The Sun. — London, England, 1855-11-17 00:00:00

FURNISHED HOD'S E.—To be LET, situated 1 in one of the best streets, close to Warwick-square, Belgrave road, containing drawing-rooms, dining and breakfast rooms, six bedrooms, including servants' room, excellent kitchen and cellar accommodation, with convenient pantries. The fhrnitare is good, having been only a short time in use. The house will be let for three months at the rate of 3001. a-year, or for six months at the rate of 2501. a-year, or for nine months at the rate of 2001. a-year, and will be found likely to suit any family requiring a moderate town residence for either of these periods. Applications in writing may be addressed to No. 20, Parliament street, Westminster. London, Nov., 1855. MJULLIEN'S CONCERTS. - ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT -GARDEN.—Second Night of M. jallien's New Quadrille, THE FALL of SEBASTOPOL.- -The Programme for THIS EVENING (Saturday, Nov. 17) will include :—Weber's Overture, Euryanthe ; Ernani Quadrille ; Andante from the Symphony in C Minor ; Ah non Giunge and The Forest Fairy, sung by Madame Gassier ; New Vaise, La Belle du Village; Solo, Cornet a Pistons, Solitude, by Herr Kcenig ; Grand Operatic Selection from Roberto 11 Diavolo; the Sleigh Polka; Scherzo from Midsummer Night's Dream ; Solo, Flute, by Herr Reichart ; the 2lbuave Galo Quadp ; rille,d an, fortled the second time, a New Grand D escr ipti ve Dillitary enti THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL. No I.—March of the Allied Armies towards Sebastopol—the drums and trumpets heard in the distance —the English approach the centre—the French en the left and the Turks on the right—and all advance slowly, and by degrees surround the batteries—firing com mences on both sides. — No. 2. Bivouac of the French in the Trenches—National Airs heard—Partant pour la Syrie, with double variations for two flutes, performed by Messrs. Reichart and Pratten ; for flute and flageolet, by MU. De Folly and Collinet; Quartette for four comets, performed by Messrs. Arban, Le Lonp, M. Dupont, and Kcenig. No. 3. Piedmontese Monferina—A March and a Dance, as played by the regiments of the Basiglieri —interrupted by a false alarm of an attack—the March continued. No. 4. Reconnaissance in the Valley of the Baidar—Movement of the cavalry—dialogue of the chiefs during the passing of the banks of the beautiful Tchernaya—the cavalry gradually disappears in the distance. No. 5. Assault.—As the storm succeeds the calm, a tremendous burst from a thousand cannon, and the enthusiastic war cries of the besiegers, mingled in one giant voice, are heard along the lines. With the rapidity of an eagle the French surprise and seize the Tower of Blalakhoff. Their attack is irresistible, and the signal is given for the other assaults. The English troops rush into the Great Re dan ; there, met by a fearful cross-fire, which ploughs its ranks with death, the gallant soldiers fall by hundreos, but retreat not a step ! Encouraged by the example of their brave commander—they die like heroes ! At the Little Redan a similar fate awaits the French. While this terrific combat is raging around them the Zmaves and the Guard stand firm in the Malakhoff, where the Russians, recover ing from their surprise, rush in serried columns to the charge. Rein forcements continually arrive on both sides, and the conflict becomes fearful. At length a supreme effort is made, and the day is decided. It is night! The flames, which from all parts of the town and bay, spread their lurid light on the neighbouring hills, mingled with the deafening noise of the exploding mines, the roar of the cannon, the whistling of the bullets, the hurtling of the shells, the rattling of the drums, the shrill sound of the trumpets, the ships blown into the air, the cries of the fugitives, and the shouts of the vietors, seem to form an awful fete, given to the conquerors as the climax of this Memorable siege. The Russian - Retreat —A Fugue.—Pretested by the fearful scene, the Russians, ever obstinate after defeat, retreat to the north side by the celebrated bridge of rafts traversing the whole harbour. Calm is by degrees re-established. Bcrne up a hill which over looks the burning city, a soldier, mortally wounded, prays his com rades to stay and turn his face towards the scene of destruction ; there, gazing with calm upon the dreadful spectacle, turning to his companions, who watch him with anx ety, and by a superhuman effort raising his arms to Heaven, he exclaims, "Adieu! adieu ! Sebastopol is ours ! I die hippy. Vive la France ! Vive FEmpe reur !" His words are heard, and amidst the ruins resound the stir ring sound of England's immortal Anthem and Partant poor la Syrie. Prices of admission :—Prornenade, upper boxes, amphitheatre stalk - k, and amphitheatre, Is.; dress circle, 2s. 6d, ; private boxes, 12s , 11. ls., and 11. 11 s. 61. Places and private boxes may be had at the box-office of the theatre, of Mr..:llitchell, Mr. Hammond, Mr. -Hook ham, and Messrs. Andrews, Bond street ; and at Messrs. Juillen and Co.'s, Regent-street. M. Jullien s Grand Annual Bal Masque will take place on Mon. day, Dec. 17, 1855. THEATRE ROYAL, DRIJAY-LANE. Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, IVIII be performed MARRIED FOR MONEY. Characters by Mr. Charles Mathews, Messrs. Robert Hamby and A. Younge ; Mrs. F. Matthews, Mks 3/I. Oliver, and Miss ',lasan will appear. Followed by THE CRITIC. Principal character by Mr. C. :Va. the '7's To conclude with a Millet Pivertissement. THEATRE ROYAL, II iYINIA.RKET. Under the Management of Mr. Buckstone. Ttll3 EVE NTN G, NVIII be performed THE STRA.IIGEF. Characters by Messrs Rowe, Chipp,ndale, Compton, Rogers , \N._ Farren, and Villiers; Ilia , cs CI - Littman and Swanborcugh. followed by TIIE LITTLE TREASURE. To conclude with FISTI OUT OF W.trrEß. itOYAL PIUNCIN 3'3 rfr.':',ATltE., OXFORD-STREET. Unier thn Mana, - ;sment of Mr. CuARLI:i KEAN. TIIIS EVENING Will be peribrined 110 W STOUT YOU'RE GE ['TING: After which, TUE: "[LINK AT LAW. Characters by Messrs. W. Lacy. larey, Meadows, F. Mat thewi, and Cathcart; Mrs. Daly, and .lifts C. I.cclercri. To conclude with THE MULE LEER OF TOLEDO. Tzr.ATIIE ROYAL A:DELPHI Proprietor, Ifr. 3. Wehstor.—Directren, liactime Colege. TIIIS EVENI G , WPI be performed MARIE DUCINGE ; or, The %%My Girl. lrollewel by VALENTINE AND ORSON. After which, the Farce of THE £lOO NOTE. ROYAL LYCF:USI TIIRATRE. Lclsee, Mr. J. IL Anderson, 18, Norfolk-street, Strand. Increased Attractions, and snecess in equal ratio TUTS, AND 'EVERY EVFINING, at Eight o'clock, Qlili *e preienteci, with entirely New aryl Magnificent Appoint ,' kflIC and ".IYATF,:tY, in twelve acts, arranged in two p trt-f, Dy Professor .inticrson. Art.lr which, the startllry? illustrations of Spirit-Ripping. HALF fEI TIE S;PIRIT4, being tha most surprising and interesting series of experiments ever given within the walls of any theatre. Revival, In an improved form, of the astounding novelty which startled London 10 years ago, the GREAT GUN TRICK ! Prices of alinfssion:—Private Bases, H. Ils. 6d. and U. Is. ; Orchestra Stalls, 45.: Dress Boxes, 33.; Upper Boxes, 25.; Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. N 9 Half-price. Box-office open from 11 to 5 dilly. Grand Morning' Performance on Saturday Next at Two o'Clock. Doors open at Half-past One. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Under the direction of Mr: Payne. THIS EVENING, Will be pnrformel TILE RAGPICKER OF PARIS. Followed by NITOCRIS. • To conclude with THE L &DIES' CLUB. ROYAL OLYMPIC TLIESTRE. THIS EVENING, Will be performed TEIE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Characters by Messrs. Emery, F. Vining, G. Vining, A. Wigan, Robson, &c. ; Mrs. A. Wigan, Mrs. Stirling, and Mrs Fltzallan. Followed by CATCHING A 3fERAAID. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Ceoke. Appearance of the World's Prodigy, Mlle. CLEMENTINE SOULLIER. Mr. William Cooke acquaints his kind patrons that daring his re cent visit to the French capital he formed an engagement, for a limited number of nights, and upon exorbitant terms, with the first equestrienne in the world, Mlle: Clementine Soother, who will appear THIS EVENING. There will be acted the Military Spectacle, The FALL of SEBAS TOPOL ! With the WONDERS OF THE CIRCLE ; Mr. J. H. Cooke's FLIGHT OF THE BRIDGES, and 'othar entertainments. noz-office open front Eleven tall Four. Stage Manager, Mr. w, Equestrian Director, hir. W. Cooke. Inn. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T,trg DAY—Morn. 58 min. aft. 68E 36 m i n . aft. To-UORRow—Morn. 22 tain.aft. —Evening 2 rain. aft. THE IVEATECER.—SuN OFFICE, Nov. 17. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 46 highest since noon yesterday. 38 —Lowest this morning and during the night. 48 --this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30'28. Wilm•—N.E. to B.N.E. Light, wi th hazy, cold weather. cr - 41 - 111,31, 0 Vt, • LONDON, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 17, 1855. We yesterday explained the state of the mone tary code previous to the Act of 1844. Full dis cretion was, as we have seen, allowed to the Bank of England to issue any amount of notes they thought proper, the only restriction being that they a h ou id be red eemable in gold coin on de and for sums not exceeding 'l, mand, ing 0,. each. We explained the i n j ur i ous h a ve already operation of this very insidi ous clause, which s ubstituted gold for paper in the tra nsactions of ever y -da y life, for which the small-note currency was much better suited. In Scotland and Ireland, where the smaller denomination of notes is sanctioned, nothing else is looked for ; gold will, of course, be accepted in payment, but it is not liked, and the recipient invariably takes the earliest o pp ortunity to get rid o f i t, and to obtain in place the reof the " worthless ra g, " which, in case of theft, can be more easily tr aced --whose value will not diminish by wear and tear, and which possesses the pur chasing power, inasmuch as it could at any momen t satisfy the public or private claims on the pos sessor, or obtain for him a full equivalent for the nominal value in any commodity of which he might stand in need. From f orty to fifty mil lions of sovereigns were, however, required to replace the small-note currency withdrawn from circulation, and that large amount of bul lion became virtually useless of no more THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NO 16, 1855 At the Court of Bankruptcy yesterday the last exami nation of Mr. J. C. Mare was adjourned, to allow time for the preparation of his accounts, which, it is stated,. will be very voluminous. The report of the Trust and Loan Company of Upper Canada, to be submitted on the 29th inst., shows profits for the half-year ending the 30th of September amount ing to 8,278 t. A dividend at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum is recommended, and one half of the profits be yond 6 per cent, are to be carried to the reserve, which will then stand at 7,9631. DARING BURGLARY AND ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY.— Yesterday morning, between the hours of two and three, the premises of Mr. Chenu, 32, Blackfriars-road, were burglariously broken open, and property, consisting of gold-rings, lockets, watches, and other articles of jewel lery, to the extent of 501. in value, stolen. LORD RECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOIV.—His Grace the Duke of Argyll, who, in accordance with established usage, was entitled to a second year's term of office, was, on Thursday forenoon, unanimously re elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University. It thus appears that there has been no foundation for the ru mour which prevailed for some days past, that the re election of his Grace would be opposed. APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Names of gentlemen who passed their examination in the science and practice of medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thnrs day, N0v.•15, 1855 : —Henry Guard Knaggs, Kentish town ; Henry Jones, London; Francis Joseph Dowling, Chew Magna, Somersetshire ; James Theophilus Beck ; Paulin Orgias, Grenada, West Indies. The Court of Cassation has rejected the appeal of the slate miners of Angers against the sentences pronounced by the Tribunal of Maine-et-Loire on the 16th and 22d October last, which condemned them to various punish ments for attempts at violenee, massacre, and pillage. The telegraph from Dantzic on Friday afternoon an nounces that Admiral Dundas has gone to Kiel. Ac curding to recent advices, however, from well-informed parties, it was feared that if the Russian waters should be left free thus early the fleet of vessels which were well known to be equipped and ready for sea, to convey munitions of war from Cronstadt for the restoration of Sweaborg, would be able to make one or two trips be fore the setting of the ice. After the departure of the allies last year seven line-of-battle ships effected the pas sage from Sweaborg to Cronstadt. THE ALLEGED MURDER AT ALDERSHOTT.—Yesterday afternoon Mr. Shebbeare, one of the coroners for the county of Hants, and a jury resumed the inquest, ad journed from the 6th inst., at the Alliance Tavern, in the village of Aldershott, on the body of John Gordon, a private soldier in the West Kent Regiment of Militia, now stationed at the camp at Aldershott, who was found dead in the vicinity of the camp on the previous Sunday morning, under circumstances which left no doubt that he had come by a violent death, as related in this jour nal on Friday last. The jury, after a short interval of deliberation, found that the deceased had come by his death from the wounds on his head, but how those wounds had been inflicted there was no evidence to show. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.—More novelties have been produced here by the indefatigable exertions of the proprietors, and among the most interesting is an admirable likeness of his Imperial Majesty the present Emperor of Russia, Alexander the Second. His Ma jesty is represented in his usual military costume, dark green coat, with silver lace and epaulettes, the national colour, with pantaloons and jack boots. The execution displayed, both in the fiurc and dress, is of the best description, and is certainly one of the most complete and interesting object- in this admirable exhibition. CIVIL SERVICE UNIFORM.—A very neat and appro priate uniform has been recently adopted by several of the clerks in the Customs at Hull, and there is reason to believe that it will eventually become general among that body of civil servants, as its style is greatly admired. It is not unlikely that a knowledge of this circumstance may induce those gentlemen at other ports who are in favour of a uniform for the service to make a similar movement in this respect.—Civil Service Gazette. On Thursday last the Emigration Commissioners chartered the ship Earl Grey, for the conveyance of emi grants from Southampton to Geelong. The contract price was 141. 163. 6d. The Commissioners have also advertised fur a ship to convey emigrants to Melbourne. —Australian, and New Zealand Gazette. The clipper ship White Star sailed from Melbourne on the 30th of August, for Liverpool, She has on board 70 tons of copper ore from South Australia for Birming ham ; 1,000 bales of wool, rags, sheepskins, &e.; 85,195 ounces of gold dust, and 150 passengers.—Australian and New Zealand Gazette. EMIORATION FROM LIVERPOOL.—It has been stated in a recent Liverpool paper that Government emigration was about to cease from thence, and that the depot at Birkenhead was to be given up. This is not the case, for we are enabled to state that Mr. De Wolfe, the contrac tor, has renewed an engagement with the Emigration Commissioners to provide accommodation and rations for emigrants at that port until the 30th of June next. We believe, however, that in consequence of the stop page of emigration from Ireland that the numbers likely to embark from Birkenhead will be considerably re duced, and that in consequence the Commissioners have had to submit to an increase in the contract price, which is now at the rate of 3s. per diem, the former charge having been 2s. only.—Australian and New Zealand Gazette. TILE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY AT HACKNEY.— A numerous meeting was held at the Memo? Assembly rooms, Church-street on the 15th inst., to receive a deputation from the Executive Committee, to explain the plan of allotment of the recent valuable purchase of an estate in that locality, to be allotted on the 22d inst. The Lord Viscount Ranelagh presided, supported by a deputation from the board, consisting of Colonel Knox, M.P., H. Pownall, Esq, B. 11. Adams, Esqs., C. Grunerson, Esq. (the secretary), G. Morgan, Esq. (the surveyor), Rev. T. W. 0. Goodshild (rector of Hackney), the Rev. Dr. Hewlett, the Rev. Alex. Gordon, and some of the principal residents of the neighbourhood. After several addresses in explanation of the objects and suc cessful progresa of the society plans of the Hackney estate were exhibited, showing'a division of the estate, with nearly 200 lots of freehold land, varying in price from 401. up to 4001., with building conditions well de signed to secure the erection of a class of houses to im prove as well as to accommodate the neighbourhood. The estate adjoins the parish church of St. John, and is close to the station of the North London Railway. VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE.—Board of Trade : Mr. J. J. Mayo has been appointed assistant to the accountant, thejunior clerkship previously held by him having been abolished. Mr. F. T. Jennings has been appointed a junior supple. mentary clerk. Customs : Mr. A. B. Delap has bean appointed a clerk in the examiner's office in London. Mr. G. S. Ellison has been appointed a clerk in the exa miner's office in London. Mr. J. Fitzgerald has been appointed a clerk of general business in London. Mr. G. Saunders has been appointed a clerk in the London Docks. Mr. J. Evans, landing surveyor at Belfast, has been promoted to be landing surveyor at Greenock. Mr. W. W. Godfrey, landing surveyor at Gloucester, has been promoted to be landing surveyor at Belfast. Mr.E. J. Pretty, landing waiter of the first class at Belfast, has been promoted to be landing surveyor at Glouces ter. Mr. Robert Taylor has been promoted from the first class of clerks to be principal clerk in the legal quays in London. Mr. J. Meggs has been promoted from the second to the first class of clerks in the legal quays in London. Mr. N. 0. Cribb has been promoted from the third to the second class of clerks in the legal quays in London.—lreland : Mr. Dillon Brown has been appointed junior clerk in the Chief Secretary's office. Mr. J. P. Prenderghast has been appointed Dublin turnpikes abolition commissioner. The treaty concerning copyright, concluded between Prussia and Great Britain in June last, has been ratified and officially published in Berlin and in London. This treaty reposes on the same basis as those concluded by the French Government with the majority of German States. A well-known member of the Prussian Chambers, M. de Vincke, elected by the town of Hagen, has not ac cepted his nonnina.tion. The following explanations are given by the Pest .4 mpt Gazette of that step. A short time after the election the King passed through Hagen, where he met a very warm reception. He said on that occasion—" This reception gives me the greatest plea sure, proceeding as it does from a town which has elected as deputy to the Chamber one of my enemies." These words determined M. de Vineke to resign. A letter dated the 12th, in the Cologne Gazette, says:--- " M. de Prokesch is to visit London before going out to Constantinople. He will proceed to the English capital towards the end of next week. The Emperor has given his approbation to the proposed reduction of 80 men per company in the 2d. and 4th corps d'armeo, now in Gallicia. That measure will effect a saving of eight millions of florins " (the florin is somewhat over two franca). TABLETS TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATH MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY AND LADY CATHERINE STEWART.— Yesterday two beautiful mural tablets were erected in Newtownards Episcopal Church by the Most Noble the Marquis of Londonderry, one in memory of his lamented father, the other in remembrance of Lady Catherine Stewart, daughter of John third Earl of Darnley, and wife of General Sir Charles Stewart. The tablets are of statuary marble, on a dove ground, and in the Grecian style of architecture ; and we have no hesitation in ex pressing our conviction that they are among the very finest specimens of designing and cutting which Belfast talent has ever produced in the same department of art. The marble is of remarkable purity, the lettering has been cut with the most artistic accuracy and finish, and the myrtle wreath which ornaments each tablet, and en closes an appropriate symbol of the departed—that of the noble marquis exhibiting a sword and pen in intimate union, and that of Lady Catherine Stewart displaying a rose bush, its only flower falling to the ground—furnishes an admirable illustration of tho advance which has recently been made in artistic execution in our town. The tablet to the me mory of the late Marquis of Londonderry bears the fol lowing inscription :—" Sacred to the memory of Charles Wm. Vane, third Marquis of Londonderry, K.G. , G.C.8., G.C.H., Knight of St. George of Russia, Knight of the Tower and Sword of Portugal, and Knight of the Sword of Sweden. He was born 18th May, 1776, and died 6th March, 1854. His remains are interred in the family vault of the Tempest family at Lang Newtown, in the county of Durham. This tablet is placed here by his son Frederick, fourth Marquis of Londonderry, A.D. 1855." It is due to tho public to state that the tablets are the production of Mr. Robinson, of York-street, in whose yard they were elaborated from the rough block into their present highly-finished and attractive form. The Marquis of Londonderry, with a discrimination un happily seldom associated with the nobility. of this country, deemed it right and proper thus to patronise native talent ; and we know we are expressing his feel ing when we state that the work has been completed in a style highly creditable to the artists and satisfactory to laioaself.—Belfmt utility than an, equal number of shells, or other counters, which might serve as the representatives of value. As an article of commerce that gold would have been of inestima ble utility. It would have maintained at all times a favourable state of exchanges, inasmuch as the exportation of a few tons would, at any moment, ha►e turned the balance in our favour. But the Currency Quacks thought otherwise, and the result was tantamount to the withdrawal of at least two-thirds of the entire amount of bullion in the hands of the Public, or fully thirty millions of sovereigns. It may easily be inferred, from the foregoing simple and incontrovertible statement, that the object of the tamperers with our monetary code was not merely to insure " convertibility" at any moment, but that they desired to render money scarce, so as to increase the wealth of the owners of accumulated and realised property, who might be en abled to command their own terms in their dealings with the industrious classes. Otherwise they would not, with the example of Scotland and Ireland before them, have maintained the injudicious pro hibition of the small-note currency, which was found to be so exceedingly beneficial in the sister kingdoms. There is no extraordinary influence in the climate north of the Tweed or west of St. George's Channel to change the immutable laws of currency and banking, or to render what is universally accepted in two countries, distasteful or inappropriate in the third. But the restrictions were to be carried still further. The specious pretexts for rendering money scarce and dear had not been ex hausted. It was not enough to prohibit notes of the more convenient forms, but they were to be rendered still more difficult of attainment. It was assumed that the Bank Di rectors would abuse any discretion with which they might be entrusted, and that therefore it was essential that there should be " a self-acting regu lator of the currency," which it was assumed would at all times, and under all circumstances, maintain the circulating medium at the same in trinsic value, and avoid the fluctuations which, as Mr. COBDEN has asserted, are more injurious to the trade and commerce of the country than the failure of all the banks of issue that have ever stopped payinent ! The intention was mani festly to get rid of a paper currency altc gether, except that based on an actual deposit of bullion, similar to that now practised in Am sterdam. Those whose fortunes had been realised under a paper currency would cut off the chan nels by which new rivals might achieve equal success. It was rather remarkable that the par ties whose names were chiefly associated with the Act of 1844, Sir R. PEEL, and Mr. JONES LOYD, now Lord OVERSTONE, were the representatives of immense - wealth, honourably realised by their fathers under the superior facilities afforded by a free trade in money. They were, however, the first to forget the claims of those still struggling in the race for competence, if not wealth, and to procure the very sever© restrictions imposed by the Act of 1844, which, as we have repeatedly shown, enhances speculation when money is abun dant and cheap, but paralyses industry when it I is scarce and dear. They could not, however, at that time, altogether get rid of a certain amount of " unguaranteed paper." The conse quences would have been too terrible, and 1 they shrunk from the vast responsibility. 1 The first point was to arrest the expansion which would naturally follow the increasing trade and populatiod of the country. An arbitrary sum was fixed which could not under any circumstances be exceeded. This was 14,000,0001., which the Bank of England was authorised to issue against securities, and 8,648,0001., which the various pro vincial Banks were allowed to keep in circulation, that being its average amount for the 12 weeks preceding the 27th April, 1844. This was a sop to the country bankers. It offered a species of monopoly ; but it is highly creditable to the body to state that they opposed, and still oppose, the law so injurious to the country, although person ally advantageous to themselves. It will easily be perceived that there was not only a limit fixed which could never be . exceeded —a ne plus ultra that could not be passed, however great the requirements or de mands of commerce ; but that there should be a gradual contraction, inasmuch as in course of time they would probably cease to issue notes. In that event an illusory and, at best, only a partial sub stitute was provided. The Government might authorise the Bank of England to issue on secu rities to the extent of two-thirds of the withdrawn notes, but solely on condition that the whole of the profits should b 3 paid to the National Exchequer. Of course the Directors would not increase their trouble and responsibility when all the profit would be transferred to another quarter. The permission is, therefore, of no practical utility. Although 700,0001. have been withdrawn, not an additional note was issued by the Bank of Eng land, nor do we see that the Directors should do so, giving all the proceeds to the Government. A month or two ago it was announced that a French company had entered into a treaty with the omnibus proprietors of London for the pur chase of their vehicles, with the intention of intro ducing the Parisian system among us —a system by which increased facilities of communication, and every attention to the convenience and com fort of passengers, would be insured. The satisfaction with which the announcement was received can best be appreciated by parties who are familiar with the working of the existing sys tem. Those who are compelled for their sins daily to travel backward and forward by omnibus welcomed it much as a distressed mariner would grievances. s ome peaceful harbour, and at oeca began g , the sight of a e f c a i v al ourable to loco motion, others w kose nerves are not wtohposeenceixer over their rapid e v r e a r n exuberance ei equal to threading lines of whirring vehicles, and wh ose footing, under such circumstances, is not secure quivered with indignation as they reflected on the impudent inattention to their signals and the in difference to their specialities and lives manifested by the tribe of conductors. Others, more favoured, who care not for these things, reflected with hardly less bitterness on the free and easy manner in which they were suffered in general to find their way inside. The door being opened the vehicle was off—supposing it had been pulled up at all —before they got a footing, and only by the exhibition of a skill worthy of a posture-master, were they daily able to save themselves from fall ing backward on the pavement. Others, with feeble lungs, thought with a shiver of the efforts they were compelled to make to have their ins true tions understood. Others strove to recount the num ber of times their ex • postulations had been met with insolence, and of course gave up the attempt in de spair. All reflected with discontent on extortionate charges, the narrowness of the vehicles, the dif culties experienced and risks encountered in threading their way to, or otherwise getting, a seat, the desagrentens the opening or closing of a window entailed, the wet straw, the drippin g neighbour, the flowing umbrella, &c. And all was to be altered, an omnibus millennium no at hand. Had they not abundant cause to be glad ? No I longer would they have to bawl or otherwise risk their lives to get a seat. No longer would angular gentlemen run the risk of being precipitated into the laps of stout dowagers, or stout dowagers run the risk of e xtinguish ing angular gentlemen. No longer would modest moderation have to be content with half a seat that its neighbour might be unhappy on an area of treble the extent. No longer would you be suffocated with heat, or be pierced with a draught that penetrated your marrow. No longer would an all-pervading odour of fustiness offend your nostrils. No longer would you be set down in the middle ©f the road some hundred yards or so beyond your destination, and leave behind you a slam of indignation to find at your flank a re turning omnibus you had been unable previously to perceive. Conductors were to be appointed whose duty and interest it would be to consult the safety, convenience, and comfort of their pas sengers ; while a mode of construction and arrange ments were to be adopted that would obviate all the rest. Alas ! for human credulity. The news was too good to be true. If we are to judge by the report of the recent meeting of Omnibus Proprietors, the French Company is a creature of the imagina tion—its members nameless, bodiless, and invisi ble. Those who called the meeting appear to have been in a thick fog of ignorance and stupidity— to have been dreadfully hoaxed or the clumsiest of promoters. Messrs. ORSAY and FOIICHARD were the agents in Paris ; but who the parties were they represented, and who was the agent in Lon don, they were unable, at all events declined, to tell. Never was a body of men brought together to take into consideration a more misty scheme. The explanations were, in fact, an insult to th e commonest understanding, and laid the parties who called the meeting open to the most un pleasant imputations. Cruel, however, as the disappointment of the public may be, they will be gainers by it. The present system, with its incivility, irregularity, recklessness, and extor tion, is doomed. That which was to have sup planted it would doubtless have had its advan tages ; but these, in the long run, would have been outbalanced by serious evils. It was a scheme of monopoly, by means of which the public would have been delivered over to a powerful body, which, once established, might have done pretty much as it liked, and defied competition. Now the field is open, and the interest displayed on the subject by the public will, in all human pro bability, induce men of capital to enter it. A well-organised system put in operation in the various omnibus routes would put a stop to most of the evils complained of. Where remonstrances are powerless to remove abuses self-interest is often all-powerful, and one way or other the public are likely to get what they want. In creased competition and police supervision will do wonders. COURT CIRCVLAR. WINDSOR, Nov. IG. Tile dinner party yesterday included her Royal High ness the Duche3s of Kent, Lady Augusta Bruce, Ba roness de Spaeth, Sir George Couper, and Sir Baldwin Walker. The band of the 2d Life Guards played during dinner and her Majesty's private band afterwards performed in the Castle. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Cap• tain Plat, went out hunting this forenoon. Sir Baldwin Walker, Surveyor of the Navy, left th© Castle to-day. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce and Sir George Couper, arrived in London yesterday morning from her residence, grog more, near Windsor. Her Royal Highness left Clarence( ' house, St. James's, in the afternoon, and returned to Frog= re. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. The Lord President of the Council, accompanied by the Countess Granville, returned to town yesterday from visiting the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., and Mrs. Herbert, at Wilton House, near Salisbury. The Right Hon. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood arrived at the right hon. baronet's official residence, at the Admiralty, yesterday morning from Wiltshire. The Marquis of Lansdowne has left Lansdowne House for Bowood-park, Wilts. The noble marquis will be in town early in the ensuing week. Lord Panmure was detained up to a late hour last evening at the War Department, and all the officials were busily engaged in making up the despatch bags for the seat of war in the East. Viscount and Viscountess Canning joined the circle assembled at Wilton House, on a visit to the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., and Mrs. Herbert, on Wednesday last. The noble viscount returned to town last evening. The Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith has left town for his seat in Northamptonshire. The Earl of Clarendon left the Foreign-office, in Down ing -street, last evening, fur the Grove, near Watford, Herts. A Queen's Foreign-office messenger (Mr. Moore) left by the mail train last night for Folkestone, en route for Constantinople tike Marseilles, bearing de spatches for his Excellency Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, from the Earl of Clarendon ; for the General-Command ing-in-Chief (Sir W. Codrington) at the Crimea, from the Minister of War ; and for Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, from the Lords of the Admiralty. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it is said, intends to remain in town until about a week before Christmas, when the Right lion. Baronet goes to Harpton-hall, Herefordshire. Viscount Palmerston is expected to leave Eroadlands, Hants, on Tuesday morning for town. Lady Palmer ston will also come to town, as the noble Viscount does not intend to return to his country scat until just before Christmas. The Duchess of Grafton and the Earl of Euston have arrived at the family mansion, in Clarges-street, from Euston Hall, em route to Wakefield Lodge, Northamp tonshire. The Duke of Grafton remains at Easton _ _ The Earl of Lucan arrived in Hanover-square, from his seat, Castlebar, county Mayo, on Wednesday, and on Thursday left town for his seat, Laleham, near Staines. _ _ The Earl of Dartmouth has arrive (3at his mansion in Grosvenor-square, from Sandwell-park, near Bir mingham. The Earl and Countess of Wicklow will leave town on Monday next, for Brighton, where his Lordship has taken a mansion for the season. Viscount Balgonie, son of the Earl of Leven and Mel ville, who arrived at Melville House, Fifeshire, from the Crimea only a few days ago, and who was to have been entertained, at a public dinner in Cupar-Fife yesterday, was taken suddenly ill on Monday, owing to the bursting of a blood-vessel. The intended banquet has been postponed. Lord and Lady Lyndhurst are expected in town, a the latter end of next week, from Turville Park. Mr. Alfred Bulkley has left Salisbury for the Earl of Radnor's, Coleshill-house, Berkshire. The Rght Hon. Charles P. Villiers, M.P., has re turned to town from visiting the Earl of Radnor at Coleshil-house, Berkshire ; also the Right Hon. ir G. and Lady Grey. The Earl and Countess of Verulam have returned to Grosvenor-square from visiting the Countess of Caledon at ber seat in Ireland. Ni r. Monckton Milnes, M.P., has returned to his _house a in Brook-street, from Viscount Palmerston's, -13r A 3 a correspondentia'li ants writes from Oxford :—" It is aaru mouredmAetTuTliboeiirlecfwitchrileeissavrul l i ee k s i e vT l likely to be well-informed that there is probability of the youthful Prince of Wales becoming during his stay in the university." KING OF SARDINIA TO informed, upon good authority, that THE CITY.— will honour the Right metropolis itopolis the King of Sardinia Corporation of London :ill thehis 0 Lord ana 0 uMayoree thatand 3 t i h r. e . We are pleased to be able eprryesfaenveceu.rably._ Llcke, M.P., continues to progress very openinghEdheeA:T.sllAbleoeexrnander Lumsdale (1846) d . postponedo f the next from session the 2osftthhetoPtrhuessi3aondiChinasmt: Galignani. RETIRED COMMANDER LllMSDALE.—Corn oniettesuld3dtehnilnyszt his ,aITHE BARRISTER. At s, CL S A O T U T th o s N e COMMITTALSt. AonFdrledwa'. the Hammersmith Police Court, yesterday, M r. C harles Brad well Clayton, the barrister, and reporter to the Jus tice of the Pcace, was sentenced to 24 days' imprison ment for deserting his wife and seven children. MEETING OF OPERATIVES AT MANCHESTER. —On Thursday evening about 2,000 factory operatives, mostly very young people, assembled in the People's ‘ I ns tit ute, ' Ma n chester, to discuss the questions, Why are provi sions dear ?" and " Why is employment scarce ?" The Duchess d'Orleans, together with the Comte de Paris and the Due de Chartres, arrived at Eisenach on the 11th inst., on a visit to the Court of Saxe Weimar. On the forenoon of the previous day a fire had broken out in the palace of the Grand Duke, near the rooms occupied by the children, but was extinguished promptly, Without doing any considerable amount of damage, LATEST NEWS. GREAT VICTORY IN ASIA. DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS. We have been favoured by his Excellency the Turkish Minister with the following telegraphic despatch, which was received last night at the Embassy The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sublime Porte to the Ottoman Minister in London. CONSTANTINOPLE, NOT. 15. On the 6th of November the forces under the command of Omer Paella, wading up to their arm-pits, forced, under a terrible fire, the passage of the river Anakara, or Onfluer, in Georgia. The passage of tho river was defended by six teen thousand Russians. Our troops attacked the enemy's redoubts with the bayonet, and car ried them in spite of a desperate defence. The Russians were thrown into complete dis order and put to flight. Our troops took five cannons, seven caissons, and forty prisoners. The enemy left more than four hundred dead on the field of battbe, amongst which number are two superior and one hundred subaltern officers. Our loss amount a to sixty-eight killed and two hun dred and twenty wounded. {Lord Clarendon's despatch says the action was fought on the sth.] The French. Ambassador at Constantinople has just transmitted the following despatch to the Minister of Foreign Affairs : PERA, Nov. 14. On the sth Omer Pacha forced the passage of the Ingour. The enemy's army was composed of eight thou sand regular troops, and about twelve thousand Mingrelian and Georgian militia. After a combat of five hours, in which the Russians suffered severely, the Turks crossed the Ingour at four points. The Generalissimo is marching upon Kutais. The following appeared in our late edition yesterday evening : FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 16, 1855. Lord Clarendon presents his complements to the Editor of The San, and begs to enclose him a copy of a telegraphic message which has been received this d&y from Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe THERAPIA, Nov. 15, 1855. At noon Omer Pacha forded the river Ingour on the 6th, at the head of 20,000 men, and de feated the Russians, computed at 10,000, includ ing Militia, and, partly entrenched. The enemy lost about 400 in killed and wounded, 60 prisoners, and 3 pieces of cannon. The Turkish loss was upwards of 300. The British officers did honour to their country. The Invalide Busse has the following despatch from Prince Goeseliakoff " CRIMEA, Nov. 5. " Tho Allies continue to occupy the Valley of Baidar with two divisions. " Nothing more to report from the Crimea." HAMBURG, Nov. 16. Rear-Admiral Penaud has arrived at Kiel, with the Tourville and Duguesne, French line-of-battle ships. KIEL, Nov. 14. Admiral Dundas has arrived here from the Baltic in the Wellington, en route for England. KONIGSBERG, Nov. 16. The line of telegraph from Simpheropol and Nicolaieff and St. Petersburg is opened and at work. MADRID, Nov. 15. A Te Deum, is to be sung to-day for the disap pearance of the cholera. Yesterday, in replying to one of the democratic members, Espartero and O'Donnell made declarations very favourable for the monarchy. Everything is going on well at Saragossa. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. The impression produced by the Emperor's speech yesterday, in reply to the address of Prince Napo leon, is, very favourable. The acclamations, the repeated and enthusiastic applause from more than 30,000 people, which interrupted his delivery of it yesterday, from both French and English, was an unmistakeable proof how this spirit went with him in all be said. This time at least there can be no mistake as to the Emperor's reception, and if any doubt existed hitherto on the point a visit to the Exhibition yesterday would have shown how well that extraordinary man knows how to speak to the popular heart and the po pular interests at the same time, and how faith fully ho is responded to. Copies of the speech were posted up at the mairies of the arrondisse ments of Paris, and the result is that the effect on the public generally, and particularly on the industrial classes, is most favourable. Its preci sion and deafness strike them forcibly ; they see that the Emperor is not desirous of war for the sake of war, or for the mere lust of conquest or military glory ; that the war has been forced on him and his ally ; that it is a war of justice, a war of defence against aggression, and that while he and his ally will not refuse to listen to terms of peace consistent with the honour and dignity of France and England they are determined to persevere until the great object for which they took up arms is ob tained, namely, the tranquillity and independence of Europe. This is the interpretation generally given to the speech, and there are few who regard it as decidedly warlike or decidedly pacific. The Paris papers of to-day are filled with the details of the ceremony of closing the Exposition. BOURSE, Nov. 16.—The following are the last quotations : _ Cash, fr. e. End of Month. 4i per Cents 9O 50 —f. - -0. 3 per Cents 64 80 64 95 Now Loan 65 75 Bank Shares 3180 Roman Credit Mobilier 1175 Austrian Belgian Fives ...... .. 931 Spanish Threes 39/ Piedmontese B5 Home Debt .... ..... 331 RAILWAYS-FOR CASH. Orlimns - 1107 50 Western... Northern .. . 875 Strasburg xd 887 50 Lyons ....... 1125 New Ditto xd 745 Mediterranean 1220 -- Grand Central 572 50 Lyons Geneva 655 Teste . ---- - date TURKEY. The Constantinople correspondence of the Con stitutionnel, dated sth inst., states that considerable alarm prevailed in that capital, in consequence of a collision which had taken place the day before between soldiers of the Tunisian contingent and the French military post established in the building of the University, now converted into an hospital. After a scuffle, in which several of their comrades were roughly handled by tho French, the Tunisi ans, whose principal barrack is situate in the neigh bourhood, marched in a body to the hospital, endeavouring on their way to excite the Turkish population against the French, and having drawn up before the post they fired a general volley into it, killing three men and wounding several others. The French returned the fire, and six of the assailants were killed and a number of others wounded. The Ottoman troops in the meantime interfered, and the Tunisians were brought back to their quarters, where they were consigned. The , Seraskier and the Minister of Foreign Affairs im mediately repaired to the spot, at the head of an imposing force, to restore order and ascertain the cause of that aggression. On his side, General Larchey sent thither a detachment of sixty men, stationed at Pera, and gave orders to the troops en camped at Maslak to hold themselves in readiness to march. Fortunately there was no necessity to recur to that extreme measure, and all was over when General Pariset arrived at the University. At the request of the French Ambassador a strict inquiry into the affair was instituted on the even ing of the 4th, and the Tunisian contingent, whose deplorable fanaticism had already occasioned vari ous affrays, was to be embarked for Asia. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Nov. 13.—The Emperor left Trieste yesterday morning, at 8 o'clock, amd reached Schonbrunn this morning. The Archduke Ferdi nand Max is going on well. Baron Prokesch ar rived here from Frankfort on the 11th, and will soon go to his post at Constantinople. Count Coronini, the Commander in the Danubian Prin cipalities, arrived here yesterday morning. The Nuremberg Correspondent has learned that Count Coronini was summoned to Vienna by Count Buol, in order that he might bo able to give his opinion to his Majesty " relative to what is likely to occur next spring." The meaning of this is, that it is here believed the campaign will be opened next year on the Lower Danube. It is, however, the opinion of scientific Austrian officers that it would be madness for the Allies to attempt anything against Bessarabia and Volhynia until they have obtained possession of the Crimea, and raised all the Caucasian tribes against the Russians. The Po has overflowed its banks, carried away all the pontoon bridges, and inundated the whole of the neighbouring country. The Oesterreichische Zeitung has a letter of the 2d of November from Odessa. The Grand Duke Con stantine has directed all the persons belonging to the Black Sea fleet who suffered losses at Sebastopol to send a conscientious account of them to Nico laieff. When the inhabitants of Oczakoff emigrated they were robbed and ill-treated by the CossackP, but a complaint having been made to the Emperor the offenders were punished according to mar tial law. The correspondent observes that the ad vice given by the Augsburg Gazette to form strand batteries, armed with long 48 and 50 pounders, is .excellent, but unfortunately the Russians have no larger guns than 36 pounders in the neighbourhood of the Black Sea. Last July a park of 48 and 60 pounders was ordered to be cast in Siberia, and the guns, when they arrive, will be mounted at Nico laieff. On the Ist the allied fleets passed Odessa in three divisions. The large ships took the direc tion of Constantinople, but the steamers and gun boats were evidently making the best of their way to Sebastopol. On the Ist a Greek brigantine laden with salt managed to escape the fleet, and ran into the port of Odessa. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Nov. 15.—The Chambers of Nobles and Deputies are convoked for the 29th. For the supplementary elections of Berlin, the choice of the election has fallen on the Librarian Reimer, the Town Counsellor Pock, Town Secretary Bode, Counsellor of the Tribune Sehnert, and the Presi dent Wentzel. Magdibourg, the Counsellor of Legation, Groaner, has been elected. A letter from Varna, of the 12th, in the Cologne Gazette, says :—" Prince Gortschakoti has lately received a letter from his brother, the general, who expresses a hope of being able to hold the Crimea against the Allies during the winter." PREPARATIONS FOR ANOTHER ATTACK BY THE RUSSIANS. The Courrier de' Marseilles publishes the follow ing letter, dated Camp of Inkerman, 30th nit. " While the allied armies were only bent on prepar ing for themselves winter cantonments, and every one regarded the campaign as definitively closed, owing to the immovability of the Russians, the report of a proxi mate attack of the enemy began to circulate, and dis turbed the dearly-acquired repose enjoyed by our sol dierg. Tbis is not a vague rumour. The advices re ceived by our Generals, the accounts given by the deserters, and the reconnaissances effected close to the very lines of the enemy fully convince us that the Rus sians are about to make a for ward movement. They have of late reinforced their bridge equipages and collected on certain points the materiel necessary to convey their artillery across streams and ravines. Those preparations may have two objects in view —either to serve for a retreat or an offensive movement. Opinions are divided in the allied camp, and each party adduces reasons equally admissible. Bo this as it may, there is one fact well known to everybody and admitted by all—namely, that fresh troops and divisions of the Imperial Guard have lately joined the army of Prince Gortschakoff. Tho Russians were hitherto sufficiently strong to maintain and defend with advantage the long line of intrenchments occupied by them, from the north ern fort to the plateaux of the Upper Belbek. Nothing even obliged them to retain their positions to the north of the roadstead. There is consequently every reason . to believe that the reinforcements received by the Russian Generalissimo will inspire him with a desire to retrieve the prestige of his arms by some desperate attempt. The resolution of the enemy is the more probable as the fears he must have entertained for Pher son and Nicolaieff, since the capture of Kinbourn, and which must sooner or later bring to the banks of the Dnieper and the Boug a large portion of his contin gents, impose to a certain degree on Prince Gortscha koff, before he quits the Crimea, the obligation of offer ing battle to his adversaries. Thus the project attri buted to the Russians of directing a new attack upon our lines of the Tchernaya does not indicate that they will not evacuate the Crimea. It is a mere point of honour with them, for they certainly cannot indulge the hope of driving us out of our position. Those different contingencies have not been overlooked by our chiefs, as you may suppose, and, notwithstanding our anxiety to see the Russians at last descend into the plain, every precaution is taken to guard the army against a surprise. Our intrenched lines from Balaklava to Inkerman are carefully inspected and constantly ex tanded and improved by our Engineers. The points easily accessible have been defended by new works, and on every point their armament is truly formidable. This will not prevent us from going to meet the enem y, if he affords us the opportunity, but, as I have already stated, no precaution is neglected. The armament of th e new works erected on the Feduikhine heights, command ing the only passage through which the Russians can debouch on the Tchernaya, has fixed the particular at tention of our officers of engineers. The French divi sions aro constantly kept on the qui vive, At every moment some engagement b e t ween t h e outposts in duces a belief that the Russians are about to attack us, but hitherto none of their movements have indicated such an intention on their part. The Sar dinian army is perfectly well installed on our left, and equally desirous to have another brush with the enemy. The English continue to occupy in great force the neighbourhood of Balaklava. There is nothing new at Sebastopol. The Russians and allies cannonade each other across the port, but with little or no effect. The camps of the Russians on the other side resemble mole hills. It is astonishing with what activity they dig the ground. We often ask ourselves if this is not a phan tasmagoria, and what can be the utility of those im mense works, which add nothing to the security of the main army. On our side numerous batteries are being erected, particularly around Fort St. Nicholas. We daily expect our floating Lotteries from Kinbourn, and with their co-operation we hope to silence the Russian batteries which prevent us from taking up our quarters in Sebastopol." AUSTRIAN NEUTRALITY. -- MYSLOWITZ, PRUSS ----- lAN SILESIA, Nov. B.—For several days past our communication with Warsaw and the other railroad stations on the same line has been interrupted by the immense transports of sulphur sent from Austria by wa y of Cracow to Warsaw, which accumulate every day t, o such an ex t e nt that the railway station quickly tGranitza finds it i m possible to forward them as as they ar rive. Ever since this Prussian frontier station has refused to forward contraband of war to Russia an d Poland, arriving from Vienna by the G rea t Northern Railway, through Oderborg, Ratibor, and Cone, and pas s i ng through the narrow strip of Prussian territory, the transports aro con ve y e d only to Lcipni c k by the railroad, and th ence for warded to Cracow on waggons by the old carriage road, whence they are again forwarded by th e rail road through Cza,kowa to Granitza, which causes a complete temporary interruption to regular traffic. Within the last mon th considerably more than 100,000 cwt. o f sulphur have been forwarded in this manner f rom Austria, to Russian Poland, and every day ab ou t 600 ew t s . of this article continue to arrive, pack e d p ar tly in chests and partly in casks. MINES.—The great activity in the mining market which we noticed last week has rather increased than otherwise, and the official list shows a larger amount of business transacted this week than in any other since the establishment of the Mining Exchange. United Mines shares have been in demand, at 280 ; a great im provement has taken place in the mines. Sortridge Consols have receded considerably, and without much apparent cause. West Frances shares have been in good demand, and have again risen in value. Wheal Wreys have advanced to 9,1 ; Trefusis, 13 to 13} ; Pen nance, 7to 71. Wheal Bailer is looking well. At West Par Consols, a good discovery has been made, and shares inquired after. Great Shebas have also been in demand at h. —Xining 'Journal of cM THE EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS. TAKEN IN THE CRIMEA BY ROGER FENTON. The most attractive exhibition in London is still open to public view at 5, Pall-mall-east, the Gal lery of the Old. Water Colour Society—the extraor dinary exhibition of some three hundred PHOTO GRAPHIC PICTURES taken in the Crimea during the spring and summer of the present year, by Roger Fenton, Esq., a gentleman w h o h a s earne d f or himself this time forth the reputation of being one of the most eminent of living photographers. We have no record in past days of anything at all comparable to this really astonishing exhibition. It is beyond all manner of question the result of an enter prise obviously and entirely unparalleled. For this enterprise we are indebted in the first in stance to the firm of the Messrs. Thomas Agnew and Sons, the distinguished publishers and print sellers of Manchester. Satisfied that the under taking, however startling from its novelty, was after all capable of being accomplished by a judicious combination of skill and munificence, the Messrs. Agnew determined about a year ago to give to the world a series of actual sun-pictures of the great warlike events transpiring in the Crimea. Ex pressing it otherwise, we might say quite as accurately, that they resolved to hold, every now and then; " a mirror up to Nature," a mirror upon whose surface there should be indelibly fixed, in a succession of magic instants, whatever might hap pen at the time to be reflected in it. Already they have so far accomplished their strange and daring enterprise that upwards of 300 of these exquisitely preserved reflections of the scenes and heroes of the war are at this present moment ranged along the walls of the Old Water Colour Gallery, No. 5, Pall-mall-east, to bo seen for the fee of one shilling, and examined leisurely with the illustrative aid of a little sixpenny catalogue. Imagine our fore fathers during the early part of the last century having been in any way so privileged. Fancy Sir Dick Steeleand the Right Hon. Joe Addison loung ing arm in arm some fine morning into one of the popular show-places hard by the Haymarket, bent upon wiling away an hour or two together over authentic reflections caught in some strange magical manner through the wizard glass of some wonderful necromantic kind of apparatus, and imprinted in a twinkling upon some incom prehensible sort of miraculously sensitive paper-- here a veritable life-portrait of Marlborough, there an actual glimpse of the " foughten field ' of Mal plaquet ! Fancy even as recently as the days of the last great war—the last war of the giants— fancy our excellent friends Corinthian Tom, and Jerry Hawthorne, and ridiculous Bob Logic, doing (just once in a way) anything as " slow" as saun tering down some St. James's picture gallery intent upon examining for themselves the shadows, the lite ral shadows—painted, engraved, and printed in a single moment of time by the weird pencil of the sunbeam—of the smoking battle-fields of Assaye and Vi ttoria, or again of the living and breathing forms of a Picton or a Wellesley ! Fancy this, and, while you do so, you are no doubt conjuring up a conjuncture of circumstances which were altogether preposterous and absolutely impossible when the eighteenth, or oven this present nineteenth, cen tury, was in its teens, but which is never theless not merely possible nowadays, but actually, and effectually, and brilliantly ac complished. Ecce signa—these photographic pic tures to the number of three hundred and odd taken in the Crimea during the recent spring and summer, during the memorable interval, in fact, which elapsed between the heroic defence of the Inkerman Passes by the English, and the equally heroic capture of the Malakhoff Tower by the French, a memorable epoch, an epoch memorable by many a chivalrous passage of arms in the trenches, midway between th a t g l or i ous sth o f November, and that no less glorious Bth of Sep tember. Later on the remarkable photographic pictures now in Pall-mall are to be placed more directly within reach of the general public through the medium of a splendid serial publica tion. Meanwhile, the original suu-pictures them selves—not mere copies of them—are being at this very time exhibited, as we have said, collectively. THE LATE TRAGHDY AT BRIGHTON. (From the Lancet.) We had intended, agreeably to an intimation made in our last number, to have entered at some length into a consideration of the many deeply interesting medico legal points connected with the mysterious deaths of Dr. Franck and his son, at the Albion Hotel, Brighton. The case is exciting the deepest interest throughout the country, and forms the subject of conversation amongst all classes of society. The awful character of the tragedy, the mystery in which it appears to be enveloped, the unaccountable omissions of the coroner in not directing post mortem examinations of the bodies, are all topics entitled to grave, serious, and patient investigation. Did Dr. Franck, sane or insane, kill his son, and then de stroy himself ? Was the case one of voluntary strangu lation, the suicide of the father following rapidly upon the heels of the discovery of the son's self-destruction ? Did the son die a natural and sudden death from disease of the heart or brain—as suggested by Dr. Winslow, in his letter to the Times on Tuesday, the 13th in stant—and the father, in a paroxysm of temporary delirium or insanity, caused by the discovery of the son's sudden death, throw himself from the window I Was chloroform given to produce insensibility and death, or was some potent poison, like hydrocyanic acid, introduced into the stomach, thus extinguish. ing life ? How can these deeply important ques tions be satisfactorily solved unless both bodies be exhumed, and subjected to thoroughly searching examinations ? In the head of the father there might be found a suffieient extent of cerebral or meningeal disease to account for insane acts, and to relieve him in great measure, if not entirely , from moral responsibility, even if it should be ascertained that he was the cause of the death of his son. Ail the vital organs of the body of the son should be subjected to a most scrutinising investigation ; and should the cause of death be undis coverable in them, the stomach and intestines and their contents, and also as much of the blood a's can be col lected, should be submitted to a patient and competent chemical analysis. Of course the examination of the body would extend to a careful inquiry, in the case of the father, to the extent and bearin gs o f th e go i tre on the large blood vessels in its locality; and, in the case of the son, to the condition of th e p ar t s un d erneath where the silk scarf was found on the neck, and the state of the air-tube in that situation. The skin of the neck in the son, and also the hands of both bodies, should be exa mined minutely, with a view to the discovery of the marks of finger-nails. The contents of the phial found in the room should also be exposed to a thorough analytical inquiry, and all these investigations should now be made as publicly as possible. Connected with the whole case scarcely anything ap. pears to us to be more extraordinary than the breathless haste with which the inquest was held after the deaths took place, only 7 hours having elapsed between the oc currence of the catastrophe and the assembling of the jury. Without doubt the proprietor of the hotel was desirous that the bodies should be removed from his premises as quickly as possible. That might have been done by an order from the coroner, and they might have been re moved to the dead-house connected with the parochial church, or even to the premises of the undertaker em ployed on the occasion—a practice which is often pur sued with much convenience in the metropolis. The jury might have viewed the bodies at the place where the deaths happened, and might have inspected the room where the deceased bad slept, and the window from which the father fell—and,then thebodies might have been conveyed elsewhere, and the inquest adjourned for a week or a fortnight, thus giving time for all those in quiries to be made which the peculiar circumstances of the case appeared so emphatically to demand. Even now it is anxiously to be hoped that the coroner will exercise his authority to cause the bodies to be at once exhumed and submitted to the anatomical and chemical examina tions we have suggested, and in this expectation we for the present refrain from noticing further the circum stances connected with this deplorable catastrophe. We hope that the medical faculty at Brighton will not remain passive in this matter, but, exercising a proper and legitimate professional spirit, insist upon the insti tution of a full inquiry into these mysterious and melan choly deaths. The scalpel, laboratory, and microscope may solve the mystery, and at once satisfy the craving appetite for exact scientific information. We conse quently defer any further remarks o* the case, while so much is left to mere conjecture, and when a correct course of proceeding may lead to a discovery of facts which may tend to a removal of all doubt and uncer tainty on the subject. The remains of the late Lord Truro are to be interred this day (Saturday) at Ramsgate. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS.—Another of those characteristic inventions, in the manufacture of which M. Jullien is so experienced a master, was produced last night, entitled " The Fall of Sebastopol." It was not to be expected that the fall of the enemy's stronghold could pass by without the special illustration of the great musical pic ture painter. As in the case of the "British Army Quadrille," the hero of these martial adventures pub lishes a vivid programme of the incidents which the music is alleged to portray, and the poetical frenzy of t ( t ) :inted. To de any " special c w o l r i i r c e h s p c o o n u d l d e n d t n w o t d h i s w c r h e o d m i t t w o e t a b r e e p a e e n q scribe the effect of the music which deals so potently with this tale of pluck and blood would be impossible ; but if it is not said that M. Jullien has outdone himself in realising the busy combinations described in the text we shall indeed be surprised. The " March of the Allied Armies towards Sebastopol," which opens the work, contains some excellent military passages, in which the motion of the different bodies of soldiers are suggested with great variety and picturesqueness. M. Jullien has resorted to all his most vigorous and pungent arts of instrumentation in clothing the two great national airs with adequate importance • and with the assistance of three military b an d s, in addition to the vast phalanx of instrumentalists already in commission, we may be sure the result is no whisper. It will not be doubted that the spectators were delighted with this imposing celebration of the great victory. M. Jullien was re called at the close of the " quadrille " with immense en. thusiasm ; and at once complied with the request to add "Rule Britannia " to what had gone before.