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Yarmou , b. . ....e. , " - as ci ' -b./. 1 ,1 12 - r .., - •'",-- •"-;* , A 1 4° „ , --.- 4 *' . '- • - ,''' l'~ L2l'lfi'9'' ' - ' ret,". '- , R OIT• P.: ' ~ z , - d , A { . - .# - 4. 6 0,.. 4 , 4 4}'lk -- , t4... '" -- This is the third season Mr. Laths has supplied us with Tar- . - ~, .' <-... -- ' ..- - '''" - mouth bloater Id we find the quality excellent.—J. Brashowe, 1 Aoaters, aoL .ee firm house steward, Blenheim Palace.—Oct. 20, 1854." Mr. Lettis,—As soon as you send out your genuine bloaters, I I be glad to have a supply as usual; those I had last year gave at satisfaction.-4. F. Coarrona, Ambassador's Court, St. James's alaee.—Oct. I, 1855." N o . 19,677.) • [PRICE 4D. STAMPED SD• ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAURENT'S CASINO NOW OPEN for the winter season. The following Neste will be performed by his celebrated Band daring the week : March aux Flambeaux. Waltzes —The Lily of the Valley (D'Albert), Zephir Lufte (Gung'l), Fenella (Pinney), Ethel Newcome (Laurent), La Sultane (Bosisio). 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There would be no more shame in an English army stand ing in this relation to a French chief, than there was in a Dutch army being placed under Marl borough, or a Spanish army under Wellington. All ether qualifications among the competitors for the chief command being equal, there appears to be a natural propriety in selecting, the generalissimo from that nation which has most - men in the field. TWELFTH AND CHMAPER EDITION. Now ready, in 1 vol., with 15 illustrations, Gs., bound, T HE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS. By ELIOT WARBUR TON. " The re-appearance at this moment, in ,a cheap ferm, of this admirable book is angularly opportune." Bohn Bull. Hurst and Blacken, Publishers, and 'o be Lad of all booksellers. This Day is Published, in Bvo., with Map and Dustrat ons, price 12s. 6d. cloth, BRITISH COLLEGE of HEALTH, New . Lonon. NO'rICE IS HEREBY road GIVEN. d That the LIST for 1a55 of HYG ElAli AGENTS duly appointed for the Sale of Mr. Mori;on's (the Hygeist) Vegetable Universal Medicine throughout the world is nov I printed, and may be bad gratis on application as above. M ORISON and Co Hygeists. MINNESOTA and tb,e FAR WEST. By LAURENCE OLIPHA NT, Esq., Late Civil Secretary and Superintendent-( leneral of Indian Affairs in Canada ; Author of" Russian Shores :+t the Black Sea," &c. Originally publiShed in Blackwood's Magazine. • William Blackwood and Sons, Edin burgh and London. MISS SINCLAIR'S NEW NOVEL, CROSS PURPOSES, will be publish, d on Friday next, October 26, in 3 vols., by Mr. Bentley, New Burlington-street. 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, for though everything becomes metamorphosed before the eyes of the visitors no one can be positive that he sees any one thing; but it is a comedy really performed by the com- But, if the combined armies of England, France, Sardinia, and Turkey are to be placed under one supreme chief, let this be done openly and avow edly, not by distributing and frittering away our regiments until they run a risk of disappearing en tirely. England . has,, or will soon have, in the field a numerous corps d'crmee, raised and main tained at no trifling cost. In addition to our Eng lish regiments we have a Foreign' Legion and a Turkish Contingent, receiving English pay, march ing under the English banner, commainded in a great measure by English officers, subjected to .English discipline and English laws of war. This force, which from these circumstances derives a certain unity of character, will be much more avail able if kept together en masse, than if mixed up in driblets with an army of a widely different organi sation. Though our English army, with its multi farious ingredients, may be destined to be placed under the supreme eommand of a French general, be will derive ,more effective service from it by allowing it to act en masse. If such an arrange ment is in contemplation let it be avowed, and let Ministers appeal to the common sense of the Eng lish people for their approbation, instead of seeking to effect their purposes by indirect means, which may impair the spirit and diminish the utility of our army. But there is reason to fear that the hesitation and delay in nominating a successor to General Simpson has its origin from a less respect able cause. When that officer was appointed to succeed Lord Raglan, it was currently reported that protestions of a determination not to serve under him had been heard from various quarters ; and the return of at least one general officer to this country is still attributed by many to soreness on account of his having been passed over. The reluctance of Ministers to declare upon whom they intend to confer the supreme command of our army in the East appears to have its source in a weak and unworthy reluctance to run the risk of giving simi lar umbrage in any quarter on the present occasion. The army appears to be in imminent danger of being frittered away because Ministers haye not the moral courage to place the right man at its head, regardless of what exasperation and murmurs may be provoked among those who think mere seniority a title before which all others must give way ; or because they have not the discrimination to choose among the various candidates. To allow such con siderations to hamper them or give them pause, betrays, on the part of our rulers, a lukewarmness as to the issue of the great struggle in which we are engaged. Promptitude and energy are required at their hands in a crisis like the present ; and to leavy our army for one moment without a recog nised head—to allow it to be broken up into a number of independent corps, and scattered over the face of the earth—is totally irreconcilable with the possession of such . qualities. IA is to incur the risk of allowing the war to die out, instead of urging it on until some definite and tangible good has been attained. Thi. dal', with 179 Must , ations, 75., F IRST LINES in CHEMISTRY : .A Manua. for Stud. res. _ . By ALBERT J. IiERNAYS, Ph.D., F C.S., Lecturer on Chemistry at the Medical Sch, )01 of St. Mary's Hospital Author of Household Ch arnistry." London : John W. rarker and Sc in, West Strand. pally ; 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 7 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 eatre 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 tints or in any place been honoured with an amount of success so extensive, so decided, and so unusual. Ho would attribute that success to three causes; first, that n his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors he results of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of perfected 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 hallow 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 A 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. _ _ Naval and Military Intelligence. Yesterday morning, at L•alf-past 1i o'clock, Sir C. - Wood, Sir Baldwin Walker, and Rear-Admiral Eden ar rived at the dockyard, Woolwich, and were officially re ceived there by Commodore-Superintendena. Shepherd, Colonel Ashmore, Commandant of Royal Marines, and his Adjutant. They went through a general inspeo tion of the various departments, commencing with& visit to the storehouses, the smithies, and sawmills ; thence to the Commodore's mansion, in front of which the whole body of men and boys employed there passed through the entrance gate for dinner, and were minutely examined. Thence their lordships proceeded to the guard-room, where they were received by Mr. Superin tendent Mallalieu and the corps of the police force off duty, under arms. No. 4 building slip was then visited, and in succession the engine and rigging -houses. Their lordships were afterwards conducted on board the three gun-boats, Seagull, Sandfiy, and Plover. Thence they directed their course towards the west-end coal stores, and the old smithies ; then on board the Princess Aliso, lying in the dry dock for repairs, on the spare engine gear-house, on board the Pearl, then through the facto ries and. boiler shops, where they remained some time inspecting the riveting machinery, and afterwards through the erecting shop-, and examined the brass foundries. From the dockyard they repaired to the Marine Bar racks, and inspected the Woolwich division of Light Infantry stationed there, commanded by Col. Ashmore. The battalion, consisting of about 200 rank and file, were formed into four companies, and were paraded in review order, under the command of Col. Second-Com mandant Brown. The recruits, consisting of about 300 fine young men, assembled under their drill inspectors, and among them were a number of volunteers from mi litia regiments. Their lordships were received at the barracks with the usual honours. After minutely in specting the battalions and the recruits in line the batta- lion was formed into companies, and marched past in slow and quick time. The Admiralty Lords then pro ceeded to the men's barrack-rooms, with the cleanliness and good order of which they expressed themselves highly pleased. They also visited the gnn-drill battery, the libraries, and the hospital offices, &c. The Alban, 4, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Lieutenant- Commander W. E. Fisher, has again left Sheerness for the rivers Elbe and IVeser and Heligoland, on particu lar service. (From the Times of this day.) A to be ,•',-;;;Xi . U . ' .. " ashamed of you._ _ ig to a strang e house i n this condition." Elizabeth Jroyce replied, "Take 11 me out, then." The defendant answered, " But are you fit to go ?" The objoct, of course, was to make it appear that the departure of the girl from the lodginghouse was voluntary. Isabella Ward told the magistrate that she then procured a quaff tern of gin from the landlady, whereupon the young woman who had just been confined dressed herself, and followed her downstairs into the street The story she concocted for the benefit of the po liceman was, as she contended, entirely in the in terest of the plaintiff. That she did not mean to act with inhumanity, she said, appeared from the facts of the case. She ound the policeman, assisted the plaintiff into the cab, accompanied her to the hospital, and called there twice afterwards to hear how she was getting on. Strong as these arguments may be, we confess that we can scarcely see whythis wretched girl, considering the awful condition in which she was might not have been permitted to rest undisturbed until the morning came in the bed for which her companion had paid. It would have been surely time enough to take her to the hospital with ne turning light. Thus far, however, the question is only one which affects the humanity of Individuals; but what are we to think of the public regulations, when such a tragedy can occur in the streets of London? This was not the case of a person who dies in a brickfield, or under a dry arch, where no human eye 'may discern her agony. Her body was distinctly produced at the parish workhouse and at the police-station of the district. In one place they would not, in the other they could not, afford her assistance, although we think in such a case the police inspector might well have stretched a point, and either forwarded her to the hospital, or given her such shelter as the station-house might afford. No doubt, the persons officially obnoxious to blame are the porters and midwife of St. Giles's Workhouse, and we trust they may be made to smart for their brutality. Nor can we agree with Mr. Jardine's remark, that "if her own account of the affair be true, Isabella Ward's conduct ap pears to have been reasonab,y humane and proper." We are dull enough not to perceive the humanity and propriety of turning a young woman In such a condition out of doors at midnight. oa.a 1 GLI. bird. 1 Oil i On I Od I Od I Od t-ofn se Whet, AC 'D 0101 I: s.~ t r. 14 rert.aia ►. 6 r. r. 1) .ts at . lc' daily 4..4 , E hokum t. 20 r le.il all, t. 26 V. IS 'certain worts.% L 16 men 16 moll 11 de• wit. (via, LL • to been firm. kneed. -Black ire and active steady. 3-16: — Union . Prof.. I Wyrs to-day. se dons 1 91f— 864 f— ree per Bel. ►nd (71. 13— Althorn • Cent. 1. Canal r Cant. age co. g time, I as ill ie data afar is, ima to i. The present PIMPIII . Sola Thiene Deaf raordi- afness, of the &med. ble ; It and at noises assist. street, Dospe o rife of 11`, the le Wife e wife rtlett, ne R. e late larilh, SW ley Ir. D. ....--. 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Policies of intervening dates. and later Policies, have also received large addition., according to their age and standing. Intending assurers are requested to give in their proposals at the Head Office, or to one of the Agent., as soot as po. , ible, as the lists will be made up immediately after the 15th of November. BOARD OF DIRECTOKS IN LONDON. CHAIRMAN OF THR BOARD. The Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, ORDINARY DIRECTORS. John Lindsay, Esq., 26, Laurence Pountney-lane. '1 homas i-L Brooking, Esq., 14, New Broad-street. John Griffith Frith, Esq., Austin-friars. A'exander Gillespie, Esq., 3, Bllliter-court. Ales . Macgregor, Esq., Arlington-street. John scott, Esq., 4, Hyde-park-street. Sir Anthony Oliphant, C.B. WILL. THOS. THOMSON, Manager. H. JONES WILLIAMS, Resident Secretary. London, 52, king William , treet. EntNauttou (Head Office)• • 3, George-street. DUBLIN .... GLASGOW .. .. 35, St. Vincent-place. SCOTTISH WIDOWS' FUND AND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Founded A.D. 1815. 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TOZEAU'S COPAHINE, or SACCHARATED CAPSULES, approved of by the erench College of Physicians, •occessfully administered in the Paris and London Hospitals, and cknowlcdged by them to be the best remedy for a certain disorder. see " Lancet" of Nov. 0, 1852,) A copy will he forwarded on appli 'ation.—Price per 100, 43. 6d. ; 50, 2s. 9d. To be had of the inventor, ti ABRIE L JOZ EAU, French chemist, 49, Haymarket, London, and ill the principal chemists. IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. erRIESEMAIL—On the 29th of May, 1855, an injunction was eranted by the High Court of Chancery, and n the 11th June following was made perpetual. against Joseph ranklin and others, to restrain them, under a penalty of one thou and pounds, front imitatint this Medicine, which is protected by , royal Letters Patent of England, and secured by the Beals of tin :wke dr eharmacie de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. 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Ist published, price 25., illustrated with cases; free by post for 26 stamps, NERVOUS DEBILITY ; Its Causes, Symptoms, and Cure.—An Essay on Sper riatorrheea, with Practical Observations on a safer and more , iiceesstul mode of treatment of the diseases of the Generative iystem, obtained by the use of the Microscope in detecting and istinguishing, by urinary examination, the real cause and effect of every variety of complaint, whether arising from solitary habits, 2xcesses, accident, or climate, followed by practical remarks, founded twenty years' experience in the treatment of Impuissance, 'ferrous Debility, Local Weakness, Spermatorrhces, &c. To which 41:!,,(1ded. Commentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre ‘,.`","?narY hints on the evils emanating from empirical practice, op the ds.r igerous remedies advocated by various writes on hese Portant-disorders. D al sAllitrEL LA'MERT M.D. LONDON, Honorary meni tricu o lated Member of the Univessity of Edin. :)° b e u tcs rg r h ° , l Fron:r eine:l2aß Q I 1 , mantic ., of Apotherart f a t ai he i, L i o ,o n u d d o o n n ll , o ac sp . i t ta a l c. Medical Society , the essential object of teehiairaitr pulrtiodnugeedfrcammere mis ery n eatlse is to point out the fearful con habits, irregularities, and excessee, decay at ar in Youth, degradation in Man ...,, a q i u c o h n c h e a s v r e e c lc,od, and premature d Man ther class of disease known to m n_ges of Life, than, perhaps, any ,)articularly recommended to p enoos er n Pathologists. Its perusal la t heir physical condition, and who are co entartaining secret doubts of ts-ie health, happiness, and priv il ege s to w nscious of having hazarded entitled; w hich every human being is It is absolutely necessary that all men should kn ginciples of personal management which cannot ow, that there are ncarring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and be violated without :no heyday of inconsiderate self-indnigeom . how theseregret Penalties may be removed, mid how the evil and its consequences maybe avoided, and that there is scarcely any degree of physical intlrmit 7 or functional all, ierangement to which the timely aid of science cannot aptly unetional the Author has for a series of years been engaged i na x , t i e enre. .xactice in the treatment of these delicate oompuiints, which have aatortunately been too generally confided to the care of ignorant emr irics, who inflict great injury on those who are induced to place faith in their pretensions. NERVOUS DEBILITY may to hat pric e 25, of Mes srs. Sher wood and Co., 23, Paternuster-row; Ranney, 63, Oxford-street ; liJrne, 19, Leicester-square; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or free by post for .:6 stamps to any address from the Author's residence, 37, Bed ford-square. . At home for consultation daily from cleTektill two, and from 51x 1 1 1 1 Oglit I . _. 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 dangers 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 bis illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro duced a sensatdon unequalled by any previous attempt to ex pose a mis'.:hievons and impudent juggle. It is impossible for Profesfrar Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the communir.utions which reach him on the subject. He regrets . that manly of these should come from ladies and gentlemen who, from their position in society and their well-known in tellectral attainments, he would least have expected to have been , :o averts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and so easily •suseeptibleof being controverted and disproved. Every evening, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions on . 6 0 1 :it-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within the Lyceum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited a'aet elucidated. It is respectfully requested that this pablic 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 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 Yew York Spiri tual Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American • spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David Brewster frankly confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what he has witnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be thoroughly nonplussed. Both of these noted men brought the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the solution 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. 645: This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and new in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations • without aplraratus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout the Anglo-S axon world as a splendid humbug, offered him 2.000 dollars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New York, Piarnum then took it for granted that mediums could be bouriht. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was refuseoi. Hnme, on telling the fact in London lately, simply and h mostly remarked, that the money would have been very accer,table to him, for he was poor, young (under 20), an or ' pha-a, and in very bad health : but he would have been afraid of I osiug his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose hirt life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful. PLO inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the igreatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is cue 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 sup)osed 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 a swindle, when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the Rev. N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and writes a book on the subject, ho 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 .3forning Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir David Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel, in com'Jany with Lord Brougham, He distinctly states that which the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that spirit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad purposes, In the Morning Advertiser of the following day, however, there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one who was present when he and Lord Brougham had their s6auce with the spirits, in which the writer says, that " the table (a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most extraordina.ry manner, and, among other things, a large ac cordion w conveyed by an invisible agency to my hand and then to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship's right ha nd, 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 m.ost talented men of the day are permitting themselves to be deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers—that the grea'cest 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 iu St. Martin's-hall, Professor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual ista•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 jv igglers. 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 f ashionable 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 Capabilities of the Atmosphere : in which tho Wizard will do by magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer ism, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in . the air. Act 2. The Aqua-Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the power of producing animated nature from fire and water only, and the possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most complex forms of ornithological existence. Act 3. Le Livre des Reeueils Choisies : or, Puck's Own Pocket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the evening's entertainment in the production of the very vein , urinous from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude • out of minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears for its existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and in bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely place for to be found. Act 4. Magical Locomotion ; or, Transition without Trou ' ble. In which will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed ding Ring, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Transfor mation—black into white, and the Discovery of every Article in the position which would seem the most inappropriate. • Act 5. L'Ecrin de Verre; or, the Casket•of Crcesus. Into w hich, though made entirely of glass perfectly transparent, and suspended so as to be 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 t he p ossessio n of the audience. Act 6. Clairvoyance Ext raordinar y ; or, the Transparen c y of Opacity. Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wi ne • and'Spirit Store. An improvement upon the " inexhaustible ' bottle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will not only be i n . • exhaustible, but will change its contents, ad e i r n , fin b it u u t m te , r a .m t i t ik he • word of command, producing soda-wan rum whisky, • Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gi noytau, or any other wine or spirit required d proving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry, ;an'finally and occupying the whole space when tightly packed. Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Spirit-rapping. Introducing tho spirit-rapping tocsin of the invisibles. table Expose a and Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of the Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange metamor phoses, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become transformed into the flags of victory—the banners of Eng land, France, Turkey, and Sardinia. Act. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comus, in which he who seats himself will be under the magic spell, and appear to the audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi tion as peculiar as perplexing. Act. 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the Nucleus of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the audience will have the goodness to observe, in an earlier part • of the evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin) in mid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which a ll will produced. Act. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shortest Route to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of r idding ourselves of a troublesome friend, and the advantages of the newly-discovered dia - terrestrial passage from the west ern to the eastern hemisphere. Doors open each evening at half-past 7 ; commence at 8. • Private boxes, 1/. lls. 6d. and 1/. ls., to be obtained at the - Box-office, or at the principal libraries ; stalls, 4s. ' • dress circle; 3s. ; upper boxes , 2 s. ; pit , ls. ; gallery, 6d. The Box-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction of Mr. Chattorton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per formalist on Saturday. October 27, at 2 o clock. Doore open iht bag-pad 1. LONDON, THURSDAY EiTENING, oC i oßEft 23, 1855. SALE BY AUCTION. TO RAILWAY CONTRACTORS AND OTHER LARGE CAPIT A LISTS. Gl oucestershire and Monmouth -hire. The Hotel, Gardens, Lawn, 81 1 1 New Passage Ferry, II miles from Bristol. R. LIMA is instructed to SELL, by t AUCTION, at the Commercial Sale Room, Bristol, on FRI. DAY, the 2,1 November, 185% at One o'clock precis e ly, The Hotel, Garden, Bowling Green, extens ve Stabling, Coach houses, and Outbuildings, at the New Passage, with two Cottages and Gardens, and about eight acres of Meadow and Pasture-Land, all in the parish of Henbnry, in the county of Gisuceste.r, adjoining the shore of the River Sevens, and about 11 miles from the city of Bristol. And at the same time and plaice will be Sold, The ancient Passage or Ferry, across the river Severn, from the New Passage on the Gloucestershire side to the Black Rock Hotel on the stonniouthshire side of the river, withitia 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, arid all the Tolls, Fines, Paymelts and Emoluments receivable on accoun t o f th e sa i d Ferry, Piers, Quays, and Landing -places. A reference to the Map of England will immediately show the important position 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 106 miles would cownect the Ferry with the Midland Railway, the Great Western Railway, and the Bristol and Exeter Railway. Steam-vessels upon the system in u-s between the Cheshire and Lancashire shores at Liverpool, be tween New Holland and Hull, and at the Frith of Forih, could con veniently ply across the New Passage Ferry; and an immense traffic in passengers and goods now carried on with Monmouthshire and South Wales, across the Bristol t hannel, 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 reserves the attention of Railway Con- - tractors, or of any Capitalist who is disposed to secure the command of one of the most Important Railway routes in the kingdom, and which must at an early period he adopted as an initispenuble mode of communication between Bristol and Monmouthshire and South Bales.- - _ NOTE.—The Hotel, Lands, and Ferry will he offere 1 for Sale in one Lot or hi several Lots, as may be announced at the time of Sale. To view the Premises apply to the Tenant ; and for further parti culars to the Aue:ionuer, at Bridge-street; or to SAVERY, CLAair, and FussELE, Solicitors, 12, Corn-street, fit Istol. a paddle steamer, while on the rendezvous in the Straits of La Parouse ; she had, however, seen nothing of our allies. On the afternoon of the 27th the Hornet steamed over to Castries Bay, with CommOdore Eiliot 'on hoard, the other vessels eontiniiing at anchor. Had she found the bay reoccupied by Russian vessels (which she did not), ere cannotunderstand what object the mission would have served, for she could only have returned and int mated the fact to the Admiral, the enemy being mean time warned to prepare for an attack, or again to execute his escape. • She returned on the morning of the 29th without having seen anything, and having executed a very imperfect reconnaissance of the head of the gulf, which was pronounced unnavigable. The Admiral, without more minute surveying, appeared now for the first time (if we may judge of his thoughts by his pro aeedings) to take it for granted that the enemy could not have escaped to the northward; but must have passed his squadron, and got out of the Gulf of Tartary to the southward. He at once weighed and ran down the gulf under all sail. On the Ist of July he fell in with the French frigates Sybille and Constantine, put the Spartan and Hornet under the orders of Commodore Elliot. of the Sybille, and gave him A roving commission to pro teed, along with the French ships, through the Straits of La 'Perouse and thence to the Amoor settlements, to Port Ayan, or Okhotsk---in fact; whereier be chose, while he himself returned to Hakodade in the Winches ter, with the Bittern in company. `.` Many make suffioiently bold to doubt whether the proceedings of Admiral Stirling during this, or, indeed, lastseason, have been'such as to reflect that credit 'on hmself and honour on his flag which were to be looked f. r. During the whole of last season no ship belonging to his command was to the northward of the parallel of Nangasaki, which is about 3 deg. North, while it was well known that there was no — Russian settlement to the Southward of 52 deg. All he had to show for the sum mer work of about 14 vessels under his immediate direc tion was a convention with the Governor of Nangasaki, which, be it good, bad, or indifferent, is believed to be .more in the province of her Majesty's Plenipotentiary than of the naval Commander-in-Chief, particularly ill time of war. Whether his preparations during the win ter for the spring campaign displayed the required fore sight or resulted in the completeness, efficiency, and earliest despatch of his vessels is a point on which one who has wintered in Hong Kong is bettered qualified to pronounce an opinion ; but a sad improvidence has been apparent to all who have sailed with him in reference to coal, that most important munition of modern warfare ; and, had his squadron been in action, the want of a de pot of other materiel of war would have been seriously felt. The scattered state of this squadron during April , awl May is, perhaps, more defensible; but it will never tease to be regretted that the force under Commodore El liot was not stronger or was not more efficiently backed. Elad the Spartan, instead of cruising uselessly about the Kurile Islands, accompanied the Sybille, the Russian , squadron would in all human probability have now been in an English port as prizes, instead of being safely ensconced behind impassable sandbanks and fortifica- OPERATIONS AGAIYST THE RUSSIAN SQUADRON IN TLEE PACIFIC. - - - The following account of the movements of our fleets in the Pacific has reached us from a corre spondent in China : "It will be borne in mind that last year an unsuccess ful at ack was made on the Russian settlement of Petro paulovski by the Pacific squadron under Admiral Price. From all that can be learnt, we may expect to hear of further operations against the same place by his succes sor, Admiral Bruce, part of the China fleet having been detached to assist him. Our information as to the enemy's force in these distant seas is singularly incom plete. A line-of-battle ship (the Ingermanland) is said to be there, but has never been seen. The Diana frigate vas lost during an earthquake at Sirnoda in November, 1854, and their remaining vessels appear to be—Pallas, 50; D wina, 22 ; Oltenitza, 22 ; Aurora, 44 ; Vostock, 3 or 5, and three or four more from Sitka, mostly schooners or storeshipe. The force of the station and at its disposition consists of three frigates —the Win chester, 50 (flag) ; Sybille, 40 ; Spartan, 26 ; five sailing sloops—Coruus, 14 ; Racehorse, 14 ; Bittern, 12 ; Gre cian, 12 ; Rapid, 8 ; and fire steam sloops—Hornet, 17 (screw) ; Encounter, 14 (screw) ; Rattier, 11 (screw) Barracouta, 6 ; and Sty; 6—in all 13 sail, exclusive of the Australian division and of surveying vessels. In addition to the above men-of-war, the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Tartar was chartered at an enormous expense as tender to the Winchester, and armed with three guns. Our allies' vessels were—the Sy bille, 52 : Constantine, 26 ; and Colbert, 6 (paddle), mak ing the effective force on the China station in March, 1855, five frigates, seven steamers, and five sailing sloop; of 311 guns, and about 3,000 men. It was scattered as fol. lows :—TheEucounter and Barracouta were despatchei from Shanghai on the 22d of March to assist the Pa c ifi c squadron in reducing Petropaulovski—a place within the limits of this station. The Sybille, Hornet, and Bittern sailed from Hong Kong on the 7th of April, to reconnoitre in the Gulf of Tartary, and ascertain the practicability of an attack on the Russian settlements on the Amoor from the south. "The Spartan was despatched a few days afterwards to cruise about the Kurile Islands (why no one knows), and the Styx got orders to join the flag at Nangasaki, after carrying about some freight and vice-consuls to different ports in China. The Admiral sailed last of all in the Winchester, in the beginning of May, for the above port, whither the French had already proceeded The Rattler, Oonous, Racehorse, Grecian, and Rapid were left to protect the Briti s h i n t erests in China, and to :ets that the opium dealers were not annoyed in their philanthropic traffic by pirates, or aup;hing of that sort. "In the further account of tha operations we will fol low the Admiral as nearly as possible. He remained at Nangasaki eight or nine days, trying to get the valuable treaty which he concluded last year ratified ; but was t• , ld by the Japanese to call again about the beginning of October. Owing to the French squadron not having completed their preparations, the Winchester, Sty; and Tartar put to sea on the 20th of May, the Styx pro ceeding to Shanghai for the English mail of the 9th of April (which was expected to bring peace), while the flag-ship and her tender made for another Japanese port (Elakodade, in the Straits of Saugor), where they ar rived on the 29th of May, the steamer having expended her last ton of coal. The same day they received intel ligence of the enemy from Commodore Elliot, by the Bittern. The Syhille, Hornet, and Bittern, in their cruise up the Gulf of Tartary, had unexpectedly fallen in wita a Russian squadron ot six vessels en the morning oaf Sunday, the 20th of May. The enemy were at anchor in a strong position, in the head of Castries Bay, 51 deg. 27 min. N. lat., 141 deg. E. long. That day and the following were spent in reconnoitring, and in vain maaceuvres tempting and defying them to come out and tight fairly, which, however, they de clined. Their force was found to be as follows : Aurora, 44 ; Oltenitza, 22 ; D Nina, 20 ; Vostock, 5 ; a brigantine of three guns ; and a large ship which couid not be distinctly made out, and supposed by some to be the Kaintschatka store ship, 8 guns, while others as serted she was a corvette. With the small force of a frigate, brig, and steamer, it was deemed unadvisable to attempt cutting them out, and the Hornet having gone in as far as was safe, and exchanged shells with the Dwina, the Commodore withdrew, and next morning despatched the Bittern to the Admiral for assistance, meaning himself to blockade them till further force ar rived. As mentioned, the Bittern joined the Admiral on the.29th of May. On the 30th she sailed in com pany with him, leaving the Tartar behind. Though prompt assistance wai required, we find these two ships at anchor on the 2d of July in Vie Straits of Saugor, about 30 miles from the port which they left on the morning of the 30th. At midnight of the 2d they were joined by the Spartan, from the Kurile Islands, where she had, of course, seen nothing and learnt nothing. She had, however, been within 150 miles of the squad ron supposed to be acting against Petropaulovski, but had not communicated with them. The Winchester, Spartan, Bittern, and Tartar, finally sailed from the Straits to the Commodore's assistance at midnight on the 2d of July, or exactly 96 hours after the Admiral had received intelligence by the Bittern. On the 7th they fell in with the Commodore at the rendezvous he bad appointed in the Straits of La Perouse, but only to learn that the Russians had lef. Castries Bay during his absence to the southward on the 23d, 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th, and on going back on the 28th he found the bay empty, and everything that had been in use on shore left evidently in great haste. He had im mediately proceeded to the rendezvous, had been told by whalers that there was no passage to the northward from .Castries Bay, but had made no re connaissance in that direction, nor had he looked into any of the bays on the Tartary shore on his way down. His belief was that the Russians were still in the head of the Gulf of Tartary. "The force with the Admiral's flag now numbered three frigates, the Hornet and Bittern, mounting 145 guns. The Tartar had been sent back to Hakodade on the 3d of June. The Russian squadron seen in Castries Bay had only 106. Whether Admiral Stirling waited for the further reinforcement of the 84 French guns, or for the English mail expected by the Styx is not known, bat certain it is that he dodged about in the Straits of La Perouse from the 7th of June, when he fell in with the Commodore, till the 17th, when he at last turned his head to the northward, and stooc: up the Gulf of Tar tary. He bad, meantime, on the 16th, received the Eng lish mail of the 9th of April, by the Sty; which on that day arrived with the Tartar from Hakodade. This steamer did not bring out a delaration of peace, as many had expected, but she informed the Admiral that she had communicated, on the 13th, with the French frigates Sybille and Constantine, in the Straits of Saugor, and learnt of the loss of the steame r C o lb er t, o n a rock near Nangasaki. "On the Admiral proceeding northward he left be hind the Bittern, to cruise about the rendezvous, and bring up the French frigates when they should arrive, but with orders to be at Jonquiere Bay (on the Sagha lien coast) by the 26th at latest, and not to remain on the rendezvous so long as to prevent this. The Tartar and the Styx were also sent back by him on the 22d, with orders to proceed to Hakodade. No one can yet understand the cause of these two most efficient steamers being thus discarded. The Styx bad 100 tons of coal left, the Tartar had three days' wood, and the COMIIIO - had reported that coal was readily procurable in Jonquiere Bay. The Tartar had the additional recom mendation of drawing but seven feet—an invaluable quality where operations in shoal water were to be ex pected. " On the afternoon of the 25th the three frigates and the Hornet anchored in Jonquiere Bay, in lat. 50 deg. 50 min. N., and found that any quantity of wood and coal was procurable. They also learnt from the savage natives that seven sleeps' before two vessels bad been at anchor there, and several Russian naval buttons were seen in their possession, affording a fair clue to the qua lity of their visitors. They were now within 50 miles of ' Castries Bay, but no attempt at ascertaining if it was again occupied was made on the afternoon of the 20th, or the whole of the 26th ; nor during this time was any effective means employed for replenishing the stock of coal i n th e H or net, though she was short about 50 tons. On the morning of the 27th the Bittern rejoined the flag, reporting Wing fallen in with two strange yawls, one tions, as they certainly are. " Passing over the lengthened delays, of which we cannot receive a satisfactory account, his division of his force on the Ist of July appears singularly injudicious. While denying most strongly that he had sufficient evi dence to prove that the enemy had go.. beyond his reach from his position in Jonquiere Bay, it may he admitted, for the sake of illustration, that they had effected their escape by passing to the southward of all the squadron and going down the Gulf of Tartary. Such a case being presupposed, the probabilities are to be calculated on. We take them to be as follows :—The probable time of the enemy's escape from Castries Bay was the 27th of May. Strong southerly gales were experienced by the Bittern in the Gulf of Tartary during this time and till the 6th or 7th of June. The Russians could therefore have barely had time to beat 400 miles south and pass through the Straits of La Perouse before the arrival of the Winchester and consort in thatnarrow passage. Is it likely they would continue to beat to the southward after getting out of the supposed cul•de-sac in which they had placed themselves ? Or would they not at once take advantage of a fair wind and run to the strongest of their settlements to leeward—that is, somewhere in the Sea of Okhotsk ? The latter must strike every one as the most obvious and judicious course for them to pursue ; and it must be epually evident that a force far superior to their known strength was requisite to destroy them when supported by land batteries, or to cut them out when placed in a harbour protected by natural or artificial bars and shallows. Nevertheless we find the Admiral reducing his force by the withdrawal of the Winchester, 50, and Bittern, 12, and despatching a squadron, under his second in command, num bering only 160 guns and 1,400 men, while he is (or should be) perfectly aware that the Russians have efficient land defences for all their settlements, and at Ayan are said to muster about 5,000 soldiers. Ad miral Stirling's reasons for proceeding to the southward in person may, in like manner, be specu.atad. He may have considered that where the Admiralty had thought so young a.captain as Elliot of the Sybille worthy of a commodore's rank it was his place to assign him the post of honour and danger. But why, then, withdraw the Winchester, the most powerful ship of the station ? If all flag-ships are merely Admiral's floating houses, to accompany them as the shell does the snail, then the sooner these officers shift their flags into steam-yachts the better, for surely it is a needless expense converting the heaviest ship of the fleet into an Admiralty-house. He may have thought his presence demanded in China, but this is an idle supposition, for it may be safely as serted that he will not bestow much, if any, of his time there till the hot season is over—that is, about October. Lastly, he may have considered that the enemy had really gone to the south, and that he was taking the post of danger ; if so, he wilfully risked his two vessels in a most unjustifiable manner. It is believed, however, that the Admiral's kuighterrantry (supposing that he ever had so mercurial a spirit) h a s, a t the age of 65 or 66, been so far expended as to d e t er him from seeking so unequal a combat. All circu ms t an ti a l evidence goes to prove that he believed the en em y h a d got into the Sea of Okhotsk ; and we have the f ac ts vouched for that what he thought the most prob a bl e sc ene of action was committed to his second in command, and that with a force much weaker than it might have been, and totally inadequate to effect the destruction of even the squadron seen, if the Russ placed himself in a sheltered position, as he invariably has been found to do. OUR MONETARY SYSTEM. LIVERPOOL, Wednesday.—The Council of the Chem her of. Commerce have been engaged for the past two days in a discussion of the present state of the monetary system, which wa s brou g ht u n d er th e i r notice by a re quisition from a number of the leading rneeciiants of Liverpool asking the chairman of the chamber to call a meeting to afford the commercial public an opportunity of expressing their opinions. The discussion was private, but it was understood that an answer would be delivered this day to the requisitionists. Accordingly, at half-past 12 o'clock, H. Littledale, Esq., appeared at the Chamber of Commerce on behalf of the requisitionists, when E. Heath, Esq., the chairman, communicated the following report : " Chamber of Commerce, Liverpool, Oct. 23. "At a special meeting of the council to consider a requisition on the subject of the present state of the . mo netary system, Edward Heath, Esq., president, in the chair, it was resolved— " That although the council see no reason for alarm in the present state of the commercial position and the general resources of the country, yet they cannot conceal from themselves the fact that there is a growing appre hension in the public mind of approaching difficulties. " The council, therefore, think it necessary to com municate to the requisitionists the following conclusions at which they have arrived— " That should the demands of a large war expenditure on the one hand, and the food requirements of Western Europe on tie other, cause a continuance of the drain upon the available banking capital, and the stocks , f bullion in Moils country, the Bank of England may (de spite the exercise of the only corrective principle appa rently in its power, namely, that of raising the rate of interest and restiicting discounts) find its banking re servo of notes exhausted, while the issue department, as in 1847, still retains a large stock of bullion. " That the experience of 1847 clearly demonstrates that, in the event of such an assumed contingency, the Back of England, under the provisions of the act of 1844, is powerless to afford any facilities to the corn merciai world, and (although the originatmg causes may not be precisely parallel) the same cala mitous crisis as that of 1847 may again be witnessed. " That as the public are now fully aware that the only possible mode of relief in such an assumed state of affairs is the interposition of Government to suspend the operation of the Bank Act of 1844, the uncertaitity a s to the mode and the time of such interposition is cal culated to create apprehension and to generate a want of confidence in the public mind. "That the prevailing apprehension on the part of the public, arising from such a state of doubt and utic e r tainity, is in itself mainly conducive to cause and hastea the advent of the crisis which is so much dreaded. "That it may, therefore, bec ome the duty of thi s chamber to call upon the Government to anticipate and prevent any such break-down of public confide n c e , b y declaring, at an early period, its readiness to assume the responsibility which is expected from it. "That, in order to make any such declaration practi cally useful, it is requisite that it should not he deferred (as in 1847) until, by the total loss of confidence, unne cessary suffering and injury sha ll have been ex perienced. "'Ant a standing committ ee be now appointed t o watch the progress of events, and to intimate to th e council their opinion when i m mediate action on the part of this chambei is desirable. • (Extracted from the proceedings.) " ROBERT TRONSON, Secretary." Mr. HEATH added that the standing committee re ferred to in the resolutions bad been appointed, an d would meet daily, or at less frequent intervals, as the aspect of affairs might require. After a few remarks from Mr. Littledale, the meeting separated. The General Screw Company's steam•abip transport 147, sailed from Southampton yesterday with horses, troops, i 40,, for 4,k, Mack Sea. The English Government is omitiing no °ppm , tunity of reinforcing the West India squadron, and thus interposing a powerful fleet between this c nintry and the North American Continent. This proceeding will, we doubt not, call forth from a large portion csf the American press that, species of mild and temperate comment in which they delight whenever the conduct of England is in question, and a little political capital is to be manufactured by making her the object of invective and depre ciation. We shall be told, no doubt, of the fiendish hatred of England to Republican America, and of the insolent menace behind which she veils her in sidious and treacherous designs. Without the slightest wish to reflect in any way on the press which allows itself to be made the vehicle of such statements, or upon the constituencies whose votes are found to be influenced by such calumnies, we wish to point out to the good sense and moderation of the American people the causes which have' led us, even in a time of war, to increase our squadron in their seas, and may possibly lead us still further in a direction the first steps towards which' we are now most unwillingly taking. We entreat, then, the American public to believe, notwithstanding the assertions to the contrary with which they are so assiduously plied, that there is no party or body of men in this country that regards them with any other feeling than that of the utmost goodwill, or would wish for them any other fate than the enjoyment of the utmost public freedom which •is consistent with the utmost private liberty and security. We have neither the wish nor the right to intrude our opinion on that form of Government which has been established in the United •States ; but we have, and we claim the right, to take every reasonable precaution against that spirit of un bridled license which the present Government of the United States seems inclined to tolerate. At this moment North America is in profound peace with the whole world ; yet it is not the less true that in her ports are fitting out at this moment piratical filibustering expeditions, destined to carry war and bloodshed into the dominions of an unof fending neighbour. These expeditions do not re ceive the sanction of the American Government, are not equipped by its funds, will not be conducted by its officers—but their preparation is nevertheless well known to the President and his Administra tion, and receives no check from that quarter. This toleration, we are willing to suppose, proceeds from weakness merely, and would be exchanged for vigorous action, only that the power to act is utterly wanting. The American people are so free that they will not be controlled by a Government of their own creating, and, though laudably eager for the preservation of their own dignity and the assertion of their own rights, cannot bring them selves to tolerate an Executive sufficiently strong to compel respect for the rights of foreign nations. It is because we see no hope of finding in the United States a Government capable of preventing its citizens from waging private war on their own account against the best friends and truest allies of the great republic that we are most unwillingly compelled, even in the midst of the great European struggle in which we are engaged, to assume a de fensive attitude, in order to trample out the first sparks of this fire, and prevent a conflagration which, if once allowed to spread, may cause incal culable misery to the human race. It is the mis fortune of the American Republic that she con tains within her borders so many desperate and lawless men ;it is still more her misfortune that she does not possess an organisation sufficiently powerful to crush these criminal attempts. That which she cannot do we are compelled, at least so far as the lawless enterprises directed against ourselves go, to do for her. We cannot wait pa tiently till these lawless emissaries of insurrection and plunder have set their feet within her Ma jesty's dominions, and encountered there the re sistance which is sure to overwhelm their wild and desperate schemes. Wo cannot wait till we are placed in the terrible dilemma of either sparing men to whom clemency is cruelty to the human race of which they are the enemies, or of inflicting a just punishment, which may be the means of in !famine against as the passions of the American people and leading to a disastrous and fratricidal war.. We will, if it be possible, prevent the crime that otherwise it would be our duty most severely to punish, and this we do in the name and in the hope of peace. We cannot believe that those who are now engaged in enrolling unhappy men for these desperate and criminal enterprises really con template the success of a descent upon Ireland, for instance, as probable, or even possible. All they can hope is that the miserable fate sure to attend such wretched adventurers may be the means of inflaming the public mind against England, and stirring up the passions of the people to a point which might render war inevitable. This consum mation it is the duty of the American Government, if it can, to prevent, and, as it cannot, of the Go vernment against which such attempts are aimed by all means to avert. If we can prevent these expeditions from sailing, or intercept them in mid ocean, we shall have done much towards averting the danger that must arise should they be carried out to their natural development. The course of action we have adopted is bold, but for that very reason we believe it to be prudent and safe. We are fully aware of the advantage that such a proceeding gives to those ever active emissaries of discord, who are incessantly employed in every State of the Union in stirring up the feelings of the populace against this country. That which is a mere measure of self-defence against lawless force they will represent as an insult offered to the lawful Government of the country; they will de claim, they will distort, they will exaggerate, but we must not omit to prepare against real dangers because our preparations may be honestly misun derstood or designealy misrepresented. England has every wish and every interest to remain at peace with America. The immense trade which we carry on with her, the community of language and of blood, the absence of any ground of dispute or subject of rivalry, all plead forcibly in the same direction. How strange that under such circum stances we should be driven to arm merely be cause it is the will of a portion of the sovereign people to make war upon us, unsupported and un approved, but also neither prevented nor arrested by the Government ! We desire above all things a continuance of peace, but if it be the determina tion of any large portion of the people of the United States to force war upon us we shall know how to meet it and repel it, without relaxing for ' an instant our gripe on the throat of the reeling and tottering giant of the north. But is it for the credit of those free institutions so often vaunted as all that is wise, perfect, and liberal on the face of the earth, that a friendly and kindred nation, ardently desiring peace, should feel itself compelled to stand on the defensive, not because it has any serious dispute with the Go vernment of this free and happy community, but because that Government is unwilling or unable to prevent its citizens from going forth to murder and to plunder in the dominions of an unoffending ally ? Are these the garlands with which the tree of freedom ought to be adorned—are these the laurels with which the temples of the goddess should be bound ? England has some claim to be called the nursing mother of freedom ; and her citizens are free because they know how to obey— how to subordinate their individual wills to that law the supremacy of which constitutes the prim cipal distinction of a civilised community. (From the Daily News of this day.) That General Simpson comes home immediately appears to be beyond a doubt. Owing to his great and increasing infirmities he has persisted in his request to be allowed to resign. But if it has been decided who is to be his successor the secret has been carefully kept. All that has been allowed to transpire is that the new Commander-in-chief will be chosen from among the general officers already with the army, and that no new man will be sent out. An impression prevails among those who have access to the best information, that some time may be allowed to elapse ere a successor to General Simpson is nominated. It is thought that so long as our troops aro divided—part of them before Sebastopol and part engaged in the northern ex pedition—Sir Richard Eyre and Sir Colin Camp bell will each be allowed to retain a separate aud entirely independent command. And yet it is not easy to persuade oneself that such should be the determination of Ministers, unless it is intended that the English army shall be allowed to sink down into a mere contingent and auzilary covps. as Already its inferiority in respect of nunlbmeersw,hat compared with the French army, gives i the appearance. But if it be parcellenetlitoand rlis pursed—one detachment before Sebastopol, s and another in the Liman of the Dn i i s e a Pe p r , be one at Eupatoria, su th b e da,vpiasirotn. of ETnhgs. This will in a short time be made t o d p and another ; e t a a r K n a d l t e o t r g t c le may t — h a e i y t r by the process of division and will be carrying on the war, on land, upon tin priaciple 9f the )194193paitIlistB—. In our police report of yesterday there was an account of a most distressingcase which was brought under the notice of Mr. Jardine, the sitting magis trate at Bow-street. The circumstances, if we look to the magistrates' decision, may not justify any very strong animadversion upon the conduct of any person, although we cannot agree with Mr. Jar dlne's remark that the behaviour of the defendant appears "to have been reasonably humane and pro ' per." Largo allowances must, no doubt, be made for the blunted feelings and pinching difficulties of a woman who had throughout her life been con tending with poverty in its ghastliest forms ; still, if we, as men, understand anything of the embtions by which women are actuated, we should have thought that if there was a circumstance which at all times would have enlisted the sympathies of one woman in the behalf of another, it would be the sight of a wretched creature struggling into a bare room, without assistance and without a friend, to give birth to an infant. If the sufferings of the mother touched no diviner chord, surely the cry of the new-born child, or, still more, the sight of its little lifeless body, might have suggested some thing else than tt desire to get rid of a momentary difficulty. We pass at once to the facts of the case as stated by the complainant, Elizabeth Joyce, a girl of about 20 years of age :—On the 6th of Oct° her last, at about 10 o'clock at night, she, then ex pecting every moment to be confined, applied for admission at St. Giles's Workhouse. The porters sent for the midwife, and this person summarily declared that Elizabeth Joyce was not in the state in which she supposed herself to be. Another woman was called to council, and they both agreed in the opinion that it was entirely a mistake, and that the best thing the wretched girl could do was to go to a hospital and get cured. She was then " put out" of the workhouse. We ask of the ladies of England who mpy honour us by casting their eyes over our columns to consider the situation of this unfortunate creature. We care not what her fault; may have been, but can anything more en tirely and hopelessly wretched be conceived than the position of this young woman, in all the dire agonies and apprehensions of approaching child birth, as about midnight, on the 6th of Oct. last, she leant against the walls of St. Giles's Workhouse, from which she had been just expelled ?—and in what a situation ! The poor creature, in some fashion or another, contrived to reel down Drury lane, and there, as she says, she met a young man with whom she had been acquainted, and he said that he would pay for her night's lodging. By him she was taken to a lodging-house in Eagle-court, near Red Lion-square. She undressed and went to bed, but shortly afterwards was taken with the pains of labour, and delivered of a dead child. The landlady, aroused by her cries—stifled as they may have been—came in and asked what was amiss. As soon as she saw the real state of affairs she said, " Dress yourself immediately, or I will give you into the custody of a policeman for 'o6ining into a strange house for such a purpose." Elizabeth Joyce did as she was ordered ; the body of the child was wrapped in an old shawl, and she and the landlady went out together. As soon as they came into Rod Lion-square the defendant, Isabella Ward, told her to sit down on the stones, and said to her, " Now, mind, you are not to contradict what I say. I will leave you in the square while I go and fetch a policeman ; and I will tell him that I was passing by, when I acci dentally saw you and went to your assistance." If Elizabeth Joyce would not agree to this, she was informed by her companion that she should be left to her fate. She agreed, of course. In a short while Isabella Ward reappeared with a policeman, who seems to have acted with very praiseworthy decision and humanity. After a few natur,l w q a u t e e s r ques tions, he procured for her some brandy and her into a from a neighbouring public-house, put her Tero,pital, cab, and conveyed her to King's Colleg sta na nce. The where she received every necessary asAsi it is right police-constable, William Smith, 340 b that his name should be honou Ids share in as mentioned-- confirmed the girl's account far,corroborate her the transaction enabled him a r s g t i o ri Eliza Simpso statement. There was ane n t : pa uions, who wag also one of Elizabeth Joyce's produced as evidenceeotnbaheterakde. This young wo man told Mr. Jardin went out with her friend to night in question she . e who gave her some medi cine,a doctor's in DrurY - lan the workhouse. that girl said the porters and sent her theon to When they arrived there d one of them added, spoke very sharply Lobo nctl!ingtthematter ' Oh ! there's Ar e not in labour.. I appears she ought to have a certificate before the fact could be recog nised by the parochial authorities. When repulsed from the workhouse the two young women went to the station in Bow-street, but there the inspec tor told them that he could not compel the people at the workhouse to admit the applicant, and re commended them to try again. This, however, they felt to be useless, and so went wandering about until they met a good Samaritan in the per son of Henry Baker, who paid for the night's lodg ing. We now come to the statement made by Isa bella Ward, the defendant, a middle-aged woman. From the report it does not precisely appear whe ther or not she was the keeper of the lodginghouse; her own account is that she works for her father, who keeps th e h ouse i n E ag l e - cou rt. This point,l however,_ is not very important ; she certainly acted as one who was possessed of competent authority in the home. When the young woman called out, Spirit of the Public Journals. ( From the Times of this day.) The Otter, 3, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Lieut. Com mander J. H. Glover, has been taken into No. 1 dry dock, Sheerness, for repairs of damage and defects, to effect which will require from 12 to 14 days. Yesterday the Chatham sheer hulk, William Hewett, boatswair, in command, was towed down to Sheerness from Chatham. She was immediately on arrival there taken into the fitting-basin, for the purpose of pitehing the factory shears, on the north-side of the fitting-basin. The Volage store•ship, Master Commander. John C. Efotchingg, }..R had all her powder, shells. rockets, het , taken out, and has been made all snug for the winter at Sheerness. The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Thames, trans• port No. 92, embarked at Southampton yesterday, the officers, troops, &c., previously enumerated in The Sun. The Thames will sail for the Crimea this morning. Tne medical staff corps, to the number of 1 steward, 4 assistant stewards, 8 assistant wardmasters, and 147 orderlies, in charge of Steward Wm. Evans, late sergeant of th.., 98th Regiment, and Brevet-Major J. Maxwill, 34th Foot, with 6 women and 8 children, left Chatham garri son yesterday, for conveyance to Southampton,to embark on board the Royal mail steam-ship Thames for the East. Captain Romer's company of Artillery, under com mand of Lieutenant Carey, has commenced practice at the 10-inch mortar, placed on beds fitted on No. 1 Sea ward Bastion, Sheerness, a target being placed off on the water at 900 yards. The practice hitherto has been excellent. The depot of the 94th Regiment, which for some time past hss been under orders to march from Windsor at a few hours' notice, received their route from the Horse Guards yesterday morning . They are directed to pro ceed, under the command of Major Buller and Acting- Adjutant Captain Drew, from the infantry barracks, Sheet-street, to Plymouth, to-morrow. 140 volunteers from the depot of the 36th Regiment will leave to-day for Mellinger, Ireland, where they will join the 62d Regiment, stationed at that place. The remaining portion of the 36th depot will continue to do garrison duty at Windsor until further orders. A part of the 22d Regiment is expected to arrive from. Plymouth in the course of a few days. The following appointments, made at the Admiralty yesterday, appeared in our late edition last night : COMMANDER. W. R. Rolland to the Exmouth. MASTERS. P. C. Allen to the St. Vincent. Francis Hale to the Hogue. PAYMASTERS. F. W. S. Neame to the Sampson. James H. Jackson to the Fisgard. John Donald to the Hecla. H. W. V. Warrington to the Polyphemus. SURGEONS. john M'Whinnie to the Sampson. George Everett to the Polyphemus. Henry Piers to the Arachne. Mark Hamilton to the Heola. THE MILITIA. The 2d Derby Militia (Chatsworth Rifles) now on permanent duty at Chesterfield, were reviewed on Tues day last by General Arbnthnott , who expressed his entire satisfaction to Colonel Cavendish, the commandant, a t the state of efficiency of the regiment and the way in which they had perform ed th eir evolutions. The regi ment has only been embodied about three months, and the gallant General declared it to be fit for any service in the line. General Arbuthnott el afterwards insp ected the hospital and stores and clothing for th e • men, with w hich he express ed himself full y satisfied. HEREFORD OCTOBER FAIR. - - This a nnual mart, celebrated throughout the kingdom for its splendid show of our country breed of cattle, was held on Saturday last ; or, rather, commenced on Fri day, the agricultural show day, when our streets were filled with one of the finest collection of Herefords ever witnessed. Th e two days may, in fact, be considered the fair, and we ll i t is so, for it would be impossible, without serious inconvenience, to receive the whole of the immense supply, and transact the large amount of business in one day. The beasts were in the finest pos sible condition, and sold readily at considerably enhanced pnces over last year. Three-year-old steers fetching from V. to 51., and stock generally 15 to 20 per cent. more than last (*.ober fair. Fat cows and beef realised 7d. per lb. Notwithstanding the large supply, scarcely a beast remained unsold at the close of either day. The sheep fair was largely supplied and thede_n?n , .a great. Wethers from 6id. to 6id. ; ewes, 6d. t o t_ the rates u rs eg to There was a large number of pigs on offer, h for which were rather lower than usual. d which principally for draught or agricultural P The horse fair was liberally supplied w e description of were in demand at high prices. Of other : horses there were not tearygoo d pe cimens, but still sales were effected. A large n u mber of Welsh p on i es were offered, and a goody nu m be r changed hands. did not present so f u l l a l fair seen. The form er , b rought from the neighbouring Welsh counties, sold from is. to supply The t w t te ewer and have cheeser.)rsvieir se e according to qu a lit y f rom sa. to ls. 3d. per lb. C hee of onions were Bela. from is. to ls. i 9d. per p l e a r rge lb. quantity 3d. per peck. The hop weekly market, which may now, f rom the establishment market, be thought t o have lost much of 'Aft; our interest, was neverth e l ess supplied with a larger quantity than ever before wit nesse d , an d a cons id era bl e business was t r ansacted. Both Friday and Saturday were remarkably fine days, and the latter, being market day as well as the fair, brought a far larger number of persons into the town than ever before assembled on a similar occasion. The trains were loaded on each line into our city, but exeel• lent arrangements were made for the arrival and i d_!_t er ture of each, an d no acc i dents occurre d to an y pas " 5 that we have heard of.—Licreford Journal. r. IS L. 20 ~r .~ WM. Ana, John M. P. i-qns. 7NO, 112, Its d ~,