The Sun. — London, England, 1861-11-13 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyno and Mr. Win. Harrison, Sole Lessees. 'I II IS EVENING, THE MARRIAGE OF GEORGETTE. 31i s Thirlwall and Mr. A. Coal. After which, at Eight o'clock, ROBIN HOOD. Messrs. Santley, George Honey, Patey, C. Ly,ll, and Henry Haigh. Miss Susan Pync, and Madame Guerrabella (her 3d,m pearance on the Eng, lish stage). Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. Commence At Seven o'clock. The Box-office open from Ten to Five daily. No charge for booking, or fees to Box-keepers. Sta.Ere-Manager, Mr. Leigh Murray. Acting-Manager, Mr. Edward Murray. THEATRE•ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Lesqee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dun dreary, Mr. Sothern. Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Farren, Mrs. C. Young, &c. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence s^7 Ii: OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. 'l' HIS EVENING, will be performed (4th time) the new and original Drama, entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmun t Falconer ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. To conclude with GONE TO TEXAS. Mr. Walter Lacy, Mrs. St. Henry. YTices as usual. Doors open at half -past 8, to commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. _ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-- Lessee and Manager. Mr. A. Harris. 'l' II IS EVENING, JEANETTE'S WEDDING. Miss M. Ilarrii and Mr. If. Widdicomb. -- -- - -- -- - Alter which, at Eight o'clock, Shakespeare's tragedy of OTIIPILLO, with new scenery, dresses, and appointments, Othello, Mr Fechter EW THTATRE-RO YAL, Solo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. R Webster. TII IS EVENING, MITSIC HATFI CHARMS. Messrs. D. Fisher, Romer, Warde, Misses K. Kelly and Laidlaw. Alter which (275th time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr 1) itoucicault, S. Emery, D. Fisher, Eburne, Romer, C. .1 Smith, Mrs. Boneicault, Miss W oolgar, Mrs. Billing ion, and Mrs. Lewis. • 'En conclude with LOVE AND HUNGER. Messrs. Fisher, Emery, C. J. Smith, Mrs. H. Marston, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors onen at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. NEW ROYALTY THEATRE, oDean-street, Oxford-street. Under the Direction of Mdlle. Albina di Rhona. THIS EVENING, to commence with ATAR GITLL Messrs. Sinclair, Graham, Butler, ; Misses Clifford and Turn yte. After which, Mdlle. di Rhona will appear in CAMELIA, nd Dance two National Dances. Second appearance of Mr. Hall, who will perform Tw• Solos on his Magic Bugle. Box-office open from 11 to 5. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at Seven. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Great success of Air. SAM COWELL'S New Song, "THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT," which will be repeated every evening, Grand Selections from STRADELLA, LA 'I'ItAVIATA, and MENORAH By Miss Russell, Mfss_Ernst, Mr. Herbert, and Signor Tivoli, with a poWerful Chorni, Solos on the Cornet-a-Piston by the renowned performer Mr. LEVY. The Comic department comprises Mr. Sam Cowell, Mr. Marshall, Messrs. Harvey and French (the Nerves), and Miss Harriet Coveney Musical Director, Mr. Jonzhmans. Admission —Hall, ttd. ; Stalls and Balcony, ls. T H E 0 X F O R D, 6, OXFORD-STREET. EVERY EVENING. Auber's New Comic Opera, " LA CIRCASSIENNE," and Verdi's new Grand opera, " Simonßoccancgra," by the entire Company. Balie's new ballads by Miss Russell and Madame Enderssohn (composed expressly for them). Varied Comic Entertainments by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. W. Ran dal:, Harvey and French (The Nerves), E. Mershall, and SAM COW ELL. Hall, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10e. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY.—Morning, 111). 9m.—Afternoon, 11h. 44m. To-MORROW. -Morning, h. 6m.—Afternoon, 12h. 6m. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, NOVEMBER 13, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 45—kighest since noon yesterday. 35—lowest this morning and during the night. 38—this day at noon. • BARosnrrzit-29.60 ; a sudden fall of a quarter of en inch—more storms brewing. WlND—North-Easterly; fresh and cold, with dirty, rainy weather. THE SUN• Lt NDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13, 1861. Have monarchs the sentiments common to humanity—.if so, the Emperor of FRANCE must feel a deeper pang than he would like to acknowledge. Nothing is more universal than the regret felt by every generous mind for any hasty or unkind con duct when it learns that the injured individual lives no more. Not only down blame ourselves, but almost forget that there was provocation on the other side —we would fain recal the dead and express our regret for what we hardly thought of while he lived. Did the Emperor of the FRENCH feel anything of this kind, when he heard of the death of the young King of PORTUGAL. A youthful monarch who, if not remarkable for high capacity, was, at least, remarkable for good faith, such as would be worth an empire in the case of Austria, and who has accepted, and honestly carried out, the constitutional Government he found in his country, not overthrown it with bloodshed and per jury. A monarch who, in a small kingdom, was, at least, displaying the quiet virtues which allowed his country gradually to improve its position, and who, had his life been spared, would probably have seen it taking its proper place amoig the nations. Yet he was early schooled in painful affliction — deprived in youth of his mother, and after a twelve month of his Queen, Enrope generally sympathised with the amiable and youthful Prince. One man alone offered him the most heart-cutting and cruel insults a Sovereign can receive from another—that of treating him as a wrongdoer, and compelling even pecuniary satisfaction, by virtue of superior force alone, when the young KING knew that he had acted not only rightly, but nobly. The dark deed of NAPOLEON 111. in reference to the affair of the Charles and Georges, was of the same character, though life was not touched, as the murder of the Due D'ENGHTEN ; it was another illustration of the - utter insensibility of the NAPOLEONS to moral prin ciples. Solely in the interest of French kidnappers, the Frenchman who had the physical power, and becaus e he could employ brute force, refused to the King of PORTUGAL the plainest justice and the rights of sovereignty. The cause of the Emperor— slave-catching —and the means he employed, bully ing a weaker Sovereign, were alike bad and dis graceful ; and now that Sovereign has gone whither we all, and NAPOLEON himself, must soon follow hi m . England advised, indeed, Portugal to yield to a bullying Monarch, just as we h ave so often yielded to a bullying Republic, for peace sake • but it is one of the many acts which have created English minds the impression that we have to in do across the water with a man so utterly unprin cipled, that our only safety lies in our ability t o destroy his navy. The KING'S history is, indeed, a brief one, but it is an unsullied one. That is more than can be said of many of his royal compeers. He found his country, financially at leant, in a bad condition ; things have much improved since ; ho was always on the side of improvement, and we can only hope that his brother, the Duke of OPORTO, who . succeeds him, will carry out yet more vigorously the coarse on which the late King had entered. May he escape the club and pistol 3 of Imperial France! It is; quite a new thing that the speech of a Queen of Sp A. IN should eith er exc it e muc h a tt e ntion, or b©, Oil :reasonable grounds, of a very cheerful cast. Civil «.are effete and worthless Monarchs, an empty exchequer, and a half brigand army, have been what c htefly met our eyes south of Pyrenees. We can't ea y yet, that they have changed all that," but much of it is changed, Spanish finance, as we I have experienced, is in a far better state than it was, a respectable army has been created, which whatever it might do against regular troops of a great mili tary power,cuts a respectable figure in a conflict with the race whom she drove to their own side of the Mediterranean ; and Spain is actually now about to join in an expedition with two of the greatest powers in the world. She may well, therefore, congratulate herself on her progress. Indeed, it seemed not many years ago as if resurrection were impossible, and that this fine country was, politi cally and commercially, dead and buried for ever. Spain is, however, at least alive again. The piety of the Spanish monarchs, even of the most cruel or dissolute, has always been a point of honour with them. With the blood of heretics they atoned for the blood of patriots, and fidelity to the POPE was the satisfaction to Heaven and earth for femi nine infidelity. ISABELLA does not dishonour her ancestry—Almost the first paragraph in her speech says— The Holy Father, ever an object of tender and profound veneration amongst all Catholics, excites my constant inte rest ea my filial solicitude. I have succeeded in obtaining this point, that the Governments of those countries which are placed under his holy direction should unite to find the means of giving him, within his own states, that peace and security which are indispensable for the independent exer cise of his holy ministry. My sentiments stimulate me to continue these exertions. Thus I satisfy the wishes of my subjects, who nourish in their hearts the religious faith of their ancestors. If " peace and security" be all she has obtained for him, we doubt his gratitude will be small; but if she means that she has obtained this for him in States which not only are " his own" just now, but will remain so, she may be sure that neither RICA soLI, RATTAZZI, nor any other possible Italian Minister has conceded that. In her own dominions she shows a love to the Holy Father worthy of PHILIP 11. himself ; it was she who cleared the little island of Fernando Po of some Christian mis sionaries, who went there to convert the negroes, because even on an uncivilised island belonging to her; Protestants might not profess their religion. And at this moment, we believe, the worthy men, in whose case Sir ROBERT PEEL and his ladies took so much interest, are still rotting in gaol for dis tributing—Bibles ! The Holy Father does not like Bibles—and tie virtuous daughter burns them, and imprisons the distributors. The rascally affair of St. Domingo looks very pretty in a Queen's Speech, however the fact might have appeared to the poor Dominicans, who found themselves betrayed, doubtless for a consideration, by the leader of a faction. What trace of political corruption and military violence can be found in these maternal sentiments : That Spanish island the first discovery of which immor talised the name of Columbus forms once more a part of our monarchy. The inhabitants of St. Domingo, menaced by foreign enemies, wearied by internal disorders, invoked in the midst of its conflicts the august name of the nation to which it had been indebted for civilisation and life. It would have been unworthy of us to contemplate its suffer ings without emotion, to disown its appeal, inspired by great recollections and by an inextinguishable love for Spain. Convinced that this appeal, that these wishes were sponta neous and unanimous, I did not hesitate to welcome them, more attentive to honour than to the convenience of my people. The inhabitants of St. Domingo have seen their wishes realised. The elements of riches which their fertile soil contains begin to be developed in the bosom of profound peace, and the zeal as well as the justice of my government and of the authorities will efface the traces of past discords. The QUEEN has some pleasant sounding sen tences, 'about order and liberty. It is reasonable matter for gratification that the disturbances in Andalusia were repressed without resort to extra ordinary measures. But constitutional freedom is to be advanced, and the suf f rage is to be extended till " every legitimate interest will be represented in Congress"—Mr. JOHN BRIGHT could hardly ask more; a new electoral and administrative law are to be proposed, and The people anti the provinces will obtain, by means of the law in harmony with their remarkable progress, that sonsiderable share which belongs to them in the direction of their affairs, and in the care of their interests, but these measures will not diminish the means which authority re quires to preserve public order—that prime necessity of states. For one thing which her Majesty proposes we should suggest that she instruct her Ambassador here to confer with the hon. member for Bristol— for she tells the members that, Those measures which experience counsels will prevent fraud end pressure from impairing the purity of elections. The law which represses violence and fraud guarantees the free expression of public opinion. The press is of course not forgotten: What the words she employs can mean it would be hard to guess, unless we could guess first the speaker's thoughts. She says, My Go vei oment desires that the liberty of the press should be protected by a law which, in leaving the field open for the expression of thought, may repress the excess of passions. Happy Press of Spain ! The pure stream of thought is not to be made turbid by the pollutions of passion. A "protective" law is to act as our new sewers will do in London ; political feculence will be carefully drained and pumped away, and the lieges of ISABELLA will sip in safety of thought free from passion. With heresy swept from the soil, or into prison, with a pure unimpassioned press, with an Exchequer which no longer needs a loan Spain will soon become the Eden of Europe. Perhaps the most telling sentence that was uttered on Saturday evening at the LORD MAYOR'S Banquet in the Guildhall of the City of London was the one in which it was intimated by H.R.H. the Commander-in-Chief, that there is not the slightest intention in high quarters to reduce our military armaments, simply by reason of thQ success achieved by the Volunteer Movement. Economists though we are, we cannot possibly be otherwise than heartily rejoiced at such an intimation as this. For economy, so begun, would be the merest folly, the sheerest absurdity. As the Duke of CAM BRIDGE admirably well remarked, the Volunteer Force is chiefly and above all things valuable as an auxiliary to the Royal Army. We should effectually destroy all the good secured to the nation by the mar shalling together of an army of riflemen numbering alreaay from 150,000 to 200,000 Volunteers, if we were rashly to celebrate the fact by disbanding a considerable part of the disciplined army, to which this Volunteer farce has assuredly from the first been simply supplemented. And this more parti cularly when it is borne in mind, at the same time, that the standing menace to England which called the Riflemen from their homes ally together in vindication of our national independence,t°r cognisable yonder, up on th e opposite shoresoifs the re - English Channel, quite as vividly still as at the ver y inauguration of this great movement. N APOLEON has still at his beck and call a vast and formidable army of from 500,000 to 600,000 of the most ad mirably disciplined troops in Europe. Not a force, observe, of 100,000 or 200,000 soldiers, but a huge body of armed men numbering altogether—in a peace—but very litt le short of a stupen doustime of aggregate of 600,000 men, infantry, cavalry, artillery, and engineers. When there shall have been visible a diminution in that direction—then, but certainly not sooner, we may begin to meditate with prudence on an econon Lica revision of our own army list. Referring to the gigantic scope of our annual disbursements, Mr. SALMONS, one of not the least sagacious among our Liberal metropolitan repre sentatives, observed very judiciously, only a few days since, that—" As to finance, no doubt the ex penditure was excessive, amounting to just upon £70,000,000 a year ; but while such enormous armaments were kept up by neighbouring nations, it would be most unwise to leave our own coasts without the defence of a powerful naval force, and an army sufficient to form at least the nucleus of an army strong enough to meet any emergency:" There is sound common sense in all this. To act otherwise than in the manner here indicated, would be the uttermost stretch of weakness and of impru dence. The hon. gentleman, whose words we have just quoted, certainly added immediately afterwards that " He was glad to hear that the Emperor of the FRENCH was contemplating a considerable reduc tion in his army, especially in the artillery ; and if that were done, we might then economise in our own military expenditure, and hope for some slight relief from the present heavy weight of taxation." Yes—precisely—upon that one proviso "if that were done." If the French army were first of all reduced in its numbers, " then " we might begin to economise in our military expenditure But certainly not earlier. Certainly not before the display of that wholesome economy by our imperial neighbour. And, even then, in that long hoped for contingency, "we must not," as Alderman SALMONS said last week to his Greenwich consti tuents : " we must not (even then), however, expect to return to the expenditure of the halcyon days of 1836, because the difference in the cost of main taining a steam as compared with a sailing navy, adding, as it did, eight or ten times to the cost of ships, rendered that impossible." The return of those halcyon days to us, we leave to our peace-at any-price day-dreamers. It is their favourite halu cination. And simply as an halucination we cer tainly cannot begrudge it to them. They will find no Government—Whig or Tory—that will ever attempt to act upon it. The Ministry that should once adventure upon a policy of false economy such as that, would not (we may rest perfectly well assured of this) survive the indication of such an intended exploit one single fortnight ! The coun try would—beyond an instant's doubt—have none of it. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Oporto and his brother Prince Don Juan have left Claridge's Hotel for Southampton, en route for Lisbon. The Earl Russell returned to town yesterday from visiting the Master of Trinity, at Cambridge. The Chancellor of the Exchequer will accompany Mrs. and Miss Gladstone to Chatsworth, on Thursday, on a visit to the Duke of Devonshire. The Right Hon. T. H. Sotheron-Esteonrt, M.P., and Mrs. Estcourt have arrived at Farrance's Hotel, from Estcourt, Gloicestershire. The Countess de Flahanit and Miss Elphinstone de Flahault leave Coventry House in a few days for Tor quay, for some weeks. The Earl Jermyn, eldest son of the Marquis of Bristol, is about to marry Miss Geraldine Anson, youngest daughter of the late Major-Gen. the Hon. George Anson, and niece of Lord Forester. The Countess Dowager Cowper is entertaing a succession of visitors at Wrest Park, Beds. Viscountess Jocelyn left town yesterday on a visit to the Countess Dowager Cowper, at Wrest Park. Colonel and the Baroness North left town a few days since for Wroxton Abbey, Oxon. The Hon. Spencer Cowper comes to town today from Paris. Mr. and the Hon; Mrs. Balfour have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from St. Asaph Sir Thomas and Lady Arabella Hesketh have left Claridge's Hotel for Raiford Hall, Lancashire. The Right Hon. Sir Edmund Head and Lady Head and the Misses Head have arrived at Farrance's Hotel from Canada. We learn that Mr. Brineley Norton—brother of Mr. Fletcher Norton, whose premature death we recorded two years since—still lies seriously ill at the house of his mother, ;the Hon. Mrs. Norton. Should the seine fate attend Mr. Brinsley Norton as befel his lamented brother, the elder branch of the family will be represented by half Italian blood, Mr. Brinsley Norton having married a Nea politan, by whom he has a son, now in his sixth year, who, after his grandfather, would stand in presumptive succes sion to the peerage of Grantley. Of the sons of Chief Baron Norton in whom this peerage is vested, only two survive; the present peer, aged 66, and the Hon. George C happle Norton, police magistrate, aged 62. Of the younger brothers of the present peer, Charles, who died in 1835, left a son, Charles, who is an officer in the army ; and the yonngest brother, the Rev. James Norton, of Anningsley, who died in 1853, left a son, Thomas, who has also entered the Queen's service as a soldier. THE BRITANNIA.—A writer in a contemporary says :—The old vultures are at work, and are doing their worst to hold possession. Fever and vice being the atten dants of the naval cadets on board the training ship at Portsmouth, the Lords of the Admiralty, after long-ma tured reflection, have given orders for the removal of her Majesty's ship Britannia out of Portsmouth harbour. Port land harbour has been selected for this ship to be moored in, on account of its salubrity and quietude for study. Out fitters and others are consequently up in arms at Ports mouth to prevent the removal of the ship—the health and morals of the future Nelsons of England being, of course, subordinate to their gains. Fortunately, there is a peer of the realm at the head of the Admiralty who is not likely to influenced by the pressure of a " constituency ;" and right, no doubt, will be done, more especially when a good deed has the support of public opinion. At the special meeting of the Eastern Counties Railway Company yesterday some opposition was mani fested to the proposed additions to the capital of the com pany ; but the chairman carried the proposal through with his usual high-handed manner. The company's stock has fallen 1 ; per cent. The East India Railway Company have just issued the letters of allotment for the - C1,600,000 ordinary capital required for the completion of the main line. The stock is divided pro rata among the existing proprietors. GREAT YAR3IOETH, Nov. 11.—A second gale, almost as furious as the one of last week, raged here on Sunday, when the wind blew almost a hurricane from the S.S.E. and S.W. A number of ships broke from their anchors in the Roads, and one or two narrowly escaped getting ashore. The brig Severn, of Hartlepool, from Lon don, was driven into by the brig Friendship, of Shields, which carried away her bowsprit, and did other injury. No other damage was reported as having occurred in the Road stead. THE EASTERN PORTS.—The great grain move ments of the last few weeks have occasioned considerable activity at Ipswich, and it has been remarked that the general trade of the port seems to have received some impetus of late. The Ipswich Dock Commission has resolved that for the future the drawback on steam coals shall be allowed on the whole cargo imported, providing that notice of the quality be given at the deck office on entry, and that the original invoice be, at the same time, presented to the collector, the cargoes also being subject to the inspection of the superin tendent of traffic. The exports of wheat from the port of Boston during the past quarter reached the large total of 29,406 qrs , as compared with 3,814 qrs. in the correspond ing quarter of 1860. The harbour trust has just reduced the tonnage dues from 6d. to 3d. per ton. The Colchester Town and Channel Commissioners have been discussing a proposal to reduce the dues levied at that port from one half to one-fouth the maximum rates authorised by their Act, but have decided not to make the reduction at present. The dues received at the port of Great Yarmouth for the year ending Michaelmas were £8,475, as compared with £9,006 in the corresponding 12 months of 1859-60, showing a serious diminution in the trade of the port, which has, however, been increased during the last month or two by considerable exportations of gra'n. THE CARDIFF DOCKS.—A most distressing oc currence took place on Saturday morning on board the schooner Speedy, from Waterford, Captain E. James. It appears that on Friday night five sailors went to sleep in the forecastle of the ship, taking with them a pot of burning coals, for the purposs of heating their berths. In order, no doubt, b make themselves more comfortable they shut up the hatchway, and by this means prevented the possibility of fresh air reaching the forecastle. The result was that on Saturday morning two of them wore found dead in their hammocks, having been suffocated during the night. The captain, not finding the men on b samo o ne a dn rd, overcome \avf we the er e er n g t to obt h assistancey tothete, three atmosphereilforecastle,aa obieewlhnopdi whom looking o i a n ctwuherreeed ftoh fellue found d o them to ol hm W almost whole be ef sstethni a le s l. sible on floor. He managed, however, to get on d ec k, tdh,men ( toe' thewhosetehi c i h p a e Faird ) be longedalive. One of the unfortuna g te e n E a n r a v e e I o h p l e s , and not b ee n as e t o e r t t h a i e n e s d h , i p l a , t e but elo the n o had come on board the Speedy to take passage to Water ford. An inquest was held on Saturday evening, when t. 347, above facts were deposed to, and a verdict of i‘ died from suffocation" returned, , . 4 , ‘ , ..;- , 4' l' 'l. , :‘,+-• k - -40 ,- ' 1,. -- i4(:. - 0 , -; -^" , t. - ...!L - ' ii' ~.• ; ', if ..,' .-., ~.,-..ierf, ~,% u '... - .74 0 ,1 .. '' l' •' l '` ~ ''..- ,,, h'''- R , ....A. ..-...,- -- t. - ____..e. - •• -,....... TILEstTs, GONDON, NVEDNESDA.Y NOVEYIBER 13, 1861. THE LATE KING OF .PORTUGAL. The late King of Portugal, Don Pedr o d'Alcan tars, whose death is announced by telegram in another column, was the eldest son of Donna Maria the Second, da Gloria, and of the King Don Fer nando, of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, and was born at Lisbon on the 16th Sept., 1837. During his minority the country was placed under the regency of his father, who occupies in Portugal the same position which his Royal Highness the Prince Consort fills in this country. In 1853 he visited England, as may be remembered, and his gracious and dignified deportment made a deep impression not only upon his royal hostess, but upon all those with whom he came in contact. He subsequently visited France during the Exposition of 1855, and afterwards made a tour of Italy, Switzerland, and Belgium, until, attaining his majority at the age of eighteen years, he was called to fill the throne which his death has now left vacant. He was crowned on the 15th November, 1857. The prin ciple events which signalised the regency of his father consisted of various treaties with France and Belgium for the extradition of criminals, and with the Southern States of America for the promotion of navigation and commerce. Don Pedro V.., which was the title that he assumed, preserved the ministry of the Duke of Saldanha in power. That minister held the reins of Government for four years, but at length succumbed to the opposition of the Upper Chamber, the King, upon constitutional prin ciples, having refused to create new peers to form a majority in his favour. The Minister Loule, who succeeded Saldanha, was supplanted in 1857 by M. d'Avila, whose principles were more advanced than those of his predecessor. In the same year the young King married a Princess of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, a relation of the Ki ng of Prussia, and whose death, from diphtheria, took place on the 17th July, 1859. His late Majesty had no issue, but leaves sur viving him three brothers and two sisters, the youngest of whom, Prince Augusto, is, as our readers are aware, now lying seriously ill of typhus fever—the same disease which carried off the late King, and his brother Prince Ferdinand—whose death we announced a few days ago. The crown of Portugal will now devolve upon his brother, John Duke of Oporto, who is in his 20th year, having been born on the 16th of March, 1842, and is a lieutenant-colonel in the 2d Regiment of Cavalry. He is unmarried, and as by the consti tution of Portugal the King attains his majority at the age of 18, the country will not require the government of a regent. THE BALLOT SOCIETY AND THE ELECTIONS.- The weekly meeting of the executive committee was held on Tuesday, at the offices, 5, Guildhall-chambers; Mr. Man in the chair. Mr. Bontems, Mr. Whitehurst, Mr. Francis Clowes, Mr. B. T. Williams, Mr. Le Maitre, &c., were present. An address to the electors of Carlisle, for circulation in that city, was agreed to, which contained the following passage in reference to the Liberal candidate for Carlisle :—" The committee of the Ballot Society rejoices to bear testimony to the able, energetic, and long continued support which their friend Mr. Edmund Potter, by his pen, by his purse, and on the platform, has given to the cause of the ballot, and the committee trusts that the triumphant return of Mr. Potter will show that although the electors of Carlisle tolerated Sir James Graham's opposition to the ballot, on account of his eminent public services, no other liberal candidate opposed to the ballot has any chance of obtaining their suffrages." In reference to the Plymouth election the committee agreed to the following resolution : " This committee, on behalf of the society and the friends.of the ballot generally, tinders its thanks to the electors of Plymouth for returning, in the person of Mr. Walter Mon• rison, a member thoroughly in favour of the ballot, and as • his speeches show, able to advocate that measure in the House of Commons. And this committee trusts that the recent victory at Plymouth is the forerunner of similar suc 'eases at forthcoming elections, and the committee com mends the zealous and united labours of their fi iends at Ply mouth to the imitation of the supporters of the ballot at the constituencies of Lincoln and Carlisle." The proceedings to be taken in reference to the appointed conference with Reform Associations, to be held this day, also engaged the attention of the committee. INCENDIARISM BY A SOLDIER.—The magistrates in petty sessions at Colchester were on Monday engaged in investigeing a charge of arson against John W. M'Grath, drummer of the 88th (Connaught Rangers) Regiment, stationed in Colchester Camp. On the night of the 30th of October, about 9 o'clock, the alarm of fire was raised in the camp, when it was discovered that some farm premises not 100 yards from the camp wall were in flames. There were at the time in the barn and other outbuildings 12 fine cows, 4 very valuable cart-horses, and 141 fat hogs, the whole of the value of more than £l,OOO. By the timely arrival of the fire-picket, with three engines from the garrison, the flames were subdued, and the whole of the stock was saved. Next morning the prisoner surrendered on his own confession of having caused the fire ; but when taken before the com manding officer he denied it, and, there being no evidence to support the charge, he was returned to the ranks. On Friday last, however, after a quarrel with some of the non commissioned officers, the prisoner rushed out of the camp, surrendered to the police on the same charge, and described the manner in which he caused the fire. The reason he assigned for the wanton act was a desire to get out of his regiment. This he repeated in a preliminary examination before the mayor, but before the magistrates on Monday he again denied the charge, and said he made the confession to escape the consequences of a court-martial for a military offence of which he had been guilty. There was, however, such a contradiction in his assertions that the Court deter mined to send the cass to another tribunal, and the prisoner, whose character as a soldier is very bad, was accordingly committed for trial at the next assizes. A CHILD SHOT BY HIS BROTHER.—An inquest has been held at Haxey, Lincolnshire, before the coroner for the district, Mr. C. H. Holgate, upon view of the body of Horatio Wright, aged four years, the son of Mr. John I Wm. Wright, farmer, who met with his death under very melancholy circumstanccs. It appeared that on the 2d inst. the father of deceased sent one of his sons for his gun whilst working in one of his fields, and told his son Charles to get a halfpenny worth of caps, which he did, end took them and the gun to his father. His father having a cap in his pocket, allow, d his son to keep those he had in his pos session, which was the cause of the fatal and distressing occurrence. 'The father loaded the gun, but did not fire it off, and ho ultimately sent it home in a cart with his two sons Charles and Thomas. The gun was placed in its usual place in the sitting room, just over a able, and within reach of any child four years of age. The old cap was also left on the nipple. On the afternoon of the 3d inst. all the family) except Thomas and the deceased, went to church, and whilst the two boys were amusing themselves with rolling a cricket ball about the floor, Thomas found a cap. Then he thought of the gun. He took it down, and fancying it had been fired off, took the old cap off the nipple, and put on the one he had picked up. He then pointed the gun at his brother's face, pulled the trigger, and shot him dead. The jury re , turned a verdict of " Accidental death." ANOTHER CASE OF " KLEPTOMANIA."—On Satur day, an expensively-dressed young man, named George Franklin, was charged, at Ashford, before W. P. Burra, Esq., with stealing two halfcrowns from a box, by means of skeleton keys. The prisoner and his wife occupied apart ments at Mr. Sewell's, New-street, Ashford, and in conse quence of money having been repeatedly missed, a police man was set to watch in a Cupboard in the bedroom on Saturday morning. He saw the prisoner came and take the money out of a sum of £4, which was wrapped in paper and kept in the box. All the money was marked. The policeman jumped out of the cupboard and arrested him as soon as the theft was committed, and his surprise and con fusion may be imagined. He was remanded. His friends, it is said, occupy a very high position in society.—Sussex Express. DAYBREAK IN SIAM.—A day at Bangkok in fine weather is a well-illustrated page of the country and the people of Siam. It has been a sultry night, so sultry and still that every ripple on the water has been clearly dis tinct ever since the moon went down, about a couple of hours before daybreak. You are lying in that state of torpor which is neither sleep nor wakefulness, and yet is a compound of both, afraid to think, lest the very effort should awake you. The disgusting el yof the tokay some where close over your head gradually subsides as the night verges into morning, and you are just flattering yourself upon the enjoyment of a couple of hours' wholesome sleep in the delicious freshness of the early dawn, when a scuf fling and rustling about the rooms warn you that one or more snakes have pursued some hapless frog into a cul de sac, and are meditating an early breakfast. If you had any doubts about this subject, they are soon dispelled by the cries of the hapless frog and the angry squeaking of the tame house rat (every house in Siam has a tame rat, which, being taken young and carefully reared, grows to a great size and of prodigious strength, and expells all other ver min of a like genus that offer to intrude upon the premises), who likes not the proximity of such ugly customers, and scampers up the bedpost for better prot3ction. The possi bility of its being followed by some hungry snake induces us to strike a match and light the candle, and in two seconds afterwards the room is cleared of intruders. It is no use thinking of any more sleep, for there comes those certain harbingers of day, countless legions of noisy crows flying overhead like black and impenetrable clouds, and bound from the cocoa-nut topes where they roosted to the rice fields in the interior, in search of early grubs. In half an hem's time hence they will be back again with redoubled cawing, and take up their regular positions for the day, spread all over the city, and each individual crow bent upon commit ting a felony at tho earliest available opportunity.—Col burn's .New Monthly illagazzne. As the greater part of the turpentine available for commerce comes from the pine timber in the swamps of North Carolina, a mercantile correspondent suggests that, looking at the probability of the supply being interrupted by the civil war, it would be a great advantage if any other sourco could lie pointed out whence it may be obtained. A small quantity is imported from Franco which is procured in the neighbourhood of Bordeaux, and the probability i s that there a re may other parts of the world whence it might bo had in comparative abundance. L T E ru NEWS P.. . • DEATH OF THE KING OF PORTUGAL. LISBON, Nov. 12. The King of Portugal died to-day. The Duke of Oporto succeeds him: PARIS, Nov. 13. The 111oniteur of to-day announces that the Em peror and Empress went into mourning immediately on receiving news of the death of the King of Por tugal, in order to testify their strong sympathy with the Royal family of Portugal. The celebration of the Empress's name day, as well as the projected hunting parties and other Court festivities, have been postponed. The Constitutionnelof to-day publishes an article signed by Dr. Vernon, in which it says : " The result of the deliberations of the Council of Ministers, held yesterday, is that the adoption of the resolutions which we announced;yesterday as having political and financial importance has been adjourned. " At the moment when the special powers of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of State were to be determined certain difficulties in carrying out the details of the proposed arrangement are said to have presented themselves." M. Walewski, Minister of State, has accompanied the Emperor to Compiegne. ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 11. Count Chambord disembarked here yesterday, and took up his residence at the Palace of the Viceroy of Egypt, BERLIN, Nov. 12. Th© Preussisehe Zeitung of to-day has news from Warsaw, announcing the seizure of 15,000 muskets in a convent on an estate belonging to Count Zamoyski. The prior of the convent, several priests, and the bailiff of the estate, were arrested. The latter de glared that the count had no knowledge of the fact that arms had been stored in the convent, and said that he himself had received them at the request of the priests. Similar seizures have been effected at other places. PARIS, Nov. 12. The Paris papers of this evening announce that the Emperor presided to-day at a Council of Mini sters, and returned to Compiegne at 4.39 p.m. The Senate will assemble on the 10th December, The Pays of this evening, in an article signed by M. Grandguillot, says :—" The Turin Opinione was right in asserting that the article of the Pays, ex pressing a desire for a change in the present Italian ministry, was neither inspired by Signor Ratazzi nor by the French Government." PARIS, Nov. 12. The Constitutionnel of to-day publishes an article, signed by Dr. Veron, which, after mentioning the probability of the nomination of M. Fould as Mini ster of Finance, concludes as follows :—" If we are well informed, this is not only to be considered as a personal change in the ministry, but as a political and financial event, which the Senate and Corps Legislatif could not fail to applaud." BERNE, Nov. 12. A note addressed by M. Thouvexel to Dr. Kern asserts on the authority of categorical statements made by General Faucheux that the territory of the Valley of the Dappenthal has not been even tem porarily violated by the French troops. A similar declaration has been made to the Federal Council by M. de Turgot, the French Ambassador. TURIN, Nov. 12. Another congress of workmen has just been held at Asti, and has expressed its disapproval of the deliberations of the last congress assembled at Florence. The province of Avellino is again disturbed by brigands. The King has returned to Turin. The journal Venezia publishes the following despatch ; " Yesterday a grand popular demonstration was made in the province of Viterbo. National flags, decorated witn the cross of Savoy, were displayed. " The people, taking advantage of its being the anniversary of the Italian plebiscite, demanded annexation to Italy." RAGUSA, Nov. 12. Ou Sunday last insurrectionary movements broke out at five different places in the district of Behac, in Bosnia, having altogether a population of 5,000 souls. VIENNA, Nov. 12. The resignation of M. Probatavara, the Minister of Justice, has been accepted. The Croatian Diet has been dissolved. A special Aulic Chancery for Croatia has been established at Vienna. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. There has been an important Cabinet Council to-day. It is almost certain that M. Fould accepted the Ministry of Finance. His programme is retrenchment in every branch of the Administration. A loan is not immediately necessary. Europe will be assured of the pacific inten tions of France. WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 13. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Seine, with the above mails, has arrived here, with 72 passengers, 736,163 dols in specie, pearls to the value of £4OO, plating to the value of £2,730, and 1,100 packages of cargo. Considerable excitement prevailed at Lima on account of the elections, during which a disturbance had taken place, when the troops fired on the assembled crowd, killing from eight to 20 persons. The French ship Infernal had been destroyed by fire at Valparaiso. The British storeship Nereus, which was anchored close by, suffered considerable damage. Her Majesty's ship Clio arrived at Panama on the 15th. The Termagant left Panama for Mexico on the 20th. At Valparaiso exchange on London was quoted 441 for GO to 90 days' sight ; on Paris, 4.60 to 4.62 ; on Hamburg, 383- to 39. Bar silver, per mare, 10.50 dols. Freights unaltered. The weather at Barbadoes was fine, and the crops were improving. The import market was generally depressed. Irish butter was in better demand. Exchange on London, 3.0 days' sight, 4921 ; private bills, 4821. Demerara,—Mr. Ilincka is to succeed Governor Wodehouse in the Government of British Guiana. The import market is e:ccessively dull. There is little produce for shipment. Sugars are advancing. Tonnage abundant. Exchange, drawing 90 days, per £lOO, 480; purchasing a.t 472. At Jamaica the weather ccintinind wet. Trade remained in much the same state as reported last mail. Coffee was scarce; lard, 70. per lb.; Irish butter, 131 d,; Pimento, 13., given freely; rum, 2s. Bd. for proof 18 in bond; sugar, fair quality, 19s. Exchange, 90 days, per cent. premium ;60 days, 1 per cent. premium. Freights dull. No charters. THE BELGIAN CHAMBERS. The following is a translation of the Royal speech : " Gentlemen,—lt is with very great satisfaction that I find myself again in the midst of that faith ful nation to which for more than 30 years I have been united by bonds of affection and confidence which time has only tended to strengthen. " The relations of Belgium with foreign Powers are maintained in conditions favourable to her interests and conformable to her duties of neu trality. "A treaty of commerce of the highest importance has been concluded during the course of the present year between Belgium and France. Its result will be to cement still more the good relations between the two countries. The same principles will be applied in our relations with Great Britain, and they will serve us as the basis of the negotiations which we will have still to open with other States. "We shall continue, moreover, to foster our commerce, as also our agricultural and industrial produce, by adding new means of communication to those already so numerous and varied that furrow our territory. " A convention recently concluded with the Netherlands has put an end to the difficulties which had arisen respecting the system of the waters of the Meuse. That arrangement will contribute to maintain our relations of good neighbourhood with a friendly nation whose illustrious Chief I had the happiness to meet on a recent occasion in the patriotic city of Liege. "The reports of the results of our harvest are not so unfavourable as it was at first presumed they would be. Abroad the harvests are, generally speaking, satisfactory in those countries that export their grain, and the liberal system adopted in Bel gium allows it to be said that the deficiency will be easily suplied by commerce. " Various important laws presented in the sessions of 1859 and 1860 will, I hope, be discussed and voted this session. " Other projects of not less interest will be sub mitted to your deliberations. " Our militia laws have long stood in need of reform ; a project will be laid before you which, correcting in au administrative point of view the vices of the actual system, will have for object to assure an equitable compensation to those who devote a portion of their youth to the noble career of arms for the service of the State. This reform will, I doubt not, be attended with the most happy results for the good constitution of the army, so deserving of our solicitude. " The Civic Guard rivals it in patriotism and zeal, and the great success which the institution of the national rifle practice has obtained in its ranks attests its lively desire to attain as great a perfec tion as possible. "Public instruction in every branch, literature, science, and the fine arts, concur towards the general progress of the country, and find from my Govern ment, as well as from the Chambers, a sympathetic and constant support. Tie last exhibition at Ant werp threw additional lustre upon the Belgian school, and the artists of every country assembled in our commercial metropolis found there that hos pitable welcome which they had a right to expect from the country of Reubens and of Van Dyck. " Despite the crises of various nature through which we are passing, our financial condition is satisfactory. " The execution of the measures prescribed by the law for the revision of the cadastral operations is being actively carried out. " The system of personal contribution gives rise to founded complaints ; the law that established it shall be revised. " The abuses which have revealed themselves in the exercise of the electoral rights, and which could not be generalised without touching the honour of our representative institutions, call for repressive measures deserving the interest and approval of men of every opinion. " The necessity has also been recognised of filling up the vacanciesoffered by the existing legislation as well as regards the foundation and administration of property affecting study, as also the management and control of those belonging to worship. " Finally, gentlemen, the examination of the ques tions connected with judicial organisation having terminated, a law will be presented to you for the settlement of that important object. " The numerous labours which offer themselves to the activity of the Chambers allow fruitful results to be hoped for this session, " Representatives of the Nation,—May the spirit of maturity, of moderation, and of calmness which distinguishes the Belgian Chambers continue to prevail at your deliberations ; may the same pa triotism inspire you, and, thanks to the active and benevolent support which I claim from your confidence, my Government will know how to con solidate and perfect the national work, undertaken in common, and placed under our common guardian ship." FRANCE. The Roman Liberals having caused a fine paint ing, representing the Angel of the Resurrection, to be executed by the Roman artist, Cassimir De Rossi, in order to present it to Prince Napoleon, as a token of their gratitude for his celebrated speech on Italy in the Senate, H,1.H., on receiving this present, has addressed the following letter to the committee entrusted with the matter : " Gentlemen,—After a long absence I have just received the painting which you have offered me in the name of the Romans. Devoted to the cause of Italy, because it is that of liberty and progress, I am deeply touched with this testimony of sym pathy. I beg of you to express my acknowledg ments to your fellow-citizens, and to assure them that I shall not cease making every effort to have their wishes realised.—Receive, &c., "NAPOLEON (Jerome)." BOURSE, Nov. 12.—Thn market has acquired renewed buoyancy, and stock having been in de mand, prices show an advance on the closing rates of yesterday. Threes, for the account, are now quoted at 69f. 30c. The Railway Share Market has been also animated, and the prices of most of the lines aro rather higher. The following are the latest quotations :- 41 per per Cents 97 — I Do. end month 97 10 1 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 35 Bank Shares 2960 Credit Mobilier 760 Do. Account 762 50 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1355 --1356 25 Northern .... New ditto •• Lyons and Meditcrre.nean 1030 Geneva 1032 50 657 50 .. 660 Southern 530 25 .. 537 50 Western Eastern 577 50 .. 580 350 Austrian Sardinian 5OB 510 Lombard Credit Fonder llBO Belgian .. 99 75 Piedmontese Fives, 68 75 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes 49 Rome Debt We are aware from private sources (says Aris's Birmingham Gazette) that there is a movement on foot in this country for assisting the Hungarians, and that it has active emissaries in this town. Secret correspondence is being carried on with the leaders of the Hungarian party, arms have been purchased in considerable quantities, and are understood to have safely reached their destination. THE COMMERCIAL RELATIONS OF ENGLAND AND INDIA. - At a meeting of the Manchester Chamber of Com merce, held on Monday, it was determined to appoint a do putation to wait upon Lord Elgin, to call the attention of his lordship to the commercial relations of England and India. This proposition was determined upon in consequence of Lord Elgin's appointment to the Governor-Generalship of the Indian peninsula. Some samples of Punjaub silk were submitted to the chamber, and they were proncunced to be "of first-rate quality," and likely to be favourites in the English market. These samples were forwarded with a re quest that the opinion of the chamber on their merits might be sent to the Lords Committee of the Privy Council of Trade. It appears that great preparations have boon made to furhish this silk from IThariteir. THE EDUCAIION COD F. DEPUTATION TO LORD PALMERSTON. A deputation on the subject of the revised cede heed an interview with Lord Palmerston at Cam bridge-house yesterday. The deputation consisted of members of the Central Committee of School masters, representing the entire body of certificated teachers. Several members of parliament had ex pressed sympathy with the object of the deputation, and would have accompanied it on this occasion, hut the day haring been fixed by his lordship earlier than was at first expected, there was not sufficient time to summon them from the country. Mr. RANDALL and other members of the depu tation addressed his lordship, dwelling more par ticularly upon the injustice done to certificated teachers by the withdrawal of the augmentation grant ; the fallacy of payments for the results as applied to the elementary education of the poor, owing to the migratory character of the population ; the expensiveness of the new system by the employ ment of additional inspectors ; and the lowering the standard of education which would follow the pro posed change. It was also urged that by the pro visions of the revised code, Government aid would be withdrawn from poor schools, while schools in wealthy districts would receive a large proportion of the grant. Several instances were also cited to show the extent to which schools would suffer by the new regulations. Lord PALMERSTON said he was always glad to obtain information from those who wore in a posi tion to impart it, and that he was at all times will ing to listen to any arguments that might be ad duced by those who were practically engaged in the education of the people. His lordship also intimated that the points which had been submitted to him should have due consideration by the Government in any future legislation on the subject. SIR R. PALMER ON LAW - REFORM. The Solicitor General presided at the meeting of the Law Amendment Society, on Monday night. He said he thought the time was now come when a greater amount of the society's attention should be directed to the amendment of defects in the substance of the law than had hitherto been given to that part of the subject. No one could help feeling that the law was unsystematic, and that in many respects it was productive of injustice. There was a pretty general agreement amongst that branch of the profession to which he belonged that it was in the highest degree desirable to simplify land transfers and land titles. But he for one felt that there was a little disposition to shut our eyes to the inherent difficulties of the object. It might be desirable that the transfer of land should take place with the same facility as the transfer of stock; but then it was not desirable that one man should have an easy mode of selling the property of another man. With regard to titles, if any system of clearing them by Parliamentary process could be devised without injury to anyone, he should be ready to apply it to any extent. He did not think any scheme which would lessen the dominion of the owner over his property, or which would make it less valuable for useful purposes, would be accept able to the possessors of land, and he doubted if it would conduce to the prosperity of the country. Anything which would deprive them of the power of making settlements, with all those varie ties of provision to which they were accustomed, would be a sacrifice of substance to form. He should be deeply indebted to the society or to any others, if they suggested a mode which, without depriving them of these advantages, would give them the benefit of simplicity. Whether the Go vernment intended to introduce any measure on this subject he was as ignorant as they were. Were it otherwise he would not speak of it. If entrusted with such a measure he should endeavour to give it effect; With regard to patents, upon the assump tion that they were to be continued, there were two great desiderata. One was that there should be some rational and satisfactory definition of the sort of inventions which patents were meant to protect ; and the other that there should be some better mode of sifting away those which were ob viously useless and bad. If the invention did not involve a new principle or a new process it ought not to be the subject of a patent at all. He did not think the suggestion made at the Social Science Meeting of having somebody to decide beforehand the validity or the invalidity of an invention was practicable ; but he thought there should be some mode for rejecting what was frivolous, even by ex parte process—all showing the applicant for a patent the right of appeal. The next point on which he would touch was with regard to the appointment of a Minister of Justice ; and here he must confess he was disappointed at the non-fulfilment of the pro mise made by the Society that they would digest a scheme for the establishment of a department of justice. INCIDENT IN LORD BYRON'S LIFE. The following interesting letter, signed "John Robertson," appears in the A thenceunt :—" I have recently met here in Brighton two Aberdonians who were schoolfellows of Byron at the Aber deen Grammar School. From them I have gleaned the particulars of an unpublished and remarkable adventure in the school life of the poet. Prior to relating it, however, I cannot omit remarking how vividly and freshly these septuagenarians still recollect the scene which occurred in the school when the name of Byron was first called out, with the prefix Dominus.' The surprise of his schoolfellows, themselves generally the sons of well to-do bur gesses and professional men, darting into Byron's mind the conviction that the charm of equality was henceforth broken between himself and his play fellows, the tears started into his eyes as he an swered adsum! Not long afterwards he left Scot land for England. But I took up my pen to re l a t e how the poet was nearly lost in a graveyard during a snowstorm, when he was but a small boy. Th e boys attending the grammar school, wh o were simultaneously learning writing, had every day at twelve o'clock to cross the graveyard of the parish church of Saint Nicholas on their way from the grammar scho o l t o th e S c h oo l Hill , to the writing school in St. Nicholas-street. One memorable day,on issuing from the grammar school, these boys confronted such a storm of snow and hail as has but rarely visited even the northern city at the mouth of the Dee. Under the shelter of the high wall of the churchyard the boys battled their way against the wind and the drift as far as the gate. But, here, the weaker boys were driven back by the hurricane, and remained, not daring to turn the Thethe elder r o a r t rier ldst o r r on l g ea e v r e ho t y h s e a s l h o e u lt e er ve o n f tu th re e d w a a c l r l o . ss wide, open, and exposed graveyard. Two of these offered a hand each, however, to little By ron , an d all three dashed into the blinding anadsboenweildofertinhge drift. My informant , Dr. _ , w two lads. No sooner had they entered the storm than the boys-were overpowered by it, and let go their hold of each other, for it was then every one for himself. My informant w as sea t e d in the evening with his family, when a servant came in great alarm, sent by Mrs. Byron to inquire if anything were known of the fate of her son, who had been missing since the morning. His school fellow could only answer that every one having had to shift for him se lf, h e h a d l ost hi m am id st t h e snow in the churchyard ; the only hope he could suggest being that Byron had found shelter under a tornbstene,—flat tombstones, resting on stones at each end, abounding in the churchyard. Dr. believes, to this day, that men were employed to search the churchyard and under the tombstones with lanterns ; that they discovered little Byron under one of them, only just in time to save his life. But this is a mistake. The other day I met a very old acquaintance of mine, known to me as a schoolfellow of Byron at the Grammar School of Aberdeen, Mr. Cruickshank. recently clerk to the County Court at Greenwich. When I was narrating to him this snow-storm story, as told to me by Dr. , he apprpved of the narrative until I mentioned the supposition of the shelter under a tombstone, when he e xclaimed, No such thing ! I was with him,—the w eaker boys could not get into the churchyard at all. We could not leave the School Hill, and we f o und shelter in the ed evening,sa t waiting tin gltwas until Mr. Leslie Cruickshank's hosiery;in whose kit c h en ourwefriends wereends f dried fetched d warmed, u s it whilst waiting in this kitchen that I first perceived t something of the poet i n Byron, or to while away the time he ris..hae slight beautifulmayepbtl.ese easily sail discrepancy ey explained, out p of a the ed ' Arabian Nights.'in these theh adventure at little Byron slipped out o f th e hands of his stout er co mrades the instant he felt the full force of the storm, and Was the n d r i ven to wards the churchyard gate." accounts soupnptsoroifog that