meet it and repel i t without relaxing for an instant our gripe on the throat of the reeling and tottering giant of the north !" LONDONs MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBEit 5, 1855. 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. 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In the month of May last there was presented to Lord Palmerston, as head of her Majesty's Government, a memorial on behalf of a certain aged Miss Lowe and her sister, which memorial will sufficiently explain itself, and indicate who the Misses Lowe are to those who read it here : " Tee undersigned . beg respectfully to submit to Lord Palmerston a statement of reasons which appear to them to constitue, on behalf of the two aged surviving daugh ters of Mauritius Lowe, therein described, a claim to such small yearly pension as in his lordship's judgment may consist with other claims and demands for the en suing year, upon the fund appropriated to literature. " In Dr. Samuel Johnson's last will is this passage,— " also give and bequeath to my godchildren, the son and daughter of Mauritius Lowe, painter, each of them 1001. of my stock in the Three per Cent. Consoli dated Annuities, to be disposed of by and at the discre tion of my executors in the education or settlement in the world of them my said legatees.' "The Mauritius Lowe mentioned here, who was once a man of great promise in his art, favourably known in the Royal Academy and in the world as a man of refined manners and real talent and worth (though probably with something of morbid or over-sensitive in his charac ter), died 10 years alter Johnson without fulfilling the high hopes entertained of him. The godson, or younger Lowe, mentioned in the will, who at one time (1810-13) appears to have held some small appointment in Bar badoes, creditably to himself, but with loss of health— the crown and consummation of various other losses he had met with—is also long since dead. Of these Lowes and their hopes and struggles there is now nothing to be said. They are sunk under the horizon. Nor cau they pretend to have any hold of the world's memory except what is derived from the father's intimacy with Johnson, of which and of Johnson's helpfulness and real esteem and affection for the man there ara still abundant peoofs, printed and not printed, besides this of the will. " But the goddaughter mentioned in the will has not yet sunk under the horizon. She still survives among us, a highly respectable old person, now in her 78th year, with all her faculties about her, living with her younger sister, aged 72, the only other remnant of the family, in a house they have long occupied—No. 5, Minerva-place, New-cross, Deptford with numerous memorials of Johnson in their possession, which vividly bring home to us, and present as a still living fact, their connection with that great man. They have lived there for many years in rigorous though not undignified poverty, which now, by some unforeseen occurrences, threatens to be come absolute indigence in these their final years. "They are gentlewomen in manners ; by all evidence persons of uniformly unexceptionable conduct ; veracity, sense, ingenious propriety, noticeable in them both, to a superior degree. The elder, especially, must have been a graceful lively little woman, something of a beauty in her younger days, and by no means wanting for talent. She still recollects in a dim but ineffaceable manner the big, awful figure of Samuel Johnson, to whom she was carried shortly before his death, that he might lay his hand on her head and give her his blessing ; her awe and terror were very great on the occasion. Both sisters are in perfect pesse , sion of th e i r Seen t. ; th younger only is slightly hard of hearing ; the elder (on whose head lay Johnson's hand) has still a light step, perfectly erect carriage, and vivacious memory and in tellect. The younger, who is of very honest and some what sterner features, appears to be the practical intellect of the house, and probably the practical hand. They ara very poor, but have taken their poverty in a quiet, unaffectedly handsome manner, and have still hope that, in some way or other, intolerable want will not be per mitted to overtake them. They have an altogether respectable, or, we might say (bringing the past and the present into contact), a touching and venerable air. There, in their little parlour at Deptford, is the fir desk (capable of being rigorously authenticated as such) upon which Samuel Johnson wrote the English Dictionary; the best dictionary ever written, say some. "It is in behalf of these two women, of Johnson's god daughter, fallen, old and indigent, that we venture to solicit from the Government some small public subven tion, to screen their last years from the worst misery. It may be urged that there is no public fund appropriated for such precise objects, and that their case cannot, ex cept reflex way, be brought under the head of lite rary pensions :' but, in a reflex way, it surely can ; and we humbly submit withal, that this case of theirs is, in some measure, a peculiar and unique one. g, Samuel Johnson i 1 such a literary man as probably will not appear again in England for a very great length of time. His works and his life looked at well have something in them heroic, which is of value beyond most literature, and much t eyond all money and money 'b worth to the nation which produced him. That same English Dictionary, written on the poor fir desk above spoken of, under sternly memorable circumstances, is itself a proud possession to the English n ation, and not in the philologi ca l p o i n t o f view alone. Such a dictionary has an architectonic quality in it ; and for massive l i solidity of plan, manful correctness and fidelity of execu tion, luminous intelligence, rugged honesty and great ness of mind pervading every part of it, is like no other. This, too, is a Cathedral of St. Paul's, after its sort ; and stands there for long periods, silently reminding every English soul of much that is very necessary to remember. " Samuel Johnson himself is far beyond the reach of our gratitude. He left no child or representative of any kind to claim pensions or distinctions from us ; and here, by accident, thrown upon the waste seabeach, something venerably human with Johnson's mark still legible upon it ; Johnson, as it were, mutely bequeath ing it to us, and what humanity and loyalty we have, for the few years that may still be left. Our humble re quest, in the name of literature withal is, that the Eng lish nation will, in some small adequate way, respond to this demand of Johnson's. " Henry Hallam, Wilton-crescent. " James Stephen, Trinity-hall, Cambridge. " S. Oxon, Cuddesdon Palace. '`Thomas Carlyle, 5, Cheyne-row, Chelsea. " Alexander Dyce, 9, Gray's-inn-square. "B. W. Proctor, 32, Weymouth-street, Portland place. " C. L. Eastlake, 7, Fitzroy-square. "John Forster, 58, Lincoln's-inn-fields. " T. B. Macaulay, Albany. " W. M. Tbackeray, 36, Onslow-square. "Alfred Tennyson, Freshwater, Isle of Wight. "A. W. Fonblanque, Board oTrade. " Charles Dickens, Tavistock-house. " E. Bulwer Lytton, 1, Park-lane. "G. R. Gleig, Warwich-square. " Richard Owen, Royal College of Surgeons. " Rod. E. Murchison, Belgrave-square. " B. Diseaeli, Grosvenor-gate. "H. H. Milman, Deanery, St. Paul's." To this memorial his Lordship made answer, with great courtesy and without undue delay , t ha t the fund set apart for encouragement of literature could not be meddled with for a pension to the goddaughter of John son ; but that, in consideration of the circumstances, his Lordship, from some other fund, had made her a dona tion of 1001. Which sum of 1001. was accordingly paid to Miss Lowe in June last—a very welcome gift and help—all that the Prime Minister could do in this mat ter, and, unfortunately, only about the fifth part of what it was, and is, indispensable to get done. It was still hoped that the last resource of an appeal to the public might be avoided ; that there might be other Government helps, minute charitable funds, ade quate to this small emergency. And new endeavours were accordingly made in that direction, and new expec tations entertained ; but these likewise have all proved ineffectual ; and the resulting fact no w is, that there is still needed something like an annuity of 301. for the joint lives of these two aged persons; that, strictly com puting what, pittances certain and precarious they already have, and what they still want, their case cannot be sa tisfactoi ily left on lower terms—that is to say, about 4001. to purchase such an annuity, is still needed for them. If the thing is half as English as we suppose it to be, a small pecuniary result of that kind is not doubtful, now when the application is once made. At all events, as the English Government is not able to do this thing, we are now bound to apprise the English nation of it, and to ask the English nation in its miscellaneous capa city—Are you willing to do it ? Messrs. Coutts, bankers, will receive subscriptiOns from such as feel that this is a valid call upon English beneficence ; and we have too much reverence for Samuel Johnson, and for the present generation of his country men, to use any soliciting or ignoble pressure on the oc casion. So soon as the requisite amount has come in, the subscriptions will cease, of which due notice will be given. THOMAS CARLYLE. CHARLES DICKENS. AtheriMUM Club, Oct. 31. JOHN FOlitiTER. MR. COBDEN ON THE ARMY AND TTIE WAR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. My dear Sir,—l beg to invite your attention and that of the public to some considerations of grave moment relative to the state of our army, as-connected with the policy of the present war. The people of England can never have been aware of the state in which oar army has been left, from the first moment of its landing in the Crimea, owing to the insuf ficient number and defective quality of its reinforce ments. Had the people been, as they ought to have been, frankly and honestly dealt by in this respect, they would in their own persons—if the war has been as popular as has been alleged—have long ago supplied the deficiency. lam bound also to assume that that large portion of the newspaper press of this country which has advocated the landing of our forces in Russia must have been equally uninformed of this vital defalcation ; otherwise, whilst vaunting of the unani mous support which the people were tendering to the Government, it would not have concealed from them the greatest and most urgent of all wants —men—and thus have prepared for us the ignominious dilemma to which boastfuLprofessions and abortive performances have, I fear, consigned us. For the Government alone no plea of ignorance can be put forth : they have known all, and the fact of their holding office invests them with entire and exclusive responsibility. . What are the facts, so far as we have been allowed to glean them, up to the close of the inquiry before Mr. Roebuck's Committee? . The following statistics I have derived from the valuable appendix to their report : It appears that the number of British troops, officers, and men of all arms who landed in the Crimea before the battle of the Alma was 26,800. At that engage ment the English outnumbered their French allies. On the death of Marshal St. Arnaud, and after the flank movement upon Balaklava,, Lord Raglan became the senior commander, and, in apportioning the ground for siege operations, took upon himself the same extent of work as was assigned to General Canrobert's army. From this moment, according to the evidence of the highest military authorities before the committee, our army began to sink under the effects of overwork. Then came the battle of Inkerman (brought upon us by our exposed situation, owing to the smallness of the force , in proportion to our extended lines), which was followed by the still more deadly trench work, exposure, andFri nations of the winter ; and the following is the horrible result of the monthly report of the sick and wounded of all arms in Lord Raglan's army :- 1854, October, 11,988 sick and wounded. „ November, 16,846 if „ December, 19,479 1855, January, 23,076 (January is the last month for which we have a complete return.) Notwithstanding the reinforcements which had arrived from home, and from our garrisons and colonies abroad, our army was reduced at one time to less than twelve thousand effective bayonets. That much of the sickness, and its attendant morta lity, arose from the insufficient number of men sent to reinforce our army, is conclusively proved in the evi dence before the Sebastopol Committee. General Evans and the Duke of Cambridge speak most emphatically to this effect. According to the evidence of the latter "it does not admit of a doubt" that if 8,000 or 10,000 men had been sent in the course of a few weeks, instead of the " driblets" which arrived, a great portion of the sickness arising from overwork might have been pre vented. And the Duke of Newcastle, whilst confessing his inabilty to find men, stated that ". the overwork arose from the extent of the lines which had been origi nally undertaken by the English army being too great for the reduced numbers." Now it was only from the ranks of the people at home that the vast chasms created by death and disease in our army could be filled up ; and I wish to call your particular attention at the rate at which, at this very time, enlistment was going on. The following is the number of recruits finally approved for cavalry, infantry, and artillery. Total In each month. 1854, October 2,091 „ November 5,374 „ December 6,000 1855, January „ February 4,073 ~ March (These are our latest official returns.) It will be seen by a comparison, that whilst our sick and wounded, exclusive of killed, averaged - for the fcur months, October, November, December, and January, nearly 18,000 a month, the recruiting was going on at the rate of only 5,100 a month. It was admitted by Lord John Russell in the house, last December, that the recruits fell short by 20,000 of the number voted by Parliament. And in the session of the present year an independent member of Parliament asserted, in the presence of Ministers, without contradiction, that the deficiency amounted to 40,000. And during all this time, when our army was wasting a say from want of that succour which the Government could not send, "owing "—to quote the evide6ce of the Duke of New castle—" to the unwillingness of men to enlist to the ex tent to which the House of Commons had increased the English army"—during all this time (I say it only as a warning for the future)—our war journals and orators were assuring us that the people were far more eager for the war than the Government or Parliament. I have said that the reinforcements sent to the Crimea were defective in quality, as well as insufficient in num ber—and upon this subject the testimony of the Coln wander-in-Chief before the Sebastopol Committee, which I shall give without any comments of my own, is quite conclusive. Lord Hardinge says : " We made our men pretty perfect in drill in the course of sixty days, and when we had to send them out instead of being composed of bone and muscle, they were almost gristle ;in fact, they were too young." . • " But when we came to send in ()ether, November, and December, to pass the winter in the Crimea, our raw recruits—and we had no others—it was impossible to expect that they could stand the inclemency of the climate, and the hard work in the trenches, in the same manner as a similar number of soldiers would have done in 1808." • • • • . Tcahney h are ave "Give us a good stout man, and let us have him for 60 days to trai n hi m , an d he will be as good a soldier as you thoughtless boy; who come in, and not men of 25 ; they a re generally boys of 18 to 20 ; the num bers of that age are very large, in proportion to those who are past 21 and 22." . . • • • ' "The thoughtless boy enlists ;" the grown-up man of 25 will not, or seldom." I could give extracts from the evidence of Sir De Lacy Evans, the Duke of Cambridge, and other officers from the Crimea, confirmatory of Lord Hardinge's statement. And once for all let it be observed that their testimony disposes of the plea for a larger standing army during forty years of peace. " Give us," says the Commander in -Chief, " a good stout man, and let us have him for 60 days to trai n hi m, and he will be as good a soldier as you can have." But it is the bone and muscle of men, and not the " gristle" of boys, that he wanted for this pur pose. In the same spirit was the reply of General Evans, who, when asked by a member of the commit tee to explain the word " inefficient," which he applied to the reinforcements sent to him in the Crimea, and whether he meant that they were " untrained," answered —" nearly untrained, but that did not signify ; they were too young." These boy-recruits, on their arrival in the winter season in the Crimea, served scarcely any other purpose than to encumber the hospitals. They added so little to the strength of our army that at length, after enduring unparalleled hardships and sufferings, in the vain attempt to maintain an equality with our allies, we surrendered to them a part of our ground (that part which has been the site of the final triumph), and from that time to the present our force has been gradually as suming the character of a contingent to the French army. The evidence befa , :e the Sebastopol committee brings us down to May only ; but unfortunately we are not without ocular proofs that the quality of our recruits has not since changed for the better. Anyoae who walks the streets of the metropolis, and casts an eye at the sentries standing guard at our public buildings, or glances at a batch of recruits at drill, or who observes the group of youths with which the recruiting sergeant is busy in our villages, will need no further evidence that it is still the " gristle," and not the bone and muscle of the coun try, which is passing into the ranks of our army. And unhappily recent events in the Crimea have startled us into a conviction of the dangers of (to borrow from the brilliant pen of the Times' correspondent) "trust ing the honour, reputation, and glory of Great Britain to undisciplined lads from the plough or the lanes of our towns and villages." For it is well known, and ought, in justice to the offi cers, to be publicly acknowledged, that is the late un successful attack on the Redan the men became massed n inextricable confusion, not from any lack of individual courage, but owing to an absence of the coolness, nerve, and self-possession which age, and age alone, can give. And how is it, I would respectfully inquire, that the purport of what I have narrated should be better known and appreciated everywhere than in England ; and that whilst, to quote the words of the Times—the truth of which I can coo , m from recent personal experience, on a restricted field of observation--" in every add and promenade in II atope the,ponversation has been of the sorry figure which England has made in the present war," not one word of warning has been addressed to the country, or a single appeal made to the people, for a supply of efficient men to fill the vacant ranks of the army, which the people, and the people alone, could fill ? How is it, on the contrary, that whilst the most unmea sured censures have been heaped on the Parliament, Go vernment, aristocracy, and military commanders, our press, platform, and even pulpits, have, during all this time, teemed with more fulsome laudation of the people of England than was ever before lavished on a commu nity in the same space of time ? I will not be tempted at present to pursue this inquiry ; it would lead me aside from the practical question to which I beg to invite your attention, and that of other leading advo cates of the continuance of tne war. owwhiiesh I proposeditamtoid is to th r e ais raise men "battle o (nn t f E civili sation and liberty against a despoti sm which aims at nothing less than universal empire r If this and kindred phrases which have rung in our e ars for the last two years mean anything but sound and fur y , En g lishmen European an to fight thatn MATTHEW MARSHALL, Jun., Manager. LONDON and N RAIL ''AI.—CONTRACT Tne Directors are prepared to rec the undermentioned Stores, viz.:— No. of Contract— OR TH-W EST ERN for STORES for the Year 1851. eive Tenders for the Supply of %To. of Contract— 1. Brass Sheet and Tubes for Locomotivcs „ Iron tubes 3. Copper' 4. Canvas 5. Carpets and Rugs 9. Crucibles 10. Curle.l Hair 11. C peer and Brass Work 12. Co'ours 12a. I)rysaltery [3. Coach Trimmings 14. Cotton Waste 16. Glass, Plate Ira. Glass, various 17. Hardware 17a. Bruhes and Pencils 'lb. Nails and Tacks [7e. Screws 17d. G Is Fittings L7e. Locks L7f. Lamp Cottons IS. Leather. • I Ba. Leather 19. Lead, White and Red • 19a. Lead, Ingot, Sheet and Pipe 20. Iron, Yorltshire 22. Tron Wo:k 94. 011, Burning, &c. 25. Oils, various, and Turpentine H. Oil Cloth 28a. Augurs, Hammers, &c. 29. Tin Block 30 lin Sheet and Spelter 31. Varnishes 32. Sundrie., consisting of Bas ke s, Felt, Candles, Soap, Brooms, Pitch, Links, Sponge, Hose Pipes, Fog Signals, Sieves, Cement, In diarublier, Flannel, Calico, &c., &c. 34. Hats 35. Caps Specification and Formi of Tender may be had on and after Mon day, November sth, on application in writing, to the Secretary, Euston Station, Londcn. Forms of Tender for each Contract are printed separately, and partiq applying should state the particular Contract or Contracts for which they propose to tender. Patterns may also he inspected on and after Monday, Nov. sth, from Ten till Four o'clock, at the Company's Pattern Room, Euston Station, and any further information requires may be obtained on application to the heads of the several deparments. Tenders to be sent in on or before Ten o'clock on Monday, Nov. 19th. By order of the Directors. CHAS. E. STEWART, Secretary. Euston Station, October, 1855. ESTABLISHED 1837. B RITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COM PANY. Empowered by Special Act of Parliament. BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION, Empowered by Tier Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. MAJOR-GENERAL ALEXANDER, Blackheath-park, Chairman. Every description of Life Assurance business transacted, at the lowest possible rates consistent with security to the assured. E. R. FOSTER, Resident Director. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. 1, Princes-street, Bank, London. ST. GEORGE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Offices, 118, PALL-MALL, London. Cusfasta's —Viscount RANELAGII, Park-place, St. James's. `)Errfrv-CHATELMAN —HENRY POWNALL, Esq., Ladbrook-square, Notting-hill. SECRETARY —W. C. URQUIIART, Esq. POLICIES ABSOLUTELY IgDIiPUTABLE. Annuities and Endowments for families, children, and others, on the most favourable terms. Premiums payable yearly, half-yearly, or quarterly. No charge for medical fees or stamps. Loans granted for long or short periods, payable by monthly, quarterly, or half-yearly instalments. Defective Titles, Reversions, &c., assured and guaranteed. FINAL NOTI.:E. FIFTH DIVISION of PROFITS, 1855. The Directors of the STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY beg to give Notice, that the Profits which have arisen on the business of the Company since 1850 will be divided as at 15th November next, when Assurers will receive a share of the Fund divisible among them, in the shape of Bonus, according to the date of their Policies. Persons assuring before 15th November, 1855, will secure one year's Bonus and a preference at future divisions over later entrants. The Standard idle Assurance Company was established in 1825, and the Profits which have ari , en on its business have already been divided on four occasions,-1835, 1810, 1845, and 1850, when large additions were made to the Corn patty's Policies. For example : A Policy of 1,0001.. issued in 1825, has received a Bonus of 8731., and will receive further additions this 3 ,, ar and ,wory 5 vi.nrs trans. A Policy of 10001— Issued in 18'.31, has received a Bonus of 6331., and _ _ . . _ _ will receive further additions at each Division of Profits. Policies of intervening dates and later Policies, have also received larie additiorg, according to their age and standing. Intending assurers are requested to give in their proposals at the Head Otnce, or to one or the Agent., as soon as pos-ible, as the lists will be made up immediately after the 15th of November. BOARD OF DIRECTORS IN LONDON. CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD. The Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen. ORDINARY DIRECTOItS. John Lindsay, Esq., 26, Laurence Pountney-lane. Thomas it. Brooking, Esq., 14, New Broad-street. John Griffith Frith, Esq., Austin-friars. A - exander Gillespie, Esq., 3, Billiter.court. Ales. Macgregor, Esq., Arlington-street. John Scott, Esq., 4, Hyde-park-street. Sir Anthony Oliphant, C.B. WILL. THOS. THOMSON, Manager. 11. JONES WILLIAMS, Resident Secretary. Loudon, 82, King William-street. EDINBURGH (Head Office) 3, George-street. DUBLIN GLASGOW •• riALDWELL'S FIRST GRAND BAL MASQUE of the season will take place TO-MORROW, Tues day, Nov. 6, with entirely new decorations from Paris, and extraor dinary effects for the first time. Two full bands engaged. Musical Director, Mr. J. Bradley. Gentlemen's tickets, ss. ; ladies' and character tickets, 3s. Soirees Dansantes every evening. Dean street, Soho. ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAURENT'S CASINO NOW OPEN for the winter season. The following Music will be performed by his celebrated Band during .he week : March aux Flambeaux. Waltzes —The Lily 1 the Valley (D'Albert), Zephir [mite (Gung'l), Fenello (Tinney). Ethel Newsome (Laurent), La Sultane (Bosisio). Quadrilles —Le Rol du pastel tLamotte), Les Hugenots (Laurent), Palermo (D'Al bert), Bride of Lammermoor (Tinney), Ti Trovatore (Tutton). Polkas—Des Hulands (Lamottd), Ttalie (Oaviolo), The Lillian (D'Al bert), Des Coucous (Bouquet), The Zouaves (Laurent). Galops— The Imperial Guards (Laurent), The Hecla (Streather). Schottische —La Guirlande de Fleury (Bo3quet), La Varsoviana (Laurent). Prin ,lpal Cornet a Piston, M. Boulcours.—Doors open at 8. Admission One Shilling'. ARTICLE OF FOOD forwarded to all parts, on receipt of penny postage stamps or P. 0.0. (preferred). send full and plain direction, county, and nearst sta thm.—Athlress THOS. LF.TTIS, jun., Fish Curer, Gt. Yarmouth. "This is the third season Sir. Lettis has supplied us with Yar mouth bloaters, and we find the quality excellent.—J. Brashowe, house steward. Blenheim Pal ICC. 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 grdat satisfaction.— N. F. Courroux, Ambassador's Court, St. James's Palace.—Oct. 1, 1855." IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. rItIESEMAIL—Con the 29th of May, 1855, an injunction was granted by the High Court of Chancery, and Al the 11th June following was made perpetual, against Joseph ranklin and others, to restrain them, miler a penalty of one thou and pounds, from imitating this Medicine, which is protected by .oyal Letters Patent of England, and secured by the heals of tht Tooled, t barnacle de Paris. and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIESEMAR, No. 1, 3 a remedy for Relaxation, Spermatorrhom. and Exhaustion of tb• -y,tom, whether arising from excesses, accident, or climate. To those persons who are prevented entering the married state b) he consequences of early errors it is invaluable. TRIESEMAR, No. 2 . . ffectually, in the short spaco of three days, completely and entirely • , 'adicates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and Cubely 'Ave so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the healti f a vast portion of tte population. TRIESEMAR, No. 3, (he great Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders, whic ~,mrtunately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in vitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all th , iqrssparilla in the world cannot remove . IItIESEMAR, No. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smel, •ut of all nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet tai)l vithout their use being suspected. sold in tin cases at 11s. each, free by post, 28. extra, divided int ararate doses, as administered by Valpeau, Lallemand, ROW. &c.—To be had Wholesale and }Wall in London of Johnston, 6ri. Jornlibl; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; and Sanger. M, Ox rd-street ; B. H. Ingham, druggist, 46, 4 ark et-street, Manchester . I. Bradbury, bookseller, Deansgate, Bolton ; J. Priestly, chemist, 62, .ord-street, Liverpool; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland-street, Dublin; Winnall, bookseller, High-street, Birmingham. T 7 had regarded as but at best Atl Inevitable evil, Is Un.ll4' ic?:? :It l-f,;;;:tr' - ' ' eclt . a beneficent antidote to the ln of a 111Ciattil i i.',,, tile age—and that the manly virtues would becomekez‹ , ii-e: • tinct, unless invigorated by the siege and battle-field.----' There are minds so wanting in moral continence that , they abandon themselves to every popular emotion or freazy 'of the hour—who, when all hearts exulted at the signs of international peace, declaimed of the horrors of war—who now that the demon of carnage has sway for a season, sing of the " canker of peace," and who would be ready to mop and mow with madmen to-morrow if Bedlam cauld be but one day in the ascendant. Such are they who now ask us to believe that the spectacle of human passion and suffering which has been enacted dur ing the last year in she Crimea, and which has converted that fair scene into an earthly pandemonium, is neces sary for the social regeneration of mankind ; that the purer feelings and affections of our nature find a healthy development in an atmosphere so foul and unnatural that domestic life cannot breathe it ;—that an employment where men bring every faculty to the task of destroying others and preserving themselves from destruction—that there is the school t o un l earn se lfi s h ness, an d to tra i n us to the disinterested l ove o f our spec i es ? We are asked to believe these things. Yes, when we are prepared to pronounce e New T es t ament a fable, and Chribt ' s teachings au untruth, we will believe them; and not till then. Pray receive my apology for trespassing at such length upon your space.—l remain faithfully yours, Midhurst, 31st Oct., 1855. RIC"). COBDEN. r THE CASE OF TEE ROYAL MAIL sErn3 MERMAID, AT PERNAMBUCO. LIVERPOOL, Saturday.—Mr. Mansfield, stipendiary magistrate, was occupiel in the magistrates' room of the Police-court during the greater part of to-day, on an in quiry from the Board of Trade, demanded by Captain E. Devey, of the Royal mail-ship Mermaid (belonging to Messrs. Pilkington and Wilson's White Star line of Australian packets), into certain charges made against him by Mr. Cooper, her Majesty's consul at Pernambuco. The case being one of considerable importance to ship owners and underwriters generally, ' the Board of Trade sent down Captain Robertson to conduct it, while Captain Devey and the owners were represented by Mr. Hull, solicitor, of Liverpool. The investigation was private, being only accessible by the parties interested and the reporters of the press. B,fore the case was entered into it must Le noticed ' that the certificate of Captain Davey was demanded by ' Captain Robertson, but, by the advice of counsel, re fused ; and the magistrate did not think it necessary to enforce its production. The facts of the case, as appeared in evidence, were as follows :—The Mermaid sailed from Melbourne on the 13th of July for Liverpool, with about 200 passengers and a valuable cargo of merchandise, which comprised about 400,0001. in gold. Between Melbourne and Cape Horn, owing to adverse winds and stormy weather, the vessel began to leak slightly. Some of the cabin passengers becoming alarmed, entered into corres pondence with the captain, who assured them that, did he think it necessary, he would put into some Brazilian port, intimating his opinion that such a step would be unnecessary. Having arrived off Pernam buco, and being in want of fresh provisions, he called there. While engaged in making the purchases required, some of the passengers reported to the British con sul at that pert' that the vessel was leaky, and not fit to proceed on her voyage. He (the consul) immediately ordered a survey of the vessel, which being assented to by Captain Devey, was held, and the surveyor reported the Mermaid as not seaworthy, and recommending re pairs. The conclusion at wheel the surveyors arrived was dissented from by Captain Devey, and another survey was wade by American captains, who also ad vised re[ airs. It should be stated, that during the period of the surveys, the vessel was outside the harbour of Pernambuco, and could not enter it without discharg ing her cargo and running the risk of great damage to a ' vessel of the magnitude of the Mermaid, even fur repairs. The consul, it appears, on the strength of the reports of the surveyors, required the ship to come into p irt and repair the leak, and in answer t) the question of Capt. Devey said that neither the Government nor any of the banks would take charge of his gold, but he (the consul) would ; and that for so doing his claim would be 24 per cent. (which on the gold alone would amount to 10,0001.), besides his per centage for cargo, repairs, &c., which it is believed would reach 20,0001., a ruinous demand certainly for owners and underwriters. Accordingly, finding it impossible even to repair at Pernambuco, where there are no conveniences fora vessel of such large dimensions, and having every confidence in his ship (and having provided extra pumps in case of the leak gaining ground), and in defiance of the consul, who threatened to report him to the Board of Trade, and endeavour to stop his certificate. Capt. Devey set sail for Liverpool, and ar rived, after a fine passage of 34 days, his cargo in capi tal condition, his passengers, happy and contented, and his vessel in first-rate order. Knowing the charges brought against him by the consul at Pernambuco, Capt. Devey and the owners of the Mermaid (relesers. Pilking ton and Wilson, of Liverpool) demanded this investiga tion. Since her arrival in port the vessel has been sur veyed in the graving dock, and the repairs required are known to be of the most trifling character. In the course of the examination, in answer to a ques tion from Mr. Hull, Captai❑ Devey stated he had been connected with the sea since 1826, and had been a com mander of a ship since 1833. He had perfect confidence in the Mermaid during the entire voyage. He had com• mended her ever since she was built. Captain Robertson said it was evident that it would have been iwpossible for the Mermaid to have gone into the harbour of Pernambuco, and very injudicious to have attempted it. The examination of Captain Devey lasted about four hours, when Mr. John Napier and Mr. Faugg, both cabin passengers on board the Mermaid, on the voyage from Melbourne to Liv,rpool, and who were present at the interview between Captain Devey and the consul at Pernambuco, were examined, and con fi rme d C aptain Devey's evidence in every particular. In addition, they stated that in common with the majority of the passen gers, they had. throughout the entire voyage perfect con fidence in the prudence and seamanship of Capt. Devey, who never (both witnesses stated) seemed to entertain the slightest doubt of the sea-worthiness of his vessel. The British consul's letter to the Board of Trade (on which the present inquiry is founded), the surveyor's (at Pernambuco) retort, and the memorial from Vie passen gers to Captain Davey, before calling off Pernambuco, asking him to proceed on his voyage (having every con fidence in the ship) were put in as evidence, after which, it being six o'clock, the case was adjourned until to-day, when the evidence of the local surveyors will be taken. i THE HYDE-PARK DEMONSTRATION. Yesterday Hyde-park was the scene of the most ex traordinary and disgraceful proceedings. At an early hour in the afternoon an immense mob, composed of all the disorderly characters of the lower parts of the me tropolis, emerged from their haunts and congregated in the open part of the park. Their purpose evidently was one of pure and unmitigated mischief, without the least pretence or allegation of a grievance or any excuse for a popular demonstration, or with any political object what ever. We are happy to perceive that the orators of the previous Sunday and other popular leaders, who cer tainly had some very slight pretensions t o call together a monster demonstration, at length aware of the mis chief which resulted from the mob of idle lads and dis orderly persons who composed the major part of their audience, have desisted from a course which was likely to lead to consequences of the most di,astrous character. In feet, these Sunday demonstrations have become, as was certain to be the case, a most complete nuisance, and a more perfect perversion of the rights and !itleYa ments of the public in the parks of the metropolis ca hardly be imagined. ~ from three o'clock till some time after . The greater portion of Hyde-park yesdteursdkaywaasfteirunothone discretion, were the authorities, with a praiseworthy evidently a collision. The possession of a mob of idle youths and swith whom evidently anxious if itselfpossible tou au to thu j r u i d t g ie e e fr h o a m ve th a e t,a th vho e ut sfoi proceedingssr t e ed in them. p pelting The ce r mass,were cea . evil may perhaps wear temper of the rabble yesterd a y, s s h k p ueu r i h e rn e ad themselves over the clods hue o no r turf. respectably impromptu fight, but if a luckless very park, and their amusements composed delicate uf thosean d difficult m aemreiunl t ts a Tß, mg on e dressed, happened to immediately drew upon himself the B a i n: e t:l l 7 y r individual, dec ently el l : atten tion t w io a rt y' of the gang in his immediate neighbour hood,varied and their courtesies were not of the most amiable nature. Hats appeared to be especially obnoxious, and the unfortunate wearer of one speedily had reason to regret his temerity in appearing upon such a scene. Shortly before 4 o clock the appearance of an unfortunate Oriental wearing a fez, and proceeding with characteristic sedate nesserr north-west entrance of the Park, in the direction from o f the Ih rtA gate, was the signal for a most cow ardly and un-English attack. This unfortunate person at once attracted the notice of the mob, whose mischievous propensities happened at the moment to have no other scope for employment. He was hooted and hissed at in a most outrageous manner. A few sods were then thrown at him, and shortly he was overwhelmed with a storm of clods arid stone:, to escape which he endeavoured to make for the Marble Arch ; and, after running the gauntlet for nearly a quarter of a mile, ho was rescued by a body of the police, who were in reserve in that direction. After this several other Orientals were stop ped by the police. A number of arrests of the ringleaders from tism.,e_tao time were made by the police, and on one iri o sh - r'" rough, general enteute appeared imminent. attempt conspicuous, at rescue who had made himself particularly seized by the police. A determined An was ved. were victorious, and the man wa pa e a:: edg or than a faint outline of was made. After a short but severreraeconflict the police It is impossible to give more_ these scenes, the outrages great space appeared to extend over a great be at tacks which were made up . e t c ' : dent to almost onevery resp ec t a bl e space of glrowuhnod,hoapr pteoneednubinye7, individual was present from a very questionable curiosity. of the police were Th e arrangements excellent, and the manner i n which they conducted th emse l ves, i n a mos t trying and irksome duty, hi g hl y commen d a bl e . [ Precautions were taken to prevent a renewal of the window breaking frolics in the streets leading from the e park, along which were scattered a number of the force ' iu addition to the mounted patrol. DEFENCE OP THE SOUTHERN COAST.—The port Shoteham, at the mouth of the Adur, is about to be de fended by a fort mounting six heavy guns, with bar racks, for the men. Mr. Newby will shortly publish, in 3 vols., 31s. 6d., THE OLD DOMINION. By G. P. R. JAMES, Esq., Author of" The Gipsy," "Th e Robber," ..Darnley;' &c. " Mr. James, we hear," says the Tribune, " has devoted upwards 'of two years in the completion of a new historical romance of Ameri can life of the present day, and the on dit is that it surpasses the best of his early works." laqt nes• her- tle ; use; lay, (on. Ana iod szo. 03 9,3 01 sold sold sold sold .2the .2tba silo!** 1 01 Od • Od 3 Od 6Li 'kl to 95; to 7.i r 2sOti Ds 10d to 'Ai , Os Btl ?filet. ue 'n , land r. 14 . 25 ►. 15 ,~ fi=;s,, (Yla d misa, ) 14th ridge, Anne, Mrs. West. teron, 112, rly of 4