The Sun. — London, England, 1861-11-19 00:00:00

'l` - ' ~*. 0 YAL ENGLISH OPERA, ,JLIU COVENT GARDEN. Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. Wm. Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING (first time) THE TOY MAKER. Mr. Henry Haigh, G. Pyrie ; Mesdames Susan Pyne and Thirl- Wall, After which, at Eight o'clock, LURLINE. 31180 L. Pyne, Mesdames Jessie M'Lean and Thirlwall ; Messrs. Santley. H. Corri, C. Lyall, ratey, and W. Harrison. 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-„re-M an %ger, Mr. Leigh Murray. Acting- Manager, Mr. Edward Murray. 1 9 - I . d EA THE. ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Lesmee, Mr. J. B. Bactstone. THIS EVENIN(T, the performances will commence with THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dun dreary, Mr. S , )thern. Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Farren, Mrs. C: Young, To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Mank,Yer—Mr. Edmund Falconer. 'l' 1 lIS EVENING, GONE TO TEXAS. Mr. Walter Lacy, Mrs. St. Henry. After which, at a quarter to Eight (9th time) the new and original Drama, entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles BPlby, Edmun Falconer ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Ch itterton. Prices as usual. Doors open at halt-past 6, to commence at 7 Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.... Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris. Tills EVENING, THE MERRY WIVES OF WIND SOR. Sir John Falstaff', Mr. Ryder (his first appearance in that character.) Messrs. G. Jordan, A. Widdicomb, &e. To conclude with BLUE JACKETS. EW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL 1 Sole Proprietor and Manazer, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE PRETTY HORSEB -tEAKER. 31r. J. L. Toole, Mr. P. Bedford, and Mis 3 Woolgar. Atter which, the new drama, entitled TEE OCTOROON; or, LIFE IN LOUISIANA ' • written by the author of "The Colleen Bawn," and in which Mr. and Mrs. D. Botteicaalt will appear. A New Musical Introduction has been kindly pre sented by Sicatior Benedict, and will be performed by the Orchestra, which has been re-organised, and will be con ducted by Mr. Riviere, by whom the incidental music has been selected and composed. The following artists will make their 2d appearance:-31r. G. Jamison, from the Winter garden, New York ; Miss Latimer, from the provincial thea tres • and Miss Denvil, from the Lyceum. The other prin cipal characters in the drama will be performed by Messrs. Emery, Stephenson Billinc, , ton, Paul Bedford, Romer, Mrs. Killington, Mrs. Marston, Sze., &c. Entirely new scenery by Messrs. Dalby and Thompson. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr. Toole, Miss K. Kelly, .tc. Doors onen at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. NEW ROYALTY THEATRE, Dean-street, Oxford-street. Under the Direction of Mdlle. Albina di Rhona. THIS EVENING, to commence with ATAR GULL, Messrs. Sinclair, Graham, Butler, D. James, Worboys, d;0.; Misses Clifford and Terry. After which, Mdlle. di Rhona will appear In CAMELIA, and Dance two National Dances. Seventh appearance of Mr. Hall, who will perform Two Bolos on his Magic Bugle. Box-office open from 11 to 5. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at Seven. C kNTERBURY HALL CONCERTS AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. MR. SAM COWELL EVERY EVENING, at len o'clock, jn his New Songs, "THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT," and " THE WHOLE HOG OR NONE" (written ex pressly for him). Grand Selections from STRADELLA and LA TRAVIATA, By Miss Russell, Migs Ernst, Mr. Herbert, and Signor Tivoli, with a powerful Chorus. Tho Comic department comprises all the principal favourites of the day, v'z. : Mr. Sam Cowell ; Mr. Marshall, in his new song, "John Bull, you don't bamboozle me ;" Messrs. Harvey and French (the Nerves); Mr. Wood and his talented son, the best neg,ro de'ineators; and Miss Harriet Covcncy Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission —Hall, Bd. ; Stalls and Balcony, is. I . IIIE 0 X F O R D, 6, OXFORD-STREET. EVERY EVENING. Anber's New Comic Opera, " LA CIRCASSIENNE," and Verdi's new Grand opera, " Simonßoccanor.r,ra," by the entire Company. Balfe's new ballads by Miss Russell and Madame 16..derssohn (composed expressly for them). Varied Comic Entertainments by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. W. Ran dal:, Harvey and French (The Nerves), E. Marshall, and SAM COWELL. Hall, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, lOs. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 2h. 48m.—Afternoon, 3h. sm. To-mounow.-Morning, 3h. 22m.—Afternoon, 3h. 36m. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Novintszit 19, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 32 —'s ighest since noon yesterday. 24 —lowest this morning and during the night. 35 —this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.51; a great rise. lirtwn—South-Westerly; light, with fine, yet bitter frosty weather. LONDON, TUESDAY, NOV. 19, 1861. A crisis has really come at last for President LINCOLN and the Free States. The Government mry tide over it without any remarkable move. ment, but it is to the last degree improbable. The promised month of action has passed away, the month of compulsory inaction in a country deluged in January is very near, and retirement into winter quarters without a single retrieving blow struck, while crushing expenses were going on, must break up the confidence of the Northerns in their Go vernment, and destroy their harmony among them selves. The great Expedition is the card now played, how successfully we must learn before long. It is hardly reasonable, however, to expect from it any such action as will materially affect the fortunes of the war. A larger success of the Cape Hatteras style would appease Northern craving for a while, but we cannot yet imagine any which would materially affect the strategic position of things. Indeed, if the expedition were meant to bear directly on the position of the rebel army at Manassas, Fort Monroe, which the North already holds, ought to hive been the coast basis of operations. We rather suspect, therefore, that the Armada of the North is destined for flash work, rather than for a move ment of substantial importance. Of course a short time may agreeably disappoint us all, but things look like it. The authorities evidently reel, themselves, that they must do something. General M'CLELLAN, At Washington, and Mr. Secretary CAMERON, at New York, both speak in the same tone. The General asserts that the war cannot be long, although it may be desperate ; which, if it means anything, means that he is preparing for a decisive battle, The Secretary being engaged in a loan hunt, assures them of victory on the authority of the General who would pledge his life on it only they must be pat i e n t t il l he had completed his pre parations. Evidently, the pu% lie impatience presses on both the civil and mi li ta r y authorities. Well it may. Hitherto the North has known little but re verses along the thousand miles of its military ope rations. At this moment it is held in check from Fort Monroe on the Atlantic coast to Lexington on the Missouri. In Missuuri and Kentucky it is almost beaten ; in Virginia it dares not advance be yond sight of 'the river. The Capital is belea guered, and dares not venture even on a sally, or if it makes one is utterly routed; while, though an armada can sail for the South, the Confederates hold with their batteries the whole stream of the Potomac, and actually are preventing the sup ply, by sea, of Washington itself. The Northern army with the large city it defends are thrown upon 'what a single line of rails can bring them ! We are told that even coals are becoming a luxury. The South is blockading the North! A move, therqfore, there must be soon. The removal of General the occasion et grave FRE MONT may be also difficulties. It is said the slaveholder s i n - K tackY favourable to the.Unioll did not like him. It is certain, however, that he was very popular in the West, and the rumour may prove true that there they would rather make him dictator than continue under the reign of a pro slavery and inefficient President. There can be no doubt that FREMONT'S chief offence at Washington is his Anti-slavery principles, and this brings out afresh the grand blunder or crime of LINCOLN, or rather of his supporters. The President, no doubt, follows popular feeling—that feeling in the North is strongly against emancipation ; not only this treatment of FREMONT, but the precise instructions of Mr. CAMERON to the new expedition prove this. They must therefore take the conse quences—which are separation. When anticipating, at the beginning, as sured victory for the North, we did not think the North as foolish as it is criminal. We well knew its bitter and cruel hatred of the negro, but we did suppose it would make the Southern negroes its allies, not its enemies. It now appears that its contempt and hatred of negroes is so great, that, though conquest is impossible without their aid, that aid will not be accepted. Let the North, therefore, bear its righteous punish ment. Let it lose the Union. Let it become for perpetuity what it is now, a clique of negro hating and protectionist States, saddled with a heavy debt. We now feel no pity for it: It has disappointed our best hopes, and we must feel towards it as we do towards those who have dis appointed us. The South has not done that, it was too bad for it; but it is mortifying indeed to find the North only a shade better. The de ciding hour is, however, nearly arrived. The North must gain a victory or two, if it can, and then the sooner it bids for peace the better. The Union is gone for ever, and the sooner the slave holders and slave-hunters come to terms the fewer widows and orphans will bewail the pro-slavery folly of the Washington Government. It will be very inconvenient to many honourable members if the working classes should really take their own question in hand. The real reason for the failure of the bill of 1860 was just the fact, that those whom it was proposed to enfranchise made no sign of wanting the franchise. " The apathy of the country" was the stock argument; and It was the apathy of the working men. The middle classes could not be expected to put them solTes out of the way to confer the franchise on those next to themselves in the descending scale. As a body they form an electoral aristocracy, and they did not over-much relish the possibility of being swamped by the working men. If, therefore, the working men were content to be unrepresented the present electors were also quite content to leave them so. Then, as to the Government, no one be lieved that that had any heart to the work. At the same time, the House of Commons was but too well pleased to save itself an early visit again to the country, and gladly joined in giving the subject the go-by. It was, however, the silence of the working men which was at the bottom of all, for had they unanimously and jointly spoken out, nei ther Members of Parliament nor the Government, nor the electors generally, would have dared to show indifference. We have already had the appeal of the Glasgow Trades' Societies to their fellow trades all over the kingdom ; this week we have the Reform Con ference of all classes, sitting in Leeds, to settle, if they can, a plan of united action for all classes of Reformers. The idea is a good one. Whatever is effected must be effected through com- nation, and combination to be available must be the result of conference. The Glasgow Trades, with excellent generalship, as it strikes us, pro posed, while not prejudicing their claim of right to much more than they asked, to confine them selves to asking in the first instance what Parlia ment and the QUEEN had already sanctioned. As at present advised, it seems to us the Conference could not do better than accept the Glasgow pro gramme. They will thus have a hold both oa the Government and the House, which they could not have for any other proposal. Their reasoning would be conclusive. " You read the Bill a second time. You shuffled it out of the House before the third reading, because you said we did not care about it—we now tell you we do, and that but for false confidence in you, we should have told you so sooner; now, therefore, read it a third time, and make it the law of the land. The meeting itself appears to be one of the right kind." All classes are represented in it. Members of Par liament take their part, and so does the late Chair man of the Ante-Corn Law League —a thorough man of business, who, indeed, took the chair the first day. He strongly insisted on the unfair ness of the present franchise. Allowing that about five millions were fairly represented by the 1,221,000 who have votes already, the re- 1 maining 23,000,000 had no more to do with the Government of the country than had the inhabi tants of Austria itself. "Grievous, however, as was the limitation of the suffrage, in his opinion it was nothing in comparison to the distribution of electoral districts, There were 405 borough members, representing 250 boroughs, but, as an instance of disproportion and unfairness, he mentioned Thet ford, where two members represented 4,000 people, but were elected by 216 voters, whereas Mr. Baines, M.P. for Leeds, represented a population of 200,000, and 7,000 voters. He also instanced Manchesterand the West Riding constituencies, as compared with other smaller ones having the same extent of representative influence, and mentioned the case of 24 members who were returned by 3,847 voters —not one-half the constituency of Leeds. He would advise the advocates of a redistribution of seats not to recede for one moment from the position they occupied, because it might be said their argu ments were founded on extreme cases. An actual majority of the House of Commons-330 members —was actually elected by no more than 160,000 or 170,000 voters, whereas the whole voting power of the three kingdoms was 1,200,000. He showed how absurd was the ery of danger to the Crown, or even to the House of Lords, though the latter was not very popular ; but he did not believe that extended representation would affect the character of the House of Commons itself. It might be supposed that there would be a great in flux of working men into the House of Commons, but he showed that working men could not afford either the time or the money to live in London and devote their whole services to their constituencies. All that they wanted was that intelligent and responsible men might be admitted to the privi. lege of voting for one or more of the candidates who might be presented to their notice every seven, five, or three years, as the case might be. That was the whole extent to which it was proposed by this re volutionary measure to carry out the importation of new electors into the enjoyment of the franchise. What did a man pay for that enjoyment? The taxation of the country was £2 Bs. a-bead on every man and woman and child in the country, and at that rate every head of a family representing five persons in seven years would have to pay £B4 for of giving a vote. A fte r t h at , was i t worthth There purpose u r proposedrYPhisl seemed re of the discussing ? g revolutionary the tendency to be a consid:awbildeeperxedteonmsiinonanocef Of actual opinion in favour o f suffrage—perhaps manhood suffrage—for the meet ing was called by the Leeds Working Men's Par liamentary Reform Associationl; the ballot was held to be essential, and the redistribution of seats also ; the prevailing tone of the meeting, however, was moderation, and this is just what will make it formidable. We 411 remember how M. BILLAULT refused to license the transfer of a Paris paper from more fie ry and extreme men to some gentlemen of great respectability and mode ration, because he observed it was just these quali ties which made them dangerous; the other kind of opposition did the Government good. This will not improbably be the case now. Lord PALMERSTON could overlook and snub O'CoNNoR deputations and petitions, but the respectfully worded and moderate petitions of tens of thousands of working men no Minister can afford to despise. They will show a measure of practical sense—as well as rest on the solid foundation of right—which will force attention. The very moderation, as BILLAULT said, will prove their power. It will be an unanswerable answer to all calumnies ; and will show an amount of good sense which can no longer be trifled with; We have frequently taken occasion of late to direct attention in these columns to the extraordi nary rise, advance, and expansion of the general prosperity noticeable in our Canadian provinces. We have done so mainly with a view to the en couragement thither of the chief part of the vast and increasing tide of emigration from the shores of the old mother country, and of immigration into her remote and scattered colonial pos sessions. We have remarked at one time, upon the astonishing fertility and fecundity of the soil in that favoured portion of our gigantic North American territories. We have descanted, at another time, upon the liberality of the political institutions there regulating the affairs of the Cana dian population. Now we have commented upon the geographicaladvantages recognizablein Canada in respect—to the extent of her magnifieent seaboard on the Atlantic—to the grandeur of her inland seas, meaning those stupendous lakes dividing her southern boundaries from the northern frontiers of the " some time" United States—to the wondrous length of inland navigation secured to the two Canadas along the broad bosom of the mighty cur rent of the St. Lawrence. Yet, often though we have written of late, and at length, upon this fruit ful theme, it is almost superfluous to add that the subject is still very far indeed from being exhausted. In illustration of this it is only necessary to refer, for example, to another branch of it not yet touched upon. A branch, it will be found in every way eminently suggestive—and in many respects full of encouragement to the well-wishers of Canada generally, and to intending emigrants to Canada in particular. We refer to the recently gathered statistics in relation to the growth of the chief towns and cities of Canada and the astonishing increase of their population. The development of the resources of the colony implied by this in crease in the number, and therefore also of the wealth, and energy, and activity of the inhabitants, may be readily appreciated upon a glance at a few of the more remarkable of these surprising sta tistics. Let it be recollected, then, that thirty years ago—namely, in 1831—Montreal and Toronto each contained a population of about 27,000 ! Montreal—the largest city in Canada—has now somewhere about 110,000 inhabi tants ! Toronto—ranking next—about 80,000 in habitants ! This, when, as we have said, but 30 years since each only contained within it a population of 27,000 ! Again, as if in striking corroboration of the truth of the assertion, recently put forth by competent witnesses yonder in Canada, vis., that " other towns and cities are not deprived of their population to swell that of more favoured and prosperous communities"—let us instance the case of London, in Upper Canada. There, in 1850, were collected together exactly 5,124 inhabitants. Within six short years from that date, i.e. in 1856, the 5,000 and odd had in creased to-15,000. More need hardly be said after this in demonstration of the growth of the prosperity of our Canadian provinces. We believe it is intended that the Prince of Wales shall visit the lonian Islands shortly after Christ mas, and then proceed to Syria and Egypt. His Royal Highness will return to England before the opening of the Great Exhibition. THE SHAKESPEARE FUND.—The Prince Consort has just sent his name as a subscriber to the Shakespeare Fund for the sum of £lOO. Herr Carl Formes has received the " Alolphs Order," from the Duke of Nassau. It is stated that the famous St. Martin's Hall is to be converted into a " Canterbury," The subscription to the Shakspere fund, esta blished by Mr. Halliwell, has reached £2,706. Prince Leopold of England, who was expected at Toulon at 6 p.m., on Tuesday last, did not arrive there till 9 p.m. Lord Brougham arrived at Toulon the same evening on his way to his residence at Cannes. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.—The Norwich Poli tical Union has adopted a memorial to Lord Palmerston, praying his lordship to take some action on the subject of Parliamentary Reform. The Union is also endeavouring to revive the Reform agitation in Norwich. THE FRENCH STEAMERS.—We (Herapatls) hear that the Emperor Napoleon has eight steamers of 3,206 tons each building or to be built on this side of the Channel for the West India service, the individual cost of which is to be £llB,OOO, with £12,000 each for furnishing. The steamers for the East are said to be of 4,000 tons each, and to cost £lBO,OOO. There is also to be a line of larger ships than those for the West Indies to go to North America. We wonder whether the £10,000,000 deficit of his Imperial Majesty will act as any oar to his steam navigation enter prises. THE LATE LORD DUDLEY STUART.-A meeting of the Polish Historical Society was held yesterday at Sus sex Chambers, Duke-street, St. James's, to commemo rate the seventh anniversary of the death of this de parted champion of the cause of Poland. In the absence from London of the president and vice-president of the society the chair was occupied by Major Gielgud, who, re calling the great servleets reuaet.a by the, lets nnbleman to Poland, deplored his loss, at this time of the mani;estations of national life in all parts of the country, when his perse vering efforts to defend the rights of Poland before the public opinion of England would, no doubt, have proved of national assistance it , obtaining them, and expressed a hope that others, no less zealous friends of the cause, will not neglect. Colonel Wiercenski and several other gentlemen spot e to the same effect, when the meeting separated, after a vote of thanks to the chairman. The " EVIL EYE" IN IRELAND.—An extraor dinary assault case was heard at Mitchelstown, the other day. A man, named Thomas Quinn, stated that ihe was sent for by John Condon, John Condon, jun., and Mrs. Condon—the defendants in the case—to their house, where ho went; and that the defendants dragged him into the piggery in the yard, and assaulte I him ; that they insisting on his spitting on three large pigs which defen dants were preparing for market, alleging that com plainant had some days previously cast an evil eye on the pigs, and by some witchcraft or necromancy prevented them from using their food for seven days. Sub-constable Macauley deposed that he was sent for to compel Quinn to remove the charm from the pigs. —Mr. O'Mara : My de fence is, that the defendants state most emphatically that complainant came to their house, stood over their pigs, and by some mysterious or unholy spell or influence prevented them from using food for seven days. Your Worship may terceive, on looking at Quinn's vulpine countenance, he has an evil eye. (Loud laughter.) The defendants sent for him to remove the evil he had done, and sent for the police to induce him to do so. Quinn refused, and said, "iw‘nGagtsandoert herd p thempocket the f eke:t a to the d—l." Defendants then went to so Q s c i w en i t pigs, prophet is. matter, who directed d e f en d an t s t o procure Q u i nn ' s stock -chtuanaldlykegrocht iethf,eandboil stockingsth e b m a , il a e n d d , a g n i d ve ga th ve e Defendant, n e nddtahnet): were Con d a o s n b r e a i c n i g ous br as ot h h a er wt to uinn' s the water t o the pigs, instanter. (Loud laughter.) —Mr. Browne :Itis a most sad and deplorable exhibition to see utterly ignorant a s t o b elieve in thersoodnisouofs ysonuprerasgtietiosno y w o h u i r c h a t y t o o r n u s e e y e . m L t o e t l a e b a o c u h r o u f n t d h e e r d i e n f this nt c s be' a fi s ne s d ta — te J d oh b n Condon, 2s. 6d.; his son, Is. ; hi s wife, Is. ; and costs,— 1 Cork Examincr. 4,4 % .... .1,1 4, 4. a. . t . '. ' tit t 0- 1i ' , # • . . . ~,,,,, ei t t ..c x • - d . , Az. -,1 / 4 ..L. .. * - If 4-7 •bi a'' ' . , rA... ....., .0 , , TII E SUN. THE SUN, LONDON,' _TUESDAY EVENING, No' The accounts from St. Petergbo , navigation is closed, Chris` state that the After the play lago a 1 - T holidays, M. Fechter wit .ornately with Othello,—Athenceum. Y NN AND HIINSTANTON RAILWAY.—The first sod of this line was turned in the course of last week. The project was first brought before the rublic in the autumn of 1855, and a commencement has at last been made with the works. SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.—During the week ending Nov. 16 the visitors have been as follows :—On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, free days, 4,414; on Mon day and Tuesday, free evenings, 3,267 ; on three students days (admission to the public 6d.), 895 ; one students' even ing, Wednesday, 95:.—total, 8,671. From the opening of the Museum, 2,350,910. CALLS TO THE BAR.—The following calls to the bar were made yeste rday :—Lincoln's-inn: Lewis Morris, jun., Esq., M.A., Oxford (certificate of honour, firsi; class); Edmund Wyndham, Esq., 8.A., Oxford; Wm. Edward Hall, Esq., M.A., Oxford; Charles Bertie Pulleine Bosan quet, Esq., M.A., Oxford ; George Tyrrell, j an., Esq., B.A. Cambridge; Samuel Hess Behrend, Esq., M.A., London; Hugh Barklie Blundell M'Calmont, Esq., 8.A., Cam bridge; Edward Christopher Corballis, Esq., 8.A., Dublin; Anthony John Anstruther Wilkinson, Esq., 8.A., Cam bridge; Edmund Story Maskelyne, Esq., 8.A., Oxford ; Henry Brougham Miller, Esq.; Edward Thurstan Hol'and, Esq., 8.A., Cambridge; and William Lethbridge, Esq., M.A., Cambridge. Gray's-inn: Joseph Burgin, Esq., and William Nicholson, Esq. THE REV. T. BINNEY ON PULPITS.—At the opening of a congregational chapel at Stowmarket, the Rev. T. Binney, after alluding to private feelings which had induced him to come to Stowmarket, said he would now say a word about the place itself—that platform. (Cheers and laughter.) He was somewhat old-fashioned in his ideas, and he rather liked a pulpit. He was very decidedly opposed to a platform before he went to Aus tralia, but there he saw in many comparatively small churches, without galleries, a raised dais, with a table and desk. This ho liked very well in churches without galleries, but if they had a platform, he should say, do let them have what it pretended to be, and not those sort of wings which he found in it—(laughter)—and, again, the great iron spikes around it I (Laughter.) Ho would have all these things dono away with, and a plain rail in their place. Again, he never could see the use of setting a man to speak over a great soft pillow. (Laughter.) Coun cillors and members of Parliament did not speak over pil lows. and why in the world should preachers have to do so ? (Laughter.) He usually took them off when he preached, and, if he had not been a stranger, he should have taken the pillow off that morning. THE PROSECUTIONS FOR BRIBERY AT WAKE FIELD AND BEVERLEY.-Mr. Boyes, the defendant in the cases of bribery at the Beverley election tried at a recent York assizes, and who was convicted of the offence, has re ceived notice from the Crown to attend before the Court of Queen's Bench on the 22d inst., in order to receive judg ment. With respect to the Wakefield cases, it is supposed that the press of business on the present term will interfere to prevent Mr. Charlesworth's appeal from being argued before Christmas. Hr. Leatham will not, of course, be called up for judgment until the Conservative candidate's appeal has been considered. DEATH OF MR GODLEY.—WO regret to have to !announce the death of Mr. J. R. Godley, Assistant- Under Secretary for War, which took place on Sunday morning at his residence at Gloucester-place, Portman square. A commercial correspondent a few days back sug gested that it would be a service to trade if any new source could be pointed out for obtaining spirits of turpentine, the supply of which is interrupted by the blockade of the State of South Carolina, whence it has hitherto been chiefly im ported. In reply it is said that any quantity may be pro cured from the Canaries and from Greece, the quality from the former being equal to that of the American. Another writer says that it abounds in the Mosquito territory of Central America, and finally it is stated in the New York journals, and by the parties interested in the Atlattic and Great Western Railway, that the oil now obtained in enor mous quantities from the wells in Pennsylvania, with which that line communicates, has a large amount of this spirit available among its other constituents. The rates for money on the Continent are higher than in London at nearly all places, but the difference is not such as to create any expectation of an adverse movement of bullion. At Hamburg the terms are now much higher than usual—namely, 41 per cent.—a further rise having just boen caused by remittances of silver to Denmark and Russia, which have raduced the stock' in the Bank to an exceptionally low point. At Paris, in the open market, the charge is 41 to 5 per cent. ; at Brussels and Antwerp it is 4 per cent., and at Amsterdam and Frankfort 3 per cent. Intelligence was received yesterday of the loss in the Baltic of the steamer Lyon, from St. Petersburg. She was a fine iron vessel of 1,016 tons burden, and 380 horse-power, and was built in 1847. She had on board a general cargo, but it is believed that her departure was hastened on account of the approaching closing of the ports, and that therefore a quantity of tallow that was to have been sent by her was not all shipped. The loss will fall partly on Lloyd's, and partly on , the large marine offices. THE ART OF BORROWING.--" My dear," said a young Paris lady to a female friend, "do you believe that miserly X would lend me three thousand francs ?" X was the name of a well-known sporting man. "It depends upon chance," was the answer. "How shall I set about it ?" " Take a pen and write : My dear Alfred, I have been disappointed in the receipt of some money this morn ing. Could you bring me, this evening, three thousand francs, and at the same time carve a pheasant which I have just received F—ERNESTINE.' " And do you believe," when the letter was sent, " that I shall have my money ?" " With that note, my dear, you will not get any money." Why did you make me write it ?" " Because it was necessary that a first note should precede a second —do you understand ?" " No." gc Take your pen." " What I write again ?" " Three lines only :—" My dear Alfred, think of my note as not sent. Just after I had despatched it I received my money. Don't forget, however, to como and sup with me. The pheasant is superb." This letter was sent like the first. "Now, see what will happen," said the lady friend. " Alfred will feign not to have received your second letter, and will make a show of generosity when he thinks that you need no money. The rest is with yourself." All was executed according to form, the sporting man gallantly offered the 3,000 f., convinced that they would not be accepted; but, to his horror, the lady quickly pocketed the money. And, to add to his disappointment, no pheasant was there to eat. ROMANTIC CASE.— Galtgnani informs us that the agents on duty in the Marche du Temple noticed, a few days since, a young girl, apparently a vagrant, wh o was endeavouring to s :11 a hair ring, When as ng,a silyczbkoeod to givek-clasp, an and account of o i f ele h s er o se f lf,le trifling sl lu said that her name was Adeline Sauvais, that she was 13 years of age, and had been for seven years past with a company of montebanks, who had that morning abandoned her at Bicetre. When taken before the commissary of police, she repeated what she had already said, and also made the following statements :—" I was born at Thann, at Bischviller (Haut-Rhin). About seven years ago my mother sent me out for a walk with the ser vant, and we went into the mountains to drink new milk. Whilst there the servant entered a house and played and ran about till I got lost, when I met some mounteb nks and went with them. I had a prayer-book with me, of which they tore the leaves, so that I could not read what was written in ic , but I have kept the silver clasp. The com pany consisted of 14 persons, four of whom were girls of about my age. When the company left Bicetre the master would neither allow me to go with them nor let me have my clothes, but one of my companions gave me what I now wear." The girl persisted in this story before the tribunal, and the President postponed the further hearing till the 23d inst., in order that propor inquiries might be made in the mes.ntiiae. THE OXFORD MAN AND TUE CAMBRIDGE MAN. —lf stated very briefly, the chief difference may be said to be that the Cambridge man is more practical. Whether there is something in the method of training pursued, or whether the different degrees of importance assigned to the various branches of education may bo the cause, or whether the pitting of man against man in examinations may operate still more powerfully, the fact soon forces itself on tho at tention of all close observers. If two school friends part, and meet again after spending a year at the respective universi ties, they are soon conscious that they no longer work exactly in the same way. The Cambridge student has learned to rogard everything as a task which he must honestly and s eadily get through. To do it, and not think about it, is his aim. Still less does he occupy himself with thinking about doing it. He is too busy and methodical for the agreeable but delu,ive pleasure of secondary reflection. He has to master a subject, and all he cares is to master it, and to go through it, so that ho may satisfy the practical test of being examined in it and answering creditably. When ho leaves college and commences a profession he works in the same way. A law student from Cambridge, for instance, has generally no very romantic views either of his profes sion or of himself. Here is a very complex, confused, vari ous piece of learning which he has undertaken to acquire. To do the the thing well he must work hard, and must ut terly disbelieve that any knowledge will come unless it is painfully obtained. He must cultivate a legal memory, note carefully up all that he thinks he ought to know, and pre pare himself to be able to pass an imaginary examination at the shortest possible notice. The Oxford student, on the other hand, is more inclined to speculate about law, to dally with its details, and to despise its confusion. Cam bridge men, so to speak, approach law in a humbled atti tude, and are consequently, perhaps, as a rule, better lawyers after the received English fashion. A boating man who has shaved through a pass at Cambridge will probably read law precisely in the same way as a boating man who has shaved through a pass at Oxford. But if we compare the general body of men who have taken fair degrees or been accustomed to read, we shall find there is a difference in the manner In which the one and the other set approach a subject described b k y e slaawyi,ngantdhatht a t t he tha c tdiffer ambrid e g n e ce u T an ay ne f r ai i r s ly ta b: uaoro practioal.--katurday Review. _skivEVIBER 19, 1861. LATEST NEWS. PARIS, Nov. 19. Judgment has been given in the case of M. Mires and Count Pontalba, by the Tribunal of Commerce. Count Pontalba was ordered to repay to the share holders the sum of 1,700,000 f., which he had re ceived from M. Mires. He was also condemned in the costs. The Constztutionnel of to-day, in an article signed by Dr. Peron, says : "If we are well informed, Count Persigny, Mi nister of the Interior, has submitted to the Emperor a project for a disarmament, which would, however, maintain the regimental lists (cadres)." The same paper says :—" The Emperor will pay a visit to her Majesty Queen Victoria during the International Exhibition at London." BRESLAU, Nov. 19. The Administrator of the Archbishop of War saw has been arrested in pursuance of orders from St. Petersburg. The Prelate, who is ill, has been conducted to the citadel, and will be tried before a court-martial. The Government demands from the Chapter the election of another administrator. The Chapter, however, refuses to comply with this demand, and has appealed to Rome. MADRID, Nov. 18. The address of the Congress has been read. It approves all the points of the Queen's Speech. The Spanish vessels which were recently at Lisbon have left that port. PARIS, Nov. 18. The Pattie of this evening says :—" The Govern ment is now preparing a reduction of the army, but this will not cause any change in the system now in force, as all the existing regimental lists are to be maintained. "It is the intention of M. Fould not to propose any increase of taxes, which might fetter agriculture, industry, and commerce. A tax on chemical matches would fall on the consumer, by whom the charge would scarcely be felt. An increase in the price of stamped paper is also spoken of." The Patrie advocates the abolition of the tax on movable property, and the suppression of the turn stiles at the Bourse. TURIN, Nov. 18. The Opinion° and the Gazetta del Popolo of to day publish articles advising Baron Ricasoli to retain the portfolio of the Interior, and await the assembling of the Italian Parliament. General Cialdini has postponed his intended visit to Paris. Bixio fought a duel yesterday, in which it is said he was wounded in the hand by a pistol shot. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 19. The Teutonia, from New York on the 3d instant, has arrived here. She brings 90 passengers for Hamburg, two for Southampton, and 13 for Havre. On the 15th inst. she spoke the English schooner Pride of the Seas ; all well. The Teutonia encountered strong north-eastern gales throughout the voyage. CALCUTTA AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov.. 19. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ceylon, with the heavy portion of the Calcutta and Australian mails, has just arrived off the Needles. AUSTRIA. The Austrian Government has addressed a cir cular to its representatives at all foreign Courts, to be communicated by them to the respective Governments to which they are accredited, that the measures taken towards Hungary are essentially provisional until that country consents to accept the privileges granted to it by the Crown, instead of claiming those which belonged to it before the revolution of 1849. A letter from Pesth, dated 12th November, says:— " The provisional regime is now in force, but no disturbances have taken place. Yesterday the editors of all the newspapers were sent for by the head of the police, when a letter from the new Lieu tenant-Governor was read to them, in which he expressed his high esteem for public opinion, but at the same time admonishes them not to oppose the Government measures." The Ost-Deutsche Post publishes the Imperial edict by which the Croatian Diet is dissolved. PORTUGAL. Advices from Lisbon, of the lOth, announces that King Louis I. has taken the oaths to the Consti tution. The greatest tranquillity prevailed throughout the country. The reports respecting the health of Lisbon are not exact. After the obsequies of the late King the Court will spend a few days at Cintra. FRANCE. BOURSE, Nov. 18.—Sales for realisation have for the moment ceased, and buyers having come forward, prices have again improved. Threes, for the Account, are now at 69f 70c. Railway shares firm, and some lines higher. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents ... 96 35 Credit Foncier l2OO Do. end month.... Belgian 4f — 3 per Cents .. 69 651Piedmontese Fives. 68 55 Do. end month.... 69 80 Roman Bank Shares 2920 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 768 75 Spanish Threes 49 25 Do. Account 770 —; Homo Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1335 .. 1336 25 Northern .. 987 50 .. 988 75 New ditto 9lO .. Lyons and Mediterranean 1030 .. 1032 50 Geneva,. Southern 651 25 .. 652 50 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard .... .. .. 518 75 .. 520 TIIE REPRESENTATION OF FINSBURY.—As yet no decided move has been made in the borough respecting a successor to Mr. Duncombe, nor has an address been issued by any of the gentlemen whose names have been spoken of in connection with the vacant seat. The requisition to Colonel De Bathe is, however, being forwarded by several persons of influence in Finsbury, to whom Colonel De Bathe's name is suggested by the fact that he has been for several y ears a zealous and most active and useful friend of some of the benevolent institutions of the borough Many of the electors who expressed themselves desirous of securing Mr. Wakley's services have been informed that he is in Madeira, in so unsettled a state of health as to ren der it quite impossible for him to undertake Parliamentary duties. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AT AIDERSHOTT.— At the Aldershott Petty Sessions, held yesterday, John Nicholas was again brought up for examination. Since the last occasion at Odiham the prisoner has been confined in Winchester Gaol. His appearance has in no degree altered. Ho looks very wretched, and expresses great contrition. On his being placed at the bar, Sergeant Howard, of the Aldershott constabulary, again applied for a remand. Sur geon F. E. Reynolds was called, and said that he was in attendance on the wounded man. He saw him yesterday morning between 10 and 11 o'clock. He was stile in a very dangerous state, but it was impossible to say whether he is likely to die from his wounds or not. Re is a young man ; has a good constitution ; was a steady, sober person, and has everything in his favour. He was shot on the night of the 6th inst., so that yesterday was thet twelfth day since the occurrence. He had no doubt that in: a week he should be , able to give a positive opinion as to the chances of re covery or otherwise. Upon this evidence the prisoner was gain remanded to Winchester for a week. ROYAL ENGLISS OPERA. Mademoiselle Guerabella, the new Maid Marian, has by this time honestly established her position. That she has made a favourable impression on the public is unquestionable, and, to employ a hack neyed phrase, she may be looked upon as a " decided acquisition." On the first night of "Robin Hood" Mademoiselle Guerabella bad apparently so many enthusiastic friends among the audience that, amid the cheers and bouquets and recalls, we felt quite at a loss how to adjudge her merits fairly; but subse quent performances have vindicated her ability to dispense with all such artificial aids, and to win a genuine success without them. Mr. Wallace's " Lurline" has been revived during the past week, and presented in alternation with Mr. Macfarren's opera. The music has lost none of its grace, brilliancy, and charm, the piece none of its grotesque absurdity. Miss Louisa Pyne, Mr. Harrison, and Mr. Santley retain their original characters of Lurlins, her terrestrial lover, and the Riveraing ; while Miss Thirlwall still keeps that of Liba, who has to sing " Take this cup of spark ling wine" immediately after her mistress, On the first night, Mr. Santley being indisposed, the part of Rhineberg was undertaken at a few hours' notice by Mr. H. Corti, who was himself succeeded by M. Eugene Dussek in that of the Gnome. Mr. Corti not only won an "encore" in the ballad of "A father's love," but universal credit for the very able and effective manner in which he acquitted himself under such trying circumstances. Mr. Corti, through the readiness and good-will thus accidentally evinced, will stand higher than ever in public esteem. A new operetta, called " The Toy Maker," the book and music by Mr. George Linley, is to be pro duced to•night ; and another, for which Mr. Tom Taylor has supplied the words and Mr. Frederick Clay the music, is in preparation. Meanwhile. thnso patrons of the theatre who are pleased to see the repertory of our national opera enlarged and varied by contributions from new and competent pens, will be glad to hear that Mr. Howard Glover's " Ruy Blas," after a week's secession, has resumed its place in the bills. ADELPBI TBEAT.RE. THE OCTOROON. The long-promised American drama by Mr. Bourcicault—" The Octoroon"—was produced last evening, and, as might have been expected, an overflowing audience was attracted. Many no doubt imagines that another " sensation" drama, similar to the " Colleen Bawn," was to be pro duced, particularly as it was announced, in the bills of the play, that " the novel effects and mechanical contrivances " were the in vention of Mr. Bourcicault. Those, however, who entertained such notions must have been very much disappointed, and that feeling was not at all lessened by the tragic end of the drama. Another circumstance which, no doubt, led to much speculation was the slight sketch given in the bills of the law of Louisiana, touching the law of the Slave States of America ; and for what purpose it could have been put forth is not very clear, as it tends rather to mislead, for assuredly it has nothing at all to do with the new drama ; although, for our own part, we honestly confess we wish it had, especially as it is a cir cumstance highly dramatic, and in the hands of so acknowledged an author as Mr. Bourci cault, it could have been worked out in a most telling manner. The law, as mentioned in the bills, interdicts marriage between a white person and one in whom there is the slightest drop of black blood. It goes on to say, that a young planter having fallen deeply in love with a beautiful Octoroon girl, opened a vein in his arm, and, in the presence of two witnesses, infused three or four drops of his lady love's blood into his own, and thus he was enabled to take the required oath that he had black blood in his veins, and marry the girl on whom he had placed his affection. It cannot be denied this incident would have formed a much better one for illustration than that selected by Mr. Bourcicault, the more so as something very nearly approaching the main incident in " The Octoroon" has been done before in London. The piece we refer to is " The Creole, or Love's Fetters," produced at the Lyceum during the management of the Keeleys, and in which Mr. Emery sustained a part very similar to the one he pourtrayed last night. " The Creole" was certainly not an American piece, but we had all the villanies of Jacob M'Closky, in the " Octoroon," in the part of Latour, who eventually meets his death by his evil designs to secure the person of a beautiful girl supposed to be a slave, and of whom he, Latour, becomes the purchaser. The plot of the new drama is briefly as follows : The story is supposed to commence shortly after the arrival at Louisiana of George Peyton, a young gen tleman who has been educated in Paris, and comes to take possession of a plantation bequeathed to him by Judge Peyton, his deceased uncle. The estate has been brought to ruin by the mismanagement of two Yankee overseers, one of whom, Jacob M'Closky, is a villain, who has contrived to get half the plantation into his own hands, while the other, Salem Scudder, is a good-natured blunderer, who has unintentionally wrought mischief by the introduction of abortive inventions. Besides the estate, Judge Peyton has left behind him a natural daughter named Zoe, who, although the child of a Quadroon slave, has been brought up in every luxury. She is loved by both M'Closky and George, but her heart is given to the latter. While examining the papers of the late judge, M'Closky discovers that there has been some informality in Zoe's emancipation, and that if the estate be sold she must be sold with it as a slave. A remittance is expected from Liverpool, which will prevent the selling of the estate. M'Closky determines to ob tain forcible possession of the mail bags, which are supposed to contain the letter of advice. Paul, a negro boy, is sent for the letters, which he obtains, and with his friend, Wahnotee, an Indian, on their road home they fall in with Scudder's pho tographic camera. Little Paul sits down to obtain his portrait, and tells the Indian to raise the cover from the lens, run 60 yards, and return and recover the glass, the reward for which is to be some rum. This the Indian agrees to. Paul then arranges the machine and takes his seat on the letter-bags. The Indian lifts the cloth from the lens and rushes out, when M'Closky, not thinking of the action of the instrument, murders Paul with the Indian's toma hawk and then rifles the letter-bag and obtains the packet he is in search of. The Indian returns, finds Paul dead, and instantly breaks the camera, as he believes his little companion's death was caused by it. The sale of the estate is announced, and takes place. M'Closky had made it known that Zoe, with whom he is desperately smitten, is a slave, and he accordingly becomes her purchaser. M'Closky leaves for the purpose of obtaining the money to make his purchase good, and on going on board the Magnolia steamer he is informed of the death of the boy Paul, and he instantly accuses the Indian. This, however, is denied by Scudder, who produces the picture taken from the broken camera, in which the whole of the murder is clearly shown, and M'Closky is sen tenced to death by Lynch law. He is confined to the hold of the Magnolia, and here he perpetrates another villany by setting the vessel on fire, vainly hoping by such means to escape, but not before Scudder dis covers the stolen letters on his person. The Indian sees M'Closky escape, and follows him with the intention of revenging the death of poor little Paul. Zoe, ignor an t o f th e c h ange that has taken place i n affairs, and fearful of the return of M'Closky, provides herself with a vial of poison, and taking tender leave of George, contrives to swallow the contents of the vial in a glass of water, which he administers to her while appa rently fainting. The arrival of Scudder with the long-desired letter and remittance is too late, for the honest fellow, who has always felt a secret attachment to the Octoroon, finds her dyin g in the arms of her lover. Dramatic justice, is, how ever, accomplished by the Indian, who kills M'Closky on the grave of little Paul. The audience were unprepared for the death of Zoe, and made their disapproval manifest, but the majority of the audience drowned the sounds of disapprobation by loud applause. The acting of the piece was in all respects excellent. Mr. Bour cicault's Salem Scudder was a highly finished and nitural performance, and Mr. Emery's Jacob M'Closky was one of those rugged and villainous characters for the performance of which he has no equal on the London stage. A Mr. George Jamieson, from the Winter Garden, New York, made his first appearance as Pete, an old body slave, and a better actor than this gentleman has not crossed the Atlantic for years. His delineation of the half humorous, half pathetic, nigger was a performance of the very first order, and the audience testified their approbation of his efforts by the most enthusiastic applause. Mr. Billington, of course, was Zoe's lover, and Paul Bedford's little part in the drama tends very materially to lighten some of the heavier scenes. Mrs. Bourcicault, as Zoe, acted with great tenderness and pathos, but a much greater effect would have been produced had she been a little more sparing of her tears. With respect to the scenery, it is in all respects very good, but nothing out of the ordinary stage effect. The great scene of the drama is the slave sale in the house of Mrs. Peyton. It was very effec tively arranged, and deserved the applause it elicited. The only circumstance that militated against the success of the drama was the death of Zoe, and if that had been avoided the triumph of the piece would have been unmistakeable. SIR DR LAC,' EVANS ON THE VOLUMEER .MOVEILENT. The member for Westminster, in his recently issued address to his constituents, makes the following allusions to the Volunteer Movement, strongly advocating its ex t ens i on t o Ireland:— " I believe I was the first person who had the honour of presiding at a metropolitan meeting for the formation of a volunteer force. The progress of this spontaneous movement has been most interest ing. At first the Government were faint-hearted, or disposed to throw cold water upon it, the least in. telligent of the aristocracy feared it, the Peace party ridiculed or disparaged it, and yet the volun teers have already done more for peace than the so called Peace party will probably ever do. " Before the Crimean war, this party despatched a mission of peace to the Emperor Nicholas. The mission was most amiably intended, and had a re ception the most gracious and flattering ; but we all know with what species of success it was at tended. But now European tranquillity and national rights are more seriously menaced from another quarter than they ever were from the banks of the Neva. And the device recently hit upon by our esteemed pacific friends is that of diminishing our mean■ of resistance to foreign cupidity or am bition by setting treaty limits to the navy of Eng lane—Englat.d, whose existence depends on an ab solute maritime supremacy. But the Premier unan swerably explained, with his usual good sense, that this unwise proposition was far more likely to bring about misunderstandings and war than security or peace. "In 1807-8 General Sir Arthur Wellesley was Chief Secretary to the Irish Government. The fol lowing are from despatches of his to the then Secre tary of State for War, which have been recently published by the present Duke of Wellington ; The enclosed papers will show you the success with wriich the measures have been carried into execu tion which I proposed for prevailing upon the yeo manry companies to exercise together, and act in battalions throughout Ireland, and those I proposed for ascertaining the number of men who could march out of their counties in the event of invasion or rebellion. I have now proposed that the bat talions in each county should be numbered, and hereafter a power may be given to the lord lieute nant to name officers to command them when exigency may require such an arrangement. I wish you would let me know as soon as you can to what extent you would wish to carry the yeoman/ y force of this country. We have now from 40,000 to 50,000 effectives, which we could with ease make 60,000 effectives; but I doubt whether any force ought to go beyond that number. According to the existing system, the captains of yeomanry are mid dling gentry or agents to absentee landlords, and all resident, who for their own sakes take care that their corps shall be well composed. In respect to the other points on which you have called for my opinion, I have to tell you that I have a very good opinion of the yeomanry of Ireland in general. They say that there are some disaffected persons, and even corps, among them, but I ,have seen no proofs of the truth of this assertion. They are disciplined as well as corps of this description can be expected to be, and I doubt very much the policy of attempting to make any improvements in their discipline. I think that both in England end Ireland we have attempted too much in the way of teaching parade discipline to the yeomanry and volunteers. In the event of operations in these countries we should be greatly in want of light troops, particularly infantry of the description of these troops. The parade discipline which they receive in large bodies would be entirely useless, nay, would embarrass them when they would be called upon to act as light troops, and I would, therefore, leave them as they are, in detached com panies of various strength throughout the country.' " Such, then, above half a century back, were the opinions on Irish volunteers of the late illustri ous duke. He had no distrust of such carefully chosen volunteers. We could with ease,' he says, raise this force to 60,000 effectives.' Since that period the great question of Catholic Emancipation has been carried. The wages of labour are now doubled or trebled in all parts of Ireland. An ad vancing prosperity has awaited her, such as she has not enjoyed for centuries. Her Majesty has just made a tour throughout that portion of her dominions, and has been received throughout with an ovation of enthusiastic loyalty. And yet we have in effect been told that, of all her sub jects, Irishmen alone are not to be allowed to acquire a knowledge of the use of arms for their own and the Queen's defence. I did my best in the Commons to assist to rectify this blunder of the authorities. It is true, indeed, that in a few localities a few broken heads or broken limbs have been occasioned in sectarian riots, and this has been the paltry pretext set forth for the injudicious distrust adverted to. "In England and Scotland the more public spirited of the nobles, gentry, middle classes, and others, have induced the Government to acquiesce in, and even give some support to, the patriotic armament which has thus sprung up throughout the length and breadth of Great Britain. The people of Ireland have not been hitherto thought wanting in valour, good faith, or military aptitude. In my humble opinion it is now the duty of the same classes in the sister island to emulate the patriotic conduct in this matter of their fellow sub jects on this side the Channel. I venture to believe that, instead of sectarian differences being the real cause of this affronting exclusion, it is more likely to be attributable to the bureaucracy of the Vice regal Government, whose repugnance to deviate from their habitual routine, as is usually the case with other bureacracies, led them to thwart this movement. Sir Robert Peel, however, I am glad to find, at present fills the office formerly held by Sir Arthur Wellesley. I conclude that he has duly weighed the statements on this subject of his great predeces sor ; and I have too high an estimation of his intel ligence and vigour to doubt of his settin g this whole matter right, by which he will free his col leagues from deserved reproach, and inaugurate advantageously his own official career." Ifer nijesty the Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow (Wednesday) at Windsor Castle. The Duchess of Athole has arrived at the St. George's Hotel from Scotland. The Earl of Winchilsea has left the St. George's Hotel, Lord Methuen has left the St, George's Hotel, charged with a mission from the Queen and th e P r i nco Cmsort to his Majesty th e rei g nin g King of Port uga l. At Lloyd's on Saturd a y 10 guineas per cent. were offered to effect fresh insurances on the mail steamer North Britor, which is three days overdue from Montreal. Fifteen guineas have been paid on the ship James 'Wilson, from Melbourne, but upon the gold by her th e ra t e i s st ill e i g ht guineas.